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Brunette w/Sword outstretched, surrounded by the points of other swords

“We are the ones who ensure history exists to be written.”

One for All by Lillie Lainoff

March 12, 2022 by NTE 7 Comments

Have you ever heard the saying (not the Groucho Marx version, but the earnest one) about becoming a member of a club you don’t want to be a member of? It might just be pretty common in the circles I’ve run in, because I’ve mostly heard people talk about it in relation to loss – How you never want to become &/or welcome a new member to the parents of kids who’ve died club, or the widows’ club. Definitely clubs you do not want to […]

Filed Under: Fantasy, Young Adult Tagged With: #fantasy, Ableism, cbr14, chronic illness, disability lit, feminist, feminist fantasy, historical fantasy, Lillie Lainoff, Musketteers, One For All, pots, YA

NTE's CBR14 Review No:1 · Genres: Fantasy, Young Adult · Tags: #fantasy, Ableism, cbr14, chronic illness, disability lit, feminist, feminist fantasy, historical fantasy, Lillie Lainoff, Musketteers, One For All, pots, YA ·
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Full of Highs and Lows

The Priory of the Orange Tree by Samantha Shannon

April 14, 2020 by Ellesfena 3 Comments

My experience with The Priory of the Orange Tree perfectly illustrates the pitfalls of reading on a tablet. I was happily reading along, thinking how much I was enjoying this book with its refreshingly updated take on fantasy, when all of a sudden, I thought, “Hmm. I’ve been reading this for a long time now and I still don’t know where any of this is going.” It was then that I checked and realized I’d been reading for at least two weeks, and was only […]

Filed Under: Fantasy, Fiction Tagged With: #fantasy, feminist fantasy, Samantha Shannon, the priory of the orange tree

Ellesfena's CBR12 Review No:6 · Genres: Fantasy, Fiction · Tags: #fantasy, feminist fantasy, Samantha Shannon, the priory of the orange tree ·
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