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After her dramatic entrance, there’s a flashback to the beginning of her travels. It takes Vasya a few chapters to enter the story, but when she does, she’s dressed as a boy, having just rescued three young girls from bandits. The Girl in the Tower begins where The Bear and the Nightingale leaves off. I have a quote on this scene that would be at home in any Twilight book, but I won’t post it because this book eventually gets better-much better. For example, when Vasya is dying in a snowdrift, Morozko materializes to massage heat into her hands and body in that sexual/nonsexual way common to bad YA novels. Not because it was undeserved, but because once I started seeing Morozko as Edward Cullen, it was hard to see him as Morozko. I genuinely regret making a Twilight comparison in my review of The Bear and the Nightingale. Spoilers abound for Book 1, so read at your own risk, or start with The Bear and the Nightingale. The Girl in the Tower is the second book of the Winternight trilogy by Katherine Arden. *****Įugénie Grandet is a short novel, almost a novella, and the action, such as it is, is limited to the four walls of a gloomy stone house in the French village of Saumur, inhabited by the Grandet family: the elderly Monsieur Grandet, his wife Madame Grandet, their only daughter, Eugénie, in her early twenties as the story begins, and their sole servant, Nanon. I ended up judging it against others of a similar era which I am familiar with, such as works by Dickens, Thackeray, Dumas, and, of course, several of Balzac’s other novels in his ambitious “Human Comedy”. It is difficult to know how to “rate” a book such as Eugénie Grandet, as its status as an early 19th Century “classic” places it in a category of its own when compared to more contemporary books. Introduction & Notes by Christopher Prendergast. This edition: Oxford University Press, 2009. Eugénie Grandet by Honoré de Balzac ~ 1833. |