A Sea of Ink

Wow. Just...wow. What a ride. Starring Aidan Turner and Eleanor Tomlinson,  Poldark  is a BBC television dramatization of the Poldark book series by Winston Graham. A young Cornish man named Ross Poldark (played by Turner) leaves his family, friends, significant other, and ancestral home to fight alongside the British in the American Revolutionary War. Following a head injury, Ross's family in Cornwall loses contact with him, and he is presumed dead. When he returns home, he finds his father passed away, his former sweetheart engaged to his cousin, and his inheritance in shambles-- an estate and copper mine riddled with debts and picked clean of funds. However, Ross is no ordinary man. He is determined to rebuild his life in Cornwall, all the while striving to improve the lower classes' quality of life and help the less fortunate, much to the confusion of his wealthy peers. The first season covers the plot of the first two Poldark books. A second season recently ai...

**contains spoilers**   5 stars. Based on storyline alone, I wouldn't rate this book higher than a 3, possibly a 3.5. However, this was the most emotional book I have ever read. The story was heartbreaking and beautiful and magnificent. I bawled.   I have never shed more than maybe two tears for any other book ( Clockwork Princess by Cassandra Clare, to be specific), but for Maybe One Day , I couldn't stop sobbing. (Though one contributing factor to the waterworks could have probably been the fact that I was listening to the song "Wildest Dreams" by Taylor Swift during the climax of the book. I remember bawling through the chorus. "Say you'll remember me...") I don't usually read books about cancer, but I picked this one up because the main characters were ex-ballerinas. I wasn't a fan of the frequent cursing in this book, and the [small amount of] romance felt somewhat unnecessary, but the emotions felt by the characters throughout the s...