#RoseBlood by A.G. Howard

[sacredbeauty]

"The Phantom is not famous for forgiveness." -Roseblood By A.G. Howard

[razreads]

Inspiration is a fickle and vicious mistress.

A.G. Howard, RoseBlood

[letradodeluz]

—Te conozco —le digo, en tono soñador—. Nunca te había visto la cara en los recuerdos ni las visiones, pero, de algún modo, te conozco. Haces que me sienta como en casa.

RoseBlood, A.G. Howard

[aj-allen97]

I fell in love with A.G Howard’s Splintered series, the way she was able to breath new life into a classics such as Alice in Wonderland while still honoring the source material was just beautifully done.

With that in mind I was stoked for her next book, Roseblood - a Phantom of the Opera inspired novel.

My thoughts? What the heck A.G Howard??? How were you able to spin and craft such a creative trilogy like The Splintered series, but then turn around and give us this nonsense???

Also why is it written is red ink? Is supposed to be “blood”?

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RoseBlood #OutOfContext

[jewalsgem]

Roseblood Review

Another summary (I think my next few might just be summaries since my memory of the older books are foggy, so is my brain these last few days). Also, the text in this book is red and fucks with your vision and is a Phantom of the Opera retelling. And the chapter has titles and quotes (I love those, okay?)

“Rune Germain, whose voice has been compared to that of an angel, has a mysterious affliction linked to her talent that leaves her sick and drained at the end of each performance. Convinced that creative direction will cure her, Rune’s mother ships her off to a French boarding school for the arts at a renovated opera house, rumored to have ties to The Phantom of the Opera. Shortly after arriving at the RoseBlood conservatory, Rune starts to believe something otherworldly is indeed afoot. The masked boy she’s seen frequenting the graveyard beside the opera house doesn’t have any classes at the school, and vanishes almost as quickly as he appears. When Rune begins to develop a secret friendship with the elusive Thorn, who dresses in clothing straight out of the nineteenth century, she realizes that with his musical guidance she feels cured. Thorn may be falling for Rune, but the Phantom haunting RoseBlood wants her for a very specific and dangerous purpose. As friendship deepens to romance, Thorn is faced with an impossible choice: lead Rune to her destruction, or save her and face the wrath of the Phantom, the only father he’s ever known.”

8/10 (Don’t like the colour of the font too much. Great book though. Confusing with the song vampire thing though.)

[i-breathe-therefore-i-read]

Shelf-Confidence October BPC Day 9: Boarding School

[geschichten-welt]

Bücher: Roseblood

Rune Germain, whose voice has been compared to that of an angel, has a mysterious affliction linked to her talent that leaves her sick and drained at the end of each performance. Convinced that creative direction will cure her, Rune’s mother ships her off to a French boarding school for the arts at a renovated opera house, rumored to have ties to The Phantom of the Opera.

Shortly after arriving at the RoseBlood conservatory, Rune starts to believe something otherworldly is indeed afoot. The masked boy she’s seen frequenting the graveyard beside the opera house doesn’t have any classes at the school, and vanishes almost as quickly as he appears. When Rune begins to develop a secret friendship with the elusive Thorn, who dresses in clothing straight out of the nineteenth century, she realizes that with his musical guidance she feels cured. Thorn may be falling for Rune, but the Phantom haunting RoseBlood wants her for a very specific and dangerous purpose.

As friendship deepens to romance, Thorn is faced with an impossible choice: lead Rune to her destruction, or save her and face the wrath of the Phantom, the only father he’s ever known.

Quelle: Buchklappentext

Dieses Buch ist von der Autorin von Dark Wonderland und da mir diese Reihe so sehr gefallen hat, wollte ich noch mehr Werke der Autorin ausprobieren.

Die Geschichte war gut zu lesen und die Charaktere sowie die Mythologie dahinter waren interessant. Das Thema Phantom der Oper wird nicht oft benutzt, zumindest könnte ich kein weiteres Buch nennen, dass sich diesem Thema widmet.

Leider gab es auch viele kleine Dinge, die mich gestört haben. Teilweise war die Sprache etwas sehr malerisch und außergewöhnlich zu sein. Manchmal passte es ganz gut zur Stimmung des Themas, aber ich persönlich fand es etwas nervig zu lesen.

Die Idee mit dem Gesang, durch den sich die Kreaturen ernähren fand ich super. So etwas liest man nicht oft. Schade fand ich es dann aber, dass man es Psychich Vampire genannt hat. Das Thema Vampire ist inzwischen so oft überall vertreten, dass es mich langweilt. Diese Wesen hätten einen anderen Namen gebraucht, vielleicht eine Art Sirene, oder vielleicht auch gar keinen Namen, als eine neue Art, die keinen Namen bekommen hat. Alles andere wäre besser gewesen.

Ich mochte sowohl Rune als auch Thorn. Die Liebesgeschichte zwischen den Beiden war schön. Allerdings war sie an einigen Stellen sehr theatralisch, zu übertrieben.

Das Ende der Geschichte war auch noch einmal sehr schön und hatte ein passendes Happy End, obwohl ich gerne die Endszene zwischen Thorn und seinem Vater gelesen hätte. Diese wird uns leider vorenthalten, weil wir aus Runes Persepktive lesen. Stattdessen erfahren wir nur das Ergebnis. Da gerade diese Beziehung wichtig für die Story ist, war es enttäuschend, dass man den wichtigsten Teil nicht lesen konnte.

Alles in allem war die Geschichte sehr schön mit kleinen Mackeln hier und da.

Fazit: Empfehlenswert

Punkte: 3.5 von 5 Punkten

Band: Einzelnband

[toriasimmons]

the buckwild phantom of the opera sequel from your nightmares

As long-term aficionados of The Phantom of the Opera in its many forms, when we encountered RoseBlood by A.G. Howard, a young adult novel clearly inspired by Gaston Leroux’s novel (see the cover above), we needed to experience this story for ourselves. To quote Dhar Mann, what happens next will shock you.

We will give a summary of RoseBlood first, before expounding upon its many qualities.

Rune Germain, a Texan teenage girl with a peculiar aptitude for opera, is invited to a prestigious French conservatory called RoseBlood. She hopes to learn how to control her gift but is haunted by tragedies from her past…and a mysterious boy wearing a mask.

You may be thinking that this sounds like a bog-standard retelling of The Phantom of the Opera. You would be incorrect. This way madness lies.

Let’s elaborate.

Full text here.

(content warnings: racism including discussion of the g-slur, ableism, pretty much every -ism there is, and discussion of CSA and stillbirth)

[razreads]

Pretty faces were no more than masks worn to justify laziness and intellectual monotony.

A.G. Howard, RoseBlood

[letradodeluz]

Pero, aun así, cuando se conocieron, ella no estaba preparada para el tipo de amor desinteresado y profundo que él necesitaba.

RoseBlood, A.G. Howard

[insanesammi]

There are few authors that I find I can forever love and immerse myself completely into their novels, regardless of what they write.

I used to read all day, every day. This was when I had nothing else to do, but I don't regret a single moment. I was also banned from all electronics then, but who's keeping track...

Anyway, here are the authors I devour like no other (in order of me discovering them):

Julie Kagawa: I started reading her books after browsing the Harlequin Teen website and finding the cover and blurb about the Iron King to be fascinating. I quickly obtained that book, read every page, then wanted more. Then I read every book in the series, between also reading the Twilight series and then The Lunar Chronicles while I waited for the rest of the books to be released. (discovered JK in 6th grade) I started reading any other book by JK later and quickly made my way through as many of her books as I could get my hands on. I haven't read everything she's written yet but I'm working on it.

Marissa Meyer: after one of my friends held a copy of Winter, the fourth book in the Lunar Chronicles, and being very in love with the cover, I quickly borrowed the copy of Cinder, the first book, from my middle school library. I fell in love and quickly read the rest of the series. Then anything else MM has written since has either been read or is in my TBR pile. Also the Renegades series is top-notch as well and I'm halfway through the second book in that series.

A.G. Howard: ( @aghowardwrites ) I found a copy of her book, Splintered, in the shelves of my Half Price Books store's YA section. Knowing nothing about the book (because I almost never read the backs of books before obtaining them) other than it had a beautiful cover and the words inside were purple, which I had never seen before outside of a children's book, I bought it, read it, read the rest of the series, and then tried to find more books by Howard. Most recently I finished Roseblood and it is so good. Any modern spin on a fairy tale or well known timeless classic grabs my attention, especially if it is written by Howard. (Freshman year of high school)

Erin Morgenstern: although I first picked up The Night Circus when I was in sixth grade, I didn't finish this book until my freshman year of high school. It had been above my reading level. Once I picked it back up, I couldn't put it down, and then it became one of my absolute top favorite books of all time. She has only written two books, so I'm trying to savor every page of the Starless Sea slowly so I can live in that world for longer.

Ernest Cline: the nerdy author of Ready Player One sucked me into his sci-fi fantasy world so absolutely I almost finished that book in a sitting. I couldn't get enough of his work, and bought Armada as soon as I had the money, since I was a broke teenager and had no job, and devoured that quickly as well. I am currently reading Ready Player Two... and I'm trying not to read it too quickly so I only read a quarter of it in my first sitting upon opening the book. I'm not entirely sure if I found his book freshman or sophomore year of high school, all I know is that the movie version of Ready Player One (which I haven't seen) was in early stages of production at the time.

Thanks for coming to my Ted talk. I'm now unfortunately an adult and have to do adult things like have a job and attend college, so my reading time is somewhat limited.

[emmafreakecreations]

I have been thinking about this a lot lately. When I initially read acomaf and acowar I just didn't like Freysand. Their interactions were not fun and witty to me they were childish and stupid, especially after reading the stalking jack the ripper series which has really clever and witty dialogue. (edit: the dialogue in stalking jack the ripper series is also not always sexual in nature like the banter between Feyre and Rhys) But now that it has been months since I initially read it, I have put my finger on it. This isn't going to be about the blatant abuse and manipulation that Rhy's has done, its more about dynamics (not sure if that's the right word). Although his SA of Feyre in acotar is one of the reasons I didn't like them when I initially read.

Th first is their age gap, which was very noticeable to me a person who despite it's many, many flaws enjoys The Vampire Diaries. It honestly just feels gross and creepy especially once we get into the whole soul mate thing and how Rhys could feel her presence when she was born and that they were mentally communicating WHEN SHE WAS A TEENAGER.

Now I'm not one for soulmate plots but this one really creeped me out. But I have read a book with a soul mate plot and I thought it was well written and still gave agency to the ppl involved. The book is Roseblood by A.G. Howard and is a retelling-ish of Phantom of the Opera. The MC Thorn and Rune are about the same age-Thorn might be a year older than Rune. How the soulmate thing works is that their souls are literally two halves of the same soul that was split before their birth. Sometimes souls can be born at very different times and it's not even guaranteed that in their life time ppl will meet their soulmates. And sometimes when they do meet it doesn't always go well and they don't become a couple either bc they didn't meet at the right time. There is a binding ritual (the ritual has nothing to do with s3x) that when preformed once the soulmates die their souls will come together after death. There is a mental connection between them and Thorn unknowingly uses it when they are both children to save Rune from death. They don't figure this out until later when they meet. After meeting they have dreams about the other that tells them each other's past. After only knowing each other for about 2 months they have bonding scene that leads to making out but they stop there bc they are like, we are moving too fast, we have only known each other for 2 months ect. ect. And these are teenagers who have shown way more maturity than Rhys and Feyre in this scene. Rhys and Feyre have only been hanging out for a few months and decide quickly to mate, and one of them is hundreds of years old.

Now there is plenty of books that have hundred year age gaps with teenagers but there is a series where to me it works with the couples bc EVERYONE is an adult- not barely legal- but adults. That is The Blood Wine Sequence. The MC Charlotte and Karl have a big age gap- Karl is 120 years older or so than Charlotte, but Charlotte is in her late 20s. Karl and Charlotte also have never met each other previously at ALL, they just meet for the first time in the first book.

idk Feysand has always made me uncomfortable and these are the initial reasons why I found it uncomfortable especially since I have read other books with similar dynamics but it wasn't creepy bc either they are around the same age or if they did have a big age gap they meet when the youngest person is well into adulthood. (We are ignoring The Vampire Diaries bc that's a mess in itself)

[chelseauniverse237-blog]

Myrtle reads RoseBlood "I've got a book of matches in my pocket, Fiona, and I'm just dying to light this fire."-Myrtle Snow

[i-breathe-therefore-i-read]

@booksforthoughts January BPC Day 19: Poor Unfortunate Souls

[booknerdzstuff]

What To Read Next Based On Your Zodiac Sign

Aries: Cruel Beauty by Rosamund Hobbs

Taurus: The Duke and I By Julia Quinn (E: Since everyone’s been obsessed with Bridgerton recently.)

Gemini: The Goddess Test by Aimee Carter (E: Don’t judge a book by its summary)

Cancer: Crash By Lisa McMann

Leo: Love Scene, Take Two by Alex Evansley

Virgo: The Thousand Names by Django Wexler (S: I LOVE THIS BOOK AND I AM A GAY VIRGO)

Libra: Red, White, and Royal Blue by Casey Mcquiston  (S:I’ve been WAITING for this one) (E: She recommended it three times before I finally caved.)

Scorpio: RoseBlood by A.G. Howard (E: Hauntingly beautiful)

Sagittarius: Proxy by Alex London (E: Go unapologetic LGBTQ+ representation) 

Capricorn: Six of Crows by Leigh Bardugo (E: In honor of the upcoming Shadow and Bone coming on Netflix. Kaz is totally a capricorn and so am I.)

Aquarius: Scythe by Neal Schusterman (S: YOU HAVE TO READ THE SECOND ONE THE ENDING IS REALLY COOL) 

Pisces: The Raven Boys by Maggie Stiefvater (S: I really liked this series ;-;)

S: I haven’t read like half of these but now I have a good tbr list. Also I’m not great at suggesting so thank you to E for being my very best bud <3

E: You’re very welcome S

E: I have read all of them except for The Thousand Names. 

S: which you should read because yes

E: I’ll get there...eventually