so obama's president.
yippee-hoo-haa or what?
at the rate I'm going; this blog is going to become the unfortunate site of my literary obsessions and frustrations.
maybe I should start another blog specifically for it.
but I'm too lazy.
and its not like anyone would care enough to actually read anything I review.
but since you're here, I'm going to tell you about the book I read.
so there.
for the Malaysian Young Writer's Competition, I won a couple of books and one of them happened to be Valiant by Holly Black.
its an extremely well-written book, and it is, as transcribed on the front cover of the book, 'a modern tale of faerie'.
in plain english, its about faeries.
yep; big deal Priya.
obsessing for two weeks about a book on faeries.
but the lovely thing about it is, the faeries are absolutely twisted.
dark faeries, not your resident garden Barbie dolls with wings.the main character, Valerie, or Val, ran away from home after walking in onto her mother sleeping with Val's boyfriend.
thats about as sick as it gets, people.
but the characters, the people Val falls in with, they're all real, right there, believable.
very relatable, and their presences are sorely missed when you finish the last page of the book.
the plot is good too; very different.
and its about faeries;
what more could you ask for?
I read Valiant in 2006; without realising that Holly Black also had another faerie book which she had written before Valiant.
and I found Tithe a day ago, to my immense pleasure.
didn't take me long to devour it and finish it.
again, Tithe is about faeries, but this book has a whole different tone in comparison to Valiant.
the story is less dependent on supporting characters and much more focused on the main character, Kaye, and her faerie love interest, Roiben.
I like it that its different in that sense, and that the characters are much different, so's the plot.
by the way, Holly Black wrote the Spiderwick Chronicles.
I didn't know that until I just googled her to get a picture of the cover art for Tithe.
whoa.
AND THERE'S A SEQUEL TO TITHE?!
NO ONE TOLD ME THIS.
damn.
/end of book obsession rant.
my uncle gave me ann Elizabeth Gaskell anthology of ghostly short stories.
reading that tonight.
after my study of anti-semitism.
now I have to go look for that sequel, Ironside, and read it.
gee, I hope you're happy, wikipedia.
