Rosebood
Author: A. G. Howard
Genre: Retelling, Romance
Original publication date: January 2017
Book description: In this modern day spin on Leroux’s gothic tale of unrequited love turned to madness, seventeen-year-old Rune Germain has a mysterious affliction linked to her operatic talent, and a horrifying mistake she’s trying to hide. Hoping creative direction will help her, Rune’s mother sends her to a French arts conservatory for her senior year, located in an opera house rumored to have ties to The Phantom of the Opera.
At RoseBlood, Rune secretly befriends the masked Thorn—an elusive violinist who not only guides her musical transformation through dreams that seem more real than reality itself, but somehow knows who she is behind her own masks. As the two discover an otherworldly connection and a soul-deep romance blossoms, Thorn’s dark agenda comes to light and he’s forced to make a deadly choice: lead Rune to her destruction, or face the wrath of the phantom who has haunted the opera house for a century, and is the only father he’s ever known.
Thoughts:
This has a very interesting story.
I do not know the original story other than having seen the musical movie a while back. I love the singing, the drama, and yet it took me a long while to get to this book. I was apprehensive I really expected this was not going to be to my liking.
A big surprise.
I loved it. We have Rune a girl who wants to stop the music inside her as she despises her talent and is being eaten alive with burning self-hate due to feeling guilty of being responsible for the death of someone she really cares about.
She is feeling despised by her family, she can't trust people and finds it difficult to make new friends. But after only a few days in France, everything starts to change. We have a paranormal/supernatural element come up, initially, you do not know how is it possible. Yet it is very well done, you just need to know the answer.
We obviously have an insta-love but it is done in a way that it captures you. Also, we have the typical lack of communication thrown in, but the drama created the kind of makes sense with their circumstances.
It does have a very convenient ending, yet how it was done I loved it. I managed to finish this extremely fast after I got into the story, I had issues getting into the story, it took me 3 days to get through the first 100 pages yet after I picked it up that fourth day, in a single day I finished the rest of the story!
This book was used for the Draw TBR game I just began last month for the prompt Retelling.
Genre: Retelling, Romance
Original publication date: January 2017
Book description: In this modern day spin on Leroux’s gothic tale of unrequited love turned to madness, seventeen-year-old Rune Germain has a mysterious affliction linked to her operatic talent, and a horrifying mistake she’s trying to hide. Hoping creative direction will help her, Rune’s mother sends her to a French arts conservatory for her senior year, located in an opera house rumored to have ties to The Phantom of the Opera.
At RoseBlood, Rune secretly befriends the masked Thorn—an elusive violinist who not only guides her musical transformation through dreams that seem more real than reality itself, but somehow knows who she is behind her own masks. As the two discover an otherworldly connection and a soul-deep romance blossoms, Thorn’s dark agenda comes to light and he’s forced to make a deadly choice: lead Rune to her destruction, or face the wrath of the phantom who has haunted the opera house for a century, and is the only father he’s ever known.
Thoughts:
This has a very interesting story.
I do not know the original story other than having seen the musical movie a while back. I love the singing, the drama, and yet it took me a long while to get to this book. I was apprehensive I really expected this was not going to be to my liking.
A big surprise.
I loved it. We have Rune a girl who wants to stop the music inside her as she despises her talent and is being eaten alive with burning self-hate due to feeling guilty of being responsible for the death of someone she really cares about.
She is feeling despised by her family, she can't trust people and finds it difficult to make new friends. But after only a few days in France, everything starts to change. We have a paranormal/supernatural element come up, initially, you do not know how is it possible. Yet it is very well done, you just need to know the answer.
We obviously have an insta-love but it is done in a way that it captures you. Also, we have the typical lack of communication thrown in, but the drama created the kind of makes sense with their circumstances.
It does have a very convenient ending, yet how it was done I loved it. I managed to finish this extremely fast after I got into the story, I had issues getting into the story, it took me 3 days to get through the first 100 pages yet after I picked it up that fourth day, in a single day I finished the rest of the story!
This book was used for the Draw TBR game I just began last month for the prompt Retelling.
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