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 enlarge | Author: Sherryl Jordan
Publisher: Simon Pulse
Category: Book
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Avg. Customer Rating:  89 reviews
Sales Rank: 71096
Media: Mass Market Paperback
Reading Level: Young Adult
Number Of Items: 1
Pages: 368
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.4
Dimensions (in): 6.8 x 4.2 x 1
ISBN: 0689870043
EAN: 9780689870040
ASIN: 0689870043
Publication Date: April 27, 2004
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 Lovely July 10, 2007
Well crafted with highly developed characters. The author does not shrink from creating a realistic world, cruel though it may seem.
Raver is the first Deaf character I came across in literature. I would recommend this book to any member of the hearing or Deaf Community because it gives a rich historical background to the injustuces faced by those who are different.
Utterly Romantic March 25, 2007
Alright all you hopeless romantics out there, this is your book. The pages simply fly by, giving you beautiful descriptions and meaningful dialog. The love story is just beautiful. The two, Marnie and Raven, are so similar. Both misunderstood and outcasts. I found myself caring deeply for the characters, growing closer to them by the page. Suspense winds its way into the book, along with denial, hate, humor, and love. This book has it all. Really.
I was distressed when I heard there was to be no sequal. Oh, dear me. This book deserves a sequal and numerous medals. The characters are loveable and memorable, the action is great, and the romance complete.
I would recommend this book for girls fourteen and up. Although there's not much appauling things in here, it might be too adult for young children. Mainly just the violence and detail of Isake after falling. It's very vivid.
This book is one of my favorites. It's won a spot on my bookshelf where it will stay for many years to come and be remembered forever. I highly recommend.
 Teen Girls Beware November 27, 2006
6 out of 13 found this review helpful
This book may be fine writing and may have great characters, but I was disappointed to find that in the first few pages, we see a young girl basically experiencing rape at the hands of her new "husband". My daughter is 12 years old, and perhaps the author thinks that 12 year olds are ready for this type of writing. The writing was explicit enough that it made my daughter uncomfortable. Parents, please pre-read this book to make sure that it is appropriate for your teen daughter.
Well Written and Interseting. Two Thumbs Up! July 10, 2006
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
This book was fun to read. At first I was hesitant to read it because the description in the book sounded extremely boring, but after reading the first page I was hooked!
The book is about a girl named Marnie who marries a rich lord to keep her family from poverty. They move away from home and live in a broken down cottage that's "supposed" to be worth more than Marnie's husband's manor. Marnie thinks, yeah, right, when she sees it.
Then, Marnie's husband falls to his death while trying to fix the roof and Marnie feels responsible because she was feeling resentful towards her husband and asked god to do something to make him stop wanting her. The village preist assured her that it wasn't her fault, but three old village women overheard what Marnie said and soon everyone thinks that Marnie killed her husband!
Of course, the preist got a man to witness the scene of Marnie's husband lying dead on the floor underneath the broken ceiling, but soon everyone believes that Marnie cast witchcraft on on the poor man to make him fall.
Discouraged, Marnie forms a relationship with the village madman (boy), Raver. His names Raver becauses he throws mindless fits and destroys everything in his path. What the real problem is is that he's deaf and he gets frustrated that he can't understand or talk like other people.
After a brutal whipping from the village Marnie invites Raver, who's name is changed to Raven, to stay with her to sort of protect him. Raven does.
A day later Marnie realizes that Raven his not mad, he's just deaf. So she finds a way to comunicate with him using sign language. Of course, back then they had no idea what sign language was, and when the village people saw this, they took it for more witchcraft.
In Marnie's time witchcraft his deeply feared. They burned witches back then. What will happen to Marnie? Read it to find out!
 Really good June 28, 2006
3 out of 3 found this review helpful
An amazing novel-it shimmers. I picked it up not expecting much, but this is a really well-written and unusual historical romance with a touch of fairytale and fantasy about it. Marnie, a girl fighting the bonds of her life and the cruelty of the world, is a character who's very easy to empathize with as she denies her slowly growing attraction to Raver, the magnetic, wild deaf boy whom she teaches to speak in sign language. Solid plot and really wonderful ending, vivid and tender descriptions and love story, this simple book about a man and woman persecuted by a village's superstition is one in a hundred. Not everyone will absolutely love it-it is very simplistically written and probably for younger readers-but enjoyable for everyone.
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