Damen goes to find this guy and he’s screwing the stable boy he goes to find yet another guy and he is described by his state of undress, with particular mention of the way he is holding his pants up. The plot is a thinly-veiled disguise for the sexual descriptions.Īnd on that matter - why is everyone so obsessed with penises? They are hanging out everywhere. I don't buy into the whole "it has so much more than romance! politics and royal scandals!" No, it doesn't. Really, did we read the same book?įirstly, this book is erotica with some snoozeworthy politics and battles thrown in. All my friends seem to love it (5 stars kind of loving), even those who are the toughest romance critics. I quite liked (but didn't love) the first book I had some issues but I pushed them to the back of my mind because I was so happy to have both a M/M romance in fantasy AND for it to be slow burn. Because I am literally starting to feel like I read a completely different book from everyone else.
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I'd highly recommend it to girls and women alike. Instead, it deals with this issue - knowing you don't measure up to society's standard of beauty - with an authentic voice and beautiful truths (without giving too much away, things like your looks don't have to define you, and that there are worse things to be than unpretty and that people love all sorts of looks).I adore the way this story ended, and it's no wonder it is now one of my daughter's favourites. I reread the story, this time struck by the queen’s wishes for her unborn baby’s appearance. To me, the next biggie after Cinderella is Snow White. (Hate that concept - what is pretty on the inside, anyway?). Fairest by Gail Carson Levine My editor asked me to write another book in Ella’s world, and the more I thought, the more I felt the new one should be a fairy tale too. But unlike other stories with a less attractive lead female, the answer isn't ultimately to "fix" her, nor to see she's "pretty on the inside". But most of all, I loved the message it's leaving the girls who read it.For once, we have a kind, good, strong heroine who doesn't just imagine she's not pretty - she actually isn't - at least, according to the world's standards. I loved the characters and the twist on the fairytale genre. I found it completely enthralling.I loved the writing and the storytelling (I read this in one day - could not put it down). My daughter (who is 9 yrs old) read this book from her school library and absolutely loved it. Along the way, they encounter shy libraries, quizzes that literally pop, and talking cats (that is, house dragons). Emma and Izzy reluctantly form a pact: If Izzy teaches Emma how to survive as a servant, Emma will reveal to Izzy what she knows about magic. But when her father dies, leaving her penniless, Emma is reduced to working off her debts to Miss Posterity alongside Izzy, a headstrong servant girl who refuses to let her magic be snuffed out, even if society dictates she must. In 1906 New York City, Miss Posterity's Academy for Practical Magic is the best kindling school-and wealthy twelve-year-old Emma Harris is accustomed to the best. Those denied access to the secrets of the kindling ritual will see their magic snuffed out before their thirteenth birthday. Any child can spark magic, but only the elite are allowed to kindle it. Heartfelt, fast-paced, and utterly absorbing, The Gilded Girl is Alyssa Colman's sparkling debut novel about determination, spirit, and the magic of friendship. Re-examining the original sources, resulting in a riveting new argument surrounding Mary's involvement in her husband murder, Guy's deft storytelling and insightful new arguments provide compelling and dramatic reading. Dr John Guy is a history fellow at Clare College, Cambridge, and author of ‘My Heart is My Own’: The Life of Mary Queen of Scots (Harper Perennial, 2004), upon which the 2018 film Mary Queen of Scots is based. 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