Theodora Goss

Evelyn Morgan and Brendan Thorne are a couple whose mysterious and unique love story can be read from two different perspectives-- Evelyn's story reads from front to back, while Brendan's story is told from the back of the book towards the front.

A Two-Sided Love Story

The Thorn and the Blossom

Amina Madadi (ⴰⵎⵉⵏⴰ)

Beautiful but could have been richer in events..

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When Evelyn Morgan walked into the village bookstore, she didn’t know she would meet the love of her life. When Brendan Thorne handed her a medieval romance, he didn’t know it would change the course of his future. It was almost as if they were the cursed lovers in the old book itself . . ."

Evelyn, an american wealthy girl, litt student in Oxford, decides to spend a week in Cornwall to write something other than -according to professor Lambert- her fanciful nonsense. While exploring the little town, she comes across THORNE & SON, BOOKSELLERS where she meets Brendan Thorne. During that week, they get to know each other and he tells her the story of the "Gawan’s Court" the same way his dad used to.. 
Evelyn has hallucinations (or can we really call them hallucinations?) since she was eight, she's been on and off medication and feeling better until Brendan (whom she didn't talked to about her condition) decides to kiss her, she panicked and ran away..

Ten years later, they meet again, as teachers at Bartlett college and this time Brendan has a little secret, and they grew apart again but not because of the truth...
 
Evelyn, goes back to Cornwall and so does Brendan, but none of them know about the other...so what happens then?

" Then Gawan turned and saw Elowen lying on the ground. He knelt beside her, raised her head, and said, “Why do you lie here, my love?”     

“The spell was too strong for me,” she said. “I’m dying, Gawan. But I shall see you again. In another life, we shall be together, although we cannot be in this one.”     

“That you shall not!” cried Morva. “Not for a thousand years. You have killed my father and brother, and so I curse you, queen of Cornwall. You shall not be with your beloved until a thousand years have passed.” She cast her own spell and then clapped her hands, disappearing in flame and smoke."

The two of them decide to find each other again, but, were they really cursed? and when would the thousand years pass? Open ending for the reader to finish the story.

It was a good read and I kept imagining Tom Hiddleston as Brendan, I still don't know why :D

Kwan Ann Tan

me: procrastinates by reading even more irrelevant things 

you'd think i would love this book, given that it involves the story being told from multiple perspectives (love that), with Oxford lingering in the background (#represent) and basically a lot of Arthurian mythology which i daresay i love more than the ordinary person, but this book was a bit of a mess??? good thing it was short or i guess i'd waste even more of my time

The Thorn and the Blossom A Two-Sided Love Story

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