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5.0
I received a free copy through Netgalley, in return for an honest review.
What happens to a known world where reading is something for boring scholars, scorned by nobility and unknown by the common people, for centuries? Homegoing adds a medieval notion of reading and writing to an unknown world, and threats of a war that asks for people being able to read and learn.
Through Maudlin - princess of a country of fighters and clerk - we learn about the countries in this world as she knows it. She meets people, reads about histories, and meanwhile this world unfolds. The pacing is perfect; never really fast, but never too slow. Her love for words, books and letters seeps through every pace, and I love it - but as often her heritage shows, in her temper and the way she deals with it. The action there is, is subtle, but it is always there. I think that is what makes this book so great: the subtlety is everywhere.
While Maudlin has to find information about the coming invaders, she also has to find out what 'home' really means to her. Will she find out?
I know I should not take into account that the settings for this free e-book I read are not all perfect yet. In this instance I do anyway. It is common knowledge (or so I believe) that reading a book and diving into the story head-first is more difficult when sentences have enters and new alinea's halfway et cetera. Not for this book, after a while I did not notice anymore - something that to me shows the enormous strength of the story how Michelle Markey Butler wrote it.
What happens to a known world where reading is something for boring scholars, scorned by nobility and unknown by the common people, for centuries? Homegoing adds a medieval notion of reading and writing to an unknown world, and threats of a war that asks for people being able to read and learn.
Through Maudlin - princess of a country of fighters and clerk - we learn about the countries in this world as she knows it. She meets people, reads about histories, and meanwhile this world unfolds. The pacing is perfect; never really fast, but never too slow. Her love for words, books and letters seeps through every pace, and I love it - but as often her heritage shows, in her temper and the way she deals with it. The action there is, is subtle, but it is always there. I think that is what makes this book so great: the subtlety is everywhere.
While Maudlin has to find information about the coming invaders, she also has to find out what 'home' really means to her. Will she find out?
I know I should not take into account that the settings for this free e-book I read are not all perfect yet. In this instance I do anyway. It is common knowledge (or so I believe) that reading a book and diving into the story head-first is more difficult when sentences have enters and new alinea's halfway et cetera. Not for this book, after a while I did not notice anymore - something that to me shows the enormous strength of the story how Michelle Markey Butler wrote it.
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