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Tag Archives: fantasy
Thoughts: The Girl of Ink and Stars, by Kiran Millwood Hargrave
I am officially back on the reading train. Choo choo. The Girl of Ink and Stars, as well as being a Thing of Thing and Thing title, is another book for younger readers, but a solid level younger than Orangeboy. … Continue reading
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Thoughts: Modelland, by Tyra Banks
Oh boy was this a book. While I was reading it I kept track of many of my immediate thoughts in a large Twitter thread which you may enjoy! I am going to spoiler the hell out of this book, … Continue reading
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Thoughts: Wagner the Werewolf, by George W. M. Reynolds
I’ve been meaning to get back around to writing my book thoughts for a while (let’s not talk about how long) but reading Wagner the Werewolf has been an irresistible lure to let myself get dragged back into it. In … Continue reading
Thoughts: The Fall of Gondolin, by JRR Tolkien
So. Been a while. Moving on. After frying my brain with Nnedi Okorafor in German, I tret myself to some pure comfort reading, going back to the start of my love affair with the speculative literary genres. When I was … Continue reading
Thoughts: Neverwhere, by Neil Gaiman, illustrated by Chris Riddell
This is sort of cheating, because I’d read it before, a long time ago, but hey, I didn’t tell anyone what I thought of it, so it still counts!
Thoughts: Promise of Shadows, by Justina Ireland
This book found its way onto my TBR list because a friend found it on Goodreads and the summary sounded like amazing, silly fun to fill the impending Kitty Norville-shaped hole in my life. I want to say it sounded … Continue reading
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Thoughts: Clockwork Princess, by Cassandra Clare
Thank you all for accompanying me on this journey. I feel much better now that I’ve written out my feelings on this trilogy. Also, spoiler alert ahead. All the others had spoilers alerts too, but this is the finale so … Continue reading
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Thoughts: Clockwork Prince, by Cassandra Clare
You’ll be glad to know that this is much shorter than my ramble on about Clockwork Angel. Most of what I said there still holds here, so let’s just take all that as a given. Now that we’re in the … Continue reading
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Thoughts: Clockwork Angel, by Cassandra Clare
This is going to be an absolute monster post, so bear with me. I don’t usually talk much about the authors of the books I read, because I like a work to stand on its own merit. But Cassandra Clare … Continue reading
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