Monday, April 8, 2013

Seraphina

My former roommate writes a blog where she reviews books etc. Usually I just read the blog but sometimes I read the books she reviews. This is her review of the book Seraphina. I got it and read it in about 48 hours. It was such a good book, the kind you're dying to finish so you know what's going on but you also would like to keep going on forever. I loved that this was such a complex and well researched world, I don't always love fantasy perhaps for being too much of the author's own personal dream world, I think when I do like a fantasy book or series, it's because of things like a vein of grounding reality, I'm not sure that that makes sense or that I've thought about this enough, anyway the world in this book was refreshing, almost like a historical fiction rather than a fantasy. I loved the characters and the mystery. I was a bit unhappy with the ending but I too hope that there will be more books telling Seraphina's story. Read it!