The Strange and Beautiful Sorrows of Ava Lavender in Crazy Challenge Connection

Mar 31, 2018 ☘Misericordia☘ ⚡ϟ⚡⛈⚡☁ ❇️❤❣ rated it it was amazing

Shelves: favorites, to-read-again-and-again, memorabilia, really-good, underrated, to-reread, best-ever

A world, in which fused are reality and fiction, magical and quotidien, obscurily and luminousity. Poetic, entrancing, unbelievable story put in most peculiarly diaphanous writing.
For many, this might be too whimsical. For me, this triggered my imagination in so many ways! I loved this. It was like a glass of warm sweet milk on a rainy day, drank in the comfort of my room, while listening to the sounds of the rain and breathing in the ozone smell! I don't know how else to put it, this is a breat ...more

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Jan 13, 2015 Brindi Michele rated it it was amazing

Shelves: romance, favorites-ya, historical-fiction, young-adult, ys-new-2014, cover-love, want, morris-award, fantasy, ys-advisory

2015 Morris Finalist

Full of pain and passion, this book had me at the prologue. I loved and was captivated by everything... from the unusual, yet perfectly fitting character names to the stories that broke off like feathers but still were vital parts of the whole story to the way it was beautifully written. Absolutely stunning and quite magical, but it worked. An instant YA favorite. And the ending!!!!! So heartening, breathtaking, and beautiful but, oh so perfect. Flawless.

Definitely the kind o ...more

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Oct 24, 2019 Cathie rated it it was ok · review of another edition

Shelves: fantasy, friends-picks-recs, magical-realism, 2019-reads

I was totally confused by all the characters. It's a sad story too. I usually love magical realism (it's my favourite genre). I'll have to revisit this one in the future because I am sure it was own messed up head space that couldn't seem to understand what was going on with who.

And the ending...well it sucked, in a beautiful magical realism way. ...more

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