xangemthelibrarian's review
adventurous
dark
informative
sad
slow-paced
- Plot- or character-driven? Plot
- Strong character development? Yes
- Loveable characters? Yes
- Diverse cast of characters? Yes
- Flaws of characters a main focus? No
5.0
Holy macaroni and cheese this book is DARK. The description of the plague and the bodies and the other horrible things that were considered every day life in medieval Europe makes me so glad to be living in the present. You couldn't pay me to time travel. Absolutely not.
Outside of that, this book is good. Rype and Owen are characters to root for. And the ending is SO wholesome. I leave with a quote I saved from this story:
"He was a person who brought brightness into the lives of everyone he met. Why were some people like that, I wondered, and others gloomy, or harsh, or even cruel? Surely it wasn’t just how they were made. Some part of it must have to do with how they lived."
How are you living? Are you a person who brings light and joy into others' lives or are you cruel?
Outside of that, this book is good. Rype and Owen are characters to root for. And the ending is SO wholesome. I leave with a quote I saved from this story:
"He was a person who brought brightness into the lives of everyone he met. Why were some people like that, I wondered, and others gloomy, or harsh, or even cruel? Surely it wasn’t just how they were made. Some part of it must have to do with how they lived."
How are you living? Are you a person who brings light and joy into others' lives or are you cruel?
Content Warnings
Graphic: Pandemic/Epidemic, Animal death, Child death, Death of parent, Death, and Grief
Moderate: Antisemitism and Misogyny
Minor: Homophobia, War, and Rape
womanon's review
3.0
This was a very entertaining story, and one that educated me on life during the middle ages a little more. I really loved the heroine of the story, Rype. I especially loved how she changed throughout the book, and I found her to be a young woman by the end of the book. The journey was hard, and it really showed. Some scenes were a bit too long to my taste, though, and during those times I found it hard to keep my head in the story.
kellhart16's review
adventurous
emotional
medium-paced
- Plot- or character-driven? Plot
- Strong character development? Yes
- Loveable characters? Yes
- Diverse cast of characters? No
- Flaws of characters a main focus? No
5.0
Content Warnings
Graphic: Death
arrrgh_schooling's review
adventurous
emotional
sad
medium-paced
3.75
Content Warnings
Graphic: Death
literarylobdell's review
adventurous
dark
emotional
hopeful
sad
slow-paced
3.5
This was beautiful but just so sad! Absolutely unrelenting in its darkness in a way that is hard to swallow for a middle grade book (imo) but it’s beautiful historical fiction that turned the plague into something much more human than I’ve ever seen it be?
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