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The Kingdom of Back by Marie Lu
3.0
Marie Lu has one goal in life and it is to break my heart.
This book is not at all what I thought it would be. What was believed to be a story about the life of the forgotten Mozart child ended up being a full-blown Narnia-esque fae fantasy. As someone who has only read her Legend series, a thrilling dystopian full of politics and danger, this revealed a side of her I didn’t know existed.
I’ve gotta admit, it was real hard for me to get through the first half of the book. The writing was beautiful and enchanting, but I felt bored reading it. And then, when I got to the halfway point, it was practically impossible for me to put it down. It took me days to get through the first half and then I finished the second in a single sitting.
Nannerls’ growth was inspiring, and I think her story would have been life changing for me had I read it at a younger age when I was still intimidated by simply existing. Finding out that she was, in fact, a real person who not only performed with Wolfgang but actually imagined up the Kingdom of Back with him on their travels really turned around my perspective. Now I’m sitting here hoping that she eventually found true happiness in her life, even with knowing that she would always spend it living under her brothers shadow.
This book is not at all what I thought it would be. What was believed to be a story about the life of the forgotten Mozart child ended up being a full-blown Narnia-esque fae fantasy. As someone who has only read her Legend series, a thrilling dystopian full of politics and danger, this revealed a side of her I didn’t know existed.
I’ve gotta admit, it was real hard for me to get through the first half of the book. The writing was beautiful and enchanting, but I felt bored reading it. And then, when I got to the halfway point, it was practically impossible for me to put it down. It took me days to get through the first half and then I finished the second in a single sitting.
Nannerls’ growth was inspiring, and I think her story would have been life changing for me had I read it at a younger age when I was still intimidated by simply existing. Finding out that she was, in fact, a real person who not only performed with Wolfgang but actually imagined up the Kingdom of Back with him on their travels really turned around my perspective. Now I’m sitting here hoping that she eventually found true happiness in her life, even with knowing that she would always spend it living under her brothers shadow.