I finally read more Brandon Sanderson, after saying I was going to do that for… well, an embarrassingly long amount of time! (And yes, this is only a short audiobook and a graphic novel, but still!) So in Dark One: Forgotten, the audiobook by Brandon Sanderson and Dan Wells, we follow Christina Walsh, a music …
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Okay, the internet is wrong. If you read just one dragon book this year, don’t read Fourth Wing. Read this instead! (Like, Fourth Wing was okay, but it pales in comparison to this.) In To Shape a Dragon’s Breath by Moniquill Blackgoose, fifteen-year-old Anequs has grown up on the island of Masquapaug. This place hasn’t …
I like when you read a book and think, “Yes, I see why this won an award.” The Newbery was very well deserved in this case. In The Girl Who Drank the Moon by Kelly Barnhill, Xan is a witch in the forest. She is loved by the townsfolk on one side, and feared by …
Pirates? Magic? Say no more; I'm in! The Adventures of Amina Al-Sirafi by Shannon Chakraborty joins the titular character after she’s been retired from piracy for ten years to raise her daughter. But one day a woman arrives with a request Amina can’t say no to: if she recovers this woman’s granddaughter—the child of one …
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I received an advance reader’s copy (ARC) of A Door in the Dark by Scott Reintgen. Since this version is just a proof and not the final version, I won’t quote directly and will keep my comments general. In A Door in the Dark, Ren Monroe is used to being underestimated at her school for …
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