tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-61647203852767111432024-03-12T20:59:51.276-07:00Obsessed With Fairy Tales Obsessedwithfairytaleshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06990949946610004314noreply@blogger.comBlogger430125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6164720385276711143.post-32330289736385504162019-03-27T10:11:00.000-07:002019-03-27T10:59:11.715-07:00Goodbye for now. <div>
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I've been thinking about moving my blog for a while now and decided that today was the day! I will be moving my site and content over to a new wordpress site. This blog has been a passion project for me from the start because I enjoy sharing my love of reading and interacting with others who love it as well. </div>
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However, I want to expand and I believe a wordpress site is the right direction for me. And hopefully, I will soon have a logo for my blog, something I've been dreaming of for years. </div>
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Here is the <a href="http://obsessedwithfairytales.wordpress.com/">link </a>to my new site! I will be moving over all of my new content to it in the next few days. I hope you all will join me to keep spreading our love of reading! </div>
Obsessedwithfairytaleshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06990949946610004314noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6164720385276711143.post-427911835508274332019-03-26T04:00:00.000-07:002019-03-26T04:00:08.223-07:00Top Ten Audiobooks on my TBR #226<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<b style="color: #3778cd; font-size: x-large;">1. </b><span style="color: #3778cd; font-size: large;"><b><a href="https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/38746485-becoming">Becoming </a></b></span><b style="color: #3778cd; font-size: x-large;">by Michelle Obama</b><br />
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<b style="color: #333333; font-size: x-large;"><a href="https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/36117102-the-luminous-dead">The Luminous Dead</a> by Caitlin Starling. ARC. Digital. Netgalley. Science Fiction. Horror. 4 Stars. </b><br />
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<span style="color: #333333; font-size: large;"><b><a href="https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/35716237-summer-bird-blue">Summer Bird Blue</a> by Akemi Dawn Bowman. Scribd. Ebook. YA. Contemporary. 3.5 Stars.</b></span><br />
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<span style="color: #333333; font-size: large;"><b><a href="https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/40258215-the-stillwater-girls">The Stillwater Girls </a>by Minka Kent. ARC. Netgalley. Thriller. 4 Stars.</b></span><br />
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<span style="color: #333333; font-size: large;"><b><a href="https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/35606614-heavy-vinyl-vol-1">Heavy Vinyl, Vol. 1 (#1-4) </a>by Carly Usdin, Nina Vakueva (Illustrator). Graphic Novel. Print. Library. YA. 3.5 Stars.</b></span><br />
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<span style="color: #333333; font-size: large;"><b><a href="https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/44286202-can-t-escape-love">Can't Escape Love: A Reluctant Royals Novella (Reluctant Royals #3.5)</a> by Alyssa Cole. Ebook. Scribd. Romance. 4.5 Stars.</b></span><br />
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<span style="color: #333333; font-size: large;"><b><a href="https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/31345538-the-pale-dreamer">The Pale Dreamer (The Bone Season 0.5)</a> by Samantha Shannon. Ebook. Scribd. Fantasy/Paranormal. 5 Stars. </b></span><br />
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<span style="color: #333333; font-size: large;"><b><a href="https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/10434001-claymore-vol-18">Claymore, Vol. 18: The Ashes of Lautrec</a> by Norihiro Yagi. Manga. Print. Library. 4 Stars.</b></span><br />
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<span style="color: #333333; font-size: large;"><b><a href="https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/37491943-the-poppy-war">The Poppy War (#1) </a>by R.F. Kuang. Audiobook. Scribd. Fantasy. 4 Stars.</b></span><br />
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<span style="color: #333333; font-size: large;"><b><a href="https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/36636820-the-center-of-the-universe">The Center of the Universe</a> by Ria Voros. EARC. Digital. YA Contemporary. 3.5 Stars.</b></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">Sixteen-year-old Aza never intended to pursue the mystery of fugitive billionaire Russell Pickett, but there’s a hundred-thousand-dollar reward at stake and her Best and Most Fearless Friend, Daisy, is eager to investigate. So together, they navigate the short distance and broad divides that separate them from Russell Pickett’s son, Davis. Aza is trying. She is trying to be a good daughter, a good friend, a good student, and maybe even a good detective, while also living within the ever-tightening spiral of her own thoughts.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><b>Characters.</b> As expected, John Green created characters that are easy to connect with. Aza was just that for me. I connected with her and her issues only after a few chapters. I liked Aza's love interest/friend Davis was a good character as well. I actually would have liked to see more with Aza and her mother, that seemed like an unexplored element in the novel. </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><b>Writing Style. </b>John Green's prose is so unique and inspiring. It was an interesting experience listening to his words instead of reading them, I felt that made them even more prominent for me. </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><b>Mystery Plot</b>. I really disliked the addition of the mystery of finding Davis's father and the whole reward money side plot. I think the novel would have been a lot stronger if it was cut out. It was unrealistic and kept taking me out of the story. </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><b>Length.</b> The novel was less than 300 pages. I felt like it could have been longer, focusing on more on Aza and what happened with her treatment plan. </span><br />
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Obsessedwithfairytaleshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06990949946610004314noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6164720385276711143.post-58255779888523928572019-03-22T04:00:00.000-07:002019-03-22T04:00:02.473-07:00Friday Meme: Things Coming Out This Month That I Want To Read/See/Play # 154<b style="font-family: "times new roman";"><span style="font-size: large;">Books: Week of 4/01</span></b><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><b>Writing Style. </b>I'm a fan of J. K R</span><span style="font-size: large;">owling's writing style, the way she weaves together the story and characters, plus, her prose itself always makes me want to keep reading her novels. She is great at character development and the Strike series is very character focused. </span><br />
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<b style="color: #3778cd; font-size: x-large;">1. </b><span style="color: #3778cd; font-size: large;"><b><a href="https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/29774026-the-priory-of-the-orange-tree">The Priory of the Orange Tree</a> </b></span><b style="color: #3778cd; font-size: x-large;">by Samantha Shannon</b><br />
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<span style="color: #333333; font-size: medium;"><b><a href="https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/42201550-bone-parish-vol-1">Bone Parish Vol. 1</a> </b></span><b style="color: #333333;">by Cullen Bunn, Jonas Scharf (Illustrations), Alex Guimaraes (With). ARC. Digital. Graphic Novel. 3 Stars. May 7th.</b><br />
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<span style="color: #333333; font-size: medium;"><b><a href="https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/41427834-what-makes-girls-sick-and-tired">What Makes Girls Sick and Tired </a></b></span><b style="color: #333333;">by Lucile de Pesloüan, Genevieve Darling (Illustrations). ARC. Digital. 4 Stars. </b><br />
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<span style="color: #333333; font-size: medium;"><b><a href="https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/39835415-the-familiars">The Familiars</a> </b></span><b style="color: #333333;">by Stacey Halls. ARC. Digital. Historical Fiction. 4 Stars. </b><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">Grace wants out. Out of her house, where her stepfather wields fear like a weapon and her mother makes her scrub imaginary dirt off the floors. Out of her California town, too small to contain her big city dreams. Out of her life, and into the role of Parisian artist, New York director—anything but scared and alone.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">It took way too long to finally pick up this underrated contemporary. I've wanted to read this since 2017 when it released, mainly because of the stunning cover/spine. For some strange reason, they did not have Demetrios's newest novel at my local library so I just decided to buy a copy. It was a good idea, and not just because of the beautiful cover because it was well-written book that destroyed my heart. </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><b>Writing Style. </b>I've read all of Demetrios contemporary novels and always return to them because of her writing. I'd forgotten show much I enjoyed her writing and now I really want more novels from Heather Demetrios to happen in the upcoming years. I liked the humor aspects but also how she wrote about mental illness and abuse in such a realistic and important way. </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><b>Characters. </b>We only follow one character, Grace, as she falls in love with Gavin and deals with her toxic home life. It was easy to connect with Grace and hard to watch her go through the abuse. Demetrios also does a great job writing Grace's friends, who are amazing, and her family. She showed the various sides of the characters, the good and bad. </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">I don't have a bunch of dislikes. Instead, a warning. The novel deals with a lot of heavy and hard to read topics like physical and mental abuse, non-consent, and mental illness. Because of some of those elements, I struggled to read this, even though it was extremely well-done and needs to be written about. </span><br />
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<b><span style="font-size: large;">4.5 Stars Out of 5 Stars.</span></b>Obsessedwithfairytaleshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06990949946610004314noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6164720385276711143.post-68855907213324156172019-03-16T04:00:00.000-07:002019-03-16T04:00:05.035-07:00Stacking the Shelves/Weekly Update #235 <img src="https://2.bp.blogspot.com/-nYswiNaB6Zk/WTmE43JrKOI/AAAAAAAACBI/lDN27riz4ZYE0qr-N20wnGrNGX1BB_BIACPcBGAYYCw/s1600/new%2Bsts.png" style="text-align: center;" /><b style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "courier new" , "courier" , monospace; font-size: large;"><a href="http://www.tyngasreviews.com/">Stacking The Shelves</a></span></b><br />
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<span><span style="font-family: times new roman; font-size: large;"><b><a href="http://obsessedwithfairytales.blogspot.com/2019/03/review-everlasting-rose-belles-2-by.html">Review</a>: The Everlasting Rose (The Belles #2) by Dhonielle Clayton</b></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><b>Writing Style. </b>There are still a few Dhonielle Clayton novels I really need to get my hands on because I love the way she writes. Her writing is beautiful and I'm always sad when I finish one of her novels because I always want more. </span><br />
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<b style="color: #3778cd; font-size: x-large;">1. </b><span style="color: #3778cd; font-size: large;"><b><a href="https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/36117102-the-luminous-dead">The Luminous Dead</a> </b></span><b style="color: #3778cd; font-size: x-large;">by Caitlin Starling. April 2nd.</b><br />
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Obsessedwithfairytaleshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06990949946610004314noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6164720385276711143.post-55104996190518414022019-03-10T04:00:00.000-07:002019-03-10T04:00:12.571-07:00Review: My Squirrel Days by Ellie Kemper<a href="https://images.gr-assets.com/books/1538916473l/38532145.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="38532145" border="0" src="https://images.gr-assets.com/books/1538916473l/38532145.jpg" /></a><b><span style="font-size: large;">Summary from <a href="https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/38532145-my-squirrel-days">Goodreads</a>:</span></b><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">Meet Ellie, the best-intentioned redhead next door. You’ll laugh right alongside her as she shares tales of her childhood in St. Louis, whether directing and also starring in her family holiday pageant, washing her dad’s car with a Brillo pad, failing to become friends with a plump squirrel in her backyard, eating her feelings while watching PG-13 movies, or becoming a “sports monster” who ends up warming the bench of her Division 1 field hockey team in college.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">You’ll learn how she found her comedic calling in the world of improv, became a wife, mother and New Yorker, and landed the role of a bridesmaid (while simultaneously being a bridesmaid) in Bridesmaids. You’ll get to know and love the comic, upbeat, perpetually polite actress playing Erin Hannon on The Office, and the exuberant, pink-pants-wearing star of Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">If you’ve ever been curious about what happens behind the scenes of your favorite shows, what it really takes to be a soul cycle “warrior,” how to recover if you accidentally fall on Doris Kearns Goodwin or tell Tina Fey on meeting her for the first time that she has “great hair—really strong and thick,” this is your chance to find out. But it’s also a laugh-out-loud primer on how to keep a positive outlook in a world gone mad and how not to give up on your dreams. Ellie “dives fully into each role—as actor, comedian, writer, and also wife and new mom—with an electric dedication, by which one learns to reframe the picture, and if not exactly become a glass-half-full sort of person, at least become able to appreciate them” (Vogue.com).</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><b>Humor/Writing Style. </b>I had some issues with the formatting but overall I really enjoyed the content. Kemper is a great writer and has a interesting writing style. I would read more from her if she wrote another memoir in the future. Plus, there was a funny/humor-filled moments throughout the memoir.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: large;"><b><a href="https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/43889205-kid-gloves">Kid Gloves: Nine Months of Careful Chaos</a> </b></span><b style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: x-large;">by Lucy Knisley (Ebook, $9.99)</b></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: large;"><b><a href="https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/42940508-the-rosie-result">The Rosie Result </a></b></span><span style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: large;"><b><a href="https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/42940508-the-rosie-result">(Don Tillman #3)</a> </b></span><b style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: x-large;">by Graeme Simsion</b></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: large;"><b><a href="https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/41150455-wherever-she-goes?ac=1&from_search=true">Wherever She Goes: A Novel</a> </b></span><b style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: x-large;">by Kelley Armstrong</b></div>
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Obsessedwithfairytaleshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06990949946610004314noreply@blogger.com6tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6164720385276711143.post-51238648067823223392019-03-08T04:00:00.000-08:002019-03-08T04:00:06.502-08:00Friday Meme: Things Coming Out This Month That I Want To Read/See/Play # 152<b style="font-family: "times new roman";"><span style="font-size: large;">Books: Week of 3/18</span></b><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">Echo Alkaev’s safe and carefully structured world falls apart after her father leaves for the city and mysteriously disappears. Believing he is lost forever, Echo is shocked to find him half-frozen in the winter forest six months later, guarded by a strange talking wolf—the same creature who attacked her as a child. The wolf presents Echo with an offer: for her to come and live with him for a year. But there is more to the wolf than Echo realizes.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><b>Fantasy Elements/World Building. </b>I was pleasantly surprised at some of the unique aspects in the retelling. It has a lot of aspects that put it ahead of generic Fantasy or retellings. It kept me reading all the way until the end, even when the pacing changed because it was so fantastical. It was a perfectly done standalone fantasy that stands out in the Fantasy genre.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><b>Plot/Setting.</b> The aspect I struggled with was how the first half and the middle are drastically different stories and it took me a bit to get back into the novel. I also found the ending conclusion a bit rushed.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: times new roman; font-size: large;">Christmas, Hawkins, 1984. All Chief Jim Hopper wants is to enjoy a quiet first Christmas with Eleven, but his adopted daughter has other plans. Over Hopper’s protests, she pulls a cardboard box marked “New York” out of the basement—and the tough questions begin. Why did Hopper leave Hawkins all those years ago? What does “Vietnam” mean? And why has he never talked about New York?</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: times new roman; font-size: large;">Summer, New York City, 1977. Hopper is starting over after returning home from Vietnam. A young daughter, a caring wife, and a new beat as an NYPD detective make it easy to slip back into life as a civilian. But after shadowy federal agents suddenly show up and seize the files about a series of brutal, unsolved murders, Hopper takes matters into his own hands, risking everything to discover the truth.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: times new roman; font-size: large;">Soon Hopper is undercover among New York’s notorious street gangs. But just as he’s about to crack the case, a blackout rolls across the boroughs, plunging Hopper into a darkness deeper than any he’s faced before.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: times new roman; font-size: large;">This is the perfect collection for any fan of the Emmy Award-winning television series on AMC: over one-thousand pages chronicling the next chapter of Robert Kirkman's Eisner Award-winning continuing story of survival horror - beginning with Rick Grimes' struggle to survive after the prison raid, to the group's finding short solace in The Community, and the devastation that follows. In a world ruled by the dead, we are finally forced to finally start living. Collects The Walking Dead #49-96. </span></div>
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Obsessedwithfairytaleshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06990949946610004314noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6164720385276711143.post-45925388929125641162019-03-05T04:00:00.000-08:002019-03-05T04:00:06.730-08:00Teaser Tuesday #89 and Top Ten Backlist Books I Want to Read Soon #223<a href="https://i1.wp.com/thepurplebooker.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/12/tuesday.jpg?zoom=1.440000057220459&resize=300%2C120" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em; text-align: center;"><img border="0" height="127" src="https://i1.wp.com/thepurplebooker.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/12/tuesday.jpg?zoom=1.440000057220459&resize=300%2C120" width="320" /></a>Teaser Tuesday is a weekly feature hosted by Purple Princess of <b><a href="http://thepurplebooker.com/">The Purple Booker.</a></b><br />
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<b style="color: #3778cd; font-size: x-large;">1. </b><span style="color: #3778cd; font-size: large;"><b><a href="https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/27779275-this-adventure-ends">This Adventure Ends</a> </b></span><b style="color: #3778cd; font-size: x-large;">by Emma Mills</b><br />
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<b style="color: #3778cd; font-size: x-large;">3. </b><span style="color: #3778cd; font-size: large;"><b><a href="https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/34069813-the-bear-and-the-nightingale">The Bear and the Nightingale </a></b></span><b style="color: #3778cd; font-size: x-large;"><a href="https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/34069813-the-bear-and-the-nightingale">(Winternight Trilogy #1)</a> </b><b style="color: #3778cd; font-size: x-large;">by Katherine Arden</b><br />
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<b style="color: #3778cd; font-size: x-large;">4. Stephen King Books.</b><br />
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<b style="color: #3778cd; font-size: x-large;">5. Christina Lauren Books.</b><br />
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<b style="color: #3778cd; font-size: x-large;">6. Finish Study Series by Maria V. Snyder</b><br />
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<b style="color: #3778cd; font-size: x-large;">8. </b><span style="color: #3778cd; font-size: large;"><b><a href="https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/32620332-the-seven-husbands-of-evelyn-hugo">The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo</a> </b></span><b style="color: #3778cd; font-size: x-large;">by Taylor Jenkins Reid</b><br />
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<b style="color: #3778cd; font-size: x-large;">9. </b><span style="color: #3778cd; font-size: large;"><b><a href="https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/33509076-black-bird-of-the-gallows">Black Bird of the Gallows Series</a> </b></span><b style="color: #3778cd; font-size: x-large;">by Meg Kassel </b><br />
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<span style="color: #3778cd; font-size: large;"><b>10. <a href="https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/36220698-record-of-a-spaceborn-few">Record of a Spaceborn Few </a></b></span><b style="color: #3778cd; font-size: x-large;"><a href="https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/36220698-record-of-a-spaceborn-few">(Wayfarers #3)</a> </b><b style="color: #3778cd; font-size: x-large;">by Becky Chambers</b><br />
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<span style="color: #333333; font-size: medium;"><b><a href="https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/40597951-flavor-vol-1">Flavor, Vol. 1</a> </b></span><b style="color: #333333;">by Joseph Keatinge, Ali Bouzari, Wook Jin Clark (Contributor), Tamra Bonvillain (Contributor). </b><span style="color: #333333; font-size: medium;"><b>Graphic Novel. Print. Library. Fantasy. 4 Stars.</b></span></span><br />
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<span style="color: #333333; font-size: medium;"><b><a href="https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/40495957-heartstopper">Heartstopper: Volume One</a> </b></span><b style="color: #333333;">by Alice Oseman. Webcomic. 5 Stars. </b></span><br />
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Obsessedwithfairytaleshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06990949946610004314noreply@blogger.com5tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6164720385276711143.post-66524736613293880692019-03-03T04:00:00.000-08:002019-03-03T04:00:07.179-08:00Review: Lizzie by Dawn Ius <a href="https://images.gr-assets.com/books/1496675159l/35297419.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="35297419" border="0" src="https://images.gr-assets.com/books/1496675159l/35297419.jpg" /></a><b><span style="font-size: large;">Summary from <a href="https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/35297419-lizzie">Goodreads</a>:</span></b><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">From acclaimed author Dawn Ius comes an edge-of-your-seat reimagining of one of the most chilling mysteries in modern history—Lizzie Borden.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">Seventeen-year-old Lizzie Borden has never been kissed. Polite but painfully shy, Lizzie prefers to stay in the kitchen, where she can dream of becoming a chef and escape her reality. With tyrannical parents who force her to work at the family’s B&B and her blackout episodes—a medical condition that has plagued her since her first menstrual cycle—Lizzie longs for a life of freedom, the time and space to just figure out who she is and what she wants.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">Enter the effervescent, unpredictable Bridget Sullivan. Bridget has joined the B&B’s staff as the new maid, and Lizzie is instantly drawn to her artistic style and free spirit—even her Star Wars obsession is kind of cute. The two of them forge bonds that quickly turn into something that’s maybe more than friendship.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">But when her parents try to restrain Lizzie from living the life she wants, it sparks something in her that she can’t quite figure out. Her blackout episodes start getting worse, her instincts less and less reliable. Lizzie is angry, certainly, but she also feels like she’s going mad… </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">It took me a while to finally read this retelling because of the low rating it has on Goodreads. I'm glad that I decided to disregard the rating and just read it. It was an interesting and well-crafted retelling of the Lizzie Borden case. </span><br />
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<b><span style="font-size: large;">Plot/</span></b><span style="font-size: large;"><b>Twist Ending. </b>I found the plot interesting, it was Lizzie Borden but with a modern twist to it. I managed to guess the big twist pretty early on but it was still a solid one. </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><b>Retelling/Historical Elements. </b>I felt that this was a strong retelling, a modernized version of Lizzie Borden. The author did a great job of bringing elements of the Borden case with her own twist on the story but also using some of the historical aspects. </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><b>Characters. </b>The novel mainly follows Lizzie, her horrible home life and her descent into madness. Lizzie's family was hard to read about because of how they mistreated her. Ius did a great job of crafting the different characters and also showing the reader Lizzie's deteriorating mind. </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><b>Rushed Ending/Confusing aspects. </b>I felt that the end of the novel, the last fifty or so pages were a bit confusing. It seemed rushed and incomplete to me. I would have liked more about the court case instead of just one chapter. </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">I recommend checking out this underrated retelling if you're familiar with the Lizzie Borden case. </span><br />
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<b><span style="font-size: large;">4.5 Stars Out of 5 Stars. </span></b>Obsessedwithfairytaleshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06990949946610004314noreply@blogger.com0