🌸 Title: Shadow and Bone Trilogy 🌸 Author: Leigh Bardugo🌸 Release Date: June 5th, 2012🌸 Genre: Young Adult, Fantasy, Fiction, Paranormal, Romance🌸 A non-major spoilers review. “I will strip away all that you know, all that you love, until you have no shelter but mine.” –Leigh Bardugo, Ruin and Rising (Book 3) Goodreads summary of Book 1: Surrounded by enemies, the once-great nation of Ravka has been torn in two by the Shadow Fold, a swath of near impenetrable darkness crawling with monsters who feast on human flesh. Now its fate may rest on the shoulders of one lonely refugee. Alina Starkov has never been good at anything. But when her…
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To Kill A Kingdom: A dark siren story that could have been darker
🌸 Title: To Kill A Kingdom🌸 Author: Alexandra Christo🌸 Release Date: March 6th, 2018🌸 Genre: Young Adult, Fantasy, Fiction, Retellings, Romance🌸 A non-major spoilers review. “Technically, I’m a murderer, but I like to think that’s one of my better qualities.” –Alexandra Christo, To Kill a Kingdom Amazon summary: Princess Lira is siren royalty and the most lethal of them all. With the hearts of seventeen princes in her collection, she is revered across the sea. Until a twist of fate forces her to kill one of her own. To punish her daughter, the Sea Queen transforms Lira into the one thing they loathe most–a human. Robbed of her song, Lira has…
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House of Salt and Sorrows: A book that made me both salty and sorrowful
🌸 Title: House of Salt and Sorrows🌸 Author: Erin A. Craig🌸 Release Date: August 6th, 2019 🌸 Genre: Young Adult, Fantasy, Fiction, Horror, Mystery, Retellings, Romance🌸 A non-major spoilers review.🌸 This was part of my May buddy read with @froggyreads! “We are born of the Salt, we live by the Salt, and to the Salt we return.” –Erin A. Craig, House of Salt and Sorrows Goodreads summary: In a manor by the sea, twelve sisters are cursed. Annaleigh lives a sheltered life at Highmoor, a manor by the sea, with her sisters, their father, and stepmother. Once they were twelve, but loneliness fills the grand halls now that four of the girls’…
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The Infinity Courts – What does it mean to be human?
🌸 Title: The Infinity Courts 🌸Author: Akemi Dawn Bowman 🌸Release Date: April 6th, 2021🌸Genre: YA, Fantasy, Fiction, Contemporary, Sci-Fi, Romance🌸 A non-major spoilers review.🌸I received an ARC copy from NetGalley in exchange for an honest review. “And in this moment, I’m not a spy or a person without a family. I’m one half of a star, bursting across the sky with the only boy that makes my heart feel like it’s on fire.” -Akemi Dawn Bowman, The Infinity Courts The Infinity Courts follows eighteen-year-old Nami Miyamoto as she seemingly is living a good life. She has her best friend turned boyfriend, a loving family, and she just graduated high school. But…
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Lost in the Never Woods – The tension lacked and nothing really happened
🌸 Title: Lost in the Never Woods🌸Author: Aiden Thomas🌸Release Date: March 23rd, 2021🌸Genre: YA, Fantasy, Fiction, Mystery, Retellings🌸 A non-major spoilers review.🌸Note: I received an ARC copy from NetGalley in exchange for an honest review “I thought you weren’t afraid of anything?” Wendy heard herself say. She was lightheaded and breathless. “I’m terrified,” he said quietly. -Aiden Thomas, Lost in the Never Woods Lost in the Never Woods introduces us to Wendy Darling, a girl traumatized after losing her memories and her brothers. Five years later, a boy falls from the sky—literally, and tells her that she’s the key to finding the children who have been disappearing. But she will have…
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Series Review: A Court of Thorns and Roses – A series that changed the YA genre
It’s not often that I find myself struggling to find the words to describe a book. Often I can just bada-bing-bada-boom and come up with a review. Even when I first read this series I couldn’t quite put into words what I felt because I’d first read Throne of Glass, and ACOTAR was a whole different species. ACOTAR was the first Young Adult series that I questioned for being YA. It seemed to be Adult, but at the same time, the age of the characters belonged in YA. It was dark, gritty, and had sex scenes that I hadn’t even read in any Adult book. So how do we decide…
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From Blood and Ash – A New Mesmerizing Series That I Fell In Love With
🌸 Title: From Blood And Ash (Book 1) 🌸Author: Jennifer L. Armentrout 🌸Published: March 30th, 2020 🌸Genre: Young Adult, Fantasy, Fiction, Paranormal, Romance 🌸A no major spoilers review. “With my sword and with my life, I vow to keep you safe, Penellaphe,” he spoke, voice deep and smooth, reminding me of rich, decadent chocolate. “From this moment until the last moment, I am yours.” -Jennifer L. Armentrout, From Blood And Ash Poppy is the Maiden. She cannot be touched, looked at, or spoken to, and it’s not the life she imagined. She’d much rather be fighting. Hawke, a soldier bound to protect her, makes her question everything and makes her…
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Midnight Sun is just vampire teen angst in 700 pages
🌸 Title: Midnight Sun 🌸Author: Stephenie Meyer 🌸Published: August 4th, 2020 🌸Genre: Young Adult, Fantasy, Fiction, Paranormal, Romance 🌸A no major spoilers review. I also reviewed Midnight Sun in my August 2020 Wrap Up video (wow, where did the time go?) if you’d rather just watch that. “Maybe if I could be unconscious, if I could dream, I could live for a few hours in a world where she and I could be together. She dreamed of me. I wanted to dream of her.” -Stephanie Meyer, Midnight Sun Midnight Sun, based on the Twilight series, gives the perspective of Edward Cullen. With this dark twist, we get to experience his…
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Series Review: Caraval – A wet noodle of a magic series
I’ve recently decided to take some trips down memory lane and revamp my reviews and post them on my blog rather than have them sit on Goodreads. Caraval is one of those. I really had a hard time reading this series, and I feel bad because so many people seemed to love it. I stuck with it because I was hoping Tessa’s point of view in Legendary would sway my opinion, but it didn’t change much. My video below also gives my opinion on the Caraval series along with some other books such as Serpent & Dove and Midnight Sun, which hopefully I’ll have reviews up for on my blog…
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Kingdom of Ash – I have no words to describe my feelings
🌸 Title: Kingdom of Ash🌸Author: Sarah J. Maas🌸Published: October 23rd, 2018🌸Genre: YA, Fantasy, Fiction, Romance🌸Preview: Aelin is locked within a box and must find the courage to stay strong as her friends and allies figure out how to free her.🌸A no major spoilers review. Originally, I was going to write about all of the Throne of Glass books. Realistically, however, it’s been so long since I’ve read them that I cannot give an honest review from the heart—but that’s okay. I have an overall review here based on Kingdom of Ash that should tie up my feelings into a nice bow. Aelin Galathynius gave herself up to Maeve for her…
