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I'm only six years late to the party, but finally got around to reading Goss's fine, viridescent THE THORN AND THE BLOSSOM. Many thoughts, but instead of trying to explicate away its charm & beauty, I'll leave you with this African proverb: "For the beauty of the rose we also water the thorns."
Beautiful but could have been richer in events.."When Evelyn Morgan walked into the village bookstore, she didn’t know she would meet the love of her life. When Brendan Thorne handed her a medieval romance, he didn’t know it would change the course of his future. It was almost as if they were the cursed lovers in the old book itself . . ."Evelyn, an american wealthy girl, litt student in Oxford, decides to spend a week in Cornwall to write something other than -according to professor Lambert- he...
This book was incredibly disappointing for me! No substance here and not much of a tale; I don't know what to make of this book. Is it a book? No, it's more of a short tale (less than 40 pages each for the two tales). The characters were flat and there was not much of a story or plot. It's incredibly short and devoid of any details. I found it insipid and cliche and do NOT recommend it to my Goodreads friends!
If I was giving out an award for most creative book format The Thorn and the Blossom would win it hands down. Instead of a normal book you have an accordion style binding that allows you to read two different views of the same story depending on which side you start from. The book is held together in a cardboard sleeve to stop it unfolding when on the shelf. One side of the book introduces Evelyn, a young woman with an interest in medieval literature who is in Cornwall on holiday after finish...
Lent to me by a friend (thanks!) -- I received it in the post today and read it this evening in one go. It's a pair of connected novellas/short stories, which cover more or less the same events from the point of view of the two main participants. It doesn't really matter which you read first: each illuminates and complements the other. It's a lot of fun, actually: the physical copy of the book has concertina pages, so you read it one way, turn it round, and read back the other. It's a very nice
Originally posted at Paperback Wonderland.Never judge a book by its cover. I already knew this and yet, here I am.This is, quite easily, one of the prettiest books I own. The book itself, as an object, is worth a whole star (perhaps even more...).Now the story...First of all, and this is important, it's not badly written. The dialogue is a bit trite and at times unbelievable, but other than that it's fine. The plot hinges on a cliché I personally hate: that of star crossed lovers who will fall
I will be honest. The thing that attracted me first to this book was the different way in which it was packaged, an "accordian style binding". The whole concept was pretty clever I thought, one story told from two different people's perspectives. The underlyning message of the story was not cloaked by any means. The reader knows right away who the characters are / were and the fate that they face, but instead of making the story boring it was more interesting to be able to pick out the details o...
Note: This review will be done in 3 parts. One for each version of the story and then the final for an overview of the entire story as a whole. I began with Brendan's Story. Brendan's Story: In this part, we are introduced to Brendan Thorne. He lives in Clewes, where he helps his father with the Thorne & Son bookstore. This part left my heart aching with romantic longing. I was really hoping they would end up together. This is exactly the kind of romance I enjoy. One where there are obstacles,...
I received this book courtesy of Quirk Books in exchange for an honest review.Have patience, love, and we shall meet againAs surely as wild roses have their thornsFor weary years eventually pass.The 'Thorn and the Blossom' is quite literally a "two-sided love story" about Brendan Thorne and Evelyn Morgan. Intertwined with their love story is the tale of Elowen, queen of Cornwall and Gawan and their own timeless love story. Brendan and Evelyn first meet when she walks into Brendan's family bookst...
