Tag: YA Fantasy
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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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Clockwork Prince – My Favourite Cassandra Clare Book
The title speaks for itself, but it wouldn’t be a good book review if I didn’t note a few things. Clockwork Prince by Cassandra Clare is the second in the Infernal Devices trilogy, following Clockwork Angel and leading up the the riveting finale Clockwork Princess. It has the action of a good ya fantasy novel…
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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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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…
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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…
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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…