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4.16 AVERAGE
4.16 AVERAGE
adventurous
dark
inspiring
tense
fast-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Character
Strong character development:
Yes
Loveable characters:
Yes
Diverse cast of characters:
No
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes
Would have been slightly higher rating but I felt it just fell a little short on a few things. Ending could have played out a little more.
This book is my life. Like if you don't like this both then you hate me.
Like Puck and Sean are my children and I love them ,I love their relationship, they're so cute, they're so intense and they're so vibes.
This books is very atmospheric and very character focused and if you don't like that you won't like this but I loved that and I loved this book and it was perfect and truly I read this all in one sitting and it was just what I needed
Like Puck and Sean are my children and I love them ,I love their relationship, they're so cute, they're so intense and they're so vibes.
This books is very atmospheric and very character focused and if you don't like that you won't like this but I loved that and I loved this book and it was perfect and truly I read this all in one sitting and it was just what I needed
I listened to this again with Matt as we were driving back from Montana during the summer of COVID-19. I love this book so much! It is especially excellent to listen to. Fiona Hardingham and Steve West are superb! It gets five stars again from me and Matt agrees.
I know I give too many 5 stars but YES. This book was amazing!!!
More of a 3.5 stars but yeah.
This was okay.
It dragged on a little but I liked the ending and the wrap up.
Inbetween I thought at some points.... Okay this takes forever. But I managed to pull through.
This was okay.
It dragged on a little but I liked the ending and the wrap up.
Inbetween I thought at some points.... Okay this takes forever. But I managed to pull through.
adventurous
emotional
mysterious
reflective
tense
medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Character
Strong character development:
Yes
Loveable characters:
Yes
Diverse cast of characters:
No
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes
This is one of those books that sweeps you into a world you never knew you longed for. It revels in the folkloric—yet no-less believable—place it creates and breathes life into every one of its characters, no matter how fleeting their time on the page might be. Stiefvater's writing is just gorgeous, too, and her voice is poetic without being distracting, blunt without feeling shallow, and so precise that there were countless lines or turns of phrase that stopped me in my tracks. She has this way of describing things in a way you've never heard before and yet somehow feel like you grew up hearing them. I relished every moment spent in the story, every tensely held breath, every embarrassing gasp at the warm embers of an emerging romance, every profane word I shouted when the book threw another heartwrenching twist at me. I’m going to be coming to this one for a long time.
Update (12/28/23): Somehow, it might be even better on a re-read? It’s such a rich, ferocious, and lived-in story, with a vividly persuasive sense of place that I can’t help but get immersed in. I love how genuine the nervy, anxious relationships are, and how much restraint Stiefvater shows in a lot of the pacing. It’s a patient, rewarding book with a raw, earthy quality that occupies you as much as you occupy it. I’m glad I went for the audiobook this time, too. Both narrators are perfect and give the characters the exact voices I always imagined. Love, love, love this book.
Content Warnings
Moderate: Animal death, Bullying, Death, Misogyny, Violence, Blood
Minor: Cursing, Death of parent, Injury/Injury detail
Great writing and an interesting setting and story! This book read like historical fiction set in the 1920s or 1930s, as if the Kelpies (or water horses) of Cornish myth were simply real creatures.
Stiefvater’s criminally underrated chef-d’œuvre continues to make my heart sing.
I’ve read this every year for the past four years and it keeps getting better!!
Everyone should read this literary classic.
I’ve read this every year for the past four years and it keeps getting better!!
Everyone should read this literary classic.