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All the Crooked Saints
by Maggie Stiefvater
No one writes like [a:Maggie Stiefvater|1330292|Maggie Stiefvater|https://images.gr-assets.com/authors/1540386769p2/1330292.jpg]. Her voice and language, the way she commands words, is a style that no one uses anymore. Her details are poetic, hearkening back to writers like [a:Emily Dickinson|7440|Emily Dickinson|https://images.gr-assets.com/authors/1198536260p2/7440.jpg] and [a:F. Scott Fitzgerald|3190|F. Scott Fitzgerald|https://images.gr-assets.com/authors/1517864008p2/3190.jpg]. Hers is a forgotten tongue that other writers have abandoned.
Some quotes that amazed me in "All the Crooked Saints" were: "Miracles are very like radio waves in this way,"
"Above them the bigger stars had been pushing the smaller stars out of their heavenly home,"
"Pete Wyatt woke as a stranger in the world of miracles,"
"Sometimes, Francisco thought that people might be roses,"
"Lightning and love are created in very similar ways,"
"It would have been a fine setting for the beginning of a love affair,"
"The sun delayed its rising, too, so as to not bear witness, hesitating just at the edge of the earth," and "'I don't show feelings like other people.'"
I couldn't help but give this a 5 star rating. Stiefvater impressed me again! I had no idea that I enjoyed stories about magical Spanish families in Colorado that interact with pilgrims but apparently I love them. I fell in love with the first page of the story, which rarely happens to me. The character dynamics gave the story its true power, and there was plenty of action and suspense. What really got to me was the character Beatriz. We are alike in so many ways. I've never read a heroine quite like her. She is relatable, modern, and broken in an understandable way. Honestly an amazing standalone novel.
Some quotes that amazed me in "All the Crooked Saints" were: "Miracles are very like radio waves in this way,"
"Above them the bigger stars had been pushing the smaller stars out of their heavenly home,"
"Pete Wyatt woke as a stranger in the world of miracles,"
"Sometimes, Francisco thought that people might be roses,"
"Lightning and love are created in very similar ways,"
"It would have been a fine setting for the beginning of a love affair,"
"The sun delayed its rising, too, so as to not bear witness, hesitating just at the edge of the earth," and "'I don't show feelings like other people.'"
I couldn't help but give this a 5 star rating. Stiefvater impressed me again! I had no idea that I enjoyed stories about magical Spanish families in Colorado that interact with pilgrims but apparently I love them. I fell in love with the first page of the story, which rarely happens to me. The character dynamics gave the story its true power, and there was plenty of action and suspense. What really got to me was the character Beatriz. We are alike in so many ways. I've never read a heroine quite like her. She is relatable, modern, and broken in an understandable way. Honestly an amazing standalone novel.