Tag: #fantasy
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The School for Good and Evil: The Last Ever After Review
Old with Old New with New Back to your tower Before I call You-Know-Who
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Twilight/Life and Death Review
As readers of my blog have noticed, I’ve been on a YA dystopian binge but I figured I should also pay tribute to one of the books that forever changed the landscape of the YA and vampire genres- Twilight. Yep, I never read the books though with its renowned popularity, I have a good grasp…
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The School for Good and Evil Review
In The Forest Primeval A School For Good And Evil Two Towers Like Twin Heads One For The Pure One For the Wicked Try To Escape You’ll Always Fail The Only Way Out Is Through A Fairy Tale
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Beautiful Redemption Review
Since the stunning conclusion of the last book where the One who is Two aka Ethan Wate decided to jump off Gatlin’s water tower to save the world, Ethan and his friends are grappling with the consequences. Oh yeah, Ethan is not dead. I mean technically his body is. But his soul is in the…
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The Queen’s Council: Feather and Flame Review
The second book in the Queen’s Council series brings readers back to Imperial China as Mulan takes upon a role she never thought she’d serve, or even deserves. Set a few years after Mulan saved China, she has created an all-female militia, teaching women how to fight and defend their village from bandits and other…
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The Queen’s Council: Rebel Rose Review
What happens after happily ever after? That’s what this new series focuses on because while the Disney Princesses line are famous for the latter part, being a Princess, but that’s just a stepping stone. After all, most princesses are expected to promoted to queen by marriage or by their own rule. This series delves into…
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Beautiful Chaos Review
After the events of the summer, Ethan, Lena and all their loved ones are dealing with the consequences of their actions as this southern gothic turns to the End of Days. Garcia and Stohl jump right into the the dire state of Gatlin with plagues of locusts or lubbers as they are dubbed, heat burning…
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Princess Academy: The Forgotten Sisters
Well the final book in the Princess Academy trilogy brings things full circle as the quiet, short girl who defied everyone’s expectations (including her own) to graduate princess academy and defeat bandits has been recruited by the king to teach his three young cousins to be proper princesses before Danland goes to war. As you…
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Princess Academy: Palace of Stone Review
After enjoying the first novel, I was surprised to find out that there were two more books making it a trilogy, so of course I had to get into it. Taking place almost a year since the events of the Academy and Britta’s engagement to Prince Steffan, the girls of Mount Estkel finally get to…
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Fairest Review
Since I tackled Ella Enchanted, I decided to read another of Levine’s classic fairytale retellings. This time she tackles Snow White and she does it with plenty of twists and panache. I’ve said before, but I’ll repeat again I really admire her imagination when building her magic system and creating distinct languages, lore and other…
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