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I would give this book a 2.5. I really wish the rating system would allow for it. While I found the fairies entertaining, I wasnt intrigued by the books progress until the very end. While her relationship with Nate seems natural, with Ariel it feels forced, like we are supposed to find him as mysterious as Bertie does, only he is anything but. Bertie's story was really well played in the end. However I found the idea of Bertie as a strong female character kind of negotiable, It was like to be strong she had to be someone who can banter, and who can completely negate logic or common sense and do as she pleases while hiding behind "Oops, did I do that?". In Eyes like stars, shes immature, and while thats great as a growing aspect, the whole thing is a love triangle between the handsome pirate with the good heart that would do anything for her, and Ariel, the mysterious wind spirit who is self serving and the bad boy.


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Eyes Like Stars Theatre Illuminata Act I Lisa Mantchev Books Reviews

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The Theatre Illuminata with its magical book of plays, eccentric characters, and all the friends she's ever known is Bertie Shakespeare Smith's home and she's dismayed to learn that the Theater Manager wants her to leave and strike out on her own. How can she leave? It means too much to her! With the Theater Manager's word that she can stay if she can find an invaluable way to contribute to the theater, Bertie sets out to restage Hamlet--not an easy task when four annoying fairies are always fluttering around, the Players are adverse to change, and Ariel, the air spirit of The Tempest fame, is doing what he can to make sure Bertie fails in her task.

What really makes Eyes Like Stars shine above anything else (any pun you might have seen there never happened) is the characters. Bertie's conflict is relatable--it can parallel anyone's fears of leaving home or a familiar place for the unknown--and she's complex too. She makes mistakes like all teenagers do and no one is afraid to call her on it when she does. The love interests Nate and Ariel both have great chemistry with Bertie (if you read the tango scene and still try to say Ariel and Bertie have no chemistry together, stop reading right now because we're not going to agree on anything about this book), but I've got my issues with both of them and I'm not quite sold on them yet. Even more than Bertie did, Ophelia stood out to me and even after my fifth re-read of this book, she remains my favorite character.

Two more fitting words for the book? Funny and clever. The comedic timing is perfect and it's harder to find a line that isn't quotable than one that is. The four fairy sidekicks from A Midsummer Night's Dream provide plenty of comic relief and the narration itself isn't afraid of a witty quip or two. To the book's benefit, the understated prose keeps the focus on what's going on with the characters rather than on the words. The irony of this in a book with a focus on the power of words isn't lost on me. When I was reading it, I thought, This is how I want to write. Why can't I be this good? *jealous*

The big reveal at the end felt too sudden and a little rushed, and I wasn't sure why Bertie had completely forgotten her childhood like she did. It's one thing for another character to forget what happened while they were away from the theater, but what about Bertie? She didn't seem to know about it because she never thought about it beforehand and she seemed just as surprised as everyone else when it was explained. What caused her selective amnesia? She's got to remember something about it, right? I hate to think it or put it into words, but it seems like a choice made for plot convenience. Not knowing about how she spent her younger years made the plot run more smoothly, but it leaves questions like this unanswered.

Despite my fussing, I love this book and the series to pieces. It saddens me that there is so little attention paid to it (as far as I've seen, not many people have heard of it) and then far worse series regularly top bestseller lists with each new installment. Bad books pile up like muck and you've really got to dig to get to the good books, the buried treasure. Hopefully, this will change; I've already got plans to recommend the entire series to my local library and a few teachers I know so that others can be caught in the spell of the Theatre Illuminata and give it the attention and adoration it rightly deserves.
The story is pretty intriguing with the whole of it happening in a magic theatre and all. I did find the main character a bit immature but then again... Maybe everyone that age seems immature to me now that I'm in my thirties haha! I liked the love triangle tension, but then again I'm really into that story line anyways from various animes, so... there is that. My main reason for docking it one star is that, without spoiling anything, the uh... Way it wraps up and "reveals" the main suspenses answers was... Convenient. And not only the actual culmination, but the WAY it played out.... was also .... well, it could have been more ... Grrr... Trying to explain it without giving up anything... Let's just say, us as the readers who have gone through the story can get it but, it could have been filled out better for those actually within the story but not necessarily privy to the backstory.... I imagine those in that category would have been somewhat lost and therefore their reaction was predictable but not believable. And we have already agreed to suspension of believability since this is basically an enchanted theater and all, but I just didn't find the rather tidy and convenient revelations to garner the reaction they did from those privy to the reveal.
I would give this book a 2.5. I really wish the rating system would allow for it. While I found the fairies entertaining, I wasnt intrigued by the books progress until the very end. While her relationship with Nate seems natural, with Ariel it feels forced, like we are supposed to find him as mysterious as Bertie does, only he is anything but. Bertie's story was really well played in the end. However I found the idea of Bertie as a strong female character kind of negotiable, It was like to be strong she had to be someone who can banter, and who can completely negate logic or common sense and do as she pleases while hiding behind "Oops, did I do that?". In Eyes like stars, shes immature, and while thats great as a growing aspect, the whole thing is a love triangle between the handsome pirate with the good heart that would do anything for her, and Ariel, the mysterious wind spirit who is self serving and the bad boy.