I really wanted to like this book, but for the first half I struggled to get into it. Everything was just so bleak and dark and depressing. I hated the negativity and couldn't stand the characters. I also felt like nothing particularly happened the first half, except that we got front row seats to I...
103. BEASTKEEPER, BY CAT HELLISEN Yet another fairytale retelling, this one recommended by a friend I hadn’t seen a long time ago. I’m really enjoying these, it’s curious I hadn’t discovered them before... Synopsis: A loose retelling of The Beauty and The Beast story. Sarah’s mother leaves, which tr...
This book felt like the whole thing was lead-up ... I was 3/4 of the way through the book and still had the sense that I was "waiting" for the story to begin. Sarah's total isolation was disconcerting, and not really in a good way -- I kept hoping for her to come across ONE person who wasn't going t...
I really, really wanted to like this, and I just couldn't manage. The primary problem, for me, was the characters. Not that they were bad people or that they were too good, but because they were none of that. They didn't feel real. I couldn't connect with them, I couldn't empathize or sympathize o...
Well that was unexpected.This book was nothing at all like what I expected. It's full of magic, yes. But it's not the hearts and flowers fairy tale or beast tale, for the matter. It's a story about jealousy, disappointments and many other things that got tangled in a web of magic and curses. My mind...
Arc provided by Henry Holt & Company through Netgalley Release Date: February 3 rd I had to re-read this story immediately after I had finished it for first time, because with only one read, I honestly did not know what to say. First of all, I loved its first pages: They had t...
Beastkeeper is a new twist on the Beauty and the Beast fairy tale for middle grade readers, specifically girls. Sarah is an average girl whose family moves frequently—chasing sunlight and warmth. Sarah doesn’t think much of it until one day, her mother leaves the family, and her father grows hairier...
A marketing ploy, perhaps, but quite a nicely written one. It raises questions, you see, that I would like answers to, and for that I'll have to read When the Sea Is Rising RedAbout Ilken: [spoiler] At 16, she is very young and not very wise - besotted and therefore delusional, lost in dreams of a ...
House adds even more of what made book one different, especially as we take in the mistakes made and how things build up between them despite the same (or is it because of?) What’s said versus what’s not are both used to make it clear that the pair of them is from typical. She’s the stronger one of ...
Different. the lead, her troubles, their world... taken together there's nothing quite like this, partly given how magic is wove into it; mostly for the world it's set in; and a little bit for the connections made.The world will enthrall you. Her society is structured with the Houses, both high and ...
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