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That was a long and chaotic journey through the book. I had questions all along the book and to be honest I still ask myself about some of the characters’ behavior. I still don’t understand Isabel’s choices nor why Goodwood never tried to get over her. I felt so sad and bad for Ralph.

He was the only character I love since the beginning to the end of the book and he had to die???

He said the saddest thing of the book.

In the end I couldn’t even feel bad for Isabel because she chose to marry Osmond when everybody told her not to.

I still feel sad because she does not have the happily ever after she deserves but, in a way, she chose her fate? I mean she was not forced to marry him she could have had say that she needed time just like she did with Caspar Goodwood and Lord Warburton. Osmond and Madame Merle are not innocent though.

They kind of tricked Isabel in this marriage without telling her everything. Caspar Goodwood never found his happy ever after but at the same time he never tried. He knew Isabel would never have go with him after she married but he still tried to have her until the very end he didn’t try at all. Even Lord Warburton married because he had to marry someone and never forgot Isabel. In my opinion even Henrietta does not have a happily ever after because she ended up marrying someone. Nobody got the happily ever after they deserved. It pains me to admit it, but Ralph is the only one who had the end he wished for? He died with Isabel near him.

To be honest even if I really tried to enjoy the book, I cannot bring myself to think about things I really enjoyed. I think the realism created something to depressed for me to enjoy it. In the end nobody is really happy with their ending and I don’t like this kind of ending. I appreciate more Emma and Pride and Prejudice.

It was still an interesting book as it shows a lot about Henry James’ century and people’s way of life during his century. Also, I think it is great to have the point of view of an American writer on English people and that’s also why I think this book is really different from Emma. For me the book seemed to talk about real life and real problems of American and English marriages and it is not my favorite topic in books. But I have to admit that Henry James really had an interesting writing.

During my reading I asked myself what was love quite often. And I still don’t have an answer because at that time love was really different than today and I think that is why I cannot understand everything, because I don’t have the view they had back in those days.

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Flawless by Elsie Silver

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adventurous challenging emotional funny hopeful lighthearted tense medium-paced

Plot- or character-driven? A mix
Strong character development? Yes
Loveable characters? Yes
Diverse cast of characters? It's complicated
Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

5.0

I definitely have a problem with cowboys
Can’t wait to discover more about the Eaton brothers!

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Love, Laugh, Lich by Kate Prior

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funny lighthearted mysterious fast-paced

Plot- or character-driven? Plot
Strong character development? It's complicated
Loveable characters? Yes
Diverse cast of characters? Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

3.0

To be honest I just wanted a small read in between my uni reads. It did the job. It was rather short and direct, that was great! I just wish that it was less “character discovering themselves” as it was kind of rushed (as the book was short).
Overall it was well written and the Linch is a very interesting creature!! Would love to read more about it. (:

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Emma by Jane Austen

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emotional funny hopeful informative lighthearted reflective slow-paced

Plot- or character-driven? A mix
Strong character development? It's complicated
Loveable characters? It's complicated
Diverse cast of characters? No
Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.25

Spoilers in my review!

Follow Emma through her journey to find a husband to Harriet, her friend! Emma will also give us her view upon marriage, letting us dive into questioning on friendship, relationship and neighborhood relations. Will Emma find her own place?
I really enjoyed reading this book. It was honestly my first Jane Austen’s book so I wasn’t familiar with her writing. I had questions all along the book and still had questions at the end but I think that it is good. The book and Jane Austen’s writing give us the opportunity to think about marriage during Austen’s time and also today. It also gives us the opportunity to think about friendship (between men and women, women and women, men and men), family dynamics (death of Emma’s mother, the place of her father, her own place in her family for example), the place in society (the example of Harriet but also Miss Taylor, a governor marrying a man and so changing her status) but also relation with the neighborhood (how people saw Frank Churchill at first, the first impression on Jane). I really love how the book deals with a lot of different things and even if it is from a romantic author, I think it can be seen as realistic. Some struggles the characters encounter, in their own period of time, can be a mirror of our own struggles in our own society. It is as if the book is intemporal even though the setting is not the same as our current period and society.
I had some hard moments with different characters and I didn’t understand them all (I still don’t understand why Jane and Frank decided to not speak about their engagement nor understand why Harriet didn’t tell Emma earlier about her feelings for Mr. Knightley and I don’t always understand Emma’s actions) but overall, I think they are all really interesting and they all bring something new, fresh and a reflection upon the book and the different topics. I also think it is quite interesting to view all the different type of “happily ever after”. It is always with a wedding, true, but the characters experience a different type of wedding and their own are not the same. I think it was great to see that even the end of a story can have multiple happily ever after. If we were to do a retelling where Emma did not marry Mr. Knightley, could we have had considered it a “happily ever after”? I think so because she would have had been happy either way. In the end what matters the most for it to be a happily ever after it is if the characters are happy more than our own vision of this sentence.

Pride and Prejudice (Barnes & Noble Classics Series) by Jane Austen

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emotional funny lighthearted reflective tense medium-paced

Plot- or character-driven? A mix
Strong character development? Yes
Loveable characters? No
Diverse cast of characters? No
Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.75

Okay I have to admit: I hate almost all the characters and I hate what they did.
BUT the book is good. I may hate the story but I got to admit the book is well-written and I kind of enjoy diving more into the characters’ complexity and details. I enjoy analyzing their actions and the consequences of it.
It really is a good book to analyze and explore!
I just wish I could have like the story just as much as others do but I can’t bring myself to enjoy it.
Anyway I think everyone needs to make their own opinions about the book and I hope the next readers will enjoy diving into the world of Pride & Prejudice!

fallen angel lain by Fazia Salhi

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adventurous challenging dark emotional hopeful mysterious reflective sad tense medium-paced

Plot- or character-driven? A mix
Strong character development? Yes
Loveable characters? It's complicated
Diverse cast of characters? It's complicated
Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.25

SP!

Je remercie tout d’abord Fazia Salhi pour sa confiance accordée pour la lecture de son roman!

Un nouveau monde, doux et brutal mélange entre dystopie et fantastique.

Que puis-je dire? J’ai adoré plonger dans cet univers! Grande habituée des dystopies, je mentirais si je disais ne pas avoir eu d’attentes en lisant ce livre. On est habitués aux dystopies classiques, alors un nouveau livre sur ce sujet? J’espérais du nouveau, un vent de fraîcheur. Et je ne fus pas déçue!

Heavendale. Ce nom incluant le paradis en anglais, ne l’est pas vraiment. On découvre petit à petit des secrets, rendant cette ville de plus en plus mystérieuse. Ses habitants sont eux aussi mystérieux.

Les personnages que nous suivons au fil de l’histoire, haut en couleurs et qui ont tous leur propre caractère et leur propre histoire, peuplent le livre. J’ai adoré me plonger dans leurs histoires, apprendre à les connaître ainsi eux et leurs secrets, leurs vies.

On s’attache aux personnalités, on se prend à vouloir en découvrir toujours plus. À propos de Stan, de Lain, de tout ce qu’il se passait avant, de ce qui est entrain de se passer, de ce qu’il va se passer ensuite. C’est très prenant, et l’histoire est intéressante. La croisée des chemins des personnages l’est aussi, comment ils sont liés et comment ils se retrouvent, comment ils se font confiance et comment ils se méfient.

J’ai cependant eu du mal, parfois, à suivre l’intrigue. L’histoire est très bien menée et compréhensible, c’est vraiment très agréable, mais je me perdais parfois entre les différents focus sur les différents personnages au sein d’un même chapitre. Je ne comprenais pas toujours sur qui était le focus. Mais les personnages se distinguaient rapidement alors après quelques secondes de flottement, ça allait mieux.

Et même si cet aspect me perdait un peu parfois, j’ai bien aimé cette idée. Avoir le focus sur différents personnages clés, ça permet au lecteur d’en savoir davantage. Et en même temps, on était parfois pas plus avancés que les personnages. C’est subtil et intriguant, on veut en découvrir toujours plus.

Je ne peux vous dire qu’une chose, je vous recommande ce livre! Plongez vous aussi dans ce monde, dans Heavendale, vous ne le regretterez pas. Vous allez découvrir un monde nouveau, une vie nouvelle (ou devrais-je dire, les vies des personnages), dont vous devrez tout apprendre.

Faites confiance à ce livre, à ce monde, c’est vraiment prometteur et inspirant. Un vent de fraîcheur sur la dystopie qui fait du bien et qui donne envie de replonger dans cet univers!

Le morpho bleu by Jean-Louis Roujean

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adventurous challenging dark emotional funny hopeful informative mysterious reflective sad tense medium-paced

Plot- or character-driven? A mix
Strong character development? It's complicated
Loveable characters? Yes
Diverse cast of characters? It's complicated
Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

3.5

SP!

Je remercie tout d’abord Jean-Louis Roujean pour sa confiance accordée pour la lecture de son roman!

Entre art et crime, la frontière a été dépassée dans ce livre.

Je dois avouer être une grande fan de thriller, c’est donc avec joie que j’ai accepté de lire ce roman. Après avoir lu tant de livre de ce genre, je suis toujours assez pointilleuse quant à ce que j’attends de ma lecture.

Avec Le Morpho Bleu, j’ai été transporté dans tous les coins des Etats-Unis mais également dans le domaine de l’art. J’ai découvert des choses intéressantes sur les couleurs et leurs codes et tout était très bien expliqué. J’ai vraiment apprécié apprendre moulte choses ainsi que de découvrir, au fil des pages, comment l’enquête se démêlait.

Dans ce roman, on suit l’inspecteur Azor Streyes au cœur d’une enquête qui dépasse le simple crime. Des meurtres qui se ressemblent dans plusieurs états qui font bouger les polices locales et le FBI, mais aussi les artistes au cœur de cette enquête. Les pièces du puzzle s’imbriquent, se désimbriquent et on prend plaisir à essayer de démêler le vrai du faux. C’est souvent addictif, et ce genre d’enquête m’était inédit. Non seulement on suit les avancées de l’enquête, mais on suit également les avancées des relations de l’inspecteur Streyes. J’avoue avoir apprécié, en particulier, son épopée romantique. Cela emmenait un vent de fraicheur, une coupure, dans le récit lourd de l’enquête.

J’ai été agréablement surprise de pouvoir lire sur des sujets tel que le réchauffement climatique et ce qui se passe aux Etats-Unis. J’ai trouvé que ce livre avait un fond éducatif sur ce qui se passait à l’échelle mondiale, et j’ai apprécié en apprendre davantage.

Il y a eu quelques moments qui m’ont laissé dubitative, et je ne m’attendais pas du tout à cette fin. Mais c’était intéressant de voir comment les personnages se façonnaient, comment ils agissaient et comment leur personnalité se dessinait. J’ai aussi apprécié le changement de point de vue dans le récit, entre le récit principal du point de vue de Azor et quelques chapitres du point de vue de ce qui s’était passé pour en arriver aux meurtres.

En somme, j’ai adoré me plonger dans cet univers de différentes cultures. J’ai aimé ce que j’ai appris, et j’ai aimé suivre cette enquête. Malgré quelques moments flous, représentation réelle des pensées de l’inspecteur, la trame narrative était facile à suivre et agréable.

Je n’ai qu’une chose à dire: plongez vous aussi dans cet univers, vous en ressortirez sûrement conquis!

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theangelssing's reviews 68 reviews

theangelssing's reviews
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