Sunday, June 30, 2013

The Silver Bowl

Before I start my review I want to apologize to all my readers.This year you all have been really good to me but I repay it with my laziness.I promised to write a japanese version of every post but until now I only managed to complete one.Instead of reviewing three books every month I only reviewed one or two books,I wondered on why did it turned out like this and a couple of days ago I discovered my answer.I was talking with my brother about a certain book that he wanted to buy,since I was going to a book store I offerred to buy it for him and he declined saying thath he wanted to buy the book in person.I said that I understand his feeling and recalled some memories a couple years back when was just a teenager searching for a book to read and relishing to find a book with a beautiful cover,wondering what story lies within the book.I immadiately realized that all this time I had lost my passion on reading books.I still loved reading book but recently I only read it to pass time or for the sake of this blog I used to read as a hobby I could spend hours on a book devouring each words but now I only spend an hour on a real book.
I promise you that from starting next month I'm going to at least write two book review every month unless I'm terribly busy that is.I don't think that I'm going to continue on my Japanese transalation unless you really want me to and yes I'm going to post a chapter every month.By the way I had some problem editing the next chapter for my story so it's going to take a couple days before I could post.

With that cleared I can begin my review.Last week read a book called The Silver Bowl.,it was written by Diane Stanley.I thought that it was an old book so I decided to read it,feeling tired of all the unoriginal teen fiction dominating shelves.I was in quite a shock to learn that it was published in 2011.

The High and Low
.The book has a great setting to it.
.The characters aare memorable and likable.
.I really liked the ending.

.To me the book didn't answer all my question.
.When the book reached the ending it felt a little bit rushed.

Quick Summary
Molly was born in a large poor famiy so her cruel father had to send them away by sending them to faraway place to work.Molly had some visions and this made her father worried that she was crazy like his wife was he decided to send her to the castle to work as a servant but before that her mother explained to her that she must never let anyone kow of her powers ad gace her a necklace saying that it would protect her.She quickly befriended the stable boy Tobias and the sneak to see the royal family directly there she heard a conversation between prince Alaric and her mother.Alaric noticed her and riducled her for not knowing her place.Years passed and she is promoted to the polisher of the silver.........That's all I'm going to write.

The conclusion
Picking up this book was like finding a buried treasure that contained several aincents scroll.I cannot say that the book was perfect but it is simply a joy with essence of old book surrounding it.The book had the feelig of it was witten a couple of decades ago.The book has a great setting,dark and adventurous at the sametime.The characters were memorable and likable enought to stand out and I have to say while I hated how to book was rushed I really loved the ending.It made me realize about my passion on reading novels.
The biggest complain I had was that I was stil terribly confused on some certain things,those thing probably could have been explained if the book had an additional fifty pages.The book is a gem for anyone who is craving for a throwback fantasy where the story is the main course not the appetizer.

Rating: 8 out of 10