This book had me like… And then… And then… You know what part. If you’ve read it, you know exactly what part that one is for, and that’s all I’m going to say about that. I don’t even know what to say about this book. It is everything I’m not usually into: there are fantasy elements, long journeys through rough terrain, a boy and his dog – fine stuff, but totally not my thing. It somehow wound up on my Goodreads to-read list, and I […]
Well this was definitely… different and peculiar…Vintage Photos are Awesome
Rating: 4.5/5 Summary: Jacob has always been ordinary, he’s lived an ordinary life though he yearns for the extraordinary. His grandfather used to tell him fantastical stories of his childhood and of kids with unique and peculiar powers. Jacob believes the stories until he watches his grandfather die in his own arms. After finding a mysterious letter, he knows that he must travel to the island of his grandfather’s childhood. What he finds there is even stranger than he expected and Jacob begins an extraordinary […]
You have to do more than just change the terminology to make it sound new
This is the first in a YA trilogy, and I’m not moving on to book two. I feel like that’s the whole review, but I’ll elaborate 🙂 My book club friend recommended this based on my love of dystopian stories. Kayla and Mishalla are teenage GENs (Genetically Engineered Nonhumans) living on a future planet colonized after Earth became uninhabitable. Those who could afford and fund the move have become the planet’s top class, the Trueborn. The Lowborn were brought along for their inital indentured servitude. […]
The Last Time I Encountered Something Centred on a Male ‘Witch’ It was “The Covenant”: This is Much Better
Half Bad. Half Wild. Half Lost. It sets itself up to follow the usual young adult series storyline, yet there was something really intriguing about this series to me, and I absolutely devoured all three of the books as fast as possible. It might be that I’ve never really experienced the mythology of witches presented quite in the way this book does, which made it interesting to me. There is also such a survival instinct present in these books, and a connection to nature that […]
Some Fanart of the Two Princes in this Series Just Stumbled Upon my Tumblr Dash Today: How Fitting
After reading the first book of the Captive Prince series, I was not exactly sold on it, and considered just stopping there. But after a little commenting back and forth with Narfna (aaayooo!) who had indeed read the rest of the series, I was convinced to keep going. And you know what, it has definitely improved and peaked more of my interest. There are still some things that I’m a little unsure of or uneasy about, but I am beginning to see a bigger picture […]
Exploring a sprawling, new world
I’ve never read anything quite like Ken Liu’s debut novel The Grace of Kings.I’ve been trying to figure out how to explain it for a week now and the closest I can come to is this: Chinese history meets The Iliad meets Game of Thrones. Sometimes it reads like a history book…and then our heroes wage their wars on the backs of whales or from steampunk-inspired hot air balloons. Sprawling and ambitious, I couldn’t help but cheer for this book, even when I didn’t love […]
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