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All the Crooked Saints
by Maggie Stiefvater
RTC!
9 months later
Wow I'm bad at getting around the actually reviewing the books that I mark as RTC. WHOOPS.
Anyways. This book is.... difficult to describe. I didn't like it, but at the same time I always think fondly of it whenever I see it on my shelf. I found the characters to be odd, not necessarily in a good way, and yet I missed them after I finished it. I don't get it. Maggie Steifvater somehow managed to write a book that I wanted to DNF but couldn't bring myself to do it. I keep typing and erasing things because I'm having such a hard time deciding how to describe the experience of reading this book. It was so beautifully atmospheric. Stiefvater created a world so wonderfully magical and weird and cooky, but still somehow entirely believable. I felt oddly disconnected while reading this, but it also felt like I was right there watching it all in front of me. I really don't know how to describe it. I think the best way would be to say that I felt like an observer of this story, I wasn't part of it but I was there as witness. This story makes you feel like one of the owls calmly watching everything, not necessarily caring about what's going on, but just watching to see how things unfold. I would recommend All The Crooked Saints as more of a reading experience than something you read for the plot, it's left me at a complete loss for words.
9 months later
Wow I'm bad at getting around the actually reviewing the books that I mark as RTC. WHOOPS.
Anyways. This book is.... difficult to describe. I didn't like it, but at the same time I always think fondly of it whenever I see it on my shelf. I found the characters to be odd, not necessarily in a good way, and yet I missed them after I finished it. I don't get it. Maggie Steifvater somehow managed to write a book that I wanted to DNF but couldn't bring myself to do it. I keep typing and erasing things because I'm having such a hard time deciding how to describe the experience of reading this book. It was so beautifully atmospheric. Stiefvater created a world so wonderfully magical and weird and cooky, but still somehow entirely believable. I felt oddly disconnected while reading this, but it also felt like I was right there watching it all in front of me. I really don't know how to describe it. I think the best way would be to say that I felt like an observer of this story, I wasn't part of it but I was there as witness. This story makes you feel like one of the owls calmly watching everything, not necessarily caring about what's going on, but just watching to see how things unfold. I would recommend All The Crooked Saints as more of a reading experience than something you read for the plot, it's left me at a complete loss for words.