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4.16 AVERAGE
4.16 AVERAGE
Bueno, esto fue una sorpresa. Este libro tiene en mi estantería algo de tiempo y no me había animado hasta ahora.
La forma de escribir de Maggie Stiefvater me parece muy hermosa, en Raven Boys fue algo que destaqué mucho mientras iba leyendo, cada frase está hecha para subrayarse.
La historia de este libro me gustó, creo que conecté mucho con Sean. El aspecto del mar y su amor por este es algo que me pega fuerte.
Los toques de fantasía/ magia en el libro son claves, la pizca suficiente para no desviarse del camino.
Puck me agradó mucho, es un personaje fuerte, no se rinde y sus motivaciones son buenas.
El final me encantó y admito que le lloré a Corr y Sean.
Puck, los hombres suelen ser muy desesperantes, pero es cuestión de empoderarse.
Sean, mi sueño es una casa junto al mar.
La forma de escribir de Maggie Stiefvater me parece muy hermosa, en Raven Boys fue algo que destaqué mucho mientras iba leyendo, cada frase está hecha para subrayarse.
La historia de este libro me gustó, creo que conecté mucho con Sean. El aspecto del mar y su amor por este es algo que me pega fuerte.
Los toques de fantasía/ magia en el libro son claves, la pizca suficiente para no desviarse del camino.
Puck me agradó mucho, es un personaje fuerte, no se rinde y sus motivaciones son buenas.
El final me encantó y admito que le lloré a Corr y Sean.
Puck, los hombres suelen ser muy desesperantes, pero es cuestión de empoderarse.
Sean, mi sueño es una casa junto al mar.
I love the way Stiefvater incorporates mythology into her stories, and having never heard about capaill uisce before I now want to go find a book of celtic mythology to learn about the original myth! I also love how she creates these dynamic characters who jump off the page and are always filled with this intense longing for more life than they have at the start of the story. Combine these two story elements with horse racing and family drama, and you have a book that I will no doubt reread at least once a year.
adventurous
emotional
4.5 stars
i... have a lot of feelings. that i need to elaborate on before attempting to review this. but maggie’s writing once again makes me feel melancholy and nostalgic for something that i don’t really understand.
i... have a lot of feelings. that i need to elaborate on before attempting to review this. but maggie’s writing once again makes me feel melancholy and nostalgic for something that i don’t really understand.
This is a book where I'm not sure why it ended up as YA. I understand that the characters are younger, and there are themes of growing up and falling in love and so on, but the writing and the tone don't quite match. It probably sold much better as YA than it would have as adult fantasy, so that is probably the main reason, but there must have been at least a brief debate about it, I'm sure.
The solidity of the world building on this is strong, and the feeling of it. Thisby is a real place, even though it's not, and its steady decline over the last decades is clearly visible in the number of people leaving the island, the number of riders risking it all in the races, and the unsustainable losses that mimic (in a peculiar form of course) the actual depopulation of isolated islands in the 20th Century. I love Sean Kendrick (and the fact that he's most often "Sean Kendrick" instead of anything else) and I love the Connellys and I love the people and the sea and even manage to love the deadly water horses and understand why the islanders keep seeking them out in spite of all the peril.
In the end it feels like something you'd read about on Atlas Obscura, how there used to be water horses races on Thisby but the last one was in 1937 and no one has seen a water horse at all since 1955 but you can still visit the beach they ran on and see the bloody stone. It may not be true, but it is what I wish could be true.
The solidity of the world building on this is strong, and the feeling of it. Thisby is a real place, even though it's not, and its steady decline over the last decades is clearly visible in the number of people leaving the island, the number of riders risking it all in the races, and the unsustainable losses that mimic (in a peculiar form of course) the actual depopulation of isolated islands in the 20th Century. I love Sean Kendrick (and the fact that he's most often "Sean Kendrick" instead of anything else) and I love the Connellys and I love the people and the sea and even manage to love the deadly water horses and understand why the islanders keep seeking them out in spite of all the peril.
In the end it feels like something you'd read about on Atlas Obscura, how there used to be water horses races on Thisby but the last one was in 1937 and no one has seen a water horse at all since 1955 but you can still visit the beach they ran on and see the bloody stone. It may not be true, but it is what I wish could be true.
A very interesting story that pulls from very interesting mythos. I enjoyed this book. I didn’t know what it was about when I started reading it so I was very confused, but thankfully I did a quick Google and was all set.
adventurous
challenging
hopeful
medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
A mix
Strong character development:
Yes
Loveable characters:
Yes
Diverse cast of characters:
No
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes