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I hope you die, I hope we both die

The Cruel Prince by Holly Black

May 13, 2022 by Ellesfena 7 Comments

This book surprised me. For about the first 100 pages or so, I was sure I wasn’t going to like it and may not even finish it. But eventually it pulled me in and I found myself pretty caught up in the story. The protagonist of The Cruel Prince is a teenager named Jude, a human who lives in Faerie with her human twin sister Taryn and their fairy half-sister, Vivi. They live with Vivi’s father, who is wrapped up in the various intrigues and violence of […]

Filed Under: Fantasy, Fiction, Young Adult Tagged With: #fantasy, Holly Black, The Cruel Prince, ya fantasy

Ellesfena's CBR14 Review No:8 · Genres: Fantasy, Fiction, Young Adult · Tags: #fantasy, Holly Black, The Cruel Prince, ya fantasy ·
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Chainsaw <3

The Raven Boys (The Raven Cycle, #1) by Maggie Stiefvater

April 27, 2022 by narfna 6 Comments

If someone had told me ten years ago that this book featured an emotionally turbulent teenaged boy hand-raising a baby female raven whom he has inexplicably named after a deadly tree-felling instrument, I would have read it a hell of a lot sooner. As it is, though, I’m glad I haven’t been spoiled for anything in this series. I really enjoyed my time with this first book, also my first book by this author. I think I had been avoiding it because I didn’t want […]

Filed Under: Fantasy, Young Adult Tagged With: #fantasy, Maggie Stiefvater, narfna, the raven boys, The Raven Cycle, ya fantasy, Young Adult

narfna's CBR14 Review No:54 · Genres: Fantasy, Young Adult · Tags: #fantasy, Maggie Stiefvater, narfna, the raven boys, The Raven Cycle, ya fantasy, Young Adult ·
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Lyrical prose, historical setting, and a fairytale feel mesh well together

A Rush of Wings by Laura E. Weymouth

March 22, 2022 by Aquillia Leave a Comment

A Rush of Wings is YA fantasy author Laura E. Weymouth’s most recent book (with a gorgeous cover in a different style than her other equally gorgeous covers). In many ways it resembles her second book, A Treason of Thorns in its historical setting (this time the Scottish highlands) more than her first, The Light Between Worlds, but there is some shared DNA with that one too, especially in its protagonist. While The Light Between Worlds offered a sort of justice for the Narnia character Susan Pevensie, […]

Filed Under: Fantasy, Young Adult Tagged With: fairytale retelling, Laura E. Weymouth, ya fantasy

Aquillia's CBR14 Review No:5 · Genres: Fantasy, Young Adult · Tags: fairytale retelling, Laura E. Weymouth, ya fantasy ·
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“If I cannot be better than them, I will become so much worse.”

The Cruel Prince (The Folk of the Air, #1) by Holly Black

December 30, 2021 by narfna 2 Comments

This one was fine! I liked the ending much better than I liked the first third or so. It was just, it was a lot of dramadrama, lots of characters, court politics, feelings, like a fairyland prime-time soap opera, and there’s a reason I don’t watch those anymore. But I did get pulled in as soon as Jude and Cardan started to interact more in a real way, because I am nothing if not a sucker for well-done enemies to lovers, and that part of […]

Filed Under: Fantasy, Young Adult Tagged With: #fantasy, audiobooks, Holly Black, narfna, The Cruel Prince, the Folk of the Air, YA, ya fantasy, Young Adult

narfna's CBR13 Review No:206 · Genres: Fantasy, Young Adult · Tags: #fantasy, audiobooks, Holly Black, narfna, The Cruel Prince, the Folk of the Air, YA, ya fantasy, Young Adult ·
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“Shakespeare knew too much.”

The Left-Handed Booksellers of London by Garth Nix

December 21, 2021 by narfna 2 Comments

I really had a good time with this one. I didn’t realize it was YA going in, but while it did lean into YA sensibilities at points, mostly it just felt like a kooky magical adventure story. It was very hard to put down, and I found myself constantly wondering what would happen next, which doesn’t really happen all that often to me anymore because I read so much (usually for me these days I vacillate between “I pretty much know what’s coming” because I’m […]

Filed Under: Fantasy, Young Adult Tagged With: #fantasy, contemporary fantasy, garth nix, narfna, the left-handed booksellers of london, YA, ya fantasy, Young Adult

narfna's CBR13 Review No:190 · Genres: Fantasy, Young Adult · Tags: #fantasy, contemporary fantasy, garth nix, narfna, the left-handed booksellers of london, YA, ya fantasy, Young Adult ·
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“I could never afford to look past survival, especially not for anything as insanely expensive as happiness, and I don’t believe in it anyway.”

The Last Graduate (The Scholomance, #2) by Naomi Novik

November 3, 2021 by narfna 10 Comments

Yet another great book I’ve read this year that I really just do not want to write a review for, because it means having to find the words and think thoughts and all that stuff. I always have the most trouble with books I love and give five stars to. It’s always like, HOW DO I CONVEY THIS FEELING which morphs into I DON’T EVEN WANT TO TRY with some whining in there for good measure. I really liked the first book in this series […]

Filed Under: Fantasy, Horror, Young Adult Tagged With: #fantasy, dark academia, horror, Naomi novik, narfna, the last graduate, the scholomance, ya fantasy, Young Adult

narfna's CBR13 Review No:169 · Genres: Fantasy, Horror, Young Adult · Tags: #fantasy, dark academia, horror, Naomi novik, narfna, the last graduate, the scholomance, ya fantasy, Young Adult ·
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