4.5 fairy-tale-stars Huh, I did so not expect it, but I loved this book! It's a very unique twist on Jack and the Beanstalk, one I enjoyed very much. It starts out with a lonely young man, Jack, shunned by his village, treated horrendously by his family, and on top of it all, losing the only real fr...
I liked it.It actually made me really sad at times. How Jack was ostracised and Rion's isolation was kind of heart breaking. The lapsed Catholic in me also picked up up on, what felt like, a lot religious undertones but I might just be reading too much into it. Rion's life in particular felt very re...
BR, June 28th with Julie, Momo and Marte.