Dark and Deepest Red, AnnaMarie McLemore
Dark and Deepest Red, AnnaMarie McLemore
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Dark and Deepest Red

Author: Anna-Marie McLemore

Narrator: Vikas Adam, Mia Barron, Almarie Guerra

Unabridged: 8 hr 20 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Recorded Books

Published: 01/14/2020

Synopsis

With Anna-Marie McLemore's signature lush prose, Dark and Deepest Red pairs the forbidding magic of a fairy tale with a modern story of passion and betrayal. Summer, 1518. A strange sickness sweeps through Strasbourg: women dance in the streets, some until they fall down dead. As rumors of witchcraft spread, suspicion turns toward Lavinia and her family, and Lavinia may have to do the unimaginable to save herself and everyone she loves.  Five centuries later, a pair of red shoes seal to Rosella Oliva’s feet, making her dance uncontrollably. They draw her toward a boy who knows the dancing fever’s history better than anyone: Emil, whose family was blamed for the fever five hundred years ago. But there’s more to what happened in 1518 than even Emil knows, and discovering the truth may decide whether Rosella survives the red shoes. "McLemore weaves another magic spell … The author spins a tale of first love, misfits forging their own places in the world, and the inherent prejudices of people who fear what they don't understand. This novel will leave an indelible mark on readers' hearts."—Kirkus Reviews, starred review

About Anna-Marie McLemore

Anna-Marie McLemore was born in the foothills of the San Gabriel Mountains and taught by their family to hear la llorona in the Santa Ana winds. They are the author of The Weight of Feathers, a 2016 William C. Morris YA Debut Award Finalist; 2017 Stonewall Honor Book When the Moon Was Ours, which was longlisted for the National Book Award in Young People's Literature; Wild Beauty, a Kirkus, School Library Journal, and Booklist best book of 2017; Blanca & Roja, a New York Times Book Review Editors' Choice; Dark and Deepest Red, a Winter 2020 Indie Next List title; and The Mirror Season, which was longlisted for the National Book Award in Young People's Literature.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Lala on January 14, 2020

I've given every Anna-Marie McLemore 5 stars, so this is a bit of a surprise even to me! Trying to sort out my feelings is hard because the story telling I know and love was still there. Their vivid descriptions and dynamic characters—still there. The passion and personal connection you can just FEE......more

Goodreads review by emma on June 30, 2021

Considering: giving up on historical fiction forever. There is just something about the way that old-timey-but-actually-it's-new-timey-it's-just-pretend stuff is written that I cannot cope with. This is only 50% set in forever ago times, but that fifty percent was so snooze worthy that it actually pe......more

Goodreads review by katie ❀ on March 26, 2021

[3.5] like any other mclemore book, i couldn't do anything else but sit in silence after finishing, in awe of their writing. in other words: i loved it.......more

Goodreads review by ♠ TABI⁷ ♠ on March 26, 2021

"We are more than what we've survived." I've realized that I cannot review a Anna-Marie McLemore book. Why?? Because they write with such effortless magic that's it's nigh impossible to define the power of it in a review. I have been swept away by everything they've written, all of their stories......more

Goodreads review by libraryofjonna on September 08, 2023

pre-review: ”a brutal fairy tale. the true medieval events that may have inspired it. two girls of color, 500 years apart. and the queerest ending I've ever written.” I CAN’T WAIT!!!......more

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