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Tricked Into a YA Romance

Daughter of Smoke & Bone by Lainie Taylor

August 1, 2020 by Ale 2 Comments

In trying to find an agent for my own novel, I asked my friends to suggest some of their favorite books that closely resembled my fantasy so that I could shamelessly query the agents of those books for my own devices. Faintingviolet lent me Daughter of Smoke and Bone. I had no idea going into this book what it was since I’d never heard of Lainie Taylor before. But faintingviolet knows I’m not a huge fan of YA, and I pretty much avoid romance at any […]

Filed Under: Fantasy, Fiction, Speculative Fiction, Young Adult Tagged With: angels, cbr12bingo, demons, Fresh Start, Lainie Taylor, magic, Prague

Ale's CBR12 Review No:13 · Genres: Fantasy, Fiction, Speculative Fiction, Young Adult · Tags: angels, cbr12bingo, demons, Fresh Start, Lainie Taylor, magic, Prague ·
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No Brothers Left, and There’ll Be No More After Me

Daughter of Smoke and Bone by Laini Taylor

Days of Blood and Starlight by Laini Taylor

Dreams of Gods and Monsters by Laini Taylor

February 25, 2019 by Ellesfena Leave a Comment

I’m going to write this review as though it’s three separate reviews, because I can’t figure out how to review Books 2 and 3 in this series without completely spoiling Book 1. So if you don’t want to read spoilers, you can stop reading after Book 1. Book 1: Daughter of Smoke and Bone is the story of Karou, an art student living in Prague. She has a best friend, Zuzana, an annoying ex-boyfriend named Kaz, and a double life, wherein she works for a […]

Filed Under: Fantasy, Young Adult Tagged With: Daughter of Smoke and Bone, Laini Taylor, Prague, ya fantasy

Ellesfena's CBR11 Review No:8 · Genres: Fantasy, Young Adult · Tags: Daughter of Smoke and Bone, Laini Taylor, Prague, ya fantasy ·
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Read it, like a child, into the night

Melmoth by Sarah Perry

February 19, 2019 by tillie Leave a Comment

Helen Franklin is an English ex-pat in Prague on a mission to penalize herself for a mysterious past. However she cannot avoid the friendship of Karel and Thea and for a while she is almost happy. Then Melmoth appears. Melmoth is the an old tale of the wanderer, the one who is there to witness when no one else is and what she sees is the depravity, the loss the despair. Melmoth is just a myth, or so it seems until Karel gets a letter […]

Filed Under: Fantasy, Fiction, History, Horror, Mystery Tagged With: #history, cbr11, English, legend, Mathildehoeg, melmoth, mystery, myth, Prague, Sarah Perry, tilliereads

tillie's CBR11 Review No:7 · Genres: Fantasy, Fiction, History, Horror, Mystery · Tags: #history, cbr11, English, legend, Mathildehoeg, melmoth, mystery, myth, Prague, Sarah Perry, tilliereads ·
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you will falsely remember being told about Melmoth by your grandmother’s mother when you were very small

Melmoth by Sarah Perry

January 2, 2019 by andtheIToldYouSos 10 Comments

There is something immediately nauseating – hear me out- about this book. You can be nauseous when you feel ill, when you ride a roller coaster, when you are nervous, or when you eat too many sweets. There is a feeling of hopeful dread that climbs over you (and all of the characters within) before you have finished reading the first page. There is a feeling that you have been here – in a cafe in Prague, under an overpass in Manila, in a field […]

Filed Under: Fiction, Horror, Mystery, Suspense Tagged With: #fate, Bohemia, fakelore, folklore, literary fiction, mythology, Prague, Sarah Perry, WWII

andtheIToldYouSos's CBR11 Review No:1 · Genres: Fiction, Horror, Mystery, Suspense · Tags: #fate, Bohemia, fakelore, folklore, literary fiction, mythology, Prague, Sarah Perry, WWII ·
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“Wishes are false. Hope is true. Hope makes its own magic.”

January 10, 2017 by faintingviolet 6 Comments

I try to read a little bit of many different genres throughout the course of any given year. However, like most people, I lean more heavily on some genres than others. Fantasy, while one of our most read genres (over 150 pages of reviews!), has been a slowly growing genre for me. It took some in depth discussions with Ale for me to nail down my problems: I have a very difficult time getting my brain around non-Earth settings, and the tropes, particularly the Quest, […]

Filed Under: Fantasy, Young Adult Tagged With: Daughter of Smoke and Bone, fantasy, female lead, Laini Taylor, Prague, Series, YA

Post by faintingviolet · Genres: Fantasy, Young Adult · Tags: Daughter of Smoke and Bone, fantasy, female lead, Laini Taylor, Prague, Series, YA ·
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