This book is a YA retelling of Thomas Hardy's 1891 classic, "Tess of … Please log in using one of these methods to post your comment: You are commenting using your WordPress.com account. The beginning of the book was more centered around family tensions. Create a free website or blog at WordPress.com. It’s quite long, but I hope I’ll be able to read it soon! I can’t speak to a lot of what goes on the novel but in my opinion, Hartman tackles each theme expertly and with great sensitivity. All throughout the novel, we see trauma severely affect mental illness and how developing healthy coping mechanisms can put a person on the path to proper recovery. The journey to find the world’s serpents really felt like an aside/background to the book. ✩ Pathka was very protective of Tess and could be pretty hardheaded about things once he made up his mind. Tess, stubbornly, is a troublemaker. I am always so astonished by Hartman’s world-building. It really goes to show that just because a scene doesn’t have swinging swords or shooting guns doesn’t mean the plot is taking a break. Format Read In: Ebook. As she travels, she realizes the farce of linking loss of virginity with loss of soul, although notably she never condemns her mother or her strict beliefs. For it being in the fantasy genre I was kind of disappointed on that end. And how many people want more female characters to be allowed access to anger but then turn around and call her ‘unlikeable’ for being so? The story contains violent scenes, including the memory of a sexual assault. Dragons, half-dragons, quigutls, a bit of magical realism and steampunk are all wrapped together in Tess of the Road by Rachel Hartman. At first what seems to be a benign tale grows darker and more fraught so by the end you can’t help but feel a cold lump of coal in the pit of your stomach. Jeanne was the ideal child, doted upon, favored, and loved and Tess took it upon herself to shelter Jeanne from the worst the world had to offer. Same here! Tess’s issues always took precedence over everything else. This is Seraphina as she is from Tess’s POV and it surprised me to see how her as less emotional and more dragon-like. Every once and awhile, a book comes along and reminds you why you love to read and why you love to read in certain genres. Us against the world.” ❞. Every step Tess takes on her road is a needle pricking the clenched parts of her heart into relief; as I read I felt those needles in my own heart, embroidering it with awe." All around her stand a cast of characters, far too many for me to address, who have each touched Tess and in turn have been touched by her and her journey. It seemed that despite the father’s mistakes it was really Tess who paid for his sins. And in the middle of all this chaos, Tess relied upon her twin, Jeanne. Tess of the Road was nominated for the 2018 Andre Norton Awardand the … I think my main goal in life now is to get this book into the hands of as many people as possible, haha! Published/Publisher: February 27th 2018 by Random House Books for Young Readers "Tess of the Road is astonishing and perfect. She dared to get pregnant out of wedlock, something her heinous and overtly religious family, particularly her witch of a mother, sees as a true shame to the family. Parents need to know that Tess of the Road is a spin-off of Rachel Hartman's acclaimed fantasy Seraphina.The narrative follows Seraphina's younger half-sister as she sets off alone in search of a fabled World Serpent.
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