Kate is a carver in a world where knives are thought to hold magic. She carves charms, and she carves masterfully, and she insists it has nothing to do with magic, but there are plagues and bad harvests, and people are always eager to find witches to blame, to burn. An attack while she sleeps lead...
read the full review on my blog, a href="http://holes-in-my-brain.blogspot.com/2010/12/br-plain-kate.html">holes In My brainThe way PLAIN KATE ended was way different than what I was expecting when I first picked up the novel. Initially, the reading experience was disengaging; I couldn’t really get ...
12/25/2010 ** I have no idea why I requested this book from the library. I must have seen it reference on some blog & thought it sounded interesting; besides, there's a talking cat - how could I resist!I read two chapters over breakfast today (instead of washing dishes - no competition). I was def...
...hope will break the heart better than any sorrow...Plain Kate is the type of book I wish I could have read when I was younger. As much as I loved Kate and her world now, I think it would have absolutely worked its way into me when I was a kid. At the same time, though, there's so much to the st...
by Erin BowI don’t normally post on the weekends, but my Plain Kate review kept getting pushed back and I wanted to make sure it got done now, as opposed to, say, Monday.Opening line: “A long time ago, in a market town by a looping river, there lived an orphan girl called Plain Kate.”Kate is the dau...
The most amazing, beautiful fantasy I have read in a long time. No epic love triangle, no self depreciating lead, simply a beautiful and heartbreaking fairy tale.
Plain Kate was honestly one of the best books I've ever read, and certainly one of the best I've read in years. It was beautiful and sad and hopeful. It was like The Last Unicorn on crack. This book gave me a heart and then broke it and then sewed it back together just enough to call it a heart a...
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