![]() ![]() But I think two paracetemol and a large dose of reality might be a better betĪlthough it seems Ireland would be underwater if all the things that happened in Valentina actually happened, the world-building in this book was pretty good.The part I didn't like was the whole Valley of the Thrushes thing and occasional parts of the beginning ( of course the school uniform must be "incredibly dull.") Valentina had a quirky and unique voice for the most part that started out a bit kiddish but got better. The truth is that for the rest of the morning we drove leisurely across the mountains, where the only living things we saw were some sheep and a herd of ponies." or this: "I knew I was heading into dangerous waters where thousands of girls had perished before.I really understand him. She did, though, win over the reader with passages like "At this point, I wish I could relate some danger that did befall us, or a growing sense of danger and threat, a darkening of the sky, an unshakeable feeling of foreboding. Valentina reminded me of a dystopian version of Sophie FitzOsborne in A Brief History of Montmaray but occasionally a bit childish with unfortunate echoes of Marguerite's cliched sarcasm in A Thousand Pieces of You. OK, that might seem like a trite and sentimental observation worthy of one of John's disciples to be followed by a hippy hymn, but tell me I'm wrong, if you can."I liked it for the most part. ![]() ![]() From the sky, it was impossible to tell who was legal and who was illegal and where one zone finished and the next began. ![]()
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