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- Pretty Omens
- Admin
- Paperback
- 100 pages
- English
- 9780990685630
- 4,59
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Let me get this out there first this book is different from most novels in verse for young people in that the poetry is a) poetry (not broken-up lines of prose) and b) rich, layered, musical, breathtaking, sometimes heart-stopping poetry. Moreover, I think there is an expectation that verse novels--and even the best of the best, such as the stunningly poetic verse novels of Margarita Engle and Jacqueline Woodson, support this expectation--should be extremely accessible reads. Novels in verse ar [...]
Novel-in-verse? Check. Epic? Check.Retelling/reimagining of a myth? Check.LaFaye's language is spot on. This is imminently readable!
Under a full moon on Crowley Ridge, Cass Anne Marie was born to Mama Sela who had already lost three children. She and her husband loved that baby but when winter came with bitter cold, Cass Anne Marie came down with a fever. When it looked as though her daughter would not survive, she prayed and called her child back. The local people in this area of Appalachia thought that the mother had made a deal with the devil and shunned the child. She was not allowed into the church or into the fellowshi [...]
I really enjoyed the "voice" of the characters through the poetry.