Tag: ya fantasy book recs
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Chain of Gold – The Best of Cassandra Clare
I reread Chain of Gold by Cassandra Clare yesterday for the first time and I am finding it hard to place it in my preference list for the Shadowhunter Chronicles. I kept thinking throughout the read that it is one of my favourites, that I love it as much as Clockwork Prince and Clockwork Princess…
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The Cosy Fantasy Continues in Emily Wilde’s Map of the Otherlands
Dipping back into the adorable light fantasy romance world of Heather Fawcett’s Emily Wilde’s Encyclopaedia of Faeries, this time with the sequel Emily Wilde’s Map of the Otherlands. This time the drama is escalating, the tension is rising, and Emily and Wendall are at the centre of not only an iconic mystery, but a discovery…
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My Review of Marissa Meyer’s The Lunar Chronicles
If you have been checking in with this blog over the last few months, then you will have seen I reread The Lunar Chronicles by Marissa Meyer. If you don’t know what that is, the Lunar Chronicles is a YA sci-fi fairytale retelling series spread across four books, blending elements of the traditional narrative structures…
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It All Comes Down To This In Marissa Meyer’s Winter
What a whirlwind end to a fantastic series! Marissa Meyer’s Lunar Chronicles comes to a stunning conclusion with Winter, a whopping 823 pages that is bound to have you immersed, excited, and eagerly anticipating the ever-changing action for Cinder, Scarlet, Wolf, Cress, Captain Thorne, Kai and Iko. Princess Winter is admired for her grace, kindness…
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My Review of Claudia Gray’s Firebird Trilogy
Claudia Gray’s Firebird trilogy is a YA sci-fi romance that will take you all over the world, jumping into multiverses and dropping you in places of rich detail, vivid world building, and budding romance. It is an immersive, fun, and creative series that I happily reread in 2024 and maybe I can convince you to…
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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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A Million Worlds With You by Claudia Gray – A Finale Out of This World
Concluding Claudia Gray’s The Firebird Trilogy is A Million Worlds With You, a novel that is action-packed, intriguing and multi-layered beyond expectations. It brings the imagination and creative settings of various worlds together and the possibilities within these worlds and the overarching action and romance plots of the trilogy to a gritty, engaging conclusion. To…
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The Gang is Back Together in Cassandra Clare’s The Lost Book of the White
I couldn’t wait to get back into the wonderful world of Cassandra Clare and Wesley Chu’s The Eldest Curses Trilogy, and I was so very happy to see the gang back together for another adventure. I did love the random selection of characters in The Red Scrolls of Magic, but there is a nostalgia with…
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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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My Infernal Devices Trilogy Review (It’s The Best YA Trilogy Ever)
A much beloved trilogy on bookstagram and booktok, The Infernal Devices by Cassandra Clare is a popular must-read. Unlike newer “popular must-reads”, this trilogy had its initial run over a decade ago, making it a historic historical fantasy and a classic on the YA fantasy shelf. Clockwork Angel, Clockwork Prince, and Clockwork Princess make up…