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Foiled again by pretty covers.I outright love the cover. I love the illustrations in the book itself. Emeline is POC!But nope, we get your typical YA fare. Our protag is not like the other girls(there's also A LOT of mentions of her bodice), she has a power but like...this power is not relevant for like 75% of the book. There's a boy, he's a jerkass to her at first but he's dreamy so it's okay.The pacing is also poor. Most of the book was in the city with the characters just...meandering around....
This was an interesting tale. Told from single POV that of main character Emeline, it features magic, a little bit of steampunk, young love, a bit of mystery and political intrigue that kept me interested till the very end. Emeline is a young maiden who lives in the village named Equane with her father and younger brother Dale. The village is mostly peaceful and surrounded by a small moat that protects it from the darkness in the woods. One day while playing Dale and Emeline encounter the long f...
I liked the narrative (and the illustrations were fantastic), but I never really felt like Emeline was in legitimate danger, or that she really went through the hero's journey. Still, it was a fun Friday afternoon read.
Between the Water & the Woods presents us the story of Emeline, a girl with a hidden magical power connected to earth. We follow her journey with other characters. One of the characters is her father which was something I'd never read before in YA (Teenagers usually stay away from parental figures and I was glad because the author included a constant/present parental figure). The world building was interesting, the illustrations AMAZING, the romance was cute and the story was somehow trying to p...
3.5 stars - A book I picked up for the illustrations, keeping an eye out for Kilpin. I loved this little romance/adventure story. It was the sweet/feel good fantasy novel that was not all swords, violence, and the she-will-save-them-all motif. However, I do wish this wasn't so short, and in turn, more flushed out. Emeline is from a small, disconnected village at the edge of the kingdom, surrounded by a protective moat from the dangerous woods. One day, Emeline's brother, Dale, crosses the moat o...
