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Unspoken (The Lynburn Legacy, #1)

Sarah Rees Brennan

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Nov 12, 2012 mstan rated it did not like it · review of another edition

Shelves: for-young-adults-or-children, fantasy, src-winter-2012-13

I read the wonderful The Enchanted April just before this one, and a proper and beautiful (if somewhat self-centred) young lady in that book looks upon two unhappy women - transformed by Italian warmth and atmosphere into happy, slightly kooky ones - from her throne, and dismisses them disdainfully as 'originals'.

Rose Arbuthnot and Lotty Wilkins aren't really 'originals', but Kami Glass is one. An aspiring student journalist equipped with the art of self-defence, she is painfully 'witty', trots ...more

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Dec 10, 2012 Agatha Donkar Lund rated it liked it

Shelves: 2012, fiction, fantasy-and-scifi, young-adult

I was really disappointed when this wasn't terrible, and it totally wasn't terrible, and I feel bad that I expected it to be, but it was funny and clever and I really, really enjoyed it, and I shall be excited about the next one. ...more

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Nov 27, 2021 Rongrong rated it really liked it

Shelves: ya, fantasty-sf, 2021-finished, 4-star

Fun! Feisty, independent, inquisitive heroine. Broody friends. A high school newspaper. Amateur sleuthing. Witty banter. Magic, secrets, fantastic creatures from more than one culture, family secrets, families. Just the fun I have been looking for and hadn’t been able to find. Can’t wait for read the rest! Maybe needing a lighthearted break from Say Nothing + Sharks.

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