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roadtripreader 's review for:
The Lost Sisters
by Holly Black
emotional
sad
tense
fast-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
A mix
Strong character development:
Complicated
Loveable characters:
Yes
Diverse cast of characters:
Complicated
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes
See here Lady Taryn, being raised in Elfhame, you missed a vital no-brainer lesson from this shitty world of ours - sisters before misters. Comprende? Anyone else would have let the Nixies just drown them rather then make that deal.
This is what happens when one twin tries to manipulate another twin into forgiving her. This is an apology wrapped up in crafty, tricky woe-is-me prose. But Taryn sounds indignant, this is an I'm sorry but...the equivalent of an influencer putting on their worst t-shirt, standing in front of their worst backdrop and issuing the worst nonapology in the hopes that they can maintain their sponsorship deals. You're fooling no one.
Yes, both twins could be said to be self-involved but that's through no fault of their own. They've had to be hyper focused on me-me-me survival in a world where magical fingers point out the humans cruelly and they're met with sneers instead of smiles and tricks instead of treats.
Still, you can't manipulate your way into forgiveness no matter how aggrieved you feel you were in the lead up to plunging the knife in the back.
Bravo to Holly Black for creating a nuanced set of characters one could love and hate and be disappointed in and ultimately feel regret on their behalf.
This is what happens when one twin tries to manipulate another twin into forgiving her. This is an apology wrapped up in crafty, tricky woe-is-me prose. But Taryn sounds indignant, this is an I'm sorry but...the equivalent of an influencer putting on their worst t-shirt, standing in front of their worst backdrop and issuing the worst nonapology in the hopes that they can maintain their sponsorship deals. You're fooling no one.
Yes, both twins could be said to be self-involved but that's through no fault of their own. They've had to be hyper focused on me-me-me survival in a world where magical fingers point out the humans cruelly and they're met with sneers instead of smiles and tricks instead of treats.
Still, you can't manipulate your way into forgiveness no matter how aggrieved you feel you were in the lead up to plunging the knife in the back.
Bravo to Holly Black for creating a nuanced set of characters one could love and hate and be disappointed in and ultimately feel regret on their behalf.
- Romance: I know I have a soft spot for Locke but I cannot condone this.
- Plot/Storyline: Taryn attempts to apologize to Jude by guilting her into sympathy. Well that is the subtext.
- Characters:
Locke is his own kind of broken, an orphan abandoned by a wild father and a mother murdered by her royal lover. An orphan given too much power and independence and an inability to use his natural empathy and charisma in a pure sense. I understand the orphan in him as all orphans do. We have our demons sure, But we don't all grow up just a bit sociopathic. Taryn is an orphan-not-orphan taught to be dependant and powerless and maybe falling for Locke was a way for two broken people to heal each other. The problem here is neither see each other as the kind of broken that they actually are. - Significant scene/quote:
I wonder if you think Mom was stupid, like the dead girls in the first story. - this line is meant to be a gut punch to draw out an emotion from Jude that evokes the memory of Madoc murdering their parents. Tis the beginning of an apology I do not accept on Jude's behalf.