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Dawn Ius

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Anne & Henry (2015) 67 exemplar
Lizzie (2018) 46 exemplar
Overdrive (2016) 34 exemplar
Fields of Home (2011) 1 exemplar
"O" 1 exemplar
Tasting My Story (2013) 1 exemplar

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Lizzie by Dawn Ius is a unique YA take on the Lizzie Borden murders.

I was super intrigued by this book and ridiculously excited to see it show up in my mailbox. I really like reading into weird mysteries and seeing new takes on them. Seeing a YA book about it made me even more curious, because YA is such an interesting area of books and the books written for this group tend to go one of two ways.

I found this book rather boring and weird, which made me quite sad. The premise of this book sounded so good and so interesting: We follow Lizzie Borden as she lives with her dysfunctional family and meets a lovely young woman who she is potentially falling in love with. And then tragedy strikes.

I've heard the tale many a times about Lizzie, so I really wanted this book to be a cool and unique take on the story. There was so much going for it, but I think the facilitation of it just didn't hit me right. I wanted to DNF it, but I also really wanted to support a great Canadian author. So I stuck through it, and it took quite a while.

There was tension and sadness and despair, but the plot just felt random. It was a bit jumpy and didn't catch my attention. I think with some fine tuning, this book could do really well for it's audience. I almost wanted more points of views or less jumps. It was sitting in the middle, which just didn't do it for me. With so much rich history behind this story, I think there was a lot that could have been added to give it the 'umph' that this book needed. With all of that in mind, it was just too slow for me. It didn't keep my attention, which is what I'm looking for as a reader.

I think this book is going to be quite the niche book for it's readers. Either you will love it or hate it, and that's okay! Some books are just like that.

One out of five stars.

I received this book for free through Goodreads First Reads.
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Briars_Reviews | 1 annan recension | Aug 4, 2023 |
I've always been fascinated by Anne Boleyn, but I approached this book a little warily. In fact, I enjoyed it a great deal.

Henry is the younger son of the Tudor family, just as Henry VIII was. His father was a successful politician, and his brother Arthur was supposed to follow in Dad's footsteps, but he died in an accident. Henry pursued other interests, like acting, but after Arthur's death, his father's Will and his mother's will and determination were to mold Henry into a worthy successor, a replacement Arthur. What more could Henry want - everyone was sure it was in his best interest. Obviously, it would be a great choice for him to have Arthur's accomplished girl friend Catherine as his future wife.

Anne, grew up poor in rather chaotic circumstances, but her mother has married a wealthy, successful architect, and they have moved to Medina, a town founded by the Tudors. Henry falls for Anne's complete difference from the socialites that surround him, but his "friends" are all determined to expel the unworthy Anne, and get Henry back on the expected track.

I have mixed feelings about the fact that everything isn't resolved at end. It could make an interesting book discussion group, because there are so many directions in which the book could go after the ending.

How did Anne's mother and stepfather react to what happened to her?
Given Anne's self-destructive tendencies, what did she do, although she seems more mature at the end?
Did the locket really belong to Henry's grandmother, when Catherine's comment that he had given her one just like it seemed to suggest that it might not be? Did Anne keep it?

And Henry: Did he go back to Catherine as the adults around him, and possibly the other students think he should?
He meets a young woman in a coffee shop named Jane Seymour (the name of Henry VIII's wife after Anne). He's attracted to her, but I don't think that his social set would see her as a great improvement over Anne, just perhaaps not as wild,
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PuddinTame | 5 andra recensioner | Oct 15, 2022 |
Kinda sucks when you know going into it that it's all gonna end badly....
 
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JessBass87 | 5 andra recensioner | Jul 4, 2021 |
Gutsy, gritty, desperate. These are words describing Jules. Desperate to keep her and younger sister Emma together and afloat in the Nevada foster care system, she turned to stealing cars and did so well, she earned the nickname 'Ghost'. Then she got caught and with felony charges looking her in the face, she's angry, scared and even more desperate. When her social worker offers her a deal that seems to good to be true, she's skeptical, but agrees. The next thing she knows, Jules and Emma are living in a mansion with three other foster teens, all with their own secrets and desperate needs. How those play out, requires them to pool their not-so-legal skills and learn to trust each other. This is a fast-paced and very satisfying read, one that took less than an afternoon.… (mer)
 
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150
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½ 3.3
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