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[elucreh]

Today, 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.

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[flamingsword.livejournal.com]

I was already planning on doing so, but for this I may not even wait 'til it's in paperback.

[lovetheboys.livejournal.com]

Okay, funny story: I work in a library, and we get lots of ARCs just sitting in the break room, ostensibly for the ref librarians, but I know a lot of the other staff help themselves as well. And one of my co-workers and just found out about them and was reading off titles while I dithered around on the computer.

I hear her say, "The Demon's Lex-eye-something or other," and I literally jump out of the chair and make grabby hands for it. I think I might've scared the wee thing...

I've been a little too nervous to read it, though, because one of the things I like best about her writing is the totally whacked-out humor, but this isn't a humorous-sounding book, since humor rarely sells all that well... But with this endorsement, I may start reading it tomorrow.

[elucreh.livejournal.com]

It isn't about humour, but I mean--it's Maya, okay, real-person name or no real person name, that's who it is--the humour is there, definitely!

[openmydoors.livejournal.com]

Just listening to you talk about it is making me excited about this. :O