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A review by cmdufresne
A Sorrow Fierce and Falling by Jessica Cluess
5.0
This book took my heart apart one piece at a time.
Maybe I'll come back and write a more complete review once I've had time to process the trauma at the hands of a paperback that I was just subjected to, but here is my jumble of thoughts all happening at once.
-Blackwood deserved better. It felt forced to have him regress so much, and for seemingly no reason other than getting him out of the way.
-I get it is supposed to be a period piece, but Howell is such a leader in questioning so much about the treatment of magical people, but never questions the treatment of women nor the rules she holds herself to?
- I had much higher expectations for the rune from Titania
And yet despite all that:
- I love that no character is all good nor all bad, but shows that there are two sides to everything, and everyone lives in the gray.
-The writing is beautiful.
-The epilogue tied everything up the way I needed it to.
Normally with this many complaints about a book I would give it 3-4 stars.....but I know I loved this 5 stars worth, so I'm going to go with my gut, recognizing that this is not a book everyone is going to enjoy.
Maybe I'll come back and write a more complete review once I've had time to process the trauma at the hands of a paperback that I was just subjected to, but here is my jumble of thoughts all happening at once.
-Blackwood deserved better. It felt forced to have him regress so much, and for seemingly no reason other than getting him out of the way.
-I get it is supposed to be a period piece, but Howell is such a leader in questioning so much about the treatment of magical people, but never questions the treatment of women nor the rules she holds herself to?
- I had much higher expectations for the rune from Titania
And yet despite all that:
- I love that no character is all good nor all bad, but shows that there are two sides to everything, and everyone lives in the gray.
-The writing is beautiful.
-The epilogue tied everything up the way I needed it to.
Normally with this many complaints about a book I would give it 3-4 stars.....but I know I loved this 5 stars worth, so I'm going to go with my gut, recognizing that this is not a book everyone is going to enjoy.