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3.77 AVERAGE
3.77 AVERAGE
adventurous
dark
mysterious
tense
medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
A mix
Strong character development:
Yes
Loveable characters:
Complicated
Diverse cast of characters:
Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes
considero que es un libro que tenés que releer para entenderlo completamente la reseña sera cuando lo haga
This book absolutely blew me away. It was witch-y and feminist and mysterious, and at its core was the importance of friendship. It captivated me from start to finish, the magical realism was exquisitely done and I also love the diverse cast of characters. This is one of those books that hits you straight in the heart--I have a feeling I'll be thinking about this story for a very long time.
This saddens me...I absolute LOVED The Accident Season(!!), but I just could NOT get into this one.
Where oh where to begin. Lost: my mind, my heart, my understanding. Found: a new favorite book, author, and team of characters. Each person loses so very much, but finds things worth the sacrifice as well. In this case, was it worth human life? Obviously this is a stand alone for a reason, but it could have been so much more than that, and still could! Also, if this were a Netflix show, I’d binge it so fast. Rowan is mysterious, as is Hazel. Ivy is so unknown, I’d love to get to know the trio more. As well as more of Ash, Holly, and Laurel’s lives prior to adulthood. Final note, screw Jude and everything he entails, the guy/saint/whatever he is, is a jerk!
The book started slow, descriptive, without me understanding where it would go.
This is a rather enchanting urban fantasy book that feels like it should play into the realm of faeries but never quite reaches there.
Told in a multi-perspective style, the writing is confusing in parts (sometimes deliberately so, I imagine), and when the twist finally comes, it feels like it should have been far more obvious than it turned out to be. The fantasy elements also flitter in and out so naturally that it was easy to forget that this was a novel about magic and not a, well, magical novel.
The cast of characters kept expanding and it did mean at the start I had to go back and re-read a few sections to know who was telling the story- was it Olive? Hazel? Laurel? or someone else entirely- and the narrating styles kept blending in so it was difficult to shake myself out of the previous chapter. I found it a little curious at closing that two of the narrators, Olive and Laurel, weren't even the main characters, so to speak, of their sections. Their spots could have been easily told by Rose or Ash and been more invested in the story that was happening around them... but that, I suspect, was the point.
While most people have jumped to celebrate the inclusion of multiple LGBT narrators, I want to take a moment to appreciate that Rose is half-Indian and Olive is deaf in one ear. I also really love that while this book is about 'lost' things being found, Olive's hearing remained gone- she didn't lose her hearing and it never came back. And though it may have been nice for Rose's Indian heritage and Olive's disability to be brought to the surface more, I can also understand why these aspects were mostly passing mentions; these are parts of their identity, but it's not their full identity.
One thing I do want to bring up that I can't see anyone else referring to... but, uh, did Ivy's parentage cause a double-take for anyone else, especially after Rowan admitted to making out with her, and Hazel said both she and her brother were in love with her? Anyone else get stunned by that? No one? Just me? Aight, okay.
In short, I am enthused to read another book by Moira Fowley-Doyle and I love falling back into the world of queer urban fantasy.
Told in a multi-perspective style, the writing is confusing in parts (sometimes deliberately so, I imagine), and when the twist finally comes, it feels like it should have been far more obvious than it turned out to be. The fantasy elements also flitter in and out so naturally that it was easy to forget that this was a novel about magic and not a, well, magical novel.
The cast of characters kept expanding and it did mean at the start I had to go back and re-read a few sections to know who was telling the story- was it Olive? Hazel? Laurel? or someone else entirely- and the narrating styles kept blending in so it was difficult to shake myself out of the previous chapter. I found it a little curious at closing that two of the narrators, Olive and Laurel, weren't even the main characters, so to speak, of their sections. Their spots could have been easily told by Rose or Ash and been more invested in the story that was happening around them... but that, I suspect, was the point.
While most people have jumped to celebrate the inclusion of multiple LGBT narrators, I want to take a moment to appreciate that Rose is half-Indian and Olive is deaf in one ear. I also really love that while this book is about 'lost' things being found, Olive's hearing remained gone- she didn't lose her hearing and it never came back. And though it may have been nice for Rose's Indian heritage and Olive's disability to be brought to the surface more, I can also understand why these aspects were mostly passing mentions; these are parts of their identity, but it's not their full identity.
One thing I do want to bring up that I can't see anyone else referring to... but, uh, did Ivy's parentage cause a double-take for anyone else, especially after Rowan admitted to making out with her, and Hazel said both she and her brother were in love with her? Anyone else get stunned by that? No one? Just me? Aight, okay.
In short, I am enthused to read another book by Moira Fowley-Doyle and I love falling back into the world of queer urban fantasy.
If you are looking for a wildly atmospheric, spooky, and odd book to read for Halloween - this is it. I guarantee it will leave you creeped out and questioning everything.