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starfalldarling 's review for:
Seraphina
by Rachel Hartman
I'll be honest. I didn't expect much from this book. I was going on a camping trip, and like any voracious reader, that meant I needed a stack of books to bury myself in. I picked it up on a whim, because the cover had dragons, and because I remembered seeing a goodreads score that was ridiculously high. I didn't expect to be sucked into the pages so intensely that I barely glanced up when a chipmunk in the campground decided to climb my leg and demand a peanut. I certainly didn't expect to fall in love with each one of the many characters. This is rare for me; there's usually at least one that rubs me the wrong way. Best of all, I loved our heroine, and this is also rare in young adult books for me, where I often find the protagonist to be petulant, or worse, dull.
This is one of those books that was absolutely a pleasure to read. The world Hartman has woven seamlessly together is a thing of beauty, and it's one of those fictional worlds that you might like to stay in for a while. That feeling was so strong with me that I experienced a sense of dismay when I realized that the next book has not yet been released and, woe of woes, will not be released for what seems like an eternity. I don't want to wait to visit that world again!
Anyway, listen. This is one of those books where you can't take my word for it. You need to read it yourself. Maybe you'll fall in love with it, too. Maybe you'll be as surprised as I was. But then, maybe you're less of a skeptic than I, and you'll already expect to love it. Because dragons. And love. And magic.
This is one of those books that was absolutely a pleasure to read. The world Hartman has woven seamlessly together is a thing of beauty, and it's one of those fictional worlds that you might like to stay in for a while. That feeling was so strong with me that I experienced a sense of dismay when I realized that the next book has not yet been released and, woe of woes, will not be released for what seems like an eternity. I don't want to wait to visit that world again!
Anyway, listen. This is one of those books where you can't take my word for it. You need to read it yourself. Maybe you'll fall in love with it, too. Maybe you'll be as surprised as I was. But then, maybe you're less of a skeptic than I, and you'll already expect to love it. Because dragons. And love. And magic.