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Book Review: Seraphina by Rachel Hartman

Wednesday, July 11, 2012 – 9:10 p.m.


Rating: ★★★★★ (5/5)
Seraphina is a well-spun tale that will touch your heart, grapple you in with hooks and refuse to let you go. The world is unbelievable, each character sparkles like a gem and finally, an amazing plot spun with fine golden threads holds this story together.

 Call me crazy, but I devoured this in a whole sitting. And it was worth neglecting my chemistry homework for! Holy crap. That was GOOD. I won't even try to explain how excited I was to read this. I had hopped to the teens section in the bookstore giggling and grinning, but it turned out that they didn't move the books from the back of the room yet. Which is a real pity because this novel was amazingly well written and the store was losing a lot by not putting it out!!! :l I loved this beyond imagination. 

This book struck many chords inside of me for multiple reasons. First, it combined two of the things I adore to death. Dragons, and illegitimate princes. I nearly screamed and dropped the book when I found out Kiggs was illegitimate. A DREAM COME TRUE LEMME TELL YA.

 Second, it reminded me of Janet Lee Carey's novels which hold a special place in my heart. Although they aren't perfectly written, the world of Dragonskeep and Dragonswood was magnificent and Hartman managed to make her own sparkling, flawed, and magical world. The world is fantastic, and so are the characters. Each minor character is amazing in their own sense and of course, so was Seraphina. She wasn't typical, that's for sure. Seraphina really is the intelligent and brave young woman and it seeps through her narration. Even I had to admit that she had serious gall and ardor. (Read reviews and was skeptical about her.) I ain't done yet. The world and the characters are magestic, and so is the plot. It isn't just a silly world spun magnificently but no real threads of plot holding it together.

 All in all, I loved this book to DEATH. Please please pleaaaase read it.

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Book Review: Dragonswood by Janet Lee Carey

Monday, January 30, 2012 – 12:07 a.m.

★★★★☆ (4/5 stars)


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I LOVE Janet Lee Carey. I first read Dragon's Keep while I was in Elementary School (or something) and I really really love the way she writes. I thought this was something related to Dragon's Keep, so I picked it up. Oh, and the cover is GORGEOUS. Way better than Dragon's Keep, that's for sure.

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No character was PERFECT. THEY WERE ALL FLAWED IN GREAT WAYS. AND REALISTIC WAYS. (Like Meg and Poppy.) Garth (or w/e you want to call him, don't want to spoil anything) was amazing. He was such a kind and caring character, which is kind of cliche but I love his heart! He didn't judge anything by looks and he was still vulnerable, like any other man. Carey didn't write him as the perfect man, which is what I hate about some books.

 Flawed girls with perfect guys? NO THANK YOU. BOYS ARE FLAWED  AS WELL.

I also LOVED LOVED LOVED how Carey wrote everything so OUT there. She didn't make any perfect girls, and Tess was not an exception. Her cauliflowered ear and blackened thumbs weren't healed ~magically~ in anyway, and Tess was totally not cliche.

I loved her resilience against Lady Adela as well. GOD I LOVED THIS!!

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I saw everything a mile away. If you kind of follow the writing, you can tell that Tess isn't going to wed to some normal man. And if you think about Garth's hunting lodge... Well, DUH. I apologize if that spoiled anything!

But I hated how I never realized in the beginning, so that forced me to re-read the whole thing.

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The characters were beautiful but I saw everything 10 god damn kilometres away.

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