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Cyn Armistead (14 KP) rated The Assassin's Curse (The Assassin's Curse, #1) in Books

Mar 1, 2018  
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The Assassin's Curse (The Assassin's Curse, #1)
Cassandra Rose Clarke | 2012
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7.3 (3 Ratings)
Book Rating
I hesitate to write a review now, rather than waiting until after I finish The Pirate's Wish. There are major plot issues still unresolved at the end of this book, which I dislike. The author did get her main characters to spot where I suppose it is reasonable to pause, though. The book is intended for the YA market, and perhaps (Harry Potter aside) enormous volumes don't go over well there.

In any case, the two main characters are interesting and likable without being unbelievably perfect. Neither are they unbearably annoying - something I have found all too common in the YA genre lately. The plot has drawn me in and I find the world fascinating.

On to the next volume!
  
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Suswatibasu (1701 KP) rated The Blind Assassin in Books

Mar 4, 2018  
The Blind Assassin
The Blind Assassin
Margaret Atwood | 2001 | Fiction & Poetry
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7.8 (4 Ratings)
Book Rating
Novel within a novel with great twists
Once again, literary maestro Margaret Atwood has produced another creative mega-feat. Her novel in a novel reminds me of her other work Hagseed, also exploring the theme of revenge.

However, there is very little to laugh about in this story in which narrator Iris, at the end of her life, describes the mysterious circumstances that her sister, husband and lover all died in. Younger sibling Laura is said to have been killed after her car edged off a cliff, all the while leaving the world with a controversial novel that describes a racy affair.

Iris reveals the truth about the incidents from her perspective, which means we always see Laura as child-like and naive, while her husband Richard and his sister Winifred are portrayed as cardboard villains. With that in mind, Atwood's characters are realistic because they are all just points of view from one person. Great twists in this book.
  
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Charlotte (184 KP) rated Catch Lili Too in Books

Feb 15, 2021  
Catch Lili Too
Catch Lili Too
Sophie Whittemore | 2020 | LGBTQ+, Science Fiction/Fantasy
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8.0 (1 Ratings)
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Just when I thought I was near the end it turned out I was only halfway through.....bonus!

Lili isn't the easiest character to love but she grew on me. For all that she is, has been and has the potential to be, she has human traits that she never wanted. She is jaded, tired and depressed. The difference for her is that she isn't in her thirties or forties......she's thousands of years old with a past she'd like to forget.....

Catch Lili Too kept me guessing all the way through, everytime I thought I'd worked it out something else happened.....just how I like it.
    The finger of suspicion spins slowly around a misfit group, casting doubts and leaving mistrust. Added in at the beginning of each chapter is a nice one liner of sarcastic humour, which I like.

A well written book that I didn't want to put down. It did exactly what it should do and pulled me into a different world......