Reading is sometimes a slog for me these days and this was the first book in ages that was just so lovely and charming that it was easy to get lost inReading is sometimes a slog for me these days and this was the first book in ages that was just so lovely and charming that it was easy to get lost in it for the evening and before I knew it I'd finished it up in one go. A rare thing recently, and a nice thing....more
So a few days ago I was like, "Wait, why haven't I read this book yet? I love Juliet Marillier!" And then I got 36% in and (view spoiler)[oh, yeah, thSo a few days ago I was like, "Wait, why haven't I read this book yet? I love Juliet Marillier!" And then I got 36% in and (view spoiler)[oh, yeah, this book has a horrific rape scene I'd heard about and that's why I had avoided it. I hit a point a while back where I decided I was just so so so done with reading and watching things with sexual violence as a plot point. So I tend to avoid stuff when I know it features rape. That said, while what happens to Sorcha is awful, I appreciated how the trauma of it was dealt with for the rest of the book. By the end she's healing but not healed (and specifically says that it's something that cannot be completely forgotten), and falling in love didn't make everything magically be okay. (But that said...I am so so so done with reading about rape.) (hide spoiler)]
Even with that and even though (view spoiler)[A DOG DIES (hide spoiler)] and (view spoiler)[the romance is between a fifteen-year-old girl (twelve at the beginning of the book and sixteen by the end and referred to throughout as "a child" by so many characters) and a twenty-two-year-old man (hide spoiler)], I really loved a lot about this. Not an easy read - certainly a bittersweet one - but really satisfying....more
One of those dual timeline books where I, unfortunately, end up being deeply uninterested in one of the timelines. Like, 4 stars for the bits in the pOne of those dual timeline books where I, unfortunately, end up being deeply uninterested in one of the timelines. Like, 4 stars for the bits in the past, maybe 1.5 for the bits in the present. I was so into Anna's story, but the present storyline was ugh. I just really did not like Rob; if that storyline had been Nicola figuring things out on her own I would have liked it a lot more, but I found Rob and his all-knowingness too creepy....more
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