Partly because the 1518 setting was more interesting, but mostly because I didn’t think too much of Rosella and Emil as characters. □ I was never super invested in Rosella and Emil’s storyline. Flashes of images that burn into your mind. I read the book a few weeks ago, and there are parts of it I don’t really remember, but I do have a very vivid memory of red shoes dancing along a reservoir edge wolves slipping past trees Alifair stripping off his shirt and daring Lala to deny who he is and so forth. Even when there’s not much happening with the plot, you still feel like you’re being pulled into the extraordinary. □ McLemore has a way of taking small moments–small, seemingly inconsequential moments–and giving them incredible significance and texture. “They’re one body…Something can be one tree, and a whole wood.” I’m convinced Anna-Marie was a magical woodland creature in a previous life. And I seriously love the author’s decision to tell the 1518 chapters in present tense and the modern chapters in past tense. □ The Strausbourg storyline about the Romani and the dancing plague was something I wasn’t familiar with it’s interesting and educational and I wanted more of it. That you might not fully accept or understand. □ The subject of learning to navigate life with an identity that people might not accept or understand. Genre(s): YA Historical Fiction, Contemporary, Magical Realism Dark and Deepest Red by Anna-Marie McLemore
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