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The Circus Rose
The Circus Rose | Betsy Cornwell
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A queer retelling of “Snow White and Rose Red” in which teenage twins battle evil religious extremists to save their loves and their circus family. Twins Rosie and Ivory have grown up at their ringmaster mother's knee, and after years on the road, they're returning to Port End, the closest place to home they know.
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I leaned back into Tam, letting myself feel the strength and the softness in fer arms as fe held me. I closed my eyes and whispered:
“We are what‘s real.”
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BookwormAHN 💜 13mo
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Pickpick

This was a cute quick read. It was a very fun read. I love the idea of fae magic and the wonders of a circus. I would recommend reading this if you‘re looking for a quick read for the weekend. 🎪⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
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hissingpotatoes
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2/5⭐ This book said a lot of good things about love, family, identity, & religious hypocrisy.

For me, the execution was subpar. Rosie's poems added nothing, bloating and slowing the book. Ivory's internalizations were more juvenile (& expositional) than her actions & age warranted. Fairytale elements were spattered in without any kind of depth or coherency. The author didn't take the poetic prose style far enough to succeed.

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hissingpotatoes
The Circus Rose | Betsy Cornwell
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If you study something for one year, all you find out is how many things you don't know.

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hissingpotatoes
The Circus Rose | Betsy Cornwell
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The princess shows
me a story. A tale,
like something out of time,

so long ago
it might be yet to come.

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hissingpotatoes
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Women perform to make men hungry.
Men watch to eat.

The dancing boys flip that deep-down knowledge neatly on its head in their first moment of performance. [...]

And the women, even the married ones, are too often like I was that hot dusty day when I first saw the boys leave the tent—they're waking up for the first time to the fact that, their whole lives through, they've been starving.

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hissingpotatoes
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And no memory is ever quite as you left it, no matter how carefully you lay it away.

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Nitpickyabouttrains
The Circus Rose | Betsy Cornwell
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A retelling of rose red and Snow White. But with a magic bear and a circus.

jmtrivera Put this on my “Want to Borrow“ list! 😄 5y
Nitpickyabouttrains @jmtrivera I‘ll make a pile for you 5y
jmtrivera @Nitpickyabouttrains YESSSS 📚 📚 📚 5y
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