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A review by catebutler
Keturah and Lord Death by Martine Leavitt
5.0
Words fail me writing this review...I LOVED LOVED LOVED LOVED LOVED this book!!! I started this book last night around 8pm, read for about an 1/2 hour, put it down relunctantly to do a few things, returned to it around 1am, thinking to myself (with a sigh) that I would have to finish it another day, and ended up reading it in its entirety before 2am. Yes, I am extremely tired this morning, but SO worth it!
This book was magical, one of those books that you will always remember reading, and savored until the last sentence, on the last page. This book is even more dear to me, since after reading Leavitt's afterword. She states, that this book almost didn't happen...
I have always loved fairytales...and this I must say, might be one of my favorites. I have always had a love for the macabre, and rooted, since a child, for the villanious fine man, who "could be bad, but ultimately isn't". This book was a perfect fit for this dark and wickedly delicious love of mine.
I found myself lost in the pages of this book, and like great books, it unfolds almost like a movie or a play in your head. With the characters and stories becoming familiar and real. I think I actually waited with abated breath a couple of times, for the story to unfold on the next page.
I loved the character of Keturah; beautiful, regal, kind, loving and ladylike as seen in any princess or heroine, and yet there was more to her character, as seen with her ability to hold off Death. And speaking of which, Lord Death...to tell you the truth, Death is quite the hunk! I'd be his Queen.
A few of the negative reviews that I read after finishing the books, stated that the book was too simplistic and typical of a YA novel; quick read and airy.
Honestly, I didn't see this novel as such. I thought that the author, if on purpose or not, did an amazing job paralleling the style of fairytales. Fairytales do tend to be quick, to the point, moralistic in nature, and there is always a choice to be made by the main character, a happy ending only after a great struggle, a seeking for "true-heart-love", and oft times a choice that is based upon an ultimate sacrifice for others...
Simply put, I loved this book.
This book was magical, one of those books that you will always remember reading, and savored until the last sentence, on the last page. This book is even more dear to me, since after reading Leavitt's afterword. She states, that this book almost didn't happen...
I have always loved fairytales...and this I must say, might be one of my favorites. I have always had a love for the macabre, and rooted, since a child, for the villanious fine man, who "could be bad, but ultimately isn't". This book was a perfect fit for this dark and wickedly delicious love of mine.
I found myself lost in the pages of this book, and like great books, it unfolds almost like a movie or a play in your head. With the characters and stories becoming familiar and real. I think I actually waited with abated breath a couple of times, for the story to unfold on the next page.
I loved the character of Keturah; beautiful, regal, kind, loving and ladylike as seen in any princess or heroine, and yet there was more to her character, as seen with her ability to hold off Death. And speaking of which, Lord Death...to tell you the truth, Death is quite the hunk! I'd be his Queen.
A few of the negative reviews that I read after finishing the books, stated that the book was too simplistic and typical of a YA novel; quick read and airy.
Honestly, I didn't see this novel as such. I thought that the author, if on purpose or not, did an amazing job paralleling the style of fairytales. Fairytales do tend to be quick, to the point, moralistic in nature, and there is always a choice to be made by the main character, a happy ending only after a great struggle, a seeking for "true-heart-love", and oft times a choice that is based upon an ultimate sacrifice for others...
Simply put, I loved this book.