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lepetitdragonvert · 13 days

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Unicorns ! Unicorns ! by Geraldine McCaughrean

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Artist : Sophie Windham

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simonreid · 7 months

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Where The World Ends

Where The World Ends by Geraldine McCaughrean Where The World Ends is largely set on a remote sea stac in the Outer Hebrides in the 18th century. A group of St Kilda boys, supervised by three men, take the short voyage from Hirta to Stac an Armin (‘Stack of the Warrior’) and begin the regular summer visit to to harvest the numerous birds there. Only this time, no boat turns up to collect them a…

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#book blog #book review #fiction #Geraldine McCaughrean #historical fiction #read in 2023 #reading #Where The World Ends

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godzilla-reads · 1 year

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👑 A Tale of Two Dragons by Geraldine McCaughrean and Peter Malone (2021)

Rating: ⭐️⭐️⭐️/5

Two neighboring kingdoms are at odds with a thorn hedge between them. Instead of solving the matter themselves, they send for dragons to fight each other. But will the dragons fight? Will it really solve the problem?

I want to start by saying that I loved the illustrations. Peter Malone did an excellent job with this book and I love some chunky dragons. The story itself was ok, but it felt just ok. I liked the ending and how things come together, but it wasn’t something that will stick with me.

All in all it was a fun children’s book to read.

#godzilla reads #a tale of two dragons #geraldine mccaughrean #Peter Malone #book review #childrens books #childrens literature #booklr #reading #reads #bookworm #bookish #book blog #book blurb

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tinynavajoreads · 1 year

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Tiny Navajo Reads: Peter Pan in Scarlet

The official sequel to Peter Pan - #bookreview #book #librarybook #peterpan #reading

This book was recommended to me based off of what I said about Peter Pan. I am not a fan of Peter Pan the character. I know that he is a child, so he is written as a child. I don’t like him. I don’t like this child. A friend of mine who does like Peter Pan, both the book and the character, recommend Peter Pan in Scarlet when he heard I like retellings that deal with Captain Hook, who is an…

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#book #book review #captain hook #ebook #geraldine mccaughrean #library book #peter pan #peter pan in scarlet #sequel

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food4dogs · 1 year

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Does anyone else read Geraldine McCaughrean?

She writes such beautiful stories similar to fairy tales. She is mainly known as a children's book author, but has also written for adults.

#Geraldine McCaughrean #Books #children's stories

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first--lines · 1 year

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"What are you doing, mister?"

— The Jesse Tree (Geraldine McCaughrean)

#book quotes #children's fiction #geraldine mccaughrean #the jesse tree

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abigail-abridged-summaries · 1 year

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But maybe I've got it all wrong. Maybe "making love" is just what it says it is—a handicraft. Maybe you have to make it before you can give it to someone. Like soup or a raffia table mat.

#the white darkness #geraldine mccaughrean #childrens fiction #childrens books #book quotes #books and libraries #books #bookworm

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fiction-quotes · 2 years

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First was the idea, complete and perfect: the beginning, the end and everything in between. (God is a craftsman, you see, and a craftsman always plans before he begins work.) Then God flexed his fingers and began. He made light and with it warmth and beauty (because you can't see beauty in the dark). He took all the makings in his two palms – energy, gases, liquids and solids – and when he had finished, there was the world, spinning in and out of sunlight, with the moon to light the dark hours.

He put fish in the seas and animals on land and, in the loveliest spot of all, he planted a garden. Last of all, he made a gardener – made him out clay – prettier than a sloth, not as marvellous as an angel; somewhere between the two. That was Adam: First Man.

To keep Adam from being lonely, God took one of Adam's ribs, and from it he made Eve – smoother, softer, smaller. But in one special way, Adam and Eve were not like the other animals: when God breathed life into them, he passed on a little something of himself.

— The Jesse Tree (Geraldine McCaughrean)

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do you have any recs for other peter pan media? i love your art and just read peter darling and i feel crazy

thank you so much! sadly i don't have many because i think a lot of peter pan media is. bad and misses the point.

If you haven't read the original book, i can't recommend it enough! I find sooo charming and well written. Other than that my favorite adaptation ever is the 2003 movie it drives me up the walls how good this movie is. The disney movie is fine and very well animated but you dont need me to tell you abt the disney movie.

As a kid i LOVED Peter pan in scarlet by Geraldine McCaughrean!! Wendy and the lost boys go back to neverland as adults and find it has gone to shit, peter wearing hook's coat and becoming more and more irritable. I actually just learned its the 'official' sequel, authorised by the Great Ormond Street Hospital, so that's neat

Huhh I saw a peter pan musical 2 years ago lol? its french and definitly wasn't recorded, i was the only adult without kids and i had a great time, smee was a woman (double win for feminism AND homophobia ) and they didn't take advantage of the room filled with 6 years old to ask them to all scream they believe in fairies. boo, don't know why i told you abt this. movin on

I haven't read the loisel peter pan series yet so i can't exactly recommend them but i love the art

it seems very edgy and also probably misses the point, and i bet its filled to the brim with early 2000s sexism but. loisel art. yummy. need to check out my local library rn actually

I also liked peter darling quite a bit! heard the audiobook version and had to listen to gay erotic scenes narrated by an old british man on the subway. great experience

i hated lost boy by christinia henry with a PASSION: bad writting, made hook straight, doesnt get peter by making him litteraly evil (hes meant to be a child!! the most child ever!! when he does bad things its because he's selfish or doesn't get it or is angry he's a child!!!) anyway i hate how much this book gets recommended to me whenever my peter pan posts get some traction stop talking to me abt lost boy you guys tricked me into reading it already!! only good thing it does is replacing the native americans by. giant spiders. so i guess less racism than most peter pan works. great

idk ive heard of hooked recently. you guys know abt hooked? from booktok? seems bad

i have a short and mediocre playlist abt my peter pan,, thing too (title translates to 'im mad because 'lost boy' really is the perfect title for this' lol)

thanks for allowing me to ramble abt peter pan!! sorry for not having a lot of positive answers, have a peter i havent posted here yet

if anyone has recs THAT ARENT LOST BOY BY CHRISTINNIA HENRY!!!! feel free to drop them, both me and anon would love that im sure

#peter pan #im trying to hype myself to hate watch pan and peter and wendy but man. they just seem kind of boring dont they #you can REALLY tell most of my inspiration is from the 2003 movie and peter pan in scarlet lol

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if that last spot's still open... Geraldine McCaughrean's Peter Pan In Scarlet?

Added! That's the final submission for fantasy books!

#ask #submission #peter pan in scarlet

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july-19th-club · 11 months

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experiencing my twice-yearly obsessive dive onto the internet to search for a book i read once in third grade, never forgot, except for the title and the author, so i can only describe it to people and nobody EVER knows which book i'm talking about. and because it was a collection of children's scary stories in a time (the late nineties/early oughts) absolutely SATURATED with scary stories for children, that makes it even harder to track down this one specific and apparently hyper-obscure book

anyway it was a rather large (like...12-inch? 18-inch?) book and had color illustrations that have a quality similar to those of geraldine mccaughrean, but they're NOT her work, they just look familiar if you've seen her work, and of the three stories i remember from it were one about a man with a hook and a lantern and two kids walking home (through the woods?) at night (NOT man door hand hook car door though). one about a kid who kept seeing a black dog outside his window at school and there mightve been something to do with his father (dead? abroad??) involved in that story. and one about a boy who is trying to make his blankie go AWAY but it wont go away. keeps coming back. distinctly recall an illustration of his dog happily holding this blankie, which was blue. and i have NEVER found this book and once or twice a year i get wild with need to look for it and i never find it anyway does anybody know what im talking about

#has ANYBODY. on fucking planet earf. read this book #im beginning to think it was like. well books werent really self-published to the degree that they got in school libraries back then #and it seemed at least old enough to have a faded dust jacket by the time i read it. anyway

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patheticbatman · 5 months

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Part Two

I’m very proud of these dolls, and I’m also leaving them at my parents’ house, so I did a little photoshoot with some books as background so I can have nice pictures of them.

This is the second post, so check out the first for more info!

First up we have Pocahontas (real name Matoaka) with Elatsoe, by Darcie Little Badger. It’s a why-dunnit, not a who-dunnit, about a Lipan Apache girl who has some serious ghost powers. Pocahontas was a tough one, but I decided to go with a book I love about a modern Lipan Apache (Indigenous) girl, written by a modern Lipan Apache (Indigenous) woman. I know a lot of people have strong feelings on both the real life Matoaka and the cartoon Pocahontas, and how she symbolizes a lot of sad and terrible changes for Turtle Island. So I thought putting the doll and this book together would provide an interesting contrast, one that the real life Matoaka may find horribly interesting.

Second is Esmeralda with At Night All Blood Is Black, by David Diop (the French title means Soul Brother - I believe that the title is a play on the English Idiom, At Night All Cats Are Grey, meaning you cannot see meaningful differences in the right circumstances). It’s a very interesting though sorrowful novel about a Senegalese Tirailleur (Infantryman) who was sent to France during WWI. I don’t think Esmeralda would read this normally, but if she was in a sad mood, I think the theme of fluctuating humanity during conflict, and being a Person of Color in France (even centuries later!) would interest her.

Third up is Mulan with Lady of Ch’iao Kuo: Warrior of the South, by Laurence Yep. When I drew pictures for Mulan’s poem (years ago now!) I headcanoned in my explanation that Mulan and Lady Xian, princess of the Li Xian people in modern day Guangdong, were close enough in history that they *might* have met and been friendly. Mulan is typically from further North and West than Guangdong, and would be part of the colonizing side in this case sadly, but I feel like they would respect each other as fellow powerful women.

Fourth is Melody (Ariel’s daughter) with A Song Below Water, by Bethany C. Morrow. I think she’d go into the book with certain expectations, like I did, about the plot, and then get drawn in by the real story. Let’s just say the cover gave me assumptions that lead to a great twist for me personally. Also, I think Melody would relate to the mystery of her magical parent’s true background. The book celebrates the lesser known fantasy species, and approaches the danger of traffic stops, police brutality and protesting for Black people, and how that intersects with being a woman, with care and love. If they ever make a live action Little Mermaid 2, I feel like that would also speak to Melody.

Fifth is Kida with The Ones We’re Meant To Find, by Joan He. Kida is from a fantasy ancient civilization, and this book depicts a sci-fi futuristic one, but there’s more similarities than one might initially think. Both exist due to the hubris of humanity, and in reaction to serious pollution topside. And both explore (or at least mention) a relationship between two women separated by the change in their civilization, and with a boy who seems to know too much. I’m not sure Kida would necessarily read this story, aside from its attractive and exotic (to her, at least) take on the world above, which she has not seen for millennia, but this story is similar enough to Kida’s movie that I felt it fell under the adaption category instead.

Sixth is Jane (from Peter Pan 2, Wendy’s daughter) with Peter Pan on Scarlet, by Geraldine McCaughrean. The Disney movie is NOT based on this book, but both do mention Wendy’s family being affected by a World War, though this one has WWI and the movie has WWII. Interestingly, both have a sympathetic Hook initially. ‘Twas a lovely read, and in my opinion matched the original book based on the play.

Seventh is Giselle with The Wind in the Willow, by Kenneth Grahame. I just felt Giselle would enjoy the idea of cute talking animals (but not so much the war storylines of Redwall) so I put her with this book.

Eighth is Tiana (<3) with Wildwood Dancing, by Juliet Marillier. Funnily enough, I do actually have the *sequel* to the book her movie was based off of, but I’ve never read the original, so I decided it doesn’t count. But this is my favorite mixed up fairy tale novel that features a Frog Prince storyline, so I went with it. The villain is also a greedy butt who doesn’t care for his own people, and the protagonist is often underestimated, due to her appearance and gender. In any case, I love this book so much that I illustrated the first chapter, lol.

Ninth is Rapunzel with Rapunzel’s Revenge, by Shannon, Dean and Nathan Hale. I loved this adaption since I was a kid (honestly more than Tangled) and I’m pleased to finally own it.

Last is Merida, with The Edge on the Sword, by Rebecca Tingle. The book is about a warrior princess a thousand years ago in what is England today, with a forced engagement storyline, so I figured this would be right up Merida’s alley.

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#dp dolls book photoshoot #elatsoe #at night all blood is black #Frère d'âme #lady of ch’iao kuo #a song below water #the ones we’re meant to find #Peter pan in scarlet #the wind in the willows #wildwood dancing #Rapunzel’s revenge #the edge on the sword #Esmeralda Melody Kida and Jane #oh and Giselle and arguably Tiana were all painted by me

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gretchensinister · 5 months

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Book Recommendations 2023!

Hello from someone who read 111 books this year! Time for favorites and recommendations!

Favorites:

Babel: Or the Necessity of Violence: An Arcane History of the Oxford Translators' Revolution by R. F. Kuang: I read this back in January 2023 and when I did I was like, “Did I read my favorite book of the year already in January?” Well, I did. In a world where the British Empire solidifies its power with silver infused with magic based on translation, a Chinese boy becomes an Oxford student and then has to decide what he’s going to do in the face of this system. Absolutely fantastic. (Also scratches that “school story + magic” itch that we’re all supposed to pretend we never liked.)

A Deadly Education by Naomi Novik: This one was pure fun, about students in a magical school with reasons for “no adults” and “high risk of death” that I was down with for the world. Main character has been foretold to be the most powerful evil wizard in the world. She doesn’t want this.

Just Mercy by Bryan Stevenson: This is a nonfiction book by a lawyer who is working against the death penalty, and I highly recommend it to everyone who wants to know more about WTF is going on in the current US criminal justice system.

Creature: Paintings, Drawings, and Reflections by Shaun Tan: Art, highly charming art of creatures and monsters.

Dealing With Dragons by Patricia C. Wrede: This is the first book of the series The Enchanted Forest Chronicles, which I loved as a child and decided to reread this year. It’s about a princess who decides to go work for a dragon as the dragon’s princess, because it’s better than being wooed by a stupid prince. Fun, earnest fantasy. Also Kazul (King of the Dragons, she/her) please call me I love you.

Translation State by Ann Leckie: Things I really liked about this were that it included people in widely varying strange situations trying to figure out their futures. And one of the people doing this was a middle-aged adult. Also involved one of those Advanced Sci-fi Intimacy situations with two other people, which I always enjoy hollering about.

Revelations by Mary Sharratt: This is a novel about Margery Kempe, a medieval mystic, her life, and her travels, taking the work of Julian of Norwich to other communities in secret. This book really stood out to me because I found it really showed a deep understanding of the era it depicts, and the characters really feel like they have the framework of their time. I’m not a medievalist but I think I have read more than average about the European middle ages and that’s what I’m basing this opinion on. I thought it was very beautiful and very human.

The Wordhord by Hana Videen: This is a nonfiction book about Old English with chapters on topics like “health and the body” “travel” “occupations” etc. The idea is to examine what we can tell about the lives of Old English speakers based on the words they had. A significant amount of Old English vocabulary is included. Made me want to start putting Old English puns in the next thing I write but maybe I recovered from that.

Other recommendations:

Jesus and John Wayne by Kristin Kobes Du Mez: Do you want to know WTF is going on with the Christian Right in the United States? This will help.

Readme.txt by Chelsea Manning: Another book that I felt helped me understand a little more of WTF is going on re: the military/security culture

The Stones are Hatching by Geraldine McCaughrean: This is a book I read as a kid and missed a lot of because I didn’t know about a lot of traditional British faeries/creatures. I think anyone interested in folk horror as a genre would have fun reading this. It didn’t go on my favorites because the main character’s older sister is treated fatphobically to a degree that taints the overall book for me.

Hench by Natalie Zina Walschots: This is a fun book about a woman who makes a living as a henchperson for supervillains. After she gets injured by a superhero, she starts analyzing the actual cost of superheroes to the world, and this work leads her to working for one of the world’s top supervillains. I think this isn’t in my favorites because...IDK, it’s like...it felt vaguely like a reply to one of tumblr’s endless writing prompt posts? It’s good, and I know I have no room to talk about the tumblr style or whatever, but there’s a certain vibe...I don’t know how to describe it. I really do still recommend it.

NOTE: Reading is my main form of entertainment. I’m not keeping up with movies, videogames, TV shows, comics, etc. I have no qualifications with these recommendations except that I am a person who read 111 books this year.

#book recommendations #books

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godzilla-reads · 1 year

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For the month of January I ended up reading 20 books! A lot of them were shorter or children’s books, but I enjoyed quite a few. Here’s the list:

•D&D Dungeon Club: Roll Call by Molly Knox Ostertag and Xanthe Bouma ⭐️

•Requiem of the Rose King Vol. 1 by Aya Kanno

•Blankets by Craig Thompson

•Flower Fairies of the Garden by Cicely Mary Barker

•Quiet Girl in a Noisy World: An Introvert’s Story by Debbie Tung

•Dragons: An Anthology of Verse and Prose by Joanne Rippin

•Flower Fairies of the Trees by Cicely Mary Barker

•Cats in Spring Rain: A Celebration of Feline Charm in Japanese Art and Haiku trans/edited by Aya Kusch

•BFI Film Classics: Spirited Away by Andrew Osmond

•Valiant: A Modern Tale of Faerie by Holly Black ⭐️

•Flower Fairies of the Wayside by Cicely Mary Barker

•Cottons: The Secret of the Wind by Jim Pascoe and Heidi Arnhold

•The Secret Garden: A Graphic Novel by Mariah Marsden and Hanna Luechtefeld

•A Flower Fairy Alphabet by Cicely Mary Barker

•Maddy Kettle: The Adventure of the Thimblewitch by Eric Orchard

•Red Dragon Codex by R.D. Henham

•Rabbit School: A Light-Hearted Tale by Albert Sixus and Fritz Koch-Gotha (trans. Roland Freischlad)

•The Reluctant Dragon by Kenneth Grahame ⭐️

•The Dragon of Lonely Island by Rebecca Rupp

•A Tale of Two Dragons by Geraldine McCaughrean and Peter Malone

#godzilla reads #January 2023 #reading wrapup #books read in January 2023 #books read in 2023 #books read in January #booklr #reading #bookworm #bookish #book blog #booklover #bibliophile #booklife

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vexalia · 1 year

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got tagged by @marinxttes for “most life-affirming reads” of 2022 :)

Atlas of the Heart - Brené Brown

The Picture of Dorian Grey - Oscar Wilde

Peter Pan in Scarlet - Geraldine McCaughrean

Something Yet to Learn - Glitterbombshell

i tag: @heuheu-the-goose @andrastes @zydratenote and @valkyrieraisingcain if y’all are up for it

#personal #thanks for the tag becca #i didn’t read much this year so it’s a short list but quality over quantity as they say #hopefully a longer list for 2023!#do NOT @ me about the fic it made me want to Live Life again it earned its place

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hansreviewsstuff · 1 year

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Liar liar

Over the years I have collected a vast selection of books with "lie" or a variation of it in the title, so I decided to read them all. Here are my reviews of We Were Liars, Lies Like Poison, The Supreme Lie and One Of Us Is Lying. Janus Sanders would be proud!

23/10/2022

We Were Liars by E. Lockhart

3.5/5

Booktok book, oh no! To be honest, I can see why it is popular. It's main theme of familial/generational trauma is expressed incredibly well, and even me, who's experience in that subject only stretches to watching Encanto, could really see the reality of the terrible Sinclair family, and how it affects those who are a part of it. I didn't go into the book expecting a story about that (the perils of no blurb) but it was interesting to read about anyway, and I feel those who relate more closely to the subject would enjoy it even more. Now. The plot twist. I try my best to do spoiler-free reviews, so I won't reveal it, but. The plot twist, the overall "answer to the underlying question throughout the book", was a simple solution. A bobs your uncle, here's how it actually is, done, solution. Shocking, no doubt, and I will enjoy reading the book again in the future and spotting all the things that reveal it, but nothing to uncurl. Not sure if I liked it. As a fan of murder mysteries which have complicated solutions that you have to get your head around, it wasn't exactly my piece of cake. And finally. The metaphors. I have seen other people on TikTok comment on this, so I'm not alone. They were a bit too good. So much so that I didn't know whether our main character actually got "shot" or whether it was just a metaphor. This happened all throughout the book and I got very confused!

Favourite Character: Johnny

Would I recommend this book: Mm. Depends. As I said, if you are interested in familial trauma and it's effects, and are ready for a frankly devastating plot twist, go ahead. Just be prepared.

I feel like past me may of slandered this book a bit too much. I skim read it a bit, I think. It's very good, I promise!

1(4? my handwriting)/11/2022

Lies Like Poison by Chelsea Pitcher

3/5

I really enjoyed This Lie Will Kill You by Pitcher, so I had high hopes for this book, but I'm sad to say that it let me down. There were almost two books in one, the murder mystery story and a story about the main characters' journeys and emotions, discovering things together and apart. The latter could of existed without the former perfectly, with some tweaks. I guessed the murderer and the story behind that pretty quickly, and if it was just that, without the beautiful description of emotions, then this book would be a 1/5! (Sorry). Two books in one. Focus on one thing please! Sufficient gay and trans people though.

Favourite character: Lily

Would I recommend this book: Sorry, no. Read This Lie Will Kill You!

21/11/2022

The Supreme Lie by Geraldine McCaughrean

3.5/5

I think past me may have been a little bit too nice to this book, giving it the same rating as We Were Liars.

Halfway into this story I discovered that McCaughrean was quite an established author, writing popular novels which were mainly for people younger than me. It definitely gave that vibe, of a story a children's author has been building in her head for a while, wanting to finally write it down to produce something different than her usual novels. I say this because it was an incredibly well designed world, meticulous and, frankly, very creative. Many stories could be told in that one world. I did have to keep referring to the very useful map! The twist villain didn't really work for me because, to put it simply, I wasn't paying attention when it was said who he was! Oops. Slow start, and also alternating chapters. Listen, I have nothing against alternating chapters! Me with a short attention span sometimes likes two stories going on at once, and I especially like when they cross over beautifully. But the second, not main story in The Supreme Lie about some boy and his dog, I really didn't care about. At one point I was tempted to skip every other chapter. Sorry! I think I said this book wasn't a complete failure because 1) the characters were quite loveable, and 2) the end was quite good with the tension. But the rest of the book dragged!

Favourite character: Kovet (I have completely forgotten who this is)

Would I recommend this book: Maybe for people younger than me. I only bought it because of the cover and the blurb, and because it was in buy one get one half price, but I don't completely regret it. Read other people's reviews of this book, maybe. This review, I realize, is not very helpful! (Basically, the book is about a country plagued with endless rain, and after the leader dies, a simple serving girl must pretend to be the leader as not to send the country into complete dismay. I probably should have mentioned that!)

02/12/2022

One Of Us Is Lying by Karen M. McManus

4/5

Dammit, this book could of been a 5! All throughout reading it I was like this is really good, really good, this could be a 5. But then I guessed the murderer. And it was, frankly, a really disappointing solution. The kind of solution you jokingly guess. Devastating, but I enjoy classic whodunnits where you, well, catch whodunnit. I've heard that the TV show has a better, more surprising and thought out solution, and it's a shame the book doesn't as well. I guess that's why they changed it! Nonetheless, the book was still really good. Different character POV chapters were nice and refreshing, (another reason why the ending was disappointing- I wanted one of the seemingly truth telling character POVs to be lying!) and I liked the whole omniscient-edgy-tumblr-poster-seemingly-murderer making fun of everyone struggling to find them. And again, sufficient and realistic gay people. I was genuinely engrossed in all the characters stories, and even, for once, the romance. Good book.

Favourite character: Kris

Would I recommend this book: Let's be honest, you've read it.

Sorry if the last review was a bit spoilery. But, as I said, you have most definitely either watched it or read it. Hope you enjoyed these reviews!

Books I still have left to post: ↪ The Song Of Achillies ↪ How To Kill Your Family ↪ House Of Hollow ↪ Afterlove ↪ A Whole New World ↪ Splinters Of Sunshine And I want to do a Glass Onion/ Knives out post. Goddammt, I have just realized you press shift new line to make a new line without a huge space. Ughhhhh. Expect better formatting next time, then.

See you, Hans :)

#books #bookreview #one of us is lying #we were liars #the supreme lie #lies like poison

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