#excuse me while I read this book now under the pretence that Emily is not fully human

[roses-red-and-pink]

she’s rude because she’s just like/is the fae she sees

Ooooh ok just read the first chapter of Emily of new moon and I am so excited because I remember very little of the story so it will be mostly “new” to me.

Things that stood out:

Emily as an “otherworldly creature”. Her elfish ears, her ability to see “the flash”, her imagination is so vivid and real. Less like Anne in which you feel you are watching a child with a great imagination full of wonderful fanciful things. Emily feels more like you are watching a child who can actually see these creatures. And the creatures are not always good, per say. They are the fair folk, the tricksters, the old gods. It also gives the sense, unlike with Anne, that the wind woman exists, but Emily is one of the few privileged to actually know her.

Note: I will probably be comparing Emily to Anne a lot. I think it’s natural with Anne being the best known and the most loved and very similar in many ways, but different in others

Emily and her father seem close, but I think he dies in like the next chapter. Interesting to see how Emily takes that.

The sudden drop back to reality in the end of the chapter was such a good tonal shift. Going back to Emily being otherworldly, it’s like she wants to exist in this fairyland. That’s where she belongs, but she keeps getting dragged back to the real world.

Reminder of why I don’t really love Emily. She’s rather abrasive. She says what she thinks and is pretty rude about it. Idk I feel like if I met her irl I would not like her.