Category: Favourites
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Kingsbane – Claire Legrand
Kingsbane by Claire Legrand My rating: 4.5 of 5 stars I loved the first book in the Empirium series, Furyborn by Claire Legrand. I also loved Kingsbane, but for very different reasons. Although set in the same world with the same lead characters, we are now in a different stage of Rielle and Eliana’s lives…
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Finale – Stephanie Garber
Finale by Stephanie Garber My rating: 5 of 5 stars Finale by Stephanie Garber is the third and finale book in her Caraval series. Caraval began the series and was Garber’s debut novel. I was immediately entranced by the world that she crafted, but was certainly left wanting more. (More detail, more worldbuilding, etc). She…
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The Steel Prince – V.E. Schwab
Shades of Magic Vol. 1: The Steel Prince by V.E. Schwab My rating: 4 of 5 stars The Steel Prince takes readers back into the world that author V.E. Schwab built full of magic and different Londons. It lets readers learn more about Maxim, the future King of Red London, during his years as a…
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9 From the Nine Worlds by Rick Riordan
9 From the Nine Worlds by Rick Riordan My rating: 3 of 5 stars I like novellas because they bring something new to the world, whether that is character development, an interesting plotline that adds to the story but just didn’t make sense in the original narrative, or diving deeper into the world. For whatever…
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Every Exquisite Thing – Cassandra Clare
Every Exquisite Thing by Cassandra Clare My rating: 3.5 of 5 stars Yay diverse rep! But man, Anna, you fall in love faster than a Disney character. I wanted to like Anna so much, but she just didn’t get enough development over the course of this novella (and can you really be surprised, it’s a…
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A Deeper Love – Cassandra Clare
A Deeper Love by Cassandra Clare My rating: 4.5 of 5 stars I would like to just be frustratingly vague right now: Yes, please – but also, that one part… oh yeah it’s never happened before (but we know it happens in TMI) so let’s just annoying allude to it and make everyone lusty for…
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Escaping from Houdini – Kerri Maniscalco
Escaping from Houdini by Kerri Maniscalco My rating: 3.5 of 5 stars The Stalking Jack the Ripper series is quite hard to place for me. There are so many great moments of promise within the series, but yet somehow ends up not feeling quite right to me. I did enjoy this book the most so…
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Learn About Loss – Cassandra Clare
Learn About Loss by Cassandra Clare My rating: 4.5 of 5 stars My reaction to the story: I’m not crying. You’re crying. While this was not the most exciting of tales, it did lay some of the foundational groundwork for Kit Herondale. I love the Herondales, so I want to know more about their familial…
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Tower of Dawn – Sarah J Maas
Tower of Dawn by Sarah J. Maas My rating: 4.5 of 5 stars Tower of Dawn is the sixth book in the Throne of Glass series, although it was originally intended to be a novella. Chaol’s story grew until it was a fully fledged narrative itself and deserved its own proper entry into this series.…
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Cast Long Shadows – Cassandra Clare
Cast Long Shadows by Cassandra Clare My rating: 3.5 of 5 stars Too many children. Who do you belong to? I’m so confused! That is honestly my biggest qualm about this series of novellas. I don’t feel that I know any of the characters well enough yet to know their unique personalities and tell them…
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