Category: YA Fantasy
-
The Bone Season – Sci-Fi Paranormal Supernatural Dystopian? I am Intrigued, Samantha Shannon
I have seen Samantha Shannon’s name all over bookish social media for her duology The Priory of the Orange Tree and A Day of Fallen Night. I knew that there was a series she wrote before these books though, and with a little digging, I found The Bone Season. Upon picking it up, it had…
-
The Darkest Minds – Alexandra Bracken’s YA Dystopia I Still Thoroughly Enjoy
Alexandra Bracken’s The Darkest Minds has been one of my favourite YA dystopians for a while now. There’s something so simple and familiar about it, but it packs such a powerful punch and feels both plausible and terrifying. I liked it so much I did a high school character monologue as Ruby, and I used…
-
Stunning Dark Fantasy Prose in Emily Lloyd-Jones’s The Bone Houses
The Bone Houses was a reread of mine for two main reasons. One, I originally read it before I started my blog, so my written review for it is a mere five or six lines in an old diary. Two, I knew I needed to read it again to fully express how wonderful this book…
-
I Will Always Love Cassandra Clare’s Clockwork Angel
The Infernal Devices trilogy is my favourite YA Fantasy series to date, and I don’t think I will come across something that strikes me in the gut and makes my heart sing quite like it. I’m a huge fan of Cassandra Clare’s Shadowhunter chronicles, if that wasn’t evident by now. I’ve talked about The Mortal…
-
My Thoughts on Cassandra Clare’s The Dark Artifices Trilogy
It has been over a year since I read The Dark Artifices Trilogy by Cassandra Clare, but I wanted to hold off on writing this review because I wanted to get through the original series first. That took longer than expected with the seven-month break between reading the fifth and sixth books. Now that The…