Ok, so this one is going to join my very hard to get on to "Absolute Favorites" tag. I only have one other book there, so, yeah. I know Terry Pratchett is a hugely successful author, but his more fantasy oriented books have left me cold., and I like fantasy. This, however, I read in one day and mourned when it was over.My nine-year-old who reads everything couldn't get in to Nation and so that tells me what I already knew - this is more of a cross-over novel and you have to be willing to go a few chapters before you're hooked. You have to understand (or at least be aware of) the history of colonialism, and you have to have the vision to see that this is about so much more than boy meets girl on a post-tsunami deserted island. And yet...it is still a wonderful story of (unconsummated) love and a story of hope for mankind that leaves you mad at the author for not making it all OK. It's kind of like Titanic the movie - but really much better- except the boat doesn't sink- it lands on a forest.
'Nuff said. You really have to read it.
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On the night this came around in my reading pile, I was getting sick and vowed to go to sleep early. I had already read partway through, so I read a few more pages before turning out the light.
You know what's coming, right? Three hours later . . .
Also, Terry Pratchett is the only person that I would take a non-HEA from, when he's set up a good romance like that. The man is amazing.
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