Apparently this was the last book Jane Austen ever wrote, rather than one of the first, as I had supposed. I definitely notice a formula in Austen's stories: the unlikely protagonist who is quiet, retiring, but deep and intelligent. The wealthy suitor who doesn't seem to pay her any attention at ...
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I LOVED this! It was almost like reading a Jane Austen novel, except the protagonist is the queen, and so all of the Victorian (no pun intended) rules are turned on their head. I definitely wonder how much of it is fact and how much fiction, because it reads exactly like a novel, though. The ...
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Marie Lu's stories are always fast-paced action with fantastic characters, so they suck me in--yet I often don't care for her endings. They tend to spoil all the enjoyment I've had up until that point. Skyhunter was a happy exception to this trend, though. Talin is a striker without a voice, wh0 ...
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I know what I'm getting with the Andari Chronicles at this point, but it's always delightful to see how Davidson will pull it off this time. They are all unusual, creative, and very loose retellings of fairy tales. This one is a retelling of Snow White, but... barely. The main character Brenna, ...
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I'm so glad I finished this series after all! As before, I can't really review this book without spoilers, so be forewarned... While I understand that Prism Cloud had to perpetuate the conflict if the series was not completely over, I REALLY didn't like the conflict it created, and it led me to ...
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I'm so happy JK Rowling wrote something else in the children's fantasy genre! This reads like an allegory, and for the first 2/3 of the book I was nearly sure it was a morality tale about current political events. The Ickabog is (supposedly) a fictional creature from bedtime stories. But then ...
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Wow. This book was truly incredible. It was so long that I feel like Grant is my friend now, and I miss him! An amazing portrait of a great man. Grant, as portrayed by Chernow, was such a humble, likable, good person. His biggest flaw was that he was too trusting, and this was the reason that his ...
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Sigh... I was afraid of this. If I kept reading, the happy ending from book 3 would be reversed, since it wasn't the end of the series, and Jeff Wheeler doesn't necessarily go for happily ever afters. This isn't the end of the series either, and yet, now I'm afraid to read on. I might actually read ...
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Ah! This one was so satisfying, I almost wish it was the last in the series (even though it didn't all get wrapped up yet). The stories of Sera and Cettie continue, though this story follows more quickly on the heels of the previous one--they are still young women, about the same age as in the ...
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Love this series! I'm so in awe of how intricate Wheeler's worlds are. Following the pattern in the "Kingfountain" series, the Harbinger series also follows the characters over epochs of years. In this one, the main characters Cettie and Sera, are young adults. They study at Muirwood, looping in ...
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