Book #5: Liesl and Po, by Lauren Oliver
Jan. 10th, 2012 11:05 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
grav_ityOkay, so this story was billed to The Book Cabal as "A Cinderella story with a ghostly twist", proving yet again that the people who make up these sales things HAVEN'T ACTUALLY READ THE BOOK.
(There were, admittedly, some Cinderella-ish themes. In that there was an evil step mother and a Very Important Tree. But everything else was decidedly un-Cinderella-ish.)
I really enjoyed it. I like happy endings, as we all know, and I liked the style with which the threads of the story were shown.
Stylistically (but certainly not tonally!), the book reminded me of "A Series of Unfortunate Events", which was cool. It wasn't as funny, but it was a great deal more profound, and I liked the way Oliver explained some of her more complicated concepts (death of a parent, misunderstandings about hats, finding out your step mother is going to kill you) without dumbing them down.
I'm going to give it an 8, for being heart-felt and written from the soul.
Related reads include "A Series of Unfortunate Events" and probably "The Girl Who Circumnavigated Fairy Land in a Ship of Her Own Making".
(There were, admittedly, some Cinderella-ish themes. In that there was an evil step mother and a Very Important Tree. But everything else was decidedly un-Cinderella-ish.)
I really enjoyed it. I like happy endings, as we all know, and I liked the style with which the threads of the story were shown.
Stylistically (but certainly not tonally!), the book reminded me of "A Series of Unfortunate Events", which was cool. It wasn't as funny, but it was a great deal more profound, and I liked the way Oliver explained some of her more complicated concepts (death of a parent, misunderstandings about hats, finding out your step mother is going to kill you) without dumbing them down.
I'm going to give it an 8, for being heart-felt and written from the soul.
Related reads include "A Series of Unfortunate Events" and probably "The Girl Who Circumnavigated Fairy Land in a Ship of Her Own Making".
