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Dec 08, 2011
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I loved everything about this one. The style, the characters. JK Rowling said the character of seventeen-year-old Cassandra Mortmain is "one of the most charismatic narrators" she'd ever met--and I concur.
It's the 1930s, and Cassandra, living with her family in a decrepit English castle, is keeping a journal. Her father may be going mad, her stepmother sometimes roams the country nude to commune with nature, the servant who has been raised with her shows all the signs of being infatuated, and h ...more
It's the 1930s, and Cassandra, living with her family in a decrepit English castle, is keeping a journal. Her father may be going mad, her stepmother sometimes roams the country nude to commune with nature, the servant who has been raised with her shows all the signs of being infatuated, and h ...more
3+ An idyllic coming of age family set in an old castle in the English countryside. Cassandra’s eccentric family creates a life that she cherishes. As she becomes a young woman she hopes to hold her dreams together as she lets go of childhood and begins to learn about love and heart ache.
This is a wonderful read that deserves to be listed as a YA classic. A little bit Austen but not quite so formal. Populated by a cast of eccentric characters, the narrator is a charming 17 year old girl, Cassandra. The characters are well developed and always interesting, the story doesn't follow the happy ever after formula and at the end it left me wondering what was next for the characters - always a sign of a good read.
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This book just felt so familiar the entire time I was reading it, which is most likely why I adored it as much as I did, and didn't want to see it end, reading quickly, yet slowly as if to savor each page. I already can't wait to re-read this.
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Just a hair short of a 5 for me.
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