Ghosts, Governesses and Cricket

Nov 02, 2011 16:10

I was told by a lovely lady in an email that she would really like to see some book recommendations, so: my readers' wish is my command! Book recommendations it is ( Read more... )

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jenncatt November 2 2011, 17:47:43 UTC
Ohhh... Daughter of Smoke and Bone.

I know exactly what you mean about the writing, it was like I kept stopping and trying to figure out how it was so beautiful and poetic and yet made total clear sense at every point. And the story is... almost very nearly utterly fabulous. I was texting my friend every ten minutes for the first half with YOU HAVE TO READ THIS NOW. Karou is just... well, awesome doesn't quite seem to cover it.

Aaand then it reached a point where the amazingly awesome Karou suddenly gets all... Bella-fied. Karou is very much not like Bella Swann for 99% of the rest of the time (even *she* comments on it - and much as I LOVE the phrase "don't be that cat" - her being aware of it doesn't make her not act like it though unfortunately). And then it immediately got very much awesome again after about 50 pages, and it all makes sense in context once you finish it (and I wouldn't want to put anyone off reading it at all) but that middle bit doesn't quite work.

I'm probably not explaining this very well without being all spoilery, but I just kept thinking it would have been perfect if Madrigal's section had been before that part. But I loved the rest of it so much (and I'm pretty sure now that the middle section will read better second time around, it was just... not quite working for me at that point.)

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