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A review by preciouslittlebook
Rosehead by Ksenia Anske
5.0
5/5 stars
"Sherlock Holmes said that the most stimulating case is when all the chances are against you"
WHAT WAS THAT?
DO YOU UNDERSTAND HOW MANY DAYS I HAD WITHOUT JOINING A NEW FANDOM?
I read many books, ones I liked or even loved but a lot of time passed (since Lady Midnight I think) since I actually became obsessed with a book. Ksenia Ankse's imagination runs wild, creating a magnificent world where nothing is as it seems, a plot that was as wild and beautiful as roses. This book blew my mind in the most amazing way, I laughed, cried, smiled and wiped my damp eyes, I screamed until my throat hurt and my heart fell on the floor like seeds that after all the heartbreak became flowers, created by the happy ending.
Lilith Bloom is not your ordinary twelve year old girl. She's much more. She's a dreamer and a believer, she's more clever than her parents and all adults in this story and she loves. She loves everyone, despite what she thinks she feels about them. She has seen some pretty strange things in her life. The thing is...nobody believes her, thinking she's suffering from mental illness.
"Much not. I'm a grown woman stuck in a little girl's body which is rather unfortunate"
That's who she is. Mature but not a pessimist, with hope filling her heart. And when the time comes, she proves her maturity, by sacrificing herself for everyone else, proving that not only she isn't loony but she also is much more than what everyone thought she is. There's a quote in this book that only by itself makes it a masterpiece:
"Lilith had little time to understand the meaning of these three words. Life, love, death. She did know that there was no life without death but also no life without love. Did that mean that there was no love without death, though? That you had to die to realize how much you loved someone?"
After all this ranting, all this smiling and all this fangirling about Lilith's relationship with her pet dog that has the ability to talk or her kisses with the mute boy, Ed, who taught her more than anyone else could, there's only one thing left in my mind. Tim Burton HAS to discover this and make a movie immediately.
totally recommended
~Mary
"Sherlock Holmes said that the most stimulating case is when all the chances are against you"
WHAT WAS THAT?
DO YOU UNDERSTAND HOW MANY DAYS I HAD WITHOUT JOINING A NEW FANDOM?
I read many books, ones I liked or even loved but a lot of time passed (since Lady Midnight I think) since I actually became obsessed with a book. Ksenia Ankse's imagination runs wild, creating a magnificent world where nothing is as it seems, a plot that was as wild and beautiful as roses. This book blew my mind in the most amazing way, I laughed, cried, smiled and wiped my damp eyes, I screamed until my throat hurt and my heart fell on the floor like seeds that after all the heartbreak became flowers, created by the happy ending.
Lilith Bloom is not your ordinary twelve year old girl. She's much more. She's a dreamer and a believer, she's more clever than her parents and all adults in this story and she loves. She loves everyone, despite what she thinks she feels about them. She has seen some pretty strange things in her life. The thing is...nobody believes her, thinking she's suffering from mental illness.
"Much not. I'm a grown woman stuck in a little girl's body which is rather unfortunate"
That's who she is. Mature but not a pessimist, with hope filling her heart. And when the time comes, she proves her maturity, by sacrificing herself for everyone else, proving that not only she isn't loony but she also is much more than what everyone thought she is. There's a quote in this book that only by itself makes it a masterpiece:
"Lilith had little time to understand the meaning of these three words. Life, love, death. She did know that there was no life without death but also no life without love. Did that mean that there was no love without death, though? That you had to die to realize how much you loved someone?"
After all this ranting, all this smiling and all this fangirling about Lilith's relationship with her pet dog that has the ability to talk or her kisses with the mute boy, Ed, who taught her more than anyone else could, there's only one thing left in my mind. Tim Burton HAS to discover this and make a movie immediately.
totally recommended
~Mary