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Read in September, 2009This review has been hidden because it contains spoilers. To view it, click here.If you know me then you would know that anything pass 3.5 stars is good. Anything pass 4 stars is wow. Brightly Woven was just shy off of 5 stars but too good to just be 4.5. This was a fantasy, action, adventure, romance novel that blew me away leaving me demanding/yelling for more towards an inanimate object. 

Several weeks ago I read Once a Witch Carolynn MacCollugh and months ago I read Fire by Kristin Cashore. Brightly Woven reminded me of these two books. 

North Wayland reminded me so much of Howl from Diana Wynne Jones’s Howl’s Moving Castle. He has this pretend narcissus, pompous upturned-nose attitude but always a complete tease. You just can’t help love North and forgive him. He was an utter joy to read at times and other times I just wanted to hit him where it hurt—that’s how much I got into these characters. And then there’s the chemistry between North and Sydelle, can you not see me swooning!? 

*deep breath* I am prepared to go all fangirlish on you but I’m refraining (even though it’s quite hard). Action—check; romance—check; pacing—check, characters—check; plotline—check; ending—ehhh; Overall—is ubercheck an option because it should be! 

I think one of the things that I love the most about this book was how it actually went “there”. Bracken’s characters were not these indestructible beings that no man can harm! Ha! It was refreshing and only added to the character depth. 

My only regret is that I wanted another epilogue or a sequel prehaps. There were elements in the book that I felt needed more clarification on, more explanation, or just a better resolution. I also had some trouble following the narration early in the beginning but managed to find a good pace later on. 

Overall: “ubercheck.”