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//Stardust// by Neil Gaiman

Young Tristan was from two worlds; the world of Wall, England and the magical world of Stormhold. He departs for Stormhold in order to find a fallen star as a token of his love for Victoria. When he finds it, he discovers that it is not the piece of metallic rock that he expected. It was a girl named Yvaine. While traveling back to the girl in Wall, the two encounter fantastic creatures, bloodthirsty princes, and three sister witches. Tristan also realizes a secret love for the star and a whole life he never knew he had. Stardust is a uniquely formulated book that draws out the adventurer in you. It intrests me because of its discriptiveness and how every image described appearly crisply in your head. It definatly activates your imagination and keeps you feeling as if you're right there with the characters. //The Asylum for Wayward Victorian Girls// by Emilie Autumn

This is an autobiography, historical fantasy, and horror story. It follows the real life accounts of Emilie Autumn as she struggles through a stay at a mental hospital from attempting suicide after dealing with bipolar and an emotionally abusive boyfriend. While staying at this so called "safe place," she witnesses many jarring atrocities and a lack of necessary attention for the patients. In time, she begins reciveing small notes in her notebook from a different time, place, and person but describing situations closely resembling her own. These notes are from a girl named Emily residing in an asylum in 19th century England. Emilie begins to rely on the messages from her British twin from long ago to deal with her own predicaments. But as the two girls soon discover, it is much easier to get into the asylum than to get out.

This book was important to me because it was a mix of most of my favorite genres. Along with that and the beautifully detailed pages, Autumn includes actually diaries from three separate occasions in her life(although they don't relate to the story at all so there's no actuall NEED to read them, though it's still fun). It was just a very interesting book to read and never really got dull because as soon as one girls part ended the others began and it was facinating to see how the two sides mirrored each other.

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