#gallant v.e. schwab

[grogv]

books i’ve read ❥ gallant / v.e. schwab

❝ these dreams will be the death of me. ❞

[king-lesbian]

matthew prior from gallant by v.e. schwab! i finished this book today, it was really good <3 … i tried to make a background for the first time but gave up halfway through lol then did one that was just me playing around w color blocks or whatever.

[purplebass]

2024 books - gallant by v.e. schwab

All her life, she wanted a house and a garden and a room of her own. But tucked inside that want was something else: a family. Parents who smothered her with love. Siblings who teased because they cared. Grandparents, aunts and uncles, nieces and nephews—in her mind a family was a sprawling thing, an orchard full of roots and branches.

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[heyrosiebee]

24 AUG '24—

the book café owner now knows me well enough to recommend me books i might actually like.

more of mine. insta. notion journal.

[thepeculiarbird]

This book needs more fanarts I swear

[andreai04]

“She wishes she had something to hold. A hand. Or a knife.”

[sensiblething]

“How to exist in a world that does not want you. How to be a ghost in someone else’s home.”

-Gallant by V.E Schwab

[quotingmyjourneys]

“To those who go looking for doors, are brave enough to open the ones they find, and sometimes bold enough to make their own.”

— Gallant (V. E. Schwab), pub. 2022, USA

[thelastofthebookworms]

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[jonnyconstantine]

Finished Gallant by V.E Schwab

[bookcoversonly]

Title: Gallant | Author: V.E. Schwab | Publisher: Greenwillow Books (2022)

[horsesarecreatures]

Book review: Gallant by V.E. Schwab

Not a bad book, but I didn't get as into it as I did with The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue. It was characterized as a young adult book, but to me it seems more appropriate for the middle school demographic. It was just a lot shorter and less detailed.

It’s about a girl named Olivia Prior who is left at a place called Merilance School for Girls as a baby with nothing but her mother’s diary. It is unknown whether the mother is dead, abandoned her, or was forced to give her up. The diary is full of the strange ramblings and illustrations of someone who has gone off the deep end. She grows up there without making any friends or substantial connections. It is grim, strict place, and Olivia cannot speak. One day the head matron calls Olivia into her office, and tells her she must leave. The matron had received a letter from an uncle Olivia never knew about, saying that he’s been searching for her for years and wants her to come to his house Gallant at once.

A car drives Olivia hours away to Gallant, which is way beyond the city, on the edge of wilderness. It is dusk when she arrives. The house is grand, old, and slightly decaying. Two servants let her in, but they do not know who she is. She shows them the letter from her uncle, but it turns out he is dead, and no one knew about her or that he was looking for her. Olivia’s cousin Mathew, the master of the house, walks in. Angry, he declares that he is the only Prior left, that his father would never have searched for her, and that she must leave. Olivia is heartbroken and vows that if she does have to leave, she will not return to Merrilance. The servants remember her mother, however, and want Olivia to stay. 

Olivia stays at the house for the next several days. Everyone seems to fear the dark, and closes all windows and shutters in the house at night. There is a large rose garden outside with a crumbling wall with a door beyond it. It is beautiful, but there is something strange about it. First, there are pale weeds with sharp thorns that seems to spring up everywhere, no matter how much Mathew tends to them. Second, there are no animals or wildlife anywhere on the property, which is unexpected because of the rural location. Third, the wall has no shadow.

Olivia is intrigued by Gallant and wants to stay. However, she starts having vivid and sometimes terrifying dreams, even though she has never dreamed before. Her cousin Mathew is haunted by dreams as well. Olivia finds another journal of her mother’s, and begins to learn that all the Priors connected with Gallant have gone insane. Yet she is not deterred, and one day she decides to go beyond the wall. Danger follows.

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I liked The Secret Garden vibes that this book had, and the mystery was intriguing enough to keep me reading. But as I said above, it feels more like a book for a middle schooler, and I found the lack of details towards the end a little unsatisfying, especially because the beginning had a good build-up. 

[botan-kiri]

any tips for nerospicy people on how to start reading a book you want to read but can't?

I want to read Gallant by V.E Schwab (no spoilers please) but i haven't started and its hard for me to read physical books

[christophernolan]

If you want to read an incredibly tragic story that will shatter your heart, The Invisible life of Addie LaRue is for you.

[novellabooks]

Book Review for Gallant by V.E. Schwab

Hello! I took a little bit of a hiatus due to the holidays and other stuff, but now I am back. This post is going to be about the book Gallant by V.E. Schwab. After i had read what the book was about, I was really interested in it and once I picked it up I couldn’t put it down.

This is a fantasy/horror/paranormal novel. It’s about a girl named Olivia Prior, who had lived most of her life at Merilance School for girls, and the only thing she has from any of her family is a journal that was her mother’s.  She gets a letter from a place called Gallant telling her to come home. Now there are a couple of issues with the letter, 1. Gallant is the place that her mother wrote in her journal to never go to and 2. No one at Gallant sent that letter. She goes to Gallant and discovers there is a secret about the place, mainly involving the wall in the garden. There is another Gallant, but a shadow version, with a Master of the House and he will do anything to get out.

This was definitely a book I could not put down. I know the saying goes “don’t judge a book by it cover”, but with this book I really loved how the cover art was done, and then read the back and was like “this sounds really good I’m going to read it.” I’m really glad I did. I will say some parts were a bit slow, but once I got into it, I wanted to know what happened next.