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Pedro Noronha pedronoronb2ea — It’s the summer of 1889, and Amelia van den Broek is new to Baltimore and eager to take in all the pleasures the city has to offer. But her gaiety is interrupted by disturbing, dreamlike visions she has only at sunset—visions that offer glimpses of the future. Soon, friends and strangers alike call on Amelia to hear her prophecies. However, a forbidden romance with Nathaniel, an artist, threatens the new life Amelia is building in Baltimore. This enigmatic young man is keeping secrets of his own—still, Amelia finds herself irrepressibly drawn to him. When one of her darkest visions comes to pass, Amelia’s world is thrown into chaos. And those around her begin to wonder if she’s not the seer of dark portents, but the cause. I don’t really know how I felt with this book, to tell the truth. It started off all good and well, your typical Victorian America, with some sort of mystery to the actions behind the protagonist. Then we moved scenes to Baltimore and meeting lots of new people etc, etc. And that’s all fine and dandy. Until the dinner party of page 50 or something (It was near the beginning of the book) and we meet the love interest. Seems okay. But here’s the thing, it’s one of those love at first sight things, not “he’s good looking and ill talk to him before I give my emotional opinion of him,” It’s a full on “OMG, he’s so mysterious and handsome and I love him completely and forever!!” and THEN after much “connecting” of eyes and sparks, they talk to each other. I usually don’t have a problem with this sort of love at first sight business, except usually they get to know each other before professing their undying love to each other. Okay so I might be being a little harsh with this, it didn’t ruin the whole book for me, but it did put me off for a while. Anyway, moving past this, Mitchell began to introduce the supernatural element of the story. The effects were done well, and explained fully and quickly picked up momentum, so much so that Amelia and her passé are entertaining every afternoon. The story quickly moves to spooky and dangerous when Amelia has a prophecy of one of her friends in a serious accident, and there is this constant anticipation of the disaster and mayhem lurking just around the corner and it started to get really good again. Except that it never comes. I’m not gonna give much more away, but we find out why nothing happens in the space of two lines and then the characters move on to the next tea party. At this point I think I was ready to give up; nothing was really coming from the prophecies except for Amelia finding out, through her visions, that unmarried ladies were ‘in a family way’ or someone would lose a glove etc. and then BOOM, everything blew up! Ok, not literally, but everything really hit the fan, and then ensues said anticipated mayhem and disaster – in a BIG way. Ok so besides my nit picking and winging about this book, I liked it. The characters were well developed; when I got over the ‘love at first sight’ annoyance I thought the relationship between the two lovers was well played out, as was the relationships between the group of girls. I liked the constant reference to the everyday lives of the characters, mending lace, cooking dinner etc, and the description of all their gowns. This did slow the story down, but it added another layer to story, identifying character quirks. The world drew you in, and the story itself ended beautifully (if a little weird, after everything that has happened). There is also a nice little twist in between all the blowing up of everything. So after all that, would I recommend it? Yes. I would. Unless of course you are easily annoyed by some of the things I mentioned above. I didn’t think this one would be part of a series, but it is, with the second instalment ‘The Springsweet’ being released sometime in 2012, although I have a feeling that it won’t involve the same characters (See young Adult2 Album), so The Vespertine could easily be read as a standalone. Rating 3.5/5

Abiy Solomon abiysolomo8105 — with the right attitude, a lisp can be pretty hilarious

Pim Albers pimalbers — I love it, but it was so sad.

Julian Cardenas juliancardenasvelezb — The eleventh in the Special Agent Pendergast series. I kid not. Not as much of a page-turner as I’m accustomed to from them and I’ve yet to decide how I feel about this unflappable, Holmesian protagonist being sloppy and careless and reckless. As is typical of their mid-series trilogies, this one ended on a cliff-hanger. I expected it but I’ve expected them before and felt more anxious for the next one than I do now. I’ll read it. I can’t not read it but I don’t much mind the year-long wait this time.