I honestly love the formatting of the book. These touches add a layer of enjoyment to the reading experience. I don’t want to spoil anything major, so I’ll leave it at that.Īnother cool thing about The Reader is that there are things in the book beyond the main text: fingerprint smudges, blacked out passages, text that fades to blankness as it goes across the page, hidden messages, etc. There is some Inception level stuff in there. The arcs seem self-contained and unrelated in the beginning, but they soon begin to converge in a series of surprising revelations and plot twists. In a way, The Reader is almost like four books in one since it interweaves four different narrative arcs.
The plot raced along, and not at the expense of the characters or worldbuilding. I am utterly enchanted by this concept.Ĥ37 pages is a fairly long book, but The Reader didn’t drag at all. Along with the affective power of experiencing a story, the act of reading gives characters literal power to change the physical world around them. And that magic is both literal as well as figurative. The great thing about this premise, however, is that it is a perfect opportunity to demonstrate the magic of reading through the perspective of a first-time reader. In our world, literacy rates were low in most places up until very recent history due to inaccessibility, but a world where almost nobody knows how to read, or even knows what reading is, or what a book is? That’s a dystopia to me. This book has a little bit of everything I love: kickass heroine, cute friendships, wholesome romance, intense fights, swashbuckling adventure, awesome powers, and book nerdery. Warning: Contains spoilers regarding romantic subplot developments! As she journeys on, she gains friends and allies, discovers the secrets of the book, and uncovers earth-shattering truths about her past.
The only thing she has besides her wits and weapons is a mysterious book that her enemies desperately want to get their hands on. Intent on revenge, she sets out to find this enemy and rescue her aunt.
Her father has been murdered and her aunt has been kidnapped by a mysterious foe.
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