Tag: YA Fantasy
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Emily Wilde’s Encyclopaedia of Faeries is a Delightful Cosy Fantasy For All
Emily Wilde’s Encyclopaedia of Faeries by Heather Fawcett has been popular book for light academia lovers, fairycore fans, and whimsical romance readers over the last two years. I have finally joined the party, and I can attest to the wonderful world building and delightful dialogue within these pages. It is a historical fiction fantasy set…
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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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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…
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Scarlet by Marissa Meyer May Be My Favourite Lunar Chronicles Book
Continuing with Marissa Meyer’s The Lunar Chronicles, Scarlet takes us away from the Eastern Commonwealth and drops us into rural France, giving us another side of Princess Selene’s story. I love the Little Red Riding Hood fairytale, and seeing it brought into a sci-fi space context made it all the more enjoyable. In fact, it…
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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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The Red Scrolls of Magic is a Cute Shadowhunter Adventure
The Red Scrolls of Magic has been out for years, but I never got around to reading it until now. Why it took me so long, I don’t know, but what I do know is that this is an absolutely adorable addition to the Shadowhunter universe. There are so many parts of this novel that…