{"id":38511,"date":"2021-08-07T22:47:50","date_gmt":"2021-08-08T02:47:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/blog\/?p=38511"},"modified":"2021-08-07T22:47:50","modified_gmt":"2021-08-08T02:47:50","slug":"review-of-a-cloud-of-outrageous-blue-by-vesper-stamper","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/blog\/?p=38511","title":{"rendered":"Review of A Cloud of Outrageous Blue, by Vesper Stamper"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>A Cloud of Outrageous Blue<\/em><\/p>\n

by Vesper Stamper<\/p>\n

Alfred A. Knopf, 2020. 307 pages.
\nReview written October 12, 2020, from a library book<\/p>\n

Vesper Stamper\u2019s illustrated young adult novels are amazingly evocative. Let me say that again: They\u2019re illustrated young adult novels. The illustrations add a dreamlike quality to the book, as they did in What the Night Sings<\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n

This one was set in medieval England about an orphaned girl who recently lost everything and was sent to a priory \u2013 just in time for the plague.<\/p>\n

This book had lots of death and dying, so despite the dreamlike quality, it wasn\u2019t exactly pleasant reading. I also have a prejudice against fanatically evil religious characters, and this book had a couple of those. So by the end, I didn\u2019t enjoy this book nearly as much as I thought I would at the beginning. I didn\u2019t quite follow all the plot choices either.<\/p>\n

But as a book talking about how a large group of women lived together in the middle ages, with information about illuminating manuscripts, the book was lovely. Especially before they started dying.<\/p>\n

Our orphaned main character was a synesthete who saw colors when she heard sounds. That sort of thing was thought to be demonic visions at the time, so she\u2019d learned to keep silent about it. But it also gave her extra love for art and illuminated manuscripts.<\/p>\n

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