Bitterthorn: A sapphic Gothic romance inspired by classic fairytales

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While not literally a Beauty and the Beast retelling, it slots into that mould very easily, with just about every narrative moment you expect - a bit too neatly so for my liking. I had come home to find myself left with a pine green old-fashioned cloak designed to fit over the bell-like crinolines of my mother’s youth. Quercus robur, the monstrous oak trees that planted themselves firm with broad branches sweeping the forest canopy, betula pendula, the silver birches clustering close with their trunks like peeling skin.

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According to 99 Old Trees, you should first check for dryness around the stem or any large cracks (hairline cracks are normal! It’s a prequel to the new Fae of Bitter Thorn series by Kay L Moody, and if it’s anything to go by, the rest of the series is going to be great! I hear someone use a term "popcorn book" lately which I kind of like and think might fit this book as well. the parts of how Mina is so lonely even surrounded by people was just so understanding and how she felt invisible within her family. It was as though by losing my mother so young, motherhood was a foreign land I had no permission to enter.

The way Mina and the witch loved each other was so overwhelming, they were willing to sacrifice so much for each other 😭😭! Only purchases made through the UNIQLO affiliate link provided by YouTrip will be eligible for cashback.

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There were also a lot of books mentioned that the characters read and I always like to see that, especially since in this case it even more developed the atmosphere (even though you would guess that they'll read more German-language based literature). There's the kind of world building that makes a story fresh and exciting, the kind of place you really want to visit (holo parks yes please! From the window of my bedroom I could see Blumwald in almost its entirety: at one end was the cathedral with its glistening roof of coloured tiles like the side of a grass snake, at the other, our palace, and between them ran a street like a spine.Like Mina seemed genuinely upset when the Witch got mad at her, even if it was a front, but then a couple pages later we are in love and stuff again? I knew that I was isolated, but I didn’t understand my loneliness until I knew what I would give to escape it. Late-autumn forest skirted the flanks of the mountain, bare-branched deciduous lowland and dense pine-prickled upland, before giving way to scrub and grass in the higher reaches where any trees struggled to survive the raw weather, and a rangy herd of winter-hardened sheep grazed on the last grass before they were brought inside for true winter.