A couple of times I actually went back and re-read the previous page to try to understand where she was coming from ! But from that, essentially, narrative disarray emerges things I can really appreciate -- some purchase in the fictive chaos and clutter. Like no more politics from the pole or tension from Thorn and his family, now it's an entirely new world with half-ass characters and pointless mystery plots. First off Archibald's castle, changing spaces, masterpiece of architecture is literally a place I WANT to visit! Further, I really appreciated the posture of our antagonizer; Eulalia is truly redeemable in my eyes, even as the sole actant for the world's state -- as she herself was her own victim, and repentance, to her aspirations.

Spells Trouble” follows twin witches, Hunter and Mercy, who live in Goodeville, Illinois at the apex of five ley lines of magic that keep gateways to the underworld at bay. She doesn’t care about her hair and has poor personal hygiene (she doesn’t bathe for a week and that’s fine by her), she doesn’t care about being feminine and/or trying to improve her appearance because that’s for slutty girls like her sister (rolls eyes), she doesn’t care about her clothes (she wears mismatched shoes and grandmother’s clothes etc.

Over the gradual span of assimilating Ophelia's and Thorn's own process of piecing together their reality, there were some things that genuinely struck me. Christelle Dabos was born in 1980 on the French Riviera and grew up in a home filled with classical music and historical puzzles. Fidanzati dell’Inverno è un libro che si fa divorare, riuscendo a tenere vivo l’interesse del lettore anche nelle parti più lente e descrittive. Il sesso è sempre qualcosa di negativo, su cui ti giochi la reputazione ed è ovviamente considerato impuro se a compierlo è una donna. Writing style is so amazingly interesting that I have not read anything so refreshing since picking up Harry Potter books so many years ago.

Known now as Arks, each has developed in distinct ways; each seems to possess its own unique relationship to time, such that nowadays vastly different worlds exist, together but apart. These books offered me, in reading them, something more than mere receptive passivity -- something much more experiential; they offered me that very pleasant and charming undertaking of escapism I seldom experience with fiction in current. Un fantasy incantevole, che mi ha rubato il cuore e che è entrato a far parte dei miei libri preferiti di sempre. The world is split into Arks, which float in the sky, each with completely different cultures, customs, politics, and powers.

La trama è così ritmata e a catena che è bello svelare piano piano un nuovo mondo, fatto di intrighi e dove nessuno è ciò che sembra. Su Anima, tutte le donne sposate fanno le casalinghe e mettono al mondo nidiate di figli; sono costrette ad accettare matrimoni combinati fra consanguinei (che schifo) e ad evitare qualsiasi tipo di promiscuità sessuale. Lose yourself in the world of the arks and in the company of an unforgettable character in this French runaway hit by debut author, Christelle Dabos.

It was thanks to their encouragement that she decided to take on her very first literary challenge: to enter the First Youth Novel Contest. Ho apprezzato particolarmente le capacità descrittive dell’autrice, che rendono gli ambienti del romanzo molto vividi e colorati. Some descriptions will stick with me, especially about the use of illusions and what's really underneath them.This is actually quite a tight setup, some books take upwards of 40 to 50% (and I could name quite a few hyped books that do. And even though these readings may have caused joy or excitement in me, sometimes even erring on great, none of them ever quite redeemed that era of my formative years that I grew out of.