Amy Rose Capetta
Autore di Once & Future
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- Nome legale
- Capetta, Amy Rose
- Data di nascita
- 20th Century
- Sesso
- non-binary
- Nazionalità
- USA
- Istruzione
- Vermont College of Fine Arts
- Relazioni
- McCarthy, Cori (partner)
- Breve biografia
- Amy Rose Capetta [she/her] is an author of YA fantasy, sci-fi, and mystery. Her first novel, Entangled, was a BEA Buzz Book. Her latest, Echo After Echo, is a queer love story wrapped in a murder mystery and set on Broadway. It received two starred reviews and is a Junior Library Guild selection. Upcoming: The Brilliant Death (Viking 2018), The Lost Coast (Candlewick 2019), Once & Future (co-written with Cori McCarthy, from Little, Brown’s Jimmy Imprint in 2019). She holds a BA in Theater Arts from the University of California at Santa Cruz and an MFA in Writing for Children and Young Adults from VCFA. Amy Rose is the co-founder of the Rainbow Writers Workshop, the first-ever LGBTQIAP workshop for YA and middle grade. She lives in Vermont with her partner and their young son.
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Once & Future di Amy Rose Capetta
I liked this twist on the Sword in the Stone story. A little to in your face with the LGBT equality. Yes, it's nice to know many people can relate to the differences but it could have been more organic. The scene I'm thinking of . . . yes, we kneaded to know this specific characters preference but the way she just announced it when no on asked? That could have been better, it just felt thrown in. All in all a great book, will recommend. Only took issue with one paragraph, lol.
After watching S4 Vol. 1 of Stranger Things I was just craving some more Robin content and this YA novel was exactly what I was looking for. :) It starts just before the disappearance of Will Byers and ends with Robin and Steve starting work together at Scoops Ahoy!, filling in a gap that I didn't know I wanted full until I was reading it. This book does such a strong job of capturing Robin's voice and mannerisms, as well giving readers a deeper insight into her thoughts and desires. Loved it.
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Gender Bender
The story was interesting, the characters were engaging, and the writing was lovely. It is difficult to describe, but there is a sort of poetic feel to the author's prose that is savory and warm. The social themes of this story were respectfully handled and treated with kindness, love, and understanding. There is a lot going on in this book - murder, intrigue, plotting, magic, love, and betrayal. All of these can add up to a drab boring cliched tropey story, but here they all worked in sync. Teodora is a strega, she has magic - but she doesn't know much about it. She knows she can transform people into objects, but doesn't know how it works or how to do anything else. She meets a mysterious stranger, Cielo, who can change their gender at will, and longs to know more. When it becomes necessary for her to become a man - not just dress like one, but BE one - she asks Cielo to teach her. Learning how to use her magic is one of the integral plot points, because as she continues on her journey, she is constantly having to adjust how she uses it. The story builds well and the characters are so beautifully descriptive that it makes it a joy to read because you as the reader want to know how the story will unfold. The magic that is central to this book is a very special kind of magic, it’s shape-shifting, and that’s important to the most wonderful, surprising, and probably groundbreaking part of this novel: Teo (and Cielo) learns to change from a girl to a boy, and back (as a strega), and the conversation about how she/he feels in that body at different times. The power to change the body, and how Teo learns to harness magic is a fascinating part of this book, and Capetta approaches it with a delicateness, and at the same time, boldness, which makes the ‘gender-bending’ so unique and so wonderful to read. I don’t want to give away too much more of the story but I will say being someone who doesn’t often read fantasy this one impressed me and I will be reading book two just to see how beautifully the story continues. That being said this is a sold four stars for me and that is high praise considering this is a new author for me.… (altro)
Gender Bender
The story was interesting, the characters were engaging, and the writing was lovely. It is difficult to describe, but there is a sort of poetic feel to the author's prose that is savory and warm. The social themes of this story were respectfully handled and treated with kindness, love, and understanding. There is a lot going on in this book - murder, intrigue, plotting, magic, love, and betrayal. All of these can add up to a drab boring cliched tropey story, but here they all worked in sync. Teodora is a strega, she has magic - but she doesn't know much about it. She knows she can transform people into objects, but doesn't know how it works or how to do anything else. She meets a mysterious stranger, Cielo, who can change their gender at will, and longs to know more. When it becomes necessary for her to become a man - not just dress like one, but BE one - she asks Cielo to teach her. Learning how to use her magic is one of the integral plot points, because as she continues on her journey, she is constantly having to adjust how she uses it. The story builds well and the characters are so beautifully descriptive that it makes it a joy to read because you as the reader want to know how the story will unfold. The magic that is central to this book is a very special kind of magic, it’s shape-shifting, and that’s important to the most wonderful, surprising, and probably groundbreaking part of this novel: Teo (and Cielo) learns to change from a girl to a boy, and back (as a strega), and the conversation about how she/he feels in that body at different times. The power to change the body, and how Teo learns to harness magic is a fascinating part of this book, and Capetta approaches it with a delicateness, and at the same time, boldness, which makes the ‘gender-bending’ so unique and so wonderful to read. I don’t want to give away too much more of the story but I will say being someone who doesn’t often read fantasy this one impressed me and I will be reading book two just to see how beautifully the story continues. That being said this is a sold four stars for me and that is high praise considering this is a new author for me.… (altro)
I tried to like this, but the writing was... not good. Excessive use of adverbs and awkward figurative language plus I didn't really find it funny though it was clearly trying hard to be. Not terrible, but really not my taste. I would probably give this two stars, but I really liked the LGBTQ representation. It's strange that this future world is repressive in many ways, but very open when it comes to the fluidity of gender and sexuality. But I like sci-fi with some aspirational elements as opposed to just a straight dystopia.
This could be popular with teens who are hungry for books with LGBTQ representation. I'm not sure if it will please fans of Arthurian stories. I really don't see it appealing to hardcore fantasy or sci-fi readers.… (altro)
This could be popular with teens who are hungry for books with LGBTQ representation. I'm not sure if it will please fans of Arthurian stories. I really don't see it appealing to hardcore fantasy or sci-fi readers.… (altro)
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- Voto
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