Eva Aviana Otilie
Well it has actualy been awhile since I read the original 1984, so I had to visit it right before I read this book. I do however remeber that when I first read this book I was messmerized and captured in alot of thinking, I was hoping that Julia would do the same. In some ways it did, but not as much as 1984 did for me.
I am super unsure where to even explain what my brain said while reading this book.
I really appriciate how we see and notise how the rebellion diffrent people here now. How we get to know Julia and her motivatins more and better.
This retelling hold little back and in terms of paiting a faerlessness but alos just how vuldreble and just how well... brain washed she is.
It is a grim and thought provoking book, that I think maybe we can all agree on. Yet I just am not so sure how much I really liked this book. Like the entire thing is executed well generally, just I was not so captured all the time. I wasnt rushing as I wanted to read more. It just went slowly by as I read.
Well, I am not sure how I feel about this book. I just honestly feel I read it? And then I just had like no thoughts while actually reading it? Not sure if that is my own fault, like my headpsace or it was the actual book.
I cant reacll anything really bad about it. So I can not really justify any lower star rating but I alos can not justify any higher.
I found the general writing style intresting and fun. I enjoyed the overall way it was written and how it was not as easy for me as a reader to understand and tis time I did not mind that.
So, I think that is all pretty much
This tale begins long after the fallout of Alice's return from her first trip into this alternate world that has left some serious emotional and psychological scars on her. She is struggeling to remeber the presetn and so the past and somewhat weird is even harder to rember. Then one night a fire breaks out and she and a man named Hatcher finnaly manges to exape the assilum. Alice find out that alot of the things she thought she knew may not actually be true
Now, to the actual rewiev part, I mean I do not know where to start even. Like I liked the overall story. I actually quite enjoyed reading it alot. Yet, I do not like it amazingly well. Like the connection to actual wounderland was not enough. They kinda made wounderland be less magical by well just somewhat removing it. It is mainly just the new vs the old city. Or how I read it, the new moderized and standard way of living and seeing the world vs the old and more chaotic under the shadows ways. I enjoyed the more whimsical and somewhat not straight forward dirction this story takes.
The weakest part of the novel for me were the eventual reveal of magic in this world, and the way that the original story almost seemed to keep this one contained within a box of its own making. i felt like story just had to fit certain things and it just was not 100% as whimsiical I wanted. I mean the fudemental idea is somewhat they on drugs and doped down on meds and suh and see and experience things. So I wanted that feeling some more.
Well, plus there is also just it was not simmiar enough to the original.
Harrow is a walking trauma ... an unreliable narrator? Yeah
But in this case so utterly unreliable that she alters our memories of what came before, and that by quite alot—which, not for nothing, is a BIG swing on Muir's part, and one that she pulls off, not gracefully, but with devastating brute force. And also somewhat hallerious in my opinion.
The book's universe revolves around a galactic empire ruled by a god-like emperor and eight noble houses. After ten thousand years of uninterrupted rule, the eight Lyctors, representatives from each house with demigod powers who serve directly the emperor, are depleted. There are only three left, and so a new group was educated to take their place. In the first book, only two of the eight representatives survived to achieve the status of a Lyctor: Ianthe and Harrow. They join the emperor and the surviving three Lyctors on an isolated space station. At first, they hide from the nigh unkillable Resurrection Beast, and later they prepare to fight it.
So to the more detailed or serious part of this rewiev. (That I feel will be complicated and confusing to read) The narriation style, it is written from both a third and secound pov, which is honestly confusing. Like super confusing. And to make it even worse the ending has some first pov aswell. Like ye, that is confusion. Like I mean it makes sence it is writen like this when thinking back. Like it is all written from Gidion pov and at first she sits there like a silent creature. But after awhile she gets more presence and starts to talk more just to Harrow.
There is also the still everlasting thing taht the author somewhat feels like he is trying to scram and push too much into that are supose to be vauge but at times just gets confson. Like it is already confusing enough with all the magic and tecnology and having to think of that and undertsnad it. Just the flashbacks can at times make it even more confusing.
I mean dont get me wrong I do LOVE this book. Like it is so close to beig a 5 star. Just not totally yet, as this narriator thing did bug my brain at times.
But the stroy, OMG how I just love the overall story of this book so much. And the cara thers are even better. And the idea, like how can it even be thought. Like it is just so good and I feel kinda all weird and somehwt empty now after having read it. So yes, it is awsome.
If I can not be better than them I will become so much worse.
A statment I feel disribes the feeling I often get. The carcathers, well..... they are not always the best. I do like the book overall but there is parts I did not like. Some parts made me just cringe.
I am never usually a fan of morally grey or just books where the correct thing and the wrong things seem to swap. So in some ways that just dragged the overall rating for it a littl down. I was not super exited while I read it.
The overall... well what started to lead this entire book just felt forced for me. Or maybe forced is the wrong word. It felt like the author just needed to have something to get it going and then refused to let it go before way later.
The overall writing style did work for me, I just think the story may be the issue for me here. There simply was not enugh to ‘get it going' and some points and plots were forced to be held onto.
once again I have no idea where to start.
The way that in the start it was just so good/evil type vibe. Like good fighting evil. Somwhere along the line it shifted and just ye. I am not a super fan of the moral greyness tho. I just generally do not really like moral grey for some reason. Please dont kill me for that opinion.
The main cacarther was a... struggel for me in the start. I just did not like Will, I dont really know why. BUt the more I read the more I just wormed up to him. He is just generaly so.... thinky? He does not really jump into actions.
A caracther that I just ... I am protective with my life. IS VIOLET. I WILL MURDER WHOEVER HURTS HER. I just like her. There is also so much depth in some of these caracthers.
This book is defently not all good for me. I started loosing intrest sometimes. Like the entire middel just feels like a long lag. Just draggng out in things and details I just found no intrest in. BUT overall it was just so good. like te switch from Ok, it is good to just suddenly being GIVE ME A NEW ONE. Was kinda quick in the ending there. Like YES I like.
Well, I am not sure how to even express the love I just have for this book. It is just an apseulty awsome and great book.I cry every time I read it and it makes me so emotinal. I have also been a swimmer myself so that helps for the feeling of how close it gets and feel for me.
The caracthers are really well written and I feel a huge comfort in them, they have enough depth and coflicts both internaly and externaly to just make me love these people.
There is home problems apart from the simming that make it entirely new level of good for me. Like I am bad at wording this today but I love this book so much
Well I am not sure where to start with this review. So I think I will start with just the overall before going more into detial.
This is a beutiful and lovley story about female resitence.
If we were to talk about caracther development. They had just an avrage devopment. I felt that in general there just was not enough deph in these carathers. The timelines beutifully intertvine and work together to create a story. The atmosphear of it is really strong. It creates a witchy vibe with the refreshing twists to an ever so usual fall. It is a fairytal with just some cozynice vibe.
When it comes to the writing style, there were moments of poetic and lyrical beauty that I truly enjoyed. The author's use of language mirrors the fairytales mentioned throughout the book. However, at times, the writing felt slightly overwritten, as if the author was trying to make their chapters longer to make a spesific word count. I think that just affected how connetcted, or not connected I felt and was invested in the story.
Think this story had alot of potensial and there is alost potesial in the author. Just a little more reajustments and it is good.
This catched my eye by the. ‘Be gay, solve crime, take naps' which is maybe the best thing ever I have heard somone say.
One of the things I just really enjoyed, coming from one person with some chronic illness. That there is small details that I notise. Just small things that maybe not everyone would notise but me as a chronic ill person would.
Well, marrying a prince is usually a dream. USUALLY.This book has one of those rare times where it is not a dream. It is rather a nightmare. And Marra, is going to help. The prince will be dead.
This book was just really clever and exidently written. It worked for keeping up the experince I had from reading the other books from this author.
I find the ideas really fun and intruqing. I felt exited and happy to turn almost all the pages. I did not use a long time reading this and I felt I just rushed threw it.
It is not 100% that I wish I could wipe my memory. But really close to it to be honest.
The worldbuilding from the very start was fun and intresting, as the other books I have read by him also are. I mean who does not want to know what happens futher when the mc is wanting to kill a prince. To help her sister. The explenations were not too dense and it all just flowed easily and effortless.
So yes I really enjoyed it.
The love I have for this series. It is just so GOOD. Like apselutly amazing.
It was also frusterating tho, as well... I am a huge fan of disney. I love the classics and all. At times I love the consept of the retelling. BUt this one, the conspet of what was changed was not for me.
I would much rather want evil Elsa, the thing I have been wanting to read alot.
But it was still so good. Like the story was so well written. I did want to rip out my own hair at times but mostly in a good way. Just IT IS SO GOOD
