What I drank prior: I had 5 beers at happy hour. With no food. It's a thing.
(Editor's note: Well i feel like crap this morning...) Spoiler-free Overview:
So yeah, there's this girl, she goes for her witch's exam and she gets a weird reading. So because of this she ends up as an apprentice at this town called Lull. This town in the past has had little no no issues but as soon as our MC Arianwyn shows up so do a bnch of other things. There's a scary dark wood. We see a lot of signs that show it's a lot more than she expected and things go from there. Spoiler-free Thoughts:
I loved this book. Its very reminiscent of HP1 in that there's a villain, we don't know what it is but we know it's coming, typw of story. And the MC has a lot to overcome. Characters: The MC Arianwyn is amazing. SHe's very well developed. Her supporting characters... not so much. But her best friend, Salle, is cute. Her frenemy Gimma is super annoying, intentionally. Also, I love the 'adults' in this book. While we don't know how old Wyn is, its pretty clear who the 'adults' are. The district supervisor is sterotypically quirky but also fiercely loyal and i loved that. The other supporting characters are great too.
Plot: As far as plot goes, its pretty typical, there's a Big Bad they have to defeat. But what makes this story differnt is that we don't know what the Big Bad is until 2/3 the way through the book and it's not what you'd expect. I'm down for it. Also, I never felt bored. THe story was well paced and i gobbled it up. Writing Style: Pretty great. It's done well enough that i can see what's goin on without spoiling the story. I always love when that happens. Rating: 3.5/5 Shots. I loved it. Its a middle-grade story that will last throughout the ages, What to pair it with: Red wine. I love red wine.
COMMENT DOWN BELOW: What stories have you gobbled up recently?
Until next time, we remain forever drunkenly yours,
Sam
Will Read for Booze has decided to pull together a 24-hour BoozieBookathon. We're a bunch of drunks (obviously) and we love reading (double-obviously) so we've decided to combine the two into a marathon!
Here's the deal - on July 22nd-23rd from 8am-8am EST we're going to be reading, and drinking, and posting, and tweeting. And its gonna be awesome.
Our hosts
ME,
The outrageous, notorious, and infamous Parker,
The lovely Miss Virginia,
and several of our bookclubbin' friends
If you're interested in joining us, please sign up HERE and use #booziebookathon on Twitter! We'll be following all day, hosting power hours (AKA reading sprints), and chatting all day.
We've come up with a couple challenges. You CAN double up on challenges, this is meant to be fun, not get the highest number of books. Also note that you don’t have to actually drink while your reading, nor do you have to actually drink the substance your challenge is for.
We are so excited to do this you guys and hope that you can join us in our boozie book adventure!
The Wrath and the Dawn by Renee Ahdieh What I drank prior: I am on the train back from kickball. It was a big night. We won the first round of playoffs :) Spoiler-free Overview:
This is a retwlling of a thousand and one nights. The king marries and kills a different chick every night. Our main character Shahrzad decides she wants to try her luck and marries him. She tells him a story and survives the first night. Everything kind of goes from there. Spoiler-free Thoughts:
I completely thought that I was gonna think this was a cheese fest and hate it. I fucking adored this book. Read it during Dewey's 24hr readathon in a couple hours and these people are now my precious children and all of you can fight me about t. Characters:
I LVOE THEM. Seriously all of them. They are very well developed. We know the motivations behind all of them. And we grow with them. I just love it. Plot:
The pacing was good. I only know that because I real it in one sitting and I didn't even care. I was curious enough about what was going to happen next that reading it in one sitting was perfect. Writing Style:
It's beautiful. The end.
Just fucking read it. I cannot wait for the final installment. Pairing: a super fine red wine. Like the kind you spend more than $15 on.
Rating: 5/5 Shots. DUH
COMMENT DOWN BELOW: I know we're late to the party for this duology. What did you think? Also, what are your fave guilty pleasure books?
Serafina and the Twisted Staff by Robert Beatty What I drank prior: A bottle of wine and at least 7 beers... what am I to do? Spoiler-free Overview:
Look.... This is middle grade. So there's that. But anyway. So after what happened in the last book, we have Serafina, the awsome girl, and the nephew of the awesome dude trying to find out what's going on in this world. So there's shit going down.... animals are goin nuts, some weird guy is showing up and hungting down Serafina. In disguise and stuff, just like the last book. She's gotta figure out who it is and why.... ALL OF A SUDDEN there's a new wild character like her, a boy... dun dun dunnnnnn. She's left to determine where she belongs.
Spoiler-free Thoughts:
I adored this. Mr. Beatty has done it again. What a brilliant middle gade.
Characters:
They are still wonderful. Sera's conflict, Braeden's conflict, THE UNCLE. Man, he's such a great character. He takes care of his own and I love it. I had to remind myself not to be super suspicious of characters because its middle grade... because how oftern do we find good parental figures in fantasy huh? Rarely if ever. Also liked te newly introduced characters.
Plot:
Also wonderful. great story while leaving it open for more. Rating: 4/5 Shots. What to pair it with: Red wine. Something with a good body, because man, this book was excellent and well rounded and beautiful.
Hello everyone, I hope you're all doing well. I'm writing this on New Years Eve, having had quite a bit of really good red wine with my family while working at a ski hill in Utah. It's been a really good quarter life crisis so far.
Spoiler Free Whatever:
This book is a story about the descendents of Sherlock Holmes and John Watson. "Surprisingly" the main characers of Charlotte and whatever the Watson boy's name is are exactly like their original counterparts. Sherlock has a drug problem and is flightly and plays the violin and Watson is a bit of a brawler while player the straight man to Charlotte's Sherlock which means that this authoer clearly wanted the chance to write a little bit of Sherlock cannon. Once you get past the, sometimes irritating, similarities in the characters to the original the book is pretty cute. That's not to say it's going to change anyone's life. It's an icebox read (lol bringing it back to booze - like an icebox wine). The story follows Watson as he starts at a new school and, surprise surprise, Sherlock goes to the school. And of course blah blah blah family history and they pretend they aren't immediately gonna be friedns and then someone gets murdrerd. Stuff goes on from there and some of the twists weren't fantaistic (what a surprise the murder is based off of a Sherlock story) but it was a pretty enjoyable read even though I probably won't continue with the story).
Spoilers to be found here:
Not sure how much there is to be said here. There are a few characters that are meant to be red herrings and I was betting hard on one guy whose name I dont' quite remember now.... but regardless one of the characters, the school nurse, who I was convinced would be a red herring turned out to be the ex-fiance of the Moriarity who really didnt' have too much to do with this story. Honeslty there was a bit of monologuing at the end which was more irritating than anything else, but the foreshadowing was there soI probably shouldn't complain too much. That being said I hoped that more would come from the other children in the school and I was disappointed in the character arch of the creative writing teacher who I felt could have been way more interesting (I have to admit that right now I'm thinking of the science teacher from Stranger Things... he was awesome).
What to Pair It With:
As I said before this is an icebox wine. It's not amazing. It's not gonna change anyones life, but it's pretty enjoyable and it'll get you where you want to go.
Rating:
This gets 2.5 stars out of 5. Like I said it's a pretty cute book but there's no way I'm going to continue with the series. (My to read list is pretty long and I haven't added everything to it yet - so not gonna bother adding this to make it even longer). It's a cute read but it's been only like 3 or 4 days and I've forgotten a ton of the characters names, so...
Three Dark Crowns by Kendare Blake What I drank prior: a bottle and a half of wine? maybe? idk i lost count
Spoiler free overview:
So basically each queen has triplets and each triplet has an ability, either poison, elements, or nature. And like, these triplets gotta fight to the death for the crown. So basically this whole story is about that.
Each queen and how their lives are and how they're gonna kill their sisters etc. ADVENTURES HAPPEN.
Spoiler free thoughts:
Ok. So I went into this thinking I was gonna love one triplet and hate the other two. Like I wanted to have a hero that I could stand behind. I DIDNT GET IT. I loved all the sisters for their own reasons. Ok. that's not really true cause I didn't really like Mari so much, but for spoilery reasons.
Characters: Seriously I love them all. They're just wonderful. Well developed and adored. I even hate the villains. They're so great.
Plot: So it wasn't super well paced. The middle was like... meh? but i enjoyed it. The ending made up for it. There were enough twists and sections that i was like "you have GOT to be fuckign kidding me...." parts that it made up for it. Like. Look. I'm all for a love story, but DONT FUCK WITH MY SHIP. I can't stand it. But it's like a hurts-so-good kinda pain.
Also, if you're not a fan of typical YA tropes, read this book. It's real good at not having them.
also i want a mountain lion
Writing Style: It wasn't gorgeous but it kept me on my toes.
Spoilerssssssss:
Okay.... here we go.
Why the actual fuck did Jason have to do that huh? Is it because of the weird pagan magic bit? Like, literally no one is drawn to someone the way he is drawn to Mari. I had one guy i met in college, that i found later in life, that i feel physically connected to, but not so much that it overcame my consent. I feel like that's what happened. He literally didn't want to fuck her but he did, and that bothered me.
Also, Petyr and the fuckin void. Like, what? And she comes back anyway so like... what?
Lastly, so nature queen is a poisoner? like, i thought mama queen qwas able to know who could do what? this makes no sense and i need to know whats up. right now. what is poison queen supposed to do now? UGHHHHH
What to pair it with:a good red wine would be fucking awesome with this book.
Rating: 4.5/5 shots. And only cause the plot lagged a bit in the middle... i seriously can't wait for the next one.
What I drank: few
brews and a half bottle of the literal world’s best Malbec. I’m not lit but I’m
classy with it so, pish posh, hoe.
Spoilerfree: OK I
borrowed The Three Body Problem from my roommate, Frank, who borrowed it
from his brother, who stole it from their dad’s cabinet. None of them knew what
it was about. It’s a work in translation from Chinese, and the first, apparently,
of a trilogy or some shit, by Liu Cixin. Who knows. All I know is this:
·It’s a sci-fi novel in the purest sense of the
word
·Apparently it’s the all-time most read sci-fi in
Chinese history
·It’s not the “easiest” read, for a number of
reasons (which I shall attend to, calmate)
·This entry’s spoiler free section will be
particularly free of spoilers, just because when I wrapped my head around what
was actually happening in TBP I
WAS GODDAM FLABBERGASTED. But maybe I’m dumb; in any case I wanna leave no
clues
The novel takes place in China between the cultutral
revolution and “present” day, and it’s characters are all goddam profesors
and/or generals, (there’s a character list on page, like 1, so no spoilers yet;
don’t fret) so you get the impression some real shit is poppin off. Readers see
a number of time/plot lines unveiled for them simultaneously, starting with the
murder of Ye Zhetai in the 1940s, the ascencion of his widower, Ye Wenjie, into
the ranks of a military surveillance base in the ‘50s, and the abrubpt and the
hallucinations of a nanomaterials expert, Wang Miao (three bodies, get it?) in the
year 2007. Ze Winjei and Wang Miao meet up in present day in the context of an
open source, online, VR computer game/real time physics experiment called “The
Three Body Problem” wherein they have to deduce some wild fuggin physics
(google “three body problem” and check it out, it’s actually crazy to
conceptualize and Liu Cixin does a phenomenal job explaining it to laypeople).
Hilarity and murder and madness ensue. Yeah. From a game. It’s
like halo or some shit, but real ppl are waking up dead when they “lose”.
Writing Style
There is a fuckton of like cultural references and
historical events for which the narrator, Ken Liu, leaves ample and enthralling
footnotes. Between them, the characters’ involvement and understanding of the
major plots at hand are unveiled. To be honest, this novel was NOT easy to read.
A large part of it was the frequent and
deep scientific language. I’m not an idiot. I’m good at words, and I love
science. However comma I found myself rereading numerous passages to try to
understand exactly what the author wanted to convey. Paragraphs about microwave
radiation and the function and fashion of nanoparticles were hard for me to
follow. But das me doe.
Additionally, and more what I think bothered me, was the
pacing, the syntax, the dialogue. I found them hard to fall into, if that makes
sense. I mean, I’m a native reader of English, the novel was written in Chinese,
and the translator worked to adhere to the structure and feel of a Chinese novel.
It was an accomplishment in that regard, and It was work to read. I wanted to
read it, so I did, and the unveiling of these spoilers was ultimately sexy as hell. I was mad happy with it though, At
a few points I had to put her down and sit back and, like, reflect on how I didn’t
see the shit coming.
Impressive. no
bullshit.
Spoilers: quick and
durty
Sooooo the “game” that the world’s leading scientists were
playing for funsies was sent to them, on purpose. BY ALIENS MOFUCKER.
Whole time, this novel is the first 11 minutes of
independence day, wherein jeff Goldblum “OH My God”s and realizezs that shit is
fucked for all humanity. Turns out there’s a planet with a real 3 body problem,
and if they don’t get out, they gon’ die. Their 3 hot ass suns gon flambé their
asses. Over medium.
turns out this Chinese military tech in the 1950s accidentally gets in
contact with them, and the relationship they establish threatens to unravel the
world’s government and scientific communities. basically, she finds out what they're going through and invites them to Earth. gives our goddam address, like, "hmu when you outside." mad childish.
When we leave the novel TBP,
nobody knows if the aliens are coming, if people are gonna be ready for their
arrival, or even if the humanity can survive the inevitable ideological
fracture of advanced extra-terrestrial life reaching us at all. tune in next ime on dragon ball Z
Pairing: a dope
ass red wine because it’s tasty, then you get to the last quarter of the bottle
and realize YOURE FUCKED, YO.
RATING: 3.55/5 I mean
it’s a cool read but I finished it because I WANTED to finish. I was never
compelled to do so. that being said i'm not ready to give up on the series. vamos a ver.
Okay guys, debate night number 2 and i am HEATED. Cannot even begin to describe it.
Deep Blue by Jennifer Donnelly (Waterfire Saga #1)
What i drank prior: So.... i went wine tasting at a winery nearby with my mama and then.... debates and so somewhere near 3 bottles of wine since noon. its now 11:30pm. sooooo yeah.
Spoiler free overview:
So this is a book about mermaids. Can we talk about the cover? Please???? Which is pretty friggin cool i suppose. though this story was like, a normal YA book but underwater. Some chick is like, boutta be the crown princess and shit goes down and then she's gotta go find some place to save the sea. There are supposed to be 6 of 'em. her bff is one of them. and they're basically chased all through the sea to find this place so they can be a team and shit.
Spoiler free thoughts:
Alrighty, so i read this book really fast.
Plot: I was looking for something quick and easy and this was it. the main character Sera is a teenager and man is she a teenager. boy troubles et. al. however, what i liked about this book was while there was a boy, he wasn't on her mind all the time. i was pleasantly satisfied with that. more on that in the character section. but the plot was fast paced and easy to read. At some points though i kinda just wanted them to be safe ya know? but all in all i was cool with it.
Characters:So we've talked about the main character Sera, but the bff Neela. I swear to god if she talked about candy one more time i was going to barf. Lastly, the demon, its named after like... actual lore which is fine except i've read a lot about that demon and it seemed unoriginal.
World building: Dude, this book was so funny with the world building. The money was called currensea... CLEVER. Everything was swimming not walking etc. But still, it was neat. the cultures from the different oceans or seas mimiced the cultures of their terra counterparst. so like, the indian ocean had saris and stuff like that. pretty cool.
Rating: 3/5 shots. It wasn't bad, but not so good either. Very predictable.
What to pair it with: a good white wine. i just feel like its a white wine kinda book.
I have to admit, I love romance novels. I will read them like crazy between the autobiographies and slightly heavier material becuase it is obvious what is going to happen. Clearly the main characters are going to fall it love. And by god I drank a number of Costco margaritas before I wrote this so I am wholey and totally into writing this review because dear god was this the right kind of ridiculous book.
Spoiler Free Plot:
This book is a bit absurt for so many reasons. The main charaters are a blind duke, who has decided to hide himself away from society becuase, reasons? the other main character is the daughter of a famous childrens novelist (spoielrs behind the cut, duh) who is penniless but for various nefarious reasons inheirts the castle the duke is living in because yet again, reasons. Romance novels are often plot lines that revolve around things behind highly unlikelye and yet I love them anyway. They decide to live in the castle together because they both think they own it, and get it on in the meantime (like that's any surprise... it's a goddamn romance novel... if they don't get it on it's probably because it's a 'Christian Romance Novel' or its written by my friend who is so pure that she blushes at someone saying blow-job in her general direction (which, yes, we do often becuase its funny)). The rest of the plot is mostly unnecessary to describe becasue yet agarin romance novel. Anyone who doesn't realize they end up happy in the end should email me for recommendations because dear lord, all romance novels end up happy). Spoilered Plot:
Okay, I'll admit, I have a fondness for books where the lady is "I know what I'm getting into" thinking it's going to be a one night stand and the dude has heart eyes becuase he's totally in love but emotionally stupid and doesn't know how to say this and that is this book in a nutshell. At some point she literaly talks about being a spinster and therefore unloveable and his innenr monologue is "i;ll show her someday" becuase he fucking lvoes her and its ridiculous and makes me happy at the same time. There;s really not much to spoiler. He, in the ened, appreciates all the friends that she's made through stories that her father (oh wait, not actually a spoiler, she wrote herself) wrote, and that helps to save his fortune and their fututre. The entire book is a bit silly but dear god do I buy into every second the them say "I shoudln't do this" and then ignoring their own advice.
Rating:
I honestly don't know how to rate this. It's fun, if a bit silly book, but it breaks out of a few romance tropes. Maybe a Riesling. You know it's going to be sweet, but it has a bit of tartness that surprises you. Maybe a 3.5 out of 5. Cute, broke some tropes but not enough to make me really happy (though I coudl go with a 4 out of 5 if someone actually got me a reisling)
Drinking Suggestion:
Lot's of wine. Choose one you like and start drinking. This doesn't have lot of gratuitous scenes to maybe something softer, seriously my suggestion/rating of a reisling is a good idea.
a note: I'm gonna try to write substatnively about this piece of art but it was incredible and my puny human emotions are inusfficient a a set of watercolors with which to paint it. what i drank: I had a half-doxen pints of miller lite and three and a half glasses of white wine and half dozen shots of boodles gin (out of a Duke shotglass that I hate because fuck Dook, amirite?!?!?)
EDITORS' NOTE: Hi, it's Sam. The next morning. Last night he was the drunkest I'd seen him in a while. This review is NOT edited for spelling/grammar only to ensure the book and the author's name are spelled correctly and capitalized. Ms. Gyasi deserves that. And I'm dying reading this. WRITERS'S RESPONSE: Dammit, Sam, let me live. spoiler free plot
fuck.
a week after reading "Homegoing" it's hard not to cry thinking about it. i didn't cry reading it, though i put it down four separate times to walk away and.. i dunno put my life back together.
Yaa Gyasi's novel is beautiful. it is heartbreaking and beautiful and a fantastic accomplishment in poesy and story writing.
in the novel she traces an 18th centrury west african family' split at the hands and "benefaction" of british slavers through history and across the atlantic. as two distinct familial lines emerge, society and happenstance come to bear on their luck and, again, fuck.
this brilliant artist manages to remind to remind me of the struggles i encoutner today in America without even adressing them directly. by painting a viscerally accurate panorama of the children of the diaspora she draws me and my family. again, it was incredible
characters
"Homegoing" stars dozends of protagonists who each encounter a complex stet of interal and external conflicts. whether in a Village in Ghana or Harlem or Arkansas or Palo Alto, CA, the progeny of Gyasi's first chapters all evolve, though not over the page widths that novel readers traditionally expect. these men and women succeed and fail, are raped and conquer kingdoms, attend prestigious universites and mainline heroin instead of feeding themelves and their children.
as i read it, the real protagonist of this novel are the children of the forced diaspora. we hardly spendmore of a chapter with any one generation (let alone character!) and yet Gyasi writes well enough that i feel great grandparents' wrath and blessing as if it were the childhood memory of the twenty-somethings whose vignettes end the novel. time manages to function as a vehicle and object of the grand themes that weave this novel together. again, FUCK.
writing style
Gyasi is versatile at times i feel an almost hemingway-like syntax. this terse she can break hearts. she slips in history. she builds context and tension until both swell like infected limbs and when the flies land they quiver with breathless verve. as each family/generation's story unfolds, she create an imperative tone that fills the senses. i had an interesting conversation about the plot arc ofthis novel. i think it ascends continuously to the end of the novel, instead of posessign the traditional rising action-climax-falling action setup, but please disagree with me about this.
this book reminds me of my family and what millions of families like mine have gone through. that sentence reads as sloppy or lazy at first, but do not mistake me; it does not remind me of individuals; rather, it recalls in me a generational memory. Gyasi's prose evokes anger in me, but not my own. it engenders a watchful and sullen observation ofthose whose lineage managed to avoid so many of these lashes and billy-clubbings. idk. the hour it took me to trapse through this reveiw was a teary one. that emotion was largely sadness, though anger plated a role, and somewhere, buried like a fleck of gold in a jet black stone was hope, was a desparate sense that home is there to be found if we can fight our fear of drowning.
rating: 5/5 plugs of 96% pure corn liquor for the 5/5 hours spent staring at the drywall, comparing this novel's life to the history of your actual blood family who was enslaved in the south and succeeded and failed at navigating a series of systems designed to profit off its labor, struggle, its despair and death.
paring:
a red with body. or a wit insofar as that's a good summer beer and as a novel of various passions and compasions, "Homegoing" is a good summer novel.
fuck. brb. weepy again.
parker
What I Drank Prior
A whole bottle of the best Pinot Grigio I’ve ever had. Literally, ask Virginia. We’re going to start buying this shit by the case. And now I’m working on glass two of a Pinot Noir. I guess I like the Pinots….
Spoiler-free overview:
I don't think this review is going to be as fun as my others, because this book's style and mood do not reflect drunken debauchery. So how do I even begin to explain this book.
We start with a spectacular magician's show. After the show, these two dudes, hereforto known as Gray Suit and Crazy Man, they get together and decide that there's going to be a competition between two people. And let the best side win?
These two people are Celia and Marco and they a'start a'studyin'.
We also start hearing about this beautiful Night Circus. THey call it by some french-ass name. Le Cirque des Rêves (I googled it, don't judge me). The whole point of the Circus is that it opens at midnight and goes until the wee hours of the morning. Le Cirque is the "venue" for this competition between Celia and Marco. Neither know what the rules are, to be completely honest, even after finishing the novel, even I still don't know what the rules are.
Anyway, this novel covers over a decade of time as this competition goes on. Relationships, jealousy, fear, creation, inspiration, creativity, and love develop over time and Le Cirque des Rêves takes you on a journey into a dream.
Spoiler-free thoughts:
Holy crap guys. I mean. Just. I finished this book today. I thought maybe I needed some time to think about this book before I wrote anything about it. But then? I had some wine. And then some more wine. And I couldn't keep my thoughts in any longer.
You GUYS. This book is beautiful. Seriously. It takes you on this magic carpet ride straight Aladdin style. NOT EVEN JOKING. Okay OKAY. I'll get into more specidics in a minute. This book was so well written and captivating. I have one *minor* complaint that's noted in the spoiler-ey section but other than that, i adored this book. If anyone is looking for something that will integrate you entirely into the story, this book is for you. I wanted to know more about each tent. THough, I think that was the point. No one knows everything about the circus except maybe Marco and Celia, though even they don't know HOW it works. Their whole purpose is to beat the other, though they are unsure why.
Plot
So to be completely honest, I listened to this on audiobook from the library. Narrated by Jim Dale. The FABULOUS Jim Dale who also performed the audiobooks for Harry Potter. Need I say more? *momentary pause while i finish my second glass of wine fromt he second bottle* Alright, i'm good now. The plot was so incredible engrossing. You FELT like you were a part of the circus. You WANTED to be at the circus. And the whole time, you're never really rooting for one side or the other for the competition. I feel like the competition was just a side story. The whole time, you're just trying to figure out what's going on at the circus is, only to realize at the end that the competition is all that matters. Just. Just. Wow.
Characters
These characters are so well developed it's not even funny. Since you get to see thm over the course of their entire lives almost. Celia was a beautifully complex character. What am I even saying, Marco was also beautifully written. Their relationship was beautiful. Their competition, was beautiful.
My favorite characters were the twins. Watching them grow up and become their own? Incredible. I JUST loved them.
It's really not fair for me to talk about thos eindividually. Because they were all so enthralling.
The main character, I feel, is the Circus itself. How it changes and effects others. Everyone is involved. Everyone loves it. It becomes the central factor the story revolves around. Anything and everything that happens effects the Circus (man that's a hard word to spell when drunk) and you really feel invested in its future.
Writing Style
Have I not described this enough? THe writing was beautiful. Stunning. Incredible. Out-of-this world. You are totally engrossed in this novel from page one. Literally. Read it.
SPOILERS
YOU GUYS! The ending of this story was just beautiful. I loved how Celia and Marco's relationship develops. It's how relationships should develop. None of this insta-love crap. Sure. Marco think she's beautiful from the moment he saw her, but he didn't lvoe her until the tour of the brownstone. OK. We're not sure it was a brownstone but that's how I thought ofit. Though, I didn't really like that they both took the "oh my gosh, i want to sacrifice myself for you" side. But hey, it worked. At least Celia tried to separate herself (ok both of them) from the circus is pretty cute and a great strategy.
Also, I absolutely adore how the book ended. With Gray suit and Widget talking in the pub. Like.... for realz. Awesome.
Rating
4.75/5 shots. I wish I could give it 5/5. But that one minor thing in the spoilery section got rid of .25 for me.
What to pair it with: A fine wine. Something that you drink to feel sophisticated and mysterious. Maybe even a black and white cookie.
