Blog Tour | How to be True

Hello, welcome to another post on my blog! Today I am very excited to be a part of the blog tour for How to Be True by Daisy May Johnson and hosted by Pushkin Press. Let’s jump right in!

Edie was born to a family of troublemakers. When her activist parents leave Paris to protest around the globe, her grandmother decides it’s time she became a proper young lady and so sends her to the School of the Good Sisters. But to Edie’s surprise, the nuns at the school teach genuinely useful things, like how to build a perfect library, cater for midnight feasts and make poison darts, and mischievous Edie feels right at home. When a school trip to Paris is planned, she worries about returning to the strict order of her grandmother’s chateau – but things are not as she left them. Soon Edie and her rebellious friends are caught up in a mystery involving a precious painting, secrets from her grandmother’s past and a very persistent burglar…

Huge thanks to Pushkin Press for inviting me to be a part of the How to be True blog tour, and for sending me a copy of the novel to read.

I was very excited to read this book, a boarding school, an adventure in Paris, and copious amounts of cake… what more could I want??!!

I adored every page of this novel so much. It is a sweet and lovely book from the start, it is such a heart warming read. Every character seems to have a warmth to them, and this novel just felt like a lovely hug, or a warm slice of cake!

Edie is our main character, and she is so fun to read! She is sassy and smart, with a huge heart, and cares for those around her so much. I really love Edie a lot, and I loved her friendships and relationships throughout the novel. Special shout out to the Nuns that run the school too, there were many fun Nun facts, which made me chuckle while I read!

Relating to that, this novel has a lovely humour throughout it, which I really enjoyed. The Nun that is narrating the novel has a very amusing narrative voice, and the interjections from Evie in the retelling of the adventure was very well done, and very funny.

This novel has a wonderful ending, that I didn’t see coming, but which was so heartfelt it made me cry! If you have read the ending you will know what I’m referring to, but it was so sweet and beautiful! We grow to understand a particular character and the way they act, and the ending just perfectly wrapped up that character’s arc.

Overall I absolutely loved this book so much! It gave me strong Katherine Rundell/Robin Stevens vibes which is always a good thing. Thank you for reading my How to Be True Blog Tour post, I hope you enjoyed! Thank you again to Pushkin Press.

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