Tag: ya fantasy worlds
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Clockwork Princess Always Brings Tears To My Eyes
What a whirlwind. What a stunning, heartbreaking, emotive, brilliant novel. Cassandra Clare’s Clockwork Princess exceeds my expectations of a trilogy final and firmly establishes itself on my favourite books of all time shelf. Very few make it up there, but Clockwork Princess has been up there since the beginning, my first read, and every reread…
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Alexandra Bracken’s YA Sci-Fi Dystopian Continues with Never Fade
Back into my regular week schedule and I’ve kicked it off with Alexandra Bracken’s Never Fade, the second book in The Darkest Minds series. Having read The Darkest Minds during my Spooktober reads, I didn’t get to fully immerse myself into the story world and layers of the narrative, but reading Never Fade has given…
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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…
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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…
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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…