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Luminous

Cool cover, meh book

Luminous by Mara Rutherford

October 18, 2021 by llamareadsbooks Leave a Comment

Stories about teens learning to love their magic always are one of my favorite YA fantasy tropes, and that cover is so pretty. Unfortunately, the rest of the book didn’t quite live up to it. “Magic—especially the kind people wielded deliberately—was as much of a mystery to me as the world outside Sylvan.” Liora has spent most of her life in hiding in her quiet village. After a tragedy when she was a child, she started displaying signs of magic: her skin glows, especially when […]

Filed Under: Fantasy, Young Adult Tagged With: #fantasy, Mara Rutherford, Young Adult

llamareadsbooks's CBR13 Review No:108 · Genres: Fantasy, Young Adult · Tags: #fantasy, Mara Rutherford, Young Adult ·
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