by Frances Hardinge
After the awesomeness that was Cuckoo Song, I was fully expecting to love The Lie Tree. I did not. I hyped myself up, and set myself up for disappointment. Not bitter disappointment. More a general listless deflated feeling. Woe is me. The story is interesting and the writing is good. Hardinge is ...
A tree that feeds with lies and a mysterious death, just what a book needs to intrigue me. 'The Lie Tree' has a great plot, but not such a great beginning. What I didn’t enjoy about this book is the fact that the first few chapters are really slow-paced, so I was afraid that it won’t work for me and...
I absolutely loved this book. Just sunk into it each winter night with so much happiness. It's a dreary, creepy, mysterious world, full of old bones and suspicious locals and sea caves and private papers full of secrets. I loved the intersection of religion and science and the guile of the main ...
Seriously trippy story about a young Victorian woman, her family going through a grim time, exiled to a gothic island, and how she is good at things, but isn’t permitted to do anything because of sexism, and how she finds ways to circumvent that in order to solve a puzzle when there isn’t anyone els...
It was good but ultimately somewhat unsatisfying.I'm not sure if it's the hype that moves this to a 3.5 closer to 3 rather than a 4 star book. It's an interesting idea, a tree that grows from lies received from one person and the bigger the lie the better the vision of truth. But this tale of a gir...
So good. My heart broke a dozen times for Faith and the struggles she faced as a curious female in the Victorian era. And that heartbreak was often followed by anger. The world Hardinge weaves is a very realistic one that makes me very glad I wasn't born in that era. However the lie tree itself was ...
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