Showing posts with label fantasy. Show all posts
Showing posts with label fantasy. Show all posts

Friday, 8 May 2020

The City We Became by N.K. Jemisin



Title: The City We Became (Great Cities #1) 
Author: N.K. Jemisin 
Date Read: April 30 2020
Published: March 24 2020 @ Orbit 
Genre: Urban Fantasy  

Rating: ⭐⭐⭐





"I stand on the rooftop of a building I don’t live in and spread my arms and tighten my middle and yell nonsense ululations at the construction site that blocks my view. I’m really singing to the cityscape beyond. The city’ll figure it out."



Tuesday, 23 January 2018

The Cruel Prince by Holly Black





Title: The Cruel Prince (The Folk of the Air #1)
Author: Holly Black
Date Read: January 20th 2017 
Published: January 2nd 2018 @ Little, Brown
Genre: YA Fantasy

Rating: ⭐⭐⭐⭐





"What could I become if I stopped worrying about death, about pain, about anything? What if I stopped trying to belong? Instead of being afraid, I could become something to fear."


Thursday, 24 August 2017

This Savage Song by Victoria Schwab





Title: This Savage Song (Monsters of Verity #1)

Author: Victoria Schwab 
Date Read: August 23 2017
Published: July 5th 2016 @ Greenwillow Books
Genre: YA Urban Fantasy

Rating: 
⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐






“You wanted to feel alive, right? It doesn't matter if you're monster or human. Living hurts.” 


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Wednesday, 9 August 2017

Every Heart a Doorway by Seanan McGuire





Title: Every Heart a Doorway (Wayward Children #1)
Author: Seanan McGuire
Date Read: August 8 2017
Published: April 5 2017 @ Tor.com
Genre: YA Fantasy

Rating: ⭐⭐⭐⭐ 








“Going back” had two distinct meanings at the school, depending on how it was said. It was the best thing in the world. It was also the worst thing that could happen to anybody. It was returning to a place that understood you so well that it had reached across realities to find you, claiming you as its own and only; it was being sent to a family that wanted to love you, wanted to keep you safe and sound, but didn’t know you well enough to do anything but hurt you.


Tuesday, 20 June 2017

Days of Blood & Starlight by Laini Taylor




Title: Days of Blood & Starlight (Daughter of Smoke & Bone #2) 
Author: Laini Taylor
Date Read: June 12 2017

Published: November 6 2012 @ Little, Brown Books for Young Readers
Genre: YA Fantasy

Rating: ⭐⭐
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"I am one of billions. I am stardust gathered fleetingly into form. I will be ungathered. The stardust will go on to be other things someday and I will be free."


Wednesday, 14 June 2017

Top Five Wednesday: Side Ships



Favourite Side Ships 

Top 5 Wednesday is a goodreads group created by Lainey from gingerreadslainey and run by Sam from ThoughtsOnTomes, where each week there is a different book-related topic to discuss. If you're interested in this topic or others, check out the goodreads page to see more answers.

So this week's Top Five Wednesday is about our favourite side ships, meaning relationships that don't involve the story's protagonist. I tend to read stories that don't have very much in the way of relationships just generally, so I had to stretch this out and cheat a little by adding characters that could arguably be called protagonists, as well as including a couple tv series. I tried my best. Obviously, there will be mild spoilers ahead.


Monday, 12 June 2017

Daughter of Smoke & Bone by Laini Taylor





Title: Daughter of Smoke & Bone (Daughter of Smoke & Bone #1) 
Author: Laini Taylor
Date Read: June 7 2017

Published: September 27 2011 @ Little, Brown Books for Young Readers
Genre: YA Fantasy

Rating: ⭐⭐
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"Once upon a time, an angel and a devil fell in love. It did not end well."


Sunday, 11 June 2017

Soundless by Richelle Mead




Title: Soundless 
Author: Richelle Mead 
Date Read: June 2 2017

Published: November 10 2015 @ Razorbill
Genre: YA Fantasy

Rating: ⭐⭐
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“For the first time since this phenomenon started happening to me, I begin to understand the power it could have and why our ancestors mourned its loss. Every sound around me - the renewed pattering of rain, the wind in the leaves - all of it suddenly has a new meaning. I can see how these sounds don't interfere with the world so much as enhance it. The scope and potential are huge. It's like having a new color to paint with.” 


Saturday, 10 June 2017

Three Dark Crowns by Kendare Blake




Title: Three Dark Crowns (Three Dark Crowns #1)
Author: Kendare Blake  
Date Read:  January 29 2017

Published: September 20 2016
Genre: YA Fantasy

Rating: ⭐
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Three dark queens
Are born in a glen,
Sweet little triplets
Will never be friends

Three dark sisters
All fair to be seen,
Two to devour
And one to be Queen