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grav_ityHave I mentioned lately how much I adore it when girls come into their sense of self and grow as people and do ridiculously brave things?
Because I really do.
The Vespertine is structured in such a way that it makes you ask all the right questions, and then look at a map of the Eastern Seaboard, and then [SPOILERS], which I really liked. I loved watching Amelia be daring and terrified and resigned and hopeful. Also, the magic is JUST COOL.
In The Springsweet, though, everything was EVEN BETTER. Maybe because I have a thing for the prairies? I don't know, but it was marvelous. My thought after The Vespertine was "Man, I wish there was more Zora, AND THEN THERE WAS, and it was magnificent. I may have liked Zora a tiny bit better, but only a TINY bit, and probably because she got to be awesome in TWO books instead of just one.
The atmosphere in these books, you guys. I was entirely transported, and I'm totally not doing them justice by lumping them into the same entry. They were melodious and straightforward, and both Amelia and Zora have such different, amazing voices, and then the last line happened, and I was all "fire and air, water and earth, OMG, GET ME BOOK THREE!"
(It's not a cliffhanger, by the way, it's just AWESOME. Also, I'm doing the math and there could, in theory, be a Nikola Tesla cameo in the third book, and even though I am NEARLY CERTAIN there won't be, it still makes me happy.)
So if you have a couple of hours for two books that are beautiful in every sense of the word, give these a shot. You will absolutely not be sorry.
Because I really do.
The Vespertine is structured in such a way that it makes you ask all the right questions, and then look at a map of the Eastern Seaboard, and then [SPOILERS], which I really liked. I loved watching Amelia be daring and terrified and resigned and hopeful. Also, the magic is JUST COOL.
In The Springsweet, though, everything was EVEN BETTER. Maybe because I have a thing for the prairies? I don't know, but it was marvelous. My thought after The Vespertine was "Man, I wish there was more Zora, AND THEN THERE WAS, and it was magnificent. I may have liked Zora a tiny bit better, but only a TINY bit, and probably because she got to be awesome in TWO books instead of just one.
The atmosphere in these books, you guys. I was entirely transported, and I'm totally not doing them justice by lumping them into the same entry. They were melodious and straightforward, and both Amelia and Zora have such different, amazing voices, and then the last line happened, and I was all "fire and air, water and earth, OMG, GET ME BOOK THREE!"
(It's not a cliffhanger, by the way, it's just AWESOME. Also, I'm doing the math and there could, in theory, be a Nikola Tesla cameo in the third book, and even though I am NEARLY CERTAIN there won't be, it still makes me happy.)
So if you have a couple of hours for two books that are beautiful in every sense of the word, give these a shot. You will absolutely not be sorry.
