![]() 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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