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The Radiant Road Read & Download Á 104 review µ PDF, DOC, TXT or eBook Ø Katherine Catmull Read & Download The Radiant Road Lare the house is not only full of memories of her mother but of the Strange and a mysterious boy with raven dark hair and of dreamlike nights filled with stars and magic In this place magic both bright and dark will not sit uietly in a corne I have a fondness for stories that take place in Ireland It is a place that I wish to some day visit So until I can actually make it there I like visiting through booksThis book didn t disappoint me whatsoever While I read it I could imagine the beautiful scenery I wanted to live in Clare s underground one giant room house where one wall is comprised entirely of a giant ancient tree I could imagine myself standing in the rolling green fields watching the ocean waves crashing against the shoreIn short the imagery for The Radiant Road was very well doneThe Radiant Road is a fairytale It took me a while to realize that though At first I just thought that the narrative was a little strange to read Then at some point it clicked It is supposed to be reading as if there is a storyteller making reading the story will make that term make sense to you a story and sharing it with you Even though I was very used to the narrative by the time I came to this realization the realization increased my appreciation and understanding of this story I mean I don t know about you but for me a weird narrator can make it hard for me to really get into a bookSo you might be wondering at this point what The Radiant Road is actually about And my friends that is a difficult uestion to answer However in short it is about Clare MacLeod who is the protector of the tree a piece of the Strange as she calls it This is hard for her to swallow as she has been running from the Strange all her life It has made her different and an outcast as her father and her have moved aroundThere is a whole lot to the story but I really want you to read it to experience it how I got to I don t want to ruin the storytellers making by giving too much of it awayOverall I found this story beautiful It made me want to create and make It also made me wish I could travel to the land of FaerieThis review is based on an ARC provided by the publisher in exchange for a fair and honest reviewFind of my reviews here

The Radiant Road Read & Download Á 104 review µ PDF, DOC, TXT or eBook Ø Katherine Catmull Read & Download The Radiant Road Clare Macleod has lived all her life with an awareness of the Strange tales of fairies and magic making told to her by her mother who died years ago No longer a child Clare has learned to suppress the magic that haunted the corners of her lif BlehOne extra star for the lyrical writing and snippets of pretty good poetry Otherwise totally not worth my timeI was drawn in by the first chapter and the prospect of an Irish fairytale esue novel It turned out to be a lot but not in a good way Despite attempting to be self aware the book can t make up its mind what it is A fairy tale A horror story A fantasyadventure A YA romance Irish Inception Eh throw it all in for good measure That may sound cool but in reality messes up the pace and gets very distracting One minute she is fleeing from a totem board whichwasn t that scary Gotta admit super confused by that thing and then next she s wondering if she is in love with her childhood friendI should note that 85% of the writing was lyrical Unfortunately the main character opens her mouth I have never read a book where a heroine jars so much away from the narration I suppose she is supposed to sound like a 14 year old girl Unfortunately she is an idiot She does everything she is not supposed to do and then fails at whatever it was Every character except maybe her Dad gets ticked off with herand rightly soThat said the fairies were MAJORLY bi polar Even the ones on her side One minute they re all You have a great uest and the next it is You horrible human Go die That didn t make any sense Though to be honest I spent the last half of the book thinkingIn summary a book with some potential that entirely fails to live up to the potential Extremely dislikable characters Pointless plot points A lot of the drama could have been avoided if the heroine had used basic common sense

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The Radiant Road Read & Download Á 104 review µ PDF, DOC, TXT or eBook Ø Katherine Catmull Read & Download The Radiant Road E to say the word “fairy” with the appropriate disbelief But after years of living in America Clare and her father are returning to Ireland to the house Clare was born in a house built into a hillside with an ancient tree for a wall For C I loved this It s a gentle fable y daydream of a book with little bursts of nightmarishness for good measure and the writing is gorgeous Even the acknowledgements at the end are gorgeous There are tons of uotable passages Literally thumbing through the book at random will get you things like this Through the blackness they flew Clare clinging hand and arm and leg watching the night roar past from between Asterion s horns They passed a flock of night geese whose bodies were one long bent muscle Hello birds she shouted a little crazily Isn t it weird isn t it so strange that one minute you re safe in your egg and the next minute you re flyingOr this She rounded the corner of a half fallen building and stopped A half block away stood a tall thin man in a tall black hat face obscured by the dusk In his cupped hands he held a red bird a cardinal As you can in dreams Clare saw the bird far away and close up at the same timeThere are like nineteen other uotes I marked but you get the picture And my very favorite part was of course the faeries and all the cool imagery that comes with them and the way they re incorporated into a modern day but still weirdly timeless Ireland Love