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Mar. 18th, 2009 12:25 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
elucrehToday, I skipped my classes.
And I do not regret it even a little bit.
Because today, you see, I began to read the ARC I got of Sarah Rees Brennan's debut novel, The Demon's Lexicon, and my head is whirling.
This book--this book more than lives up to the promise that Sarah has shown in the past. I had high--and I mean high--expectations of this book, and Sarah cleared the bar and to spare.
The language is beautifully crafted, the characters strong in some ways and cracked in others and interesting, and the plot--my god. The plot.
There are still a few flaws, as anybody might expect in a first book, a few things that I probably would have fought her on if I'd been editing it, but it's still so good. I mostly just want to crawl inside her head and camp out there for a week.
This story held me spellbound, and when it was over I felt like the top of my head had been ripped open.
It isn't on the shelves yet, but when it is--buy it, people.
Seriously.
And I do not regret it even a little bit.
Because today, you see, I began to read the ARC I got of Sarah Rees Brennan's debut novel, The Demon's Lexicon, and my head is whirling.
This book--this book more than lives up to the promise that Sarah has shown in the past. I had high--and I mean high--expectations of this book, and Sarah cleared the bar and to spare.
The language is beautifully crafted, the characters strong in some ways and cracked in others and interesting, and the plot--my god. The plot.
There are still a few flaws, as anybody might expect in a first book, a few things that I probably would have fought her on if I'd been editing it, but it's still so good. I mostly just want to crawl inside her head and camp out there for a week.
This story held me spellbound, and when it was over I felt like the top of my head had been ripped open.
It isn't on the shelves yet, but when it is--buy it, people.
Seriously.