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Entreat Me
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I have yet to find a book by Ms Graven that I didn't love. So, please, take this into account while reading this review. I'm not usually a blabbering idiot, but I have to admit that she makes one out of me. [But I swear I will refrain from gifs....]
Entreat Me is one slow-burning addiction to this author lyrical writing, to her stories full of passion, of magical worlds you'd like to see, of characters you'd like to meet.
We had to wait a few years since Master of Crows. But what we got in exchange is a book as good as MoC. And completely different from it. Many authors tend to fall on the same repetitive lines. She never does. I've read all she has written and published (in a way or other), and I have yet to find some common ground.
Entreat Me is a fantasy and yes there's romance in it too. But calling it simply a fantasy romance seems reductive to me. Because it's both.
The story may have started as a "wink" to Beauty and the Beast. But it's just that, a wink or a tribute, if you like. What Ms Draven makes of the fairy tale is a stunning new spinning. In it there are evil and monsters and a beauty and a beast that are not what or who you think. There's a fierce heroine and a battered hero that makes you realized that all the alpha BS is just that. Crap.
This is a book that you savour and dread reading. Because reading will bring you nearer to the end. An end that has your heart in your throat for a single, terrible moment when you stop breathing and ask: how will they...?
As I said, I'm not sure this review will be of any use to you. It really goes off the deep end of fandom. And as such is uber personal.
But I wish you'd try her books. At the end of the day they are cheap enough and you might discover a gem too. Or lose just a few bucks.
Entreat Me is one slow-burning addiction to this author lyrical writing, to her stories full of passion, of magical worlds you'd like to see, of characters you'd like to meet.
We had to wait a few years since Master of Crows. But what we got in exchange is a book as good as MoC. And completely different from it. Many authors tend to fall on the same repetitive lines. She never does. I've read all she has written and published (in a way or other), and I have yet to find some common ground.
Entreat Me is a fantasy and yes there's romance in it too. But calling it simply a fantasy romance seems reductive to me. Because it's both.
The story may have started as a "wink" to Beauty and the Beast. But it's just that, a wink or a tribute, if you like. What Ms Draven makes of the fairy tale is a stunning new spinning. In it there are evil and monsters and a beauty and a beast that are not what or who you think. There's a fierce heroine and a battered hero that makes you realized that all the alpha BS is just that. Crap.
This is a book that you savour and dread reading. Because reading will bring you nearer to the end. An end that has your heart in your throat for a single, terrible moment when you stop breathing and ask: how will they...?
As I said, I'm not sure this review will be of any use to you. It really goes off the deep end of fandom. And as such is uber personal.
But I wish you'd try her books. At the end of the day they are cheap enough and you might discover a gem too. Or lose just a few bucks.
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"God, she writes such beautiful tales. Whoever her Muse is, we need to worship her more."
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Dec 17, 2013 09:08PM
I am glad this is good, can't wait.
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If you liked the Master of Crows, I think you'll love this too
Sounds like another book for my TBR pile.
"This is a book that you savour and dread reading. Because reading will bring you nearer to the end. An end that has your heart in your throat for a single, terrible moment when you stop breathing" Ahh, good books really make you do that! I'm so glad Grace Draven has finally another book out of us. I got the book, but as u said, I am scared to start it cause once it ends, I will crave for more of her books but there won't be any.
