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3.45 AVERAGE
3.45 AVERAGE
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Persephone, Queen of the Underworld, destined to live half her life in the darkness, and half in the light.
I'm so confused!!!!!!!!!!!! Después de leer la leyenda de Virgo que sirve de inspiración para la historia se entiende (en parte) la sensación que deja este libro al final.
No es para nada la historia que me esperaba!!! No encuentro palabras para describir la sensación que deja la historia: dudas, incredulidad, resignación, tristeza, más dudas.... en otras palabras la correcta e indiscutible siglas de WTF!!
Holden es un atleta perdido en el mundo de la fama, alcohol, drogas y mujeres. Viaja a Colorado para recuperarse, desintoxicarse para poder volver al deporte que ama. Durante su estadía en la paradisíaca cabaña en el bosque conoce a Lily; una chica que le intriga y atrae a la vez, parece una aparición en el bosque y ambos empiezan a charlar, conocerse y enamorarse. Hasta aproximadamente la mitad del libro, donde todo lo que el lector cree que sabe y lo que parece una historia romántica bastante típica, da un giro completo a la tierra de la incertidumbre y
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las enfermedades mentales.Mia Sheridan es una gran escritora y no hay duda que la historia está muy bien escrita o mi cabeza no sería una maraña de sensación contrapuestas en éste momento. Simplemente no soy muy adepta de las historias que me hacen dudar de sí todo lo que leí en el libro es verdad; es difícil saber que es verdad y que no lo es en ésta historia por lo cual las preguntas de discusión del final del libro son una gran ayuda porque realmente es un libro para discutir. Los personajes son un gran enigma, los principales y los secundarios, incluso después de terminar el libro.
Me gustó la atípica historia romántica, las frases y reflexiones que ahora no sé de dónde provienen pero que son muy lindas.
"Listen, baby, life is a series of things we choose and things we carry. The things we choose, well, those are ours. But we don't get a vote on the things we carry. Some are heavier than others, some we can put down eventually, and some are ours to keep. We don't have a choice in the burdens we're given to bear, but we do have a choice in how we hold them. We can strap them to our backs and walk through the world hunched over under the weight like someone who should spend his or her days in a bell tower. Or we can stand tall and straight like one of those African queens carrying a woven basket on her head."
Me quedo con una de las preguntas del final: es un final feliz? Honestamente, no sé. Tampoco sé cómo me imagino los personajes en 5 ó 10 años. Es realmente una historia para pensar, algo que te hace dudar de todo y apreciar lo que uno tiene.
"Happily ever after doesn't mean a lifetime of perfection. I don't think anyone believes that happily ever after means there are no unhappy days, even unhappy years. It means loving forever, despite all the many reasons it's easier not to."
Not what I was expecting. It kept me guessing throughout the story and I was in love with the characters. So many twists and then the epilogue through me again. Up until that I was hooked, now while my mind is reeling I'm left a little confused. This may be one you have reread!
I just don't know....great writing, sucked me in, read in a day but......I didn't like it(?) I just don't know. 3.75 stars
This has honestly got to be one of the most confusing books I have ever read. I love the first half, watching them fall in love was amazing but then everything sort of went downhill from there. I still don't know what I even read.
5/5 stars
I love mindfucks if they are done well and this one is one big mindfuck. Very big fan of Mia Sheridan some of my all time books are by her. I was very excited to read Midnight Lily and was not disappointed!
"I'm not afraid of the darkness. I've been there before. I'll step into it willingly, unhesitatingly, and I'll come find you. No one else could make that promise and mean it, Lily. No one. No one except me."
I can not really review this book without spoiling it! I recommend going in blind and just being blown away by Mia Sheridan's words.
I love mindfucks if they are done well and this one is one big mindfuck. Very big fan of Mia Sheridan some of my all time books are by her. I was very excited to read Midnight Lily and was not disappointed!
"I'm not afraid of the darkness. I've been there before. I'll step into it willingly, unhesitatingly, and I'll come find you. No one else could make that promise and mean it, Lily. No one. No one except me."
I can not really review this book without spoiling it! I recommend going in blind and just being blown away by Mia Sheridan's words.
rating and review to come. i have never been so torn and confused about a book!
“We don’t get to choose what we carry, but we do get to choose the grace with which we carry it.”
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THE REVIEW
I never thought the day would come where I’d rate a novel by my beloved Mia Sheridan with a mere two stars – but here I am, doing exactly that. Trust me when I say this is not a decision I have made lightly. I even considered bumping it up to three stars, just because rating one of her novels so low feels so wrong – but that would have been completely unfair… So here I am. Giving Mia Sheridan two stars. It’s cool. It’s okay. I’m okay.
(I’m not okay.)
Mia Sheridan is one of a handful of authors whose work I will purchase without a second thought. I’ve devoured every single one of her novels, and I’ve been quite deeply emotionally affected by all of them. None of her books are the same – each having its own unique and captivating premise. In fact, the only thing that all Mia Sheridan novels have in common is that they all tell such beautiful and genuinely touching stories of realistic, broken people finding love in the most unexpected and – often – darkest of places.
On top of all of this, Mia’s writing style is just incredible. It flows beautifully, and often has an almost poetic quality about it – just an absolute joy to read, really.
All of this stood true in Midnight Lily. I was still really quite profoundly affected by the issues dealt with in this novel, it still had a very unique plot, it was still a story of love, and Mia’s writing was just as lovely as always…
So what was the problem, then?
Well…
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Unfortunately, it’s very difficult to talk about Midnight Lily in any sort of detail without revealing significant spoilers, so I’m going to have to be incredibly vague when I explain my reasons for failing to love this book anywhere near as much as I’ve loved every other piece of writing this ridiculously talented woman has produced.
Midnight Lily is quite a departure from Mia’s usual work and, I’m sorry to say, but it just didn’t work for me. At all.
The twists and turns that this novel took required a certain level of vagueness when it came to the characters, and to the entire plot, really. I found this very interesting over the course of the first few chapters. Everything was rather mysterious, and I really couldn’t decide which way things were going to go. I did find it difficult to connect with Holden and Lily from the off-set, but I put that down to the deliberate vagueness that, at the time, felt like a deliberate decision made by Mia to maintain this sense of the unknown that hung over everything going on.
However, as the novel progressed, and as I learned more about these two characters, I still couldn’t feel a connection with any of them – and that really cheapened their story, for me. I just couldn’t feel the chemistry between them in the same way that I’ve felt it in Mia’s other works, and that made it really difficult to believe in their love.
And that sense of mystery that intrigued me so early on? Well, don’t get me wrong, this novel took some very surprising turns, and some of them were really interesting to read… But, honestly, it just didn’t live up to its full potential. The revelations were often confusing and somewhat ridiculous, when they could have been so much more than that.
And then that final plot twist… Well, that just ruined any sort of belief I had in anything, really. I actually finished Midnight Lily feeling quite annoyed! I was pretty confused about what had happened and, even after taking a while to think about it all, the only conclusion I came to was that I’d been pretty much cheated.
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Like I said before, it’s really difficult to talk about this one without ruining it for potential readers, so I’m going to have to leave it at that, really. I feel like the premise for this book could have had so much potential, but it just wasn’t executed in the best way. The twists and turns seemed to be in all the wrong places (especially the one at the end) and this resulted in the book feeling messy and very, very rushed towards the conclusion.
It really does pain me to award this novel such a low rating, but I just don’t feel satisfied enough by my reading experience to rate it any higher. Don’t get me wrong – Mia Sheridan is still a one-click purchase sort of author for me. I just hope that her next novel doesn’t leave me with the awful sense of disappointment that Midnight Lily has.
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“There’s always someone society chooses not to see. There’s always someone who is invisible through no fault of their own.”
"Happily ever after doesn't mean a lifetime of perfection. I don't think anyone believes that happily ever after means there are no unhappy days, even unhappy years. It means loving forever, despite the many reasons it's easier not to."
I knew that MIDNIGHT LILY by author Mia Sheridan was going to be a different sort of book. And, let me say that it is like nothing I've ever read by Mia. This story is quite the departure, but is none the less magnificent for it.
MIDNIGHT LILY is, by turn, uplifting, nostalgic, heartbreaking, and healing, but it is always, at the heart of it, an epic love story. The characters are beautifully drawn, the story one that comes from an exceedingly gifted author who continues to amaze me with the stories that she crafts. With each page I was both intrigued and drawn in to this beautiful story, and I could not put it down.
I cannot recommend enough that you read this book. Rife with twists, turns, moments of wonder, it must be read to be experienced, because each person will take something different away from the story. MIDNIGHT LILY is an easy 5+ stars for me, and one that fans both old and new should have at the top of their reading lists. Thank you, Mia, for sharing this hauntingly beautiful story with us. You continue to blow me away.
***ARC generously provided for an honest review.***
Loved it! I have to say that this was a very different book and very interesting. At the end I was like wow! This was surprisingly good even if I was all confused at one point. I loved what the author did at the end, absolutely loved it, definitely not something I’ve read before.
I usually cry buckets when I read one of Mia’s books but surprisingly this one didn’t make me cry, just made me think a lot. It definitely was a very different book than what she normally writes. But different in a good way or at least to me because I loved it.
Will recommend to everyone.
I usually cry buckets when I read one of Mia’s books but surprisingly this one didn’t make me cry, just made me think a lot. It definitely was a very different book than what she normally writes. But different in a good way or at least to me because I loved it.
Will recommend to everyone.