Mercy The Tabula Rasa Series Book 1 edition by Misty Provencher Children eBooks
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"A different and unique and beautifully written book...rawness and pain...[Provencher] does not sugarcoat things. She lays them all out for you and makes you feel." -- Into the Night Book Reviews
From new adult romance and young adult fantasy author, Misty Provencher, comes a dark and gritty paranormal coming-of-age story housed in a world that is nothing like what it seems.
My will to survive is the first thing to drown. I know, because I hold it under myself.
I assumed my death would come easily. But misunderstanding didn't stop the undertow as I dove into the dark water. I didn't bother to flail.
I knew the boy with the golden rod voice couldn't save me, so I hoped for angels to come instead.
What came for me was something I never expected.
It was something that needed me to live again.
Mercy The Tabula Rasa Series Book 1 edition by Misty Provencher Children eBooks
This book intrigued me from its very first lines. The opening sequence has a dream like quality and is beautifully written, simply poetic in form. Death pervades the pages of this book, in one form or another, and yet Madeline’s journey seems to be an unconscious, and sometimes unwilling, struggle toward hope.Provencher gambles with this book and its subject matter. Not only does she weave fantastical elements in with highly sensitive contemporary issues, she challenges the usual stereotypes and clichés that one normally finds in dark urban fantasy (or fiction in general.) And for the most part (a little on this further on,) I feel she succeeds.
There are moments in Mercy that are so poignant, so universal, that my breath was literally taken away. In my opinion, an underlying theme of this book is maternal guilt and the journey to absolution. It is not blatant, and some may disagree, but as a mother, it was so clear to me. I wept so many times, the images painted so vividly. They called to me on a visceral level. What mother does not have some kind of guilt? But at the same time, Provencher hits on other dark issues that would speak to a wide audience and perhaps it’s not just maternal guilt, but guilt in general that the characters strive to escape.
Negatives that I can touch on, but shouldn’t be a deal breaker, are the idea of gargoyles. It took me some time to suspend my disbelief, mostly because I was confused as to what was happening to Madeline –still, I’m not exactly sure why her transformation happened the way it did or why it was significant. As I read on, however, I soon forgot those issues.
Also, something that bothered me to a degree was the lack of setting. Most of the book is set in a central location or one kind of central location. I found myself wishing she would go somewhere else, or get away.
Over all, Provencher was incredibly brave to write this book. Her insight to the human state is profound and her ability to delineate our experiences in such a vibrant and insightful way deserves praise.
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Mercy The Tabula Rasa Series Book 1 edition by Misty Provencher Children eBooks Reviews
On a second thought 4 STARS
this is one of those books that delaying the review would only do harm. I'll explain in a bit, but before...
3 stars, and only because I'm really torn in here. I loved this book, I really did. but at the same time there were too many things that didn't quite work for me.
the reason for the urgency to write a review upon finishing the book is, simply put, the emotions I experienced while reading it. the longer I'll wait, the harder it will be to pour it down to words.
so...what didn't work? simply, the love (at the ending), and the whole part about the Gargoyles. it was just SO confusing, I didn't understand how it worked, I would have loved more explaining and myth on that part (I understand that they were used as a tool to gain the clarity with which things were revealed to us as well as to Maddy, I do, but that doesn't stop me from wanting them to be a solid well explained instrument), also, too many times there were confusing lines, times I was fighting to understand what was said and what was going on, and more importantly what was MEANT. I can't say that the confusion is all cleared out by the end, but if you stick around long enough then, eventually, you'll discover you've gotten used to it and it does not disturb you that much anymore. the question is whether you can, personally, I think you SHOULD. (as i shall explain).
WHAT I LIKED, EVEN LOVED
first of all, Maddy, her story was heart breaking, het life were tough, and yet she was full of compassion that I couldn't help but love her.
also, regarding Maddy, as the story unfolds she wises up.
second, Truce's story, his love, his guilt, his emotions and fears. He was intruiging.
third, the Gargoyles, so ugly , yet, so fragile, some very kind, harboring their humanity with a lesson they missed and needed to learn.
fourth, the story, Misty Provencher manages to write something different, she's thinking outside the box, in fact so outside and so different that i have never encountered something like that before.
Last but not Least, Misty Provencher's writing is Amazing. it's truly beautiful, and the feelings that overwhelm Maddy are flying through the pages straight to your heart.
there were many lines I loved (as you can see at the end of this review).
I also would like to state that despite the story being different, unique, and extraordinary in it's core it's about people, emotions, relationships and love. And from my experience that seems to be the important part in any story.
the capacity to love and be loved, the way feelings can fill you, how sometimes something ugly is not so ugly once you love it. the fact that sometimes even though you love so deeply, your feelings are not returned (no matter how hot, smart, kind or absoultely fantastic you are), or the burden of being loved by someone more then you love that someone back, because sometimes you just don't feel it. while another times it strikes like lightning, unexplained. Feelings are the same for everyone, and as a result different incidents may evoke the very same feelings inside us- two people would feel grieve, pain and sorrow over different things in life, yet the feeling shall unite them. also the many ocassions that guilt rises deep within, eating us alive.
In the end of the day it is a story about love, guilt, feelings, people and the will to live even when we think we lost it.
as such a story it is beautiful and well worth the read.
so I plead, i know, I rated it only 3 Stars, but these stars has such a deeper meaning, they are better then 5 Stars on this very rare occasion. I plead you, read this story...
This book intrigued me from its very first lines. The opening sequence has a dream like quality and is beautifully written, simply poetic in form. Death pervades the pages of this book, in one form or another, and yet Madeline’s journey seems to be an unconscious, and sometimes unwilling, struggle toward hope.
Provencher gambles with this book and its subject matter. Not only does she weave fantastical elements in with highly sensitive contemporary issues, she challenges the usual stereotypes and clichés that one normally finds in dark urban fantasy (or fiction in general.) And for the most part (a little on this further on,) I feel she succeeds.
There are moments in Mercy that are so poignant, so universal, that my breath was literally taken away. In my opinion, an underlying theme of this book is maternal guilt and the journey to absolution. It is not blatant, and some may disagree, but as a mother, it was so clear to me. I wept so many times, the images painted so vividly. They called to me on a visceral level. What mother does not have some kind of guilt? But at the same time, Provencher hits on other dark issues that would speak to a wide audience and perhaps it’s not just maternal guilt, but guilt in general that the characters strive to escape.
Negatives that I can touch on, but shouldn’t be a deal breaker, are the idea of gargoyles. It took me some time to suspend my disbelief, mostly because I was confused as to what was happening to Madeline –still, I’m not exactly sure why her transformation happened the way it did or why it was significant. As I read on, however, I soon forgot those issues.
Also, something that bothered me to a degree was the lack of setting. Most of the book is set in a central location or one kind of central location. I found myself wishing she would go somewhere else, or get away.
Over all, Provencher was incredibly brave to write this book. Her insight to the human state is profound and her ability to delineate our experiences in such a vibrant and insightful way deserves praise.
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