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Amelia Unabridged

“You need to find the story that means something to you”

Amelia Unabridged by Ashley Schumacher

April 6, 2021 by llamareadsbooks Leave a Comment

I love when covers match the book’s contents, don’t you? That gorgeous cover is basically what the book is about, complete with flying whales, late nights reading in a bookstore, and a lost-looking young adult trying to figure out life. It’s heart-wrenching and lovely and I cried way more times than I want to admit. “Do you want to talk about it?” I would have been less surprised if the stone lion sitting outside the fancy restaurant across the street had opened its massive jaws […]

Filed Under: Young Adult Tagged With: Ashley Schumacher, grief, Young Adult

llamareadsbooks's CBR13 Review No:21 · Genres: Young Adult · Tags: Ashley Schumacher, grief, Young Adult ·
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The Gilded Ones

“Are we girls, or are we demons?”

The Gilded Ones by Namina Forna

April 6, 2021 by llamareadsbooks 2 Comments

I will be 100% honest – I picked up this book solely based on that cover, and I have zero regrets. This is a hard-hitting and fiery young adult fantasy about overcoming the patriarchy. In Otera, it’s accepted that women are subservient to men, and anyone – or anything – that goes against that is against the natural order. At fifteen, girls go through a bloodletting ceremony to prove their purity. Girls who bleed red are now considered women, free to find husbands and have families, […]

Filed Under: Fantasy, Young Adult Tagged With: #fantasy, Namina Forna, Young Adult

llamareadsbooks's CBR13 Review No:20 · Genres: Fantasy, Young Adult · Tags: #fantasy, Namina Forna, Young Adult ·
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Of Wicked Blood

Sure it’s a cliched YA fantasy, but that doesn’t mean it isn’t fun

Of Wicked Blood by Olivia Wildenstein and Katie Hayoz

March 25, 2021 by llamareadsbooks Leave a Comment

I’ve read and enjoyed Olivia Wildenstein’s books before, and the blurb for this one really caught my interest. It definitely lives up to it, as well! This is an enjoyable and high stakes young adult paranormal romance, all set in a small French town. Slate, professional thief and survivor of the foster care system, has always figured he was abandoned by his parents. So he’s shocked and angry to receive a letter – and birth certificate – claiming that he’s the only surviving member of […]

Filed Under: Fantasy, Young Adult Tagged With: #fantasy, Olivia Wildenstein and Katie Hayoz, Young Adult

llamareadsbooks's CBR13 Review No:15 · Genres: Fantasy, Young Adult · Tags: #fantasy, Olivia Wildenstein and Katie Hayoz, Young Adult ·
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ScoobyDoo for grown ups but not quite enough

Ghost Squad by Claribel A. Ortega

March 14, 2021 by CoffeeShopReader Leave a Comment

So I’ve been wondering for a while why it seems to be that there can’t be ghost stories for grown-ups that don’t involve detailed often gory horror and/or a lot of unnecessary personal (self-inflicted at least partially most often) angst or troubles. Seannan McGuire’s Ghost Roads series comes close, but that’s only 2 (as of right now) books. I fine with tension and spooky and supernatural, but so much of what’s out there right now is too far into the brands of horror that I […]

Filed Under: Book Club, Children's Books, Fantasy, Young Adult Tagged With: #CannonballBookClub, alternate history, Claribel A Ortega, fireflies, ghost hunting, Ghost Squad, ghosts, magic, middle grade, st augustine fl, Young Adult

CoffeeShopReader's CBR13 Review No:23 · Genres: Book Club, Children's Books, Fantasy, Young Adult · Tags: #CannonballBookClub, alternate history, Claribel A Ortega, fireflies, ghost hunting, Ghost Squad, ghosts, magic, middle grade, st augustine fl, Young Adult ·
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Cast in Firelight

Arranged-marriage YA that didn’t live up to the trope

Cast in Firelight by Dana Swift

March 8, 2021 by llamareadsbooks Leave a Comment

An arranged marriage where the couple hates each others’ guts and then gets to know each other under secret identites? Yes! I picked this up based on that premise and the  read-alike comparisons in the blurb, thinking this would be an ownvoices Indian-inspired fantasy a la Tasha Suri and… it’s not. “You sure you aren’t trying to kill me?” “Never.” She smirks. “In front of all these witnesses.” “Reassuring.” Adraa and Jatin, heirs to neighboring kingdoms, have been betrothed since they were kids. Neither remembers […]

Filed Under: Fantasy, Young Adult Tagged With: #fantasy, Dana Swift, Young Adult

llamareadsbooks's CBR13 Review No:7 · Genres: Fantasy, Young Adult · Tags: #fantasy, Dana Swift, Young Adult ·
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Take that pink ribbon off my eyes, damn it

First Year by Tamora Pierce

Page by Tamora Pierce

Squire by Tamora Pierce

Lady Knight by Tamora Pierce

March 7, 2021 by katie71483 6 Comments

I was introduced to Tamora Pierce and the realm of Tortall in 1986 by a classmate of mine named Alec Deleon. He was reading a copy of Alanna: The First Adventure while in the library at lunchtime. I asked him why he was reading a book about a GIRL when he was a BOY in that know-it-all way that ten-year-olds have. He said I should try it since I liked The Hero & the Crown by Robin McKinley. Evidently that little jerk was actually paying […]

Filed Under: Fantasy, Fiction, Young Adult Tagged With: #fantasy, First Year, katie71483, Lady Knight, Page, Protector of the Small, Squire, tamora pierce, Tortall, YA, Young Adult

katie71483's CBR13 Review No:7 · Genres: Fantasy, Fiction, Young Adult · Tags: #fantasy, First Year, katie71483, Lady Knight, Page, Protector of the Small, Squire, tamora pierce, Tortall, YA, Young Adult ·
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