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Clockwork Angel (The Infernal Devices, #1)

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Scarlet (Lunar Chronicles, #2)

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Daughter of the Sky

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Burgandy Ice said: "This book was like a leap into another age and different culture for me. There are so many things I loved… the Zulus. Wow. I love their pride, their loyalty, their respect for each other. Elizabeth is known as Inyoni, the bird… the daughter of sky, s...more This book was like a leap into another age and different culture for me. There are so many things I loved… the Zulus. Wow. I love their pride, their loyalty, their respect for each other. Elizabeth is known as Inyoni, the bird… the daughter of sky, she rises out of lightning and a sinking ship to embrace her Zulu family. The way she becomes the sister of the Lindani who rescues her… he brings the beauty and depth of the Zulu people alive.

Jack Burdell is a great contrast. He sees Elizabeth as a woman, even when she’s hiding in the British army as a soldier. He is enthralled with the wild, Zulu side of her and they have so much in common with their family roots. I really love their attraction. There’s so much hesitation, potential for misunderstanding, false starts… and all that sensual tension. Their love-making dips into the adult spectrum with the wild abandoned joy of Elizabeth’s Zulu-learned love of life.

Very sadly for me, and yet richer for it, this book balances the heights of love with the depths of war… or rather, the other way around. With adult-flavored nitty-grittiness, the two armies line up against each other, the Zulus against the British in what can only end in tragedy. The details of the 1st’s and 24th’s describing which battalion or column went where got knotted up in my brain. I really tried to pay attention and piece it out, too… figuring who went where, who stayed, who was who… there were a lot of details. I wanted to point out that they detracted from the story. Lol. Until I read the Epilogue and saw how meticulously true to history these details were.

Suddenly… I realized that this book isn’t just a great story with characters that stole my heart and an entire way of life that I will remember forever… but it’s a crazy-great history lesson in what happened to the Zulus when the British invaded their land in Africa. Without realizing I was swallowing so much historical accuracy, I gobbled up a book I could hardly put down. Talk about taking yer medicine with a spoonful of sugar!!

In short… this book is fast-paced and full of tension. The characters are multi-dimensional and amazing. The POV changes some with diary entries and random letters home interspersed with military notes. The story dives into adult themes that leave me sighing at the end, satisfied just enough, but also weeping inside over injustices. I am glad that I read this book and I’ll remember it.

Anyone interested in this historical time period of Britain or Africa and especially the Zulus should read this book, absolutely. Must. I also recommend this book to anyone interested in a historic romance or strategic war… different cultures. This is the sort of book that would be awesome as assigned literature. Lol. It’s accurate enough and yet so rich in storytelling, too.

My Rating: 4.65 - If I was handing this book to myself... I would tell myself to not sweat over the strategic details. I would say, "Just enjoy the story... it's amazing." I might also hand myself a box of tissues.(less)"

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“Have you ever been in love? Horrible isn't it? It makes you so vulnerable. It opens your chest and it opens up your heart and it means that someone can get inside you and mess you up. You build up all these defenses, you build up a whole suit of armor, so that nothing can hurt you, then one stupid person, no different from any other stupid person, wanders into your stupid life...You give them a piece of you. They didn't ask for it. They did something dumb one day, like kiss you or smile at you, and then your life isn't your own anymore. Love takes hostages. It gets inside you. It eats you out and leaves you crying in the darkness, so simple a phrase like 'maybe we should be just friends' turns into a glass splinter working its way into your heart. It hurts. Not just in the imagination. Not just in the mind. It's a soul-hurt, a real gets-inside-you-and-rips-you-apart pain. I hate love.”
― Neil Gaiman, The Sandman, Vol. 9: The Kindly Ones

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