I Capture the Castle : Deluxe Edition (Hardcover)

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 about the plot, so I'll just add my couple of thoughts on completing the book. First, I had the most ...

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 re-discovered this book a few months ago, and now I'm wondering why, oh why, didn't I read this book ...

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 concur. It's the 1930s, and Cassandra, living with her family in a decrepit English castle, is keep...

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. Still, I figured a good introduction to the classics genre (I've only read a few) would be a classic yo...

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. There's her father, a famous author who has become temperamental and withdrawn and no longer write...