Lucie Hajkova Hajkova itibaren Alès, Fransa
I picked this book up after my sister recommended it to me. It
One of the best in the Jeeves/Wooster series, and that's saying a lot. Had me laughing from page one, and didn't let up!
Amazing. Of course.
** spoiler alert ** i love reading
When I was a teenager, I mostly read fantasy and folklore because the YA books were all about whiny people with trivial problems. I'm afraid that the whiny people with trivial problems have made it into some of these stories (Delia Sherman's "CATNYP," despite a nifty conceit about the NY Public Library's search system being alive, and Theodora Goss's "The Wings of Meister Wilhelm," in which I can't believe that a girl who's helping a Jew flee from having his house burned down still feels self-pity because she's not pretty, and Lynette Aspey's "Sleeping Dragons," whose voice of a nine-year-old is scarily accurate and selfish), but it's worth reading just for Rudyard Kipling's very sad ghost story, "They," and Kelly Link's "The Faerie Handbag" (though I can see that if all of Link's stories end just as the action is starting, it will get annoying fast.)
I’m really glad I kept reading this, because the beginning was not exactly my cup of tea. There were a couple graphic sex scenes, and some mentions of bodily fluids, and well, I sometimes get a bit squeamish. But I persevered, and was happy that I did. The Salt Roads consists of three main narratives that are connected via the experiences of the goddess Ezili. In Hopkinson’s tale, Ezili is brought forth one night as three slave women bury a stillborn child in the French colony of Saint Domingue (modern day Haiti). Ezili sees how her people, the Ginen, are suffering, and wants to help them. I loved hearing how Ezili learns who she is and how to harness her powers. I’ve never read anything similar describing the birth of a goddess. The full review is on my blog, Wandering in the Stacks.
I bought this book for my son as part of his "Valentine's Prize" and I LOVE it. It's adorable and he can't get enough of it.