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The Cruel Beauty of the Faeries

The Cruel Prince by Holly Black

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Holly Black’s The Coldest Girl in Cold Town was the first audiobook that ever held my attention.  Even now, when I am trying to listen to them more, if I am somewhere I can sit, I grab my actual book/Kindle to read. The Coldest Girl in Cold Town was so good that after returning from a walk, I sat on my couch and kept listening for hours.  As a result, I am kind of surprised that I haven’t read her entire back catalog but I always pick up her new books when I realize they have been released, including The […]

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4/5/2018 | 's CBR10 Review No:49 |

Callum Hunt and the Diminishing Returns

The Copper Gauntlet, The Bronze Key, The Silver Mask by Holly Black and Casandra Clare

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I read the first book in the series and enjoyed it enough to pick up the rest of the books. Unfortunately, I got progressively more dissatisfied with the series as the books progressed. Part of the problem is that the further away the story got from a Harry Potter type story, which the authors established in the first book, the less interested I became in the books. I mean, I can read AU fanfics for free, you know? And this one wasn’t even that good of an AU fanfic. You know how sometimes an AU fic will start well, and […]

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3/23/2018 | 's CBR10 Review No:9 |

Adventures in magic

The Iron Trial; The Copper Gauntlet by Holly Black & Cassandra Clare

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This review covers book 1 & 2 of the Magisterium series, which is another spin on the magician schooling of young people.  It comes with the inevitable comparisons to Harry Potter, but other than having two boys and a girl as the main characters, there’s not a lot that is similar (at least in my eyes). The Iron Trial introduces us to Callum Hunt, who really has no desire to become a magician, or mage, as they call it.  His father has in fact insisted that Call fail the admission testing for the school, and Call seemingly does so without […]

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2/20/2018 | 's CBR10 Review No:12 |

The more I think about it, the worse this gets

The Cruel Prince by Holly Black

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The more I think about this story, the less I like it. At first read, The Cruel Prince is a pretty standard supernatural fantasy for teens. It’s got the Fey girl raised human and two human girls raised Fey, and all 3 are sisters. Taryn and Jude are the human twins, and VIvi is their slightly older Fey half-sister. Vivi of course prefers living as a human much to her Fey father’s annoyance, while Taryn wants to fit in with the Fey, and Jude isn’t quite sure what she wants. Most of the story is from Jude’s perspective, and she’s […]

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2/16/2018 | 's CBR10 Review No:10 |

Starring a super special heroine who sucks

Tithe by Holly Black

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I expected to enjoy Tithe a lot more than I actually did. A YA book promising dangerous fairies would normally be exactly the kind of thing I’d read with glee, but the rushed writing style really didn’t work for me. Sixteen year old Kaye spends her life moving from place to place, tagging along with her wannabe rock star mother and going to work rather than school in order to pay the bills that her mum is incapable of financing. When her deadbeat boyfriend attacks her mum, they pack up and head to grandma’s, a place that Kaye remembers fondly […]

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2/16/2018 | 's CBR10 Review No:11 |

I’d love to be a Fairy’s Child

The Cruel Prince by Holly Black

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When Jude was seven years old, her life and those of her sisters, were irrevocably changed. Lord Madoc, the Faerie King’s general, showed up on their doorstep, intent on claiming back his long-lost heir and Jude and Taryn’s parents were murdered as a result. Madoc took them and his daughter Vivienne to Elfhame, where they were all raised as part of his household. Most humans in Elfhame are servants (or even slaves) be-glamoured not to realise that they’re trapped in a magical realm. That Madoc has demanded that Jude and Taryn be raised alongside the children of the Fae, and […]

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1/28/2018 | 's CBR10 Review No:4 |

Potter Adjacent

The Iron Trial by Holly Black and Cassandra Clare

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The Iron Trial is the first book in series by Holly Black and Cassandra Clare. I’m a fan of Holly Black, but I’ve kind of avoided everything by Cassandra Clare because I used to read Fandom Wank back in the day and she just leaves a bad taste in my mouth. However, this book was on sale a while back, and it looked interesting so I picked it up (also, I think Holly Black was listed first and I didn’t see Cassandra Clare’s name at all until after I started reading it). It’s fun, and I’ll be continuing with the […]

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1/26/2018 | 's CBR10 Review No:6 |

I’m Super Emotional All the Time Because Someone is Cursing Me. Yeah, That’s It.

The Curse Workers Series, Books 1-3 by Holly Black

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I’m not sure if this is just going to be a trilogy or intended to be a longer series? In any case, I just finished reading the three books (so far!) in Holly Black’s Curse Workers young adult series (titled White Cat, Red Glove, and Black Heart). The premise is interesting, and draws the characters into a world of crime and corruption that I haven’t seen in exactly the same way in other YA books, though some of the typical tropes and characters definitely come out to play. In particular, there is some good commentary that could be related to […]

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