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A review by loveforwords
Heartless by Marissa Meyer
5.0
How am I supposed to review this?
It had been a long time since I'd felt the physical pain of sadness because of a book.
Heartless is heart-wrenchingly bittersweetor sweetbitter would be more chronologically accurate. It's beautiful in its ugliness. It feels real. It feels like a fitting story for the Queen of Hearts.
Thank you to Marissa Meyer for giving us such a detailed Wonderland, which is so loyal to Carroll's tale and so beyond possible that... it makes the impossible possible. *cries* *cries x2*
If you know me, you know I'm a sucker for original details being craftily included in retellings. Meyer did not disappoint. Oh, she did not. The pig baby, the lobster quadrille, the mock turtle, the mad hatter, the pepper cook... The whole story, if you please.
The characters are too good. The mains, most of all. They're relatable, sweet, funny, diverse, loveable, desperate, crazy. (Okay, Cath gets a little annoying with her whining and doesn't really stand up for herself, but what girl who was raised in a house where she wants for nothing, under sexist rules, and with abusive parents would even know how to properly stand up for herself?)
The characters make mistakes, they can be a little selfish, or maybe naive, but that makes them only more real. You get attached to them more than you should, given the expected ending.
What is worse is that you keep being hopeful, despite the expected ending. Until the last minute, the last second, you're foolish enough to cling to that 'maybe'. Maybe it won't end this way. Maybe there's a chance. Maybe you're a fool.
It's mad.
They're mad.
We're all mad here.
RTC.
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It had been a long time since I'd felt the physical pain of sadness because of a book.
Heartless is heart-wrenchingly bittersweet
Thank you to Marissa Meyer for giving us such a detailed Wonderland, which is so loyal to Carroll's tale and so beyond possible that... it makes the impossible possible. *cries* *cries x2*
If you know me, you know I'm a sucker for original details being craftily included in retellings. Meyer did not disappoint. Oh, she did not. The pig baby, the lobster quadrille, the mock turtle, the mad hatter, the pepper cook... The whole story, if you please.
The characters are too good. The mains, most of all. They're relatable, sweet, funny, diverse, loveable, desperate, crazy. (Okay, Cath gets a little annoying with her whining and doesn't really stand up for herself, but what girl who was raised in a house where she wants for nothing, under sexist rules, and with abusive parents would even know how to properly stand up for herself?)
The characters make mistakes, they can be a little selfish, or maybe naive, but that makes them only more real. You get attached to them more than you should, given the expected ending.
What is worse is that you keep being hopeful, despite the expected ending. Until the last minute, the last second, you're foolish enough to cling to that 'maybe'. Maybe it won't end this way. Maybe there's a chance. Maybe you're a fool.
"How is a raven like a writing desk?
It's mad.
They're mad.
We're all mad here.
RTC.
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