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Roseheadby Ksenia Anske is overflowingly full of twists and turns absolutely love the characters Ksenia brings her stories so Colourfully to life Brilliantly grabs You Happily pulls You into a Thrilling terrifying Journey Ahead once You start Reading You can t put it downDevouring Rosehead before she Devours You is a Must Ksenia Anske Where do I begin with my love for this book This was my first introduction to Ksenia Anske s writing and I have to say I am a fan It s a quirky morbid humorous modern fantasy that feels attune to a Tim Burton film and it was such a delight to read. Rosehead book There is something so delectable about the writing itself It doesn t feel like a cheap novel produced for mass market audiences it feels like literature like something crafted with love and care And those are the types of books I love most 3At first glance this may seem like a kid s book due to the fact that the main character is only twelve However I think the subtleties of the story are best appreciated by adults Plus it may not be entirely appropriate for kids which I ll get to later Here s the rundownWHAT I LIKED The characters Lilith especially She was so easy to identify with and root for I ached for her when no one would listen to her or see her and I admired her bravery Also I loved the dynamics of 1 Eloquent 12 year old girl 2 Talking dog 3 Mute 14 year old boy Their interactions were so much fun The overall tone of weird mystery adolescent innocence whimsical fantasy I GOBBLED THIS BOOK The themes of family and sacrifice Awww pats heart in emphasis The character development I loved the way Lilith grew and matured over the course of the story Really all the major characters grew by the end Also the ending in general It was so satisfying wrapped everything up so well and gave me certain feels sighs applauds with approving nod WHAT I DIDN T LIKE Okay one thing in this book was very very much not okay with me There were two chubby characters in this story who were the brunt of a lot of mean jokes and their treatment was portrayed in a positive light NOT OKAY We need to discourage this kind of shame fat jokes in literature not encourage it PLEASE Can I empathize this a hundred times As much as I admire Ankse I have to say I was a little disappointed in her here Adding onto this point the character Ed made an especially mean joke towards these girls and as much as I tried I just couldn t respect him any after that I loved his character until then though I loved the way he communicated with gestures and pictures It was adorable But after that I just couldn t see him the same way any The nature of this book MIGHT not be okay for some children despite the young ages of the characters Some of the content was well creepy I enjoyed it as an adult but it might have disturbed me as a ten or eleven year old This would totally depend on the child Also there was a crude word a substitute for pee used quite frequently Maybe okay for some kids maybe not for others. Rosehaven homes Things I liked it s cute and creepy at the same time could totally see it as a Tim Burton type of movie there s a talking dog a cool murderous garden and the house is alive books give predictions advice not knowing whether it was real or a symptom of Lilith s illness very imaginative overallThings I didn t like Lilith the persistent body shaming Lilith manipulating Ed a boy that s been mute ever since he went through a traumatic experience into speaking the annoying chit chat in the middle of action tense moments the repetitive cringeworthy dialogue so much qUirKinesS. Rosehead bur I thought this would be a new favourite Anyway Ksenia Anske Narrative ROSEHEAD is told from the third person POV of young Lilith Bloom a girl with a rather amusing personal challenge of using as many complicated large advanced words in a single sentence as possible This makes for a rather amusing narrative that contains a balanced simplicity that I felt reflected Lilith s nicely the juxtaposition being a great buffer translation Lilith Bloom is adorable It also makes for a unique voice that s somewhat choppy unfortunately it felt almost too simple at times and the biggest downside was that the dialogue occasionally felt rough over the top at times but overall easy to get sucked into Plot Lilith Bloom arrives with her parents at the mansion of her grandfather Alfred Bloom for a family reunion The problem The rose garden stinks her mother constantly insists she take her medication half of the family is kind of awful and her talking pet whippet Panther keeps reminding her that she owes him a steak. Rosehead definition Oh yeah and she s determined to prove that the rose garden haunted by the spirit of her nth great grandmother Rosehead is carnivorous and that her grandfather s planning on feeding the entire family to it. World book day books near me To try to make this short ROSEHEAD is refreshing a fun adventure that s somewhat creepy at times the mansion itself moves and there are literal rose heads that pop out of the wall at night and befriend Lilith The obstacles in Lilith s way coughs her parents are maddening her methods of snooping around creative and amusing and quite simply I found myself sleeping with the lights on after I finished this that and I don t think I ll ever look at roses the same way She s got great sidekicks Panther and a new silent friend named Ed and she has one week to keep her entire family from dying at the hands cough teeth of the garden. Rosehead park Don t look at my adjectives of fun and amusing and think this is a lighthearted book though there s a surprising amount of gruesome violence associated with the house and a long history of mysterious deaths I even admit that you ll probably begin doubting Lilith Bloom s sanity at times I sure did It ll make you shiver just as soon as smile making ROSEHEAD great for anyone who loves a little mystery and uncertaintly and doesn t mind the stench of the Bloom Co rose garden Characters This book is filled with a number of unique and strange characters from the talking whippet Panther to a set of rather annoying twin cousins Lilith the young protagonist is an outspoken girl who s a lot perceptive than her family chooses to believe and enjoys attempting to intimidate the adults in her life with her large vocabulary and her overly sweetened polite way of talking to them which comes off as hilariously sarcastic Panther is her smart mouthed side kick often resorting to calling her madam who s sometimes the level minded of the two of them and whose sense of loyalty and friendship to Lilith is exquisitely dog like despite his human speak Their banter alone tends to be amusing revealing a close friendship that doesn t need an explicit explanation. Rosehead bur Ed is the other sidekick approximately 1 2 years older than Lilith and silent He hasn t spoken a word since his father committed suicide but he s also the only one who believes Lilith mostly because his father knew the truth about the garden and it drove him to his death He s quiet but he s also very smart and willing to do almost anything to save the family and defy Alfred Bloom whom he hates with an extraordinary passion and for good reason. Rosehead ebooks Finally is Alfred Bloom himself wrapping up the biggest players It s no spoiler to say that he s the creep tastic antagonist in this book excluding the rose garden of course but while originally he seemed to obviously evil falling into an evil for no reason trope I was pleasantly surprised to learn the truth about him and why he does what he does Alfred s one of those characters who appears to be transparent one of those people you re sure you have figured out by the tenth page but in reality his involvement with the evil on the Bloom family property is a lot complicated which made him kind of a wonderful antagonist to get to know. Rosehead paranormal show 66 5 Ksenia Anske Lilith along with her mother and father arrive in Germany for the funeral of Lilith s grandmother During her stay Lilith discovers some very peculiar happenings at the Bloom Co mansion where Roses of immaculate red color and scent are grown She investigates the peculiarities with her trusty Whippet Panther and all trails lead to the roses How do they maintain their color and beauty longer than any of their counterparts Lilith is determined to find out. Rosehead book There is almost always something I find fault with as a reader nowadays but reading Rosehead by Ksenia Anske broke all of my expectations I could not put the book down and though there are close to 400 pages I devoured the novel in one day The only comment I would give is to the format of the book the font is too large for my liking which is entirely my own personal preference There were also a larger than average number of minor spelling and grammar issues but I read over them noted and kept going because the style of writing was so easy to follow and read through even with the errors. PDF rosehead The author s writing style was quite sophisticated She crafted her sentences with care and her dialogue with entertaining closeness to reality The dog s voice is adorable and true to form of both dog and sidekick Pink is my favorite color Besides it s blush Very delicate Matches my tongue Page 47 The Whippet is described as a talking cat in a dog s body with an unrivaled passion for steak rosy jackets and squirrels Page 366. Rose bookmarks Lilith is also a very well drawn character Immediately Anske lets us know that she is no ordinary twelve year old girl because she only felt sill when she was moving and she could smell things other people couldn t Page 366. EBook rosehead nail Lilith has her faults and eccentricities such as her unique vocabulary and the way she is always trying to utilize as many sophisticated words as possible in her speech and the author will even italicize them to give them emphasis Lilith also instead of getting emotional and angry at any bad thing done to her finitely controls her language to be poisonously polite. Rosehead bur Lilith is such a loveable character because of her stubborn single mindedness She gets fixated to a fault and she sometimes cannot seem to control her outbursts of accusations It may be maddening for her to momentary lose control like this but for the reader it adds tension and excitement Panther her Whippet companion puts it well I simply love your attention to detail and your inability to hear what others are saying once you set your mind to something Page 186. Rosehead nails I recommend this book for anyone who enjoys the hijinks and imagination of Calvin and Hobbes the sidekick element of Pantalaimon in Philip Pullman s Dark Materials series or the whimsical darkness of Pan s Labyrinth Ksenia Anske Ksenia Anske was born in Moscow Russia and came to the US in 1998 She is the author of dark fantasy short fiction and 8 novels and the resident writer of the Amtrak Residency Program 2015 site_link Her novel Rosehead won Honorary Mention in the YA Category in the Indie Ebook Award 2016 Ksenia lives in Seattle Ksenia Anske was born in Moscow Russia and came to the US in 1998 She is the author of dark fantasy short fiction and 8 novels and the resident writer of the Amtrak Residency Program 2015 site_link Her novel Rosehead won Honorary Mention in the YA Category in the Indie Ebook Award 2016 Ksenia lives in Seattle site_link Misunderstood and overmedicated twelve year old Lilith Bloom finds the prospect of a grand family reunion decidedly dull That is until she discovers that the rose garden surrounding her grandfather s Berlin mansion is well completely and utterly carnivorous Armed with Panther her talking pet whippet and the help of the mute boy next door Lilith must unravel the secrets behind the mysterious estate all while her family remains gloriously unaware that they are about to be devoured RoseheadA delicious mix of Alice in Wonderland Sherlock Holmes and Tim Burton Ksenia Anske While her genre isn t in my usual favorites I read it and loved it And I highly recommend her if you are looking for something new fresh intriguing and fantastical She s a one a kind I m glad I had the pleasure and you ll be glad too once you read Ksenia Anske Ksenia Anske This is a hard star rating for me because it falls in that often cited category of I wanted to love this book than I did First it is clear to me that Ksenia Anske is a talented author and I d definitely read of her work She s got an amazing imagination and that is where this book never faltered The world was vivid and the story had a very unique quality to it I ve seen comparisons to Tim Burton movies and that seems like the closest comparison I struggled with the characters Lilith and Panther are both hard to swallow because of their quirks There really wasn t anyone here for me to relate to or empathize with Lilith does struggle with being believed and part of me felt for her but the other part of me doubted her as well Was what we were reading real I ll let you discover that for yourself Part of the problem with the characters though was the fault of some very repetitive writing This story would ve benefited greatly from being parsed down They were so many long passages of Lilith trying to convince Panther to investigate with her in nearly identical language For being under the gun these characters sure did stand around and talk a lot Another issue was that the action was quite literally in Lilith s backyard It felt like Anske tried to trump up the tension but what it produced was of that repetition We found Lilith trapped inside or with an adult or bound to some commitment thus keeping her away from the action over and over again In that way the pattern of Lilith sneaking out being caught facing off with her grandfather and disturbing her parents developed early and kept on throughout the story Within this work of great imagination a formula developed and undermined the experience. EPub rosehead This problem of pacing made it hard to drag myself through the middle to end of this book Even at the end Lilith is surround on all sides and it s closing in around her still closing in around her no idea why it s closing in this slow but here it comes etc It was an interesting read and I don t regret dedicating time to it but I felt it definitely could ve benefited from some tightening up I can t wait to read what Anske comes up with next Ksenia Anske 5 5 starsSherlock Holmes said that the most stimulating case is when all the chances are against youWHAT WAS THAT DO YOU UNDERSTAND HOW MANY DAYS I HAD WITHOUT JOINING A NEW FANDOM I read many books ones I liked or even loved but a lot of time passed since Lady Midnight I think since I actually became obsessed with a book Ksenia Ankse s imagination runs wild creating a magnificent world where nothing is as it seems a plot that was as wild and beautiful as roses This book blew my mind in the most amazing way I laughed cried smiled and wiped my damp eyes I screamed until my throat hurt and my heart fell on the floor like seeds that after all the heartbreak became flowers created by the happy ending. Rose headband bss Lilith Bloom is not your ordinary twelve year old girl She s much She s a dreamer and a believer she s clever than her parents and all adults in this story and she loves She loves everyone despite what she thinks she feels about them She has seen some pretty strange things in her life The thing isnobody believes her thinking she s suffering from mental illness. Rosehead bookworm Much not I m a grown woman stuck in a little girl s body which is rather unfortunateThat s who she is Mature but not a pessimist with hope filling her heart And when the time comes she proves her maturity by sacrificing herself for everyone else proving that not only she isn t loony but she also is much than what everyone thought she is There s a quote in this book that only by itself makes it a masterpiece Lilith had little time to understand the meaning of these three words Life love death She did know that there was no life without death but also no life without love Did that mean that there was no love without death though That you had to die to realize how much you loved someone After all this ranting all this smiling and all this fangirling about Lilith s relationship with her pet dog that has the ability to talk or her kisses with the mute boy Ed who taught her than anyone else could there s only one thing left in my mind Tim Burton HAS to discover this and make a movie immediately totally recommended Mary Ksenia Anske I loved LOVED reading this book review on blog Ksenia Anske
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Rosehead belfast Overall I really enjoyed this book I was reluctant to see it end I hope to write a bit like Anske someday _ I love her style and I know I ll be reading 4.
EPub rosehead S The narrator for the audio book is perfect Ksenia Anske The weirdest book I ll read in a while,
Paranormal rosehead book In conclusion the characters were all off the wall ridiculous at times and wonderful to read about and follow Final Answer 4.5 starsP
