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Realm of Wonders Review
It was supposed to be the month of Jasmine’s wedding, but this book starts with a funeral. The sultan is dead and Jasmine has less than a week to wrap her mind around the fact that her beloved father is gone, and she is to be Agrabah’s first sultana ruling solo. But not everyone is…
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Ranking The Chronicles of Never After
De La Cruz puts her own spin on the fractured fairytale genre with the Never After series where a youn fangirl gets a dream (or nightmare come true). Her beloved book series is releasing it’s epic finale, only to find out that the 13th book is never ever coming out. Because it hasn’t been written…
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The Selection Review
America Singer is a Five, the caste of artists and musicians. They may provide entertainment and culture but it is a seasonal rank that makes her family’s finances a balancing act. That’s why her mother is thrilled about Prince Jaxon’s upcoming Selection. If America is chosen from the lottery, she and 34 other girls may…
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Warriors: Power of Three
The third generation takes the stage and things get even darker than before. Bluestar had prophesized long ago that the kin of Firestar’s kin, a trio to be precise, would be the most powerful cats of the age. They would have the power of the stars. The thing about prophecies is that they’re oftentimes vague…
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Rose Campbell and Jane Eyre
I was reading Rose in Bloom in full (well the abridged version since the classic version sometimes gets too preachy for me) and this quote—— “My heart is my own, to dispose of as I please. Don’t shut yourself out of it by presuming too much, for you have no claim on me but that…
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Supermartian in Torch-Songs
Alright so maybe this is just relevant to the YJ fandom and those who have knowledge of events occurring in season 2 of the show, but it’s a comic book so I’m putting it in my book blog. Aka the importance of reading tie in comics.
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What is with the page length in YAs?
Maybe this is an unpopular opinion, but what is this new trend in YA fantasy books to make them over 500 pages? For example, I love Cassandra Clare’s Shadowhunter Chronicles. Dark Artifices is the trilogy where she really amps the page length into the 800s. Queen of Air and Darkness was nearly a 1,000 if…
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Divergent Review
We get to the last of my dystopian trilogy trifecta. Well technically, it could be called a quartet as it has the Four prequel but it’s a prequel so it doesn’t really count. Anyway, much like The Hunger Games, I never read the books. I saw the first two movies and I’m aware of the…
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March Books
Not That Kind of Ever After by Luci Adams This fun debut brings single life and fairytales into one frothy mash-up. Utter romantic Bella Marble has been a fed a steady diet of Prince Charmings and happily ever afters, partially inspired by her own parents’ fairytale marriage. She just wants one of her own, but…