Joanna Gordon has been living life in Atlanta as an out and proud lesbian for most of her teenage life but that all changes when her pastor father marries a woman from a traditional Baptist family who moves the whole family to a small town in Southern Georgia. Her father asks if she doesn’t mind laying low (ie going back into the closet) for the year in exchange for a youth radio program and permission to go on a wild summer trip. While she struggles […]
Plucky Heroine is Stupid
Oh boy, where to start with The Glass Magician? There’s a LOT of pining in this book. Ceony, our plucky heroine from The Paper Magician is back learning from Emery Thane, three months after she rescued his heart from the evil Lira. She’s living with him, playing perfect little housewife trying to audition for that role permanently. And learning more about magic, I guess. A series of accidents leads Ceony to believe the Excisioners that took Lira’s frozen body are now after her. She turns out […]
Plucky Heroine is Plucky
Set in Victorian times, The Paper Magician adds magic based on different materials. When Ceony Twill, our plucky heroine, graduates from magic school, she is placed in an apprenticeship with a paper magician, and is not happy about it. Emery Thane is her teacher, and he shows her some interesting things to do with paper, as well as bringing stories to life (which seems a bit of a stretch) and Ceony settles into her new life quickly. She starts cooking and cleaning for Emery, and explains […]
I think many of us would like to visit this library
3.5 stars Irene is an agent of the Library, a place that exists outside normal space and time. In fact, as long as the agents and librarians that work for the Library are there, they do not age in the slightest. Only when they are out in the different worlds of the multiverse, do they visibly age, and how much depends how time passes in the various worlds they find themselves. As an agent of the Library, Irene is sent to retrieve books that are […]
I’m Super Emotional All the Time Because Someone is Cursing Me. Yeah, That’s It.
I’m not sure if this is just going to be a trilogy or intended to be a longer series? In any case, I just finished reading the three books (so far!) in Holly Black’s Curse Workers young adult series (titled White Cat, Red Glove, and Black Heart). The premise is interesting, and draws the characters into a world of crime and corruption that I haven’t seen in exactly the same way in other YA books, though some of the typical tropes and characters definitely come […]
The best thing about this review is how by the end I completely take back everything I say in the first paragraph.
This is one of those books you enjoy while reading, but after a couple of weeks, you can’t really remember why. I’m not sure why that is. Second book syndrome, I guess. I remember for sure that I did like it, although not quite as much as I liked the first one. What can I say, I like bright, shiny new things. One thing I will say, I’m not entirely sure where this story is going, and that feels good. Tahir made a bunch of […]
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