The Binding

Bridget Collins has written a beautifully imagined piece of fantasy historical fiction, a sumptuous love story, of poor farmer s son, Emmet Farmer, and the wealthy, privileged Lucian Darnay, doomed to be star crossed lovers In this world, books are not what we would recognise them to be, books are for all those things that people feel destroyed by and cannot live with in their lives They are extraordinary hand crafted, leather bound repositories of actual peoples memories, their secrets, grief B [...]

We ve been called witches since the beginning of time Word cunning, they used to call it of a piece with invoking demons We were burned for it too The Crusade wasn t new, we ve always been scapegoats Well, knowledge is always a kind of magic, I suppose Emmett Farmer is a young man with issues He used to think that he would inherit his family s farm It was the life he was used to and the road he expected to follow to, and beyond, the horizon But he has not been himself lately His abiliti We ve be [...]

This is a difficult one to review I think I expected this book to be fantasy than it currently is It started very slow for my liking, and I think if it wasn t all the PR campaign and the interest that s built on Social media, if this was a book I ve myself picked, I d probably give up around 20% But I continued reading because I was really intrigued, also the reviews are really good for this book Sadly I will not join the fan base, this time I confess, I stopped proper reading at 40% t This is a [...]

2.5 stars I had high hopes for this book, really loved the premise, but I think it s one of those cases that it delivered something else than promised The idea sounded very original people s bad memories binded in a book, so that they don t remember them any It sounded like it has fantasy elements, some magic with interesting characters The book is divided in 3 parts I loved the first part, but things went into a completely different direction starting from the second part The rest of 2.5 stars [...]

I m starting to become a little disillusioned with upcoming releases by unknown or new to me authors THE BINDING has an excellent marketing campaign, a gorgeous cover, and was a book I wanted to get into my hands, desperately, due to a inaccurate comparison to a book I love However, for this reader, the insides don t match the outsides.This book has three parts to it The first act is slow, plodding, and mired in the familiar other characters know things but cannot tell the protagonist for I m st [...]

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NO SPOILERS In this surprisingly emotional fantasy literary fiction blend, books are sordid things, definitely not read, and locked away in vaults at reputable companies with names such as Lyon Sons Each book in this world contains the wiped memories, most often horrible, of one person Destroy that book by fire, and restore the horrible memory Or, in rarer instances, destroy that book and restore destroyed lives On the simplest level, The Binding is about same age characters Emmet NO SPOI [...]