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Chaotic, Cruel Fairy Stories

Princess Floralinda and the Forty-Flight Tower by Tamsyn Muir

January 12, 2021 by LittlePlat 5 Comments

Princess Floralinda and the Forty-Flight Tower was not at all what I expected. But in retrospect, I’ve come to conclude that my expectations may have been a bit daft. Based on the title and some choice pull quotes, I thought I might be getting a bit of a gently inverted fairy tale. More fool me. This is Tamsyn Muir we’re speaking of here. The author of the Locked Tomb series, whose bread and butter is messy, fucked up sort of sapphic relationships in gruesome settings. […]

Filed Under: Fantasy, Fiction Tagged With: #fantasy, neither of the two of you are remotly mature enough to be in a relationship right now, Princess Floralinda and the Forty-Flight Tower, tamsyn muir, Toxic Romance, working women

LittlePlat's CBR13 Review No:3 · Genres: Fantasy, Fiction · Tags: #fantasy, neither of the two of you are remotly mature enough to be in a relationship right now, Princess Floralinda and the Forty-Flight Tower, tamsyn muir, Toxic Romance, working women ·
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A Welcome Addition To YA Dystopias

The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes by Suzanne Collins

May 27, 2020 by Claire Badger 2 Comments

Were we all a little burned out on dystopic YA fiction for a while there? Yeah, and the movie studios sure didn’t help. Yet here in 2020, something about a pandemic has made dystopic fiction that is specifically YA a lot more appealing though, so who better to reignite my interest in the genre than Susanne Collins herself? Did I get so obsessively into the Hunger Games trilogy back in ’12 that I neglected to finish my Masters thesis on time and had to take […]

Filed Under: Fiction, Science Fiction, Young Adult Tagged With: dystopia, Hunger Games, Susanne Collins, Suzanne Collins, The Hunger Games, Toxic Romance, YA

Claire Badger's CBR12 Review No:1 · Genres: Fiction, Science Fiction, Young Adult · Tags: dystopia, Hunger Games, Susanne Collins, Suzanne Collins, The Hunger Games, Toxic Romance, YA ·
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