SUPERNOVA DISCOVERY – SOMBER, POETIC DYSTOPIAN – “GREEN ANGEL”

February 26, 2022 Mar

Welcome to another “SUPERNOVA” discovery where I tell you about the brightest stars I recently discovered in the BOOKIVERSE, like “Green Angel“!

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The startling, universally acclaimed breakthrough YA novel from master bestselling author Alice Hoffman, now in paperback. Left on her own when her family dies in a terrible disaster, fifteen-year-old Green is haunted by loss and by the past. Struggling to survive physically and emotionally in a place where nothing seems to grow and ashes are everywhere, Green retreats into the ruined realm of her garden. But in destroying her feelings, she also begins to destroy herself, erasing the girl she’d once been as she inks darkness into her skin. It is only through a series of mysterious encounters that Green can relearn the lessons of love and begin to heal enough to tell her story. (see more)

5 starts

Oh, this was an extremally exquisite work of art.

If you like somber, dreamy and lyrical dystopian stories like The Road or Piranesi, you’d probably love this book!

Oh, this was an extremally exquisite work of art.

If you like literary fiction, character-centered, philosophical somber, dreamy and lyrical dystopian stories like The Road or Piranesi, you’d probably love this book!

This is a tale of introspection, death, and rebirth; about what happens when your outer world, as you knew it, is over and all is left is your inner world; when everything your treasured disappears and and all is left is which you have always overlooked. You are injured, starving and alone, all your loved ones are gone and just a handful of people are left: your enemies, the neighbor you didn’t used to talk to and gang of looters. What do you do?

Hoffman’s timeless and poetic voice makes this a one of a kind young adult dystopian. The plot moves slow and there is almost no dialogues in this work of literary fiction, but there is so much wonderful exploration, content and theme carried through beautiful symbolism!

Hoffman brings to life this otherworldly imagery, characters and situations straight from the real of dreams and delivers them with such enthralling storytelling!

And to make this experience even better, the illustrations! So ethereal and whimsical!

This is the perfect quick read for a summer night, by starlight.