Thank you Pooja!!! I’m so so happy to have both of these books! And I’m pleased to know how much you enjoyed the Captive Prince series. I’m looking forward to swapping notes with you when you get to Dark Rise and Dark Heir.
Angsty teens figuring themselves out and it’s actually interesting
Dark Rise by C. S. Pascat
I know C.S. Pascat from the Fence comics, a lighter queer romance set in a boys school fencing team. This is no that, mostly. Dark Rise is a chosen one story in which there is a secret organization fighting a secret battle to stop the great evil of the past from coming back. This is a standard fantasy scenario; what keeps things interesting is that no one with one or two exceptions is exactly who they think or say at the beginning. Will needs to […]
A sneaky, dark YA fantasy hiding inside the skin of a cliched, predictable YA fantasy.
Dark Rise (Dark Rise, #1) by C.S. Pacat
This did NOT go where I thought it was going. What the flippin’ heck. This book lulled me into complacency, then ripped the rug out from under my feet and pushed me down the stairs, where I landed in a pool of razor sharp knives. I am bleeding out currently. And the thing is! I should have known better! I have read Captive Prince! I know she is tricksy. I should have known she wouldn’t write a cookie cutter YA fantasy book, even though during […]