I Capture the Castle, (Paperback)

from LizzieD

I think that this is a small classic. Cassandra is completely charming, and her family and friends form a nearly perfect setting for her, the lovely jewel at the center. Other people have written a...

from Kasthu

I'll be honest. When I first came across this book in Barnes and Noble a number of years ago, I dismissed it as something I wouldn't like (literally, I judged a book by its cover, shame on me). I r...

from LisaMaria_C

I loved everything about this one. The style, the characters. JK Rowling said the character of seventeen-year-old Cassandra Mortmain is "one of the most charismatic narrators" she'd ever met--and I...

from silenceiseverything

I'm a person who finds classics a bit intimidating because sometimes I find the language a bit rough to get through. So, I was a little apprehensive when I first picked up I Capture the Castle. Sti...

from bookworm12

The Mortmain family lives in a rundown castle in the English countryside in the 1930s. The book is presented as the 17-year-old Cassandra's journal and in this way we see the world through her eyes...