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The Cruel Prince – Holly Black

  TITLE: The Cruel Prince AUTHOR: Holly Black RELEASED: January 2nd, 2018; Little, Brown Books for Young Readers GENRE: Fantasy AGE RANGE: YA SYNOPSIS: Of course I want to be like them. They’re beautiful as blades forged in some divine fire. They will live forever. And Cardan is even more beautiful than the rest. I hate him more than all the others. I hate him so much that sometimes when I look at him, I can hardly breathe. Jude was seven years old when her parents...

Blue Lily, Lily Blue – Maggie Stiefvater

book 1 | book 2 Blue was perfectly aware that it was possible to have a friendship that wasn’t all-encompassing, that wasn’t blinding, deafening, maddening, quickening. It was just that now that she’d had this kind, she didn’t want the other. Where do I even begin? This review took me six weeks to write, and it’s literally only because I loved it so much that I don’t know how to describe it. I went through three sleeves of page tabs on this book,...

Discussion: Different Criteria for Different Genres?

Hello, everyone, and welcome to my first ever discussion post! I personally love reading and commenting on the discussions you guys come up with, so I thought I’d start doing one every so often as well. For my first one, though, I wanted to address something that feels really important, specifically with the fall season coming up (we’ll get to the whys of that logic in a moment). My initial question to you is: do you ever find yourself looking for different...