Tag: YA book recs
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Back to the Basics with Ursula K. Le Guin’s A Wizard of Earthsea
I am going to be honest here and say I have not read The Books of Earthsea by Ursula K. Le Guin. Any of them. I had heard of them, of course, but it is only now in my mid-twenties that I possess a copy of them. This copy has already shocked and surprised me…
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Witchy Book Recs
I’m starting my Spooktober book recs series off easy with the Witchy Book Recs. These books contain witches and/or warlocks, magic, and magical realism. While these character may not all be witches or warlocks, the books carry this witchy vibe befitting of its addition to this category (and likely they fit the best in this…
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Susan Dennard’s The Whispering Night – The Conclusion to a YA Dark Naturalism Fantasy Wonder
The conclusion to this wonderful YA dark naturalism fantasy has arrived. The Whispering Night by Susan Dennard, third and final of the Luminaries trilogy, brings all the threads together and delivers in an intense, action-packed, quick-paced gut punch of a novel. The magic of The Luminaries and the tensions of The Hunting Party collide in…
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Marissa Meyer’s Cress Will Have Your Heart in Your Throat
Cress, Marissa Meyer’s third instalment in the Lunar Chronicles, is where the conflicts really heat up. Everything about this book carries high-stakes, making the interactions incredible, the action intense, and the characters raw and complex beyond the immediate issues at hand. It is exhilarating, immersive, and an absolute must-read. Cinder and Captain Thorne are fugitives…
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In The Afterlight by Alexandra Bracken Breaks My Heart
It all comes down to this. The actions and decisions in Alexandra Bracken’s The Darkest Minds Trilogy have culminated in In the Afterlight, an action-packed finale rife with high tension, character conflicts, and a main character perspective so layered and different you can’t help but feel for Ruby in the midst of this mounting finale.…
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Claudia Gray’s Ten Thousand Skies Above You – A Perfect Balance of Romance and Sci-fi
Ten Thousand Skies Above You, the second instalment in Claudia Gray’s Firebird Trilogy, kicks right into the action with higher stakes and more emotional turmoil than before. The tension is sky-high and the uncertainties of the worlds and how things work makes reading this novel a truly gripping, heart-stopping experience. Ever since Marguerite used the…
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The Dark Academia Read of the 2020s is R.F. Kuang’s Babel
Dark academia is a popular genre among young readers, and it has made a resurgence over the last decade or so. Babel, R.F. Kuang’s powerhouse of a novel published in 2022, is the dark academia book of the 2020s, sitting next to Donna Tartt’s The Secret History and M.L Rio’s If We Were Villains of…
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Marissa Meyer’s Cinder is My Kind of Fairytale Retelling
When it comes to fairytale retellings, I hold Marissa Meyer’s Lunar Chronicles in high favour. When I first read Cinder I was astounded by the brilliance of this story world and the simple what if? What if we took Cinderella and made it sci-fi? What if we took cinderella and made her a cyborg? What…