Initial Thoughts I honestly thought I'd be slogging through YA tropes that I didn't want to slog through, but by the end of this, I was totally sold on this book/series/thing. It's a fast paced urban fantasy for YA, and I'm only regretting that it isn't more adulty because the thirst trap that is Tad. [...]
Initial Thoughts: My mind blew up and now I cannot unsee the merged image in my mind of the scarecrows in this book and weeping angels in Doctor Who and I. Am. TERRIFIED. But this book was fantastic. Yes. SMALL SPACES by Katherine Arden Putnam's Sons, September 2018 Children's fantasy, paranormal Rated: 5 / 5 [...]
Initial Thoughts: I've been reading this book to my voldies for months now, every Friday, and sometimes on half-days. And seriously, it was difficult to put down. I managed to stop myself from going ahead, but at least one of my voldies had no qualms about reading the entire book before I got to the [...]
Initial Thoughts: *sobs* This was a love-hate. I love-hate myself for love-hating the last book of what I found as a terribly beautiful trilogy. And it was SO GOOD. Up until I got around 200 pages of story that got thrown in there just to make people SUFFER. So I'm crying inside here. I can't [...]
Initial Response: Hngrrsrrdhhhggghgh. Okay, Ms. Shannon. You win. I laughed and rolled my eyes and everything, but that didn't seem to stop me from going "WAIT NO. DON'T STOP THE STORY NOW." Damn this series. THE BONE SEASON by Samantha Shannon Bloomsbury, August 2013 YA science fiction, fantasy, dystopia Rated: 4 / 5 cookies The [...]
