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3/5⭐ I appreciate the feminist themes and Tess' coming-of-age trajectory. These elements developed at a consistent and realistic pace. The worldbuilding with the serpents sometimes was confusing and weak.

This was extraordinary.
The beginning was slow and I got to the point where I asked myself if I wanted to finish.
Im so glad I pushed through the sludge at the beginning.
It was a book that makes you feel honored you got to read it.
Very excited to read book two
5⭐️

Fleabag meets high fantasy, with a messy heroine you‘ll follow anywhere—Tess of the Road! I cherished Seraphina, savored Shadow Scale, but Tess of the Road is the masterpiece of Hartman‘s Goredd books. I was skeptical of how much I‘d be interested in Tess given she‘s not half-dragon like her sister Seraphina, but it was her utter humanity that won me over heart and soul. This is a wise, kind, funny, and heartening book that I felt honored to read.

audiobook + knitting + coffee + sunrise = 🥰

@ErinSueMreads and @Meaw_catlady I hope it‘s okay if I join in on #tarottakeover, it looks fun!

For today‘s card I picked Tess of the Road, the entire story is about Tess‘s self reflection and journey as she learns from her past and discovers who she is as a person and her journey of breaking away from what her family wants her to be. As the story progresses she grows & changes & starts to really understand who she is and who she wants to be.

I am 💯 loving this book so far! The love these twins share and the sacrifices Tess make for her sister are heartbreaking. I cannot wait to see what's to come.

Book three for the #BookSpinBonanza done! It was a chunkster, though, but my next couple of books are smaller.

I loved this book! Of course, Seraphina is one of my most favorite books, so no big surprise.

@TheAromaofBooks

She still held sorrows, but she was not made of them. Her life was not a tragedy. It was a history, and it was hers.

#guess #quotsyapr20

#QuotsyApr20 Day 15: #Guess

#QuotsyJan20 #weight

I‘ve not read this book but I like this quote about the meaning and weight of words. 🖊📑

I read this one because it was on the npr best of list for 2018. Middle grade quest book. Some cool stuff, but overall found it a little slow.

I loved this! It‘s the story of a girl (the half sister of the main character from Seraphina) who goes on a quest with her best friend from childhood. But it‘s also about gender, sex, motherhood, religion, sisterhood, love, and so many other things. I think it stands well on its own without the need to read Seraphina and Shadow Scale.

…there were more similarities between nun and whore than she could have guessed.

I loved Seraphina, was disappointed in Shadow Scale, and am just bored to tears by this third book set in the universe. Oh well! #YA #Fantasy

Malcontempt, aflictionado… I am forcibly reminded of Dogberry, and I like it. #unexpectedshakespeare

OK—that decision I understand 😂☠️

I‘m really enjoying this even though I don‘t understand any of Tess‘s decisions.

#QuotsyMar19 Day 21: #Ambitious goo sounds about right. I enjoyed Hartman‘s Seraphina, and I know she excels in epic chunkster fantasy novels. Looking forward to reading this one.

This is Stitches! My reader in training. He mostly like fantasy books, because he dreams of becoming a dragon!🐲🐉#TessoftheRoad

LOVED this and my emotions are A MESS 😭

4/5 ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️

Finished this audio while throwing together experimental rice and beans before getting down to finishing my flash cards to prepare for my anthropology final. Handwriting them helps my info retention so much, but I am so grateful that I‘ll be able to type my exam: my hands and wrists are asking for many breaks as we get through the stack.

“Now though? I hate how ungrateful I sound, but I find the idea insulting. As if you were saying, ‘All your pain was a mistake: here, have everything back.‘ Except it wouldn‘t be everything: not the time, not the suffering, not the thousand ways I‘ve changed. . . I wouldn‘t wish for this, Tess... but I‘m not sure I‘d wish it away, either.”
Appreciate the dis/ability rep in this one, and how it can be read to parallel queerness here.

Finished my first semester of college! lol 💜🙏 Praise Bless
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Currently reading Tess Of The Road

Last assignments turned in! Semester is complete but for my self-schedule final, which I‘m going to study for this weekend and travel to campus to take on Monday. Eep! Listening to my book for a bit to decompress before bed.

Finally finished this one up and I have to say I absolutely fell in love with it. Tess is such an amazing character, just a normal girl going through life and finding herself. I love that the end was left open for more tales to be told of her journey and I really hope that there will be more, I want to know where the road takes Tess.

#audiocooking Sunday: fish chowder and a title that came highly recommended from one of my local teen librarian friends.

I‘m 50% through this book and I actually really love it. Tess is a flawed female character, she isn‘t the last witch, or the greatest sorceress or holds some great forgotten power, like so many stories that revolve around female MCs which is why I don‘t read many female MCs books they bore me with the cliche types. But this, Tess is a screw up, makes wrong choices & now has to deal with them, she is a normal girl learning who she is & I love that!

I stopped reading this one at page 220, not only because it was so boring, but also because I got so annoyed by every single detail. I don‘t like Tess, I don‘t like the world, and the plot is non-existent. Tess runs around, makes one stupid mistakes after the other, misogyny is everywhere, and there are no dragons but other weird creatures 🙄. I have to think of my #goodreadschallenge!
#DNF #stoppedreading

I am stuck with Tess of the Road right now. I knew beforehand that it wasn‘t plot heavy and focuses more on character work, but it didn‘t prepare me for how slow and confusing it will be. #youngadult #fantasy #reading #process

My favourite book so far this year. Tess is a runaway, a girl walking down a road, seeking a reason to keep going, processing trauma and coming to terms with her patriarchal society and religious upbringing. It's a fantasy novel with very little fast-paced action but I was gripped. It's sad, hopeful, devastating, magical and beautiful. Best enjoyed after Seraphina and Shadow Scale so you understand the context.

Best of the month: the tagged read, The Secret History, The Cabin at the End of the World

I enjoyed this book! Love the character's development and can't wait to see her facing a new adventure!

I love love loved this book. Tess was such a human protagonist - so full of passion and conviction and stubbornness. She grew and changed and became even more herself. So sorry to turn the last page.

We have guests arriving for 10 days in a matter time f hours so I should be cleaning, but not before I say a reluctant goodbye to Tess ❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️

Torn between wanting to see what happens and never wanting it to end #negroni

I loved Seraphina and the sequel Shadow Scale so much that Rachel Hartman is now a #newautobuyauthor. I have put a hold on this from the library though! #AuginBooks18

Well played, Mother Nature #decklife

#audiowalk #peekaboo

Quick chapter before work

This is an example of a slow book with a very enticing storytelling. It's amazing reading how much Tess grows up from the first chapter until the end. When I imagine the story will stop, it just keeps throwing things at you unexpectedly.
Super love it!