Category: YA Fantasy
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Graceling – A Fantasy Like No Other
With how large of a genre fantasy is and given how themes and tropes often lead to similar stories sharing the limelight I cannot help but think about this book. Graceling by Kristin Cashore is something unique, standing its ground in an environment where inspiration and retellings have become commonplace. There’s just something about the…
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Should City of Ashes Be a Book?
Let me ask you a question – when you recall the events of Cassandra Clare’s incredible Mortal Instruments series, do you remember this book? Can you tell me the plot? The key events? The subplots and extra threads woven into this book? I’m hoping the answer is yes to at least the latter questions because,…
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Is Caraval Worth The Hype?
So I read Caraval by Stephanie Garber several summers ago, during the years where I was absorbing as much YA reading as possible without letting myself have my own thoughts on things such as personal preference, character appeal, how decent the storytelling and landscape development were, etc. As you can imagine, once that rose-tinted lens…
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Where It All Started – City of Bones
I remember reading City of Bones back in 2011 for the first time. I must have loved it because I read the entire series via ebooks (I find it very hard to read anything longer than a novella via ebooks thee days) and I was so excited to watch the movie that came out a…
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House of Salt and Sorrows – Erin A. Craig’s Dark Fantasy Must Read
With the sequel on it’s way, I thought now would be a great time to sing my praises to Erin A. Craig and her magnificent dark fantasy fairytale retelling, House of Salt and Sorrows. House of Salt and Sorrows is a dark fantasy retelling of the fairytale The Twelve Dancing Princesses with mild horror elements…
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The Cinematic Perfection that is Queen of Air and Darkness
A rollercoaster finale for a rollercoaster trilogy. This cast of characters has been through it all and now as a reader we have to bare witness to the absolute heartache that is Queen of Air and Darkness by Cassandra Clare. I cannot even begin to describe how this book had me in a chokehold for…
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Fourth Wing is My New Addiction
Fourth Wing. The shiny new book on everyone’s radar over on bookish social media. Booktok has been showing quotes and edits about Xaden, Violet and Fourth Wing for weeks. Bookstagram is posting about it multiple times a day. The world’s new fictional boyfriend is Xaden Riorson and everyone wants to get in his bed. There…
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I Am So Sorry Lord of Shadows
Lord of Shadows and me didn’t have an instant-love relationship. In fact, I DNFed it twice and then (somehow) dragged myself through each page like I was fighting for my sanity. Perhaps it was because I vaguely remember this being in 2020 and I was not thriving – a common sentiment shared, I am sure.…
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My Lady Midnight Reread
My rereads list is vast and full of worlds to be reintroduced to, and one such world is that of the Los Angeles Institute, the Blackthorns and Emma Carstairs. The Dark Artifices trilogy, admittedly, left my late teen/early 20s heart searching for more and at the time I first read through them I wasn’t in…
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The Nature of Witches Supporting My Nature Girlie Mindset
After hearing about The Nature of Witches by Rachel Griffin for months, I finally read this a few days ago to see if it was up to par with the high praise and good ratings readers were giving it. I was convinced by a fellow bookstagramer (love you in_emmas_library) after her review of it and…