I’ve now read this twice. I read it immediately upon learning that it was based on Jane Austen’s Persuasion, which (as I get older) is slowly overtaking Pride & Prejudice for my favorite Austen novel. Pride & Prejudice is the novel that made me fall in love with Jane Austen. Persuasion is the one that kicked me straight in the heart for hundreds of pages. Something about regret and missed chances…it takes age to truly begin to appreciate it and really FEEL it. Not that […]
The plan is to fan this spark into a flame
I’m so pissed at this book. HOW DARE YOU, BOOK. How DARE you be better than the first novel (A Darker Shade of Magic). How DARE you make me care more about the characters. How DARE you introduce even more characters I have to care about. But most of all HOW DARE YOU END ON A CLIFFHANGER. For serious, you guys, I’m so mad. Mostly because the next book isn’t out and might not even be written yet? So rude. What am I supposed to […]
I put myself back in the narrative
Oh, you guys. Did you read Code Name Verity? You should. I mean, it’ll break your heart wide open but you should read it. If only so you can then pick up Rose Under Fire, the companion book to Code Name Verity, and break your heart all over again. Rose Justice, apart from having a great, superhero-esque name, is a young American pilot who goes to fight in WWII. She works for the ATA and becomes friends with Maddie, who you’ll recognize if you read […]
You want a revolution, I want a revelation
So this is definitely my favorite of the three Lunar Chronicles novels I’ve read so far (spoiler alert: I started reading Winter, got bored, started reading something else, and then the book was due back at the library, so I still haven’t finished the series. I’m not sure when I’ll get around to it, I just checked out SO MANY NEW BOOKS.) Anyway. Cress! Like Cinder and Scarlet before it, Cress is based on a fairy tale. In this case, Rapunzel, which has always been one […]
I have never been the type to try and grab the spotlight
I really wanted to love this. Like LOVE LOVE it. Jane Austen with magic? COME ON. And I enjoyed reading it, I suppose. Hell, I read it in a day. But my biggest problem with it? It didn’t give me any FEELS. I want the feels, I NEED THE FEELS. Jane Ellsworth is a single woman in Regency England, and though she’s only 28 (A BABY), she’s considered a spinster and has all but given up on ever finding love or a husband. Her younger […]
Alex, you gotta fend for yourself
This was a quick bit of fun but I’m not sure I feel the need to read more. Maybe I just wasn’t in the right mood at the time. Maybe I’ll try it again later. WHO KNOWS WHAT I’LL DECIDE, I NEVER DO. Alexia Tarabotti has quite a few problems, the least of which being that she is old (well, “old”) and unmarried and looks to remain that way for quite some time. This is due to her being Italian, which is bad because of […]
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