A review by flaviathebibliophile
Deathless, by Catherynne M. Valente
5.0
A copy of this book was kindly provided by the publisher in exchange for an honest review.
I’d been wanting to read Catherine M. Valente’s Deathless ever since I first heard about it a few years ago. And I’m so happy that I was finally able to get to it! I don’t know the original fairytale/s that Deathless is maybe based off of, but I do know that Valente wrote it beautifully. That was one of the two expectations I had for this book, and she did not disappoint.
My other expectation was that Deathless would remind me of the stories that my grandparents told as a child. Deathless is based on Slavic fairytales, and Romanian is a romantic language, but Romania and Russia are close enough for the stories and storytelling to be very similar.
This book definitely gave me major nostalgia while also being something completely unique, completely different. There was something about...
Read the rest of my review here: https://flaviathebibliophile.com/deathless-catherine-valente-review/
I’d been wanting to read Catherine M. Valente’s Deathless ever since I first heard about it a few years ago. And I’m so happy that I was finally able to get to it! I don’t know the original fairytale/s that Deathless is maybe based off of, but I do know that Valente wrote it beautifully. That was one of the two expectations I had for this book, and she did not disappoint.
My other expectation was that Deathless would remind me of the stories that my grandparents told as a child. Deathless is based on Slavic fairytales, and Romanian is a romantic language, but Romania and Russia are close enough for the stories and storytelling to be very similar.
This book definitely gave me major nostalgia while also being something completely unique, completely different. There was something about...
Read the rest of my review here: https://flaviathebibliophile.com/deathless-catherine-valente-review/