East
2003 • 507 pages
Ratings16
Average rating3.9
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Ratings16
Average rating3.9
Rose has always been different. Since the day she was born, it was clear she had a special fate. Her superstitious mother keeps the unusual circumstances of Rose's birth a secret, hoping to prevent her adventurous daughter from leaving home... but she can't suppress Rose's true nature forever.
So when an enormous white bear shows up one cold autumn evening and asks teenage Rose to come away with it--in exchange for health and prosperity for her ailing family--she readily agrees.
Rose travels on the bear's broad back to a distant and empty castle, where she is nightly joined by a mysterious stranger. In discovering his identity, she loses her heart-- and finds her purpose--and realizes her journey has only just begun.
Series
1 primary bookEast is a 1-book series first released in 2003 with contributions by Edith Pattou.
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I really liked the way it was written. The novel was told from a bunch of perspectives, but the switching between them was so seamless, that I was never bothered by it.
But there weren't something really exceptional about this book, so 3 starts it is.
I honestly picked this book because I had nothing else to read, everything I wanted was already borrowed, and the system suggested it to me so I thought, “why not?” Wow, probably the biggest surprise of the year so far! The first few chapters were a little slow, mostly because you don't really know what's going on yet and it's a lot of narration, but once the story gets going, wow, it really entrances you! The way the lore and fairy tale is weaved into a real world narrative is truly fantastic and draws you in in ways other fantasy novels can't. I loved how the main character wasn't this perfect beautiful heroine, but instead felt like a real person. This is definitely up there in my favorites now!
It was very meh. I could not for the life of me get into it and the only characters I liked were Neddy and Rose's father.
