Amy Tintera is one of my favourite authors, and this is her best book yet. I couldn’t put it down, and I’m desperate for the sequel. From its badass hAmy Tintera is one of my favourite authors, and this is her best book yet. I couldn’t put it down, and I’m desperate for the sequel. From its badass heroine to its heart-stopping action, from its totally immersive world to the deeply-felt personal story at the heart of this book, All These Monsters is something fresh and new, and it kept me up late into the night. I literally had to force myself to go to bed at 1am, because my baby wakes up early (no respect for late night binge reading!) but I was back to it the very next naptime -- I got through it in two addictive sittings....more
OMG, my friends. This book. It's the kickass, gender-flipped, feminist retelling your heart has been waiting for.
* The prose is as gorgeous as only MeOMG, my friends. This book. It's the kickass, gender-flipped, feminist retelling your heart has been waiting for.
* The prose is as gorgeous as only Meagan Spooner can make it. She just... HOW does she write like that? I've been watching for years, and I still can't figure it out. She weaves words like nobody else, and I ache over how beautiful they are.
* Ahhhh, the characters. I fell for them so deeply. She knows how to add depth and nuance and complexity to even the ones you want to be one-sided, the ones you want to put a label on. She reminds us that even when we want to pretend otherwise, the world is complex indeed.
* The romance. The world. The effortless twining together of past and present. The... just, the story. I wept as I finished this story, because I didn't know I needed to read it until I held it in my hands.
* Also, there's a bit on mansplaining that made me cheer out loud.
Basically, add it to your TBR now, thank me later. You're going to love Sherwood....more
You guys are going to LOVE this. Trust me. Everything you've been hoping for, all in one book.You guys are going to LOVE this. Trust me. Everything you've been hoping for, all in one book....more
This beautiful, unique story is pure magic. The prose draws you in and weaves an incredible world, but the book doesn't dwell too long in description.This beautiful, unique story is pure magic. The prose draws you in and weaves an incredible world, but the book doesn't dwell too long in description. Skylark draws you along and never lets you rest. Often dark, sometimes shocking, stunning the whole way through, this book will stay with you.
Lark is a fantastic protagonist -- she doesn't charge out of the gate ready to kick ass and take names. Instead, she's determined, but has almost none of the skills she needs to survive in the world she's entered. While sometimes a helpless heroine can drive you mad, in this case Lark's far more annoyed than we could ever be about her lack of survival skills, and fights to improve and save herself. She learns as much about herself as she does about the world around her -- she's been told lies about both.
The world is rich, and Lark's journey as she comes into her own is like nothing I've ever read. The supporting characters are wonderful, each of them fully developed -- I can't WAIT to see more of some of them in the sequel, as I'm sure I will.
As for the ending... well, there's not much I can say, but I've rarely, if ever, been caught out by a twist like I was this time! I'd say 'be prepared', but I guarantee you won't be!...more
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