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Cuckoo Song
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bookshelves: young-adult, ebook, historical-fiction, sff, 2015, gender, abuse, interwar, family, recommended
Sep 22, 2015
bookshelves: young-adult, ebook, historical-fiction, sff, 2015, gender, abuse, interwar, family, recommended
Absolutely gorgeous dark fairy tale about free will, and family, and girlhood, and monsterhood, and the monstrousness of girlhood. And that's just one level; the one beneath it is a story about the trauma of World War I and modernity, and the changing roles of gender and the family! All the most interesting stuff! A fantastic read.
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“I don’t know. How can you know? I…I’m a monster. When I’m hungry, I might do anything."
"Oh no, of course I couldn’t possibly understand you." Violet’s shadowed face seemed to be wearing a grim and serious smile. "I know, you woke up one day and found out that you couldn’t be the person you remembered being, the little girl everybody expected you to be. You just weren’t her any more, and there was nothing you could do about it. So your family decided you were a monster and turned on you." Violet sighed, staring out into the darkness.
"Believe me, I do understand that. And let me tell you - from one monster to another - that just because somebody tells you you’re a monster, it doesn’t mean you are.
"just now you told me what you did because you want me to stop you from eating Pen. If you were a real monster, you wouldn’t have done that, would you?"
Trista’s eyes stung, and she wiped strands of cobweb away with her sleeve.
"Idiot," added Violet, for good measure.”
― Cuckoo Song
"Oh no, of course I couldn’t possibly understand you." Violet’s shadowed face seemed to be wearing a grim and serious smile. "I know, you woke up one day and found out that you couldn’t be the person you remembered being, the little girl everybody expected you to be. You just weren’t her any more, and there was nothing you could do about it. So your family decided you were a monster and turned on you." Violet sighed, staring out into the darkness.
"Believe me, I do understand that. And let me tell you - from one monster to another - that just because somebody tells you you’re a monster, it doesn’t mean you are.
"just now you told me what you did because you want me to stop you from eating Pen. If you were a real monster, you wouldn’t have done that, would you?"
Trista’s eyes stung, and she wiped strands of cobweb away with her sleeve.
"Idiot," added Violet, for good measure.”
― Cuckoo Song
Reading Progress
September 22, 2015
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Started Reading
September 22, 2015
– Shelved
October 6, 2015
– Shelved as:
to-read
October 28, 2015
– Shelved as:
quit
October 28, 2015
– Shelved as:
young-adult
October 28, 2015
– Shelved as:
ebook
October 30, 2015
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36.0%
October 30, 2015
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36.0%
October 31, 2015
– Shelved as:
historical-fiction
October 31, 2015
– Shelved as:
sff
November 2, 2015
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76.0%
November 3, 2015
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Finished Reading
November 6, 2015
– Shelved as:
2015
November 21, 2016
– Shelved as:
gender
November 22, 2016
– Shelved as:
abuse
November 22, 2016
– Shelved as:
interwar
November 22, 2016
– Shelved as:
family
June 22, 2018
– Shelved as:
recommended
