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Book Review- We Hunt The Flame
Title: We Hunt The Flame Author: Hafsah Faizal Published: 8th August 2019 Pages: 480 Series: Sands of Arawiya #1 Genre: YA, Fantasy Trigger Warnings: Neglect, Abuse, Death Rating: 5/5 People lived because she killed. People died because he lived. Nobody knows that Zafira is the Hunter. Forced to disguise herself as a man, she braves the cursed forest to feed her people. If she is exposed as a girl, all of her achievements will be rejected. Nasir is the infamous Prince of Death, assassinating those foolish enough to defy his autocratic father, the sultan. If he refuses he will be punished in the most brutal of ways. Both are legends…
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Book Review-salt slow
Title: salt slow Author: Julia Armfield Published: 30th May 2019 Pages: 208 Genre: Short stories, Fiction, Women This collection of stories is about women and their experiences in society, about bodies and the bodily, mapping the skin and bones of its characters through their experiences of isolation, obsession and love. Throughout the collection, women become insects, men turn to stone, a city becomes insomniac and bodies are picked apart to make up better ones. The mundane worlds of schools and sea side towns are invaded and transformed by the physical, creating a landscape which is constantly shifting to hold on to the bodies of its inhabitants. Blending the mythic and…
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Book Review- A Thousand Ships
Title: A Thousand Ships Author: Natalie Haynes Published: 2nd May 2019 Pages: 352 Genre: Fiction, Retellings, Historical Fiction Rating: 5/5 stars In A Thousand Ships, broadcaster and classicist Natalie Haynes retells the story of the Trojan War from an all-female perspective. This was never the story of one woman, or two. It was the story of all of them… In the middle of the night, Creusa wakes to find her beloved Troy engulfed in flames. Ten seemingly endless years of brutal conflict between the Greeks and the Trojans are over, and the Greeks are victorious. Over the next few hours, the only life she has ever known will turn to…
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Book Review- Opposite of Always
Title: Opposite of Always Author: Justin A. Reynolds Published: 4th April 2019 Pages: 464 Genre: YA, Contemporary, Romance Rating: 4.5/5 Jack Ellison King. King of Almost.He almost made valedictorian.He almost made varsity.He almost got the girl . . . When Jack and Kate meet at a party, bonding until sunrise over their mutual love of Froot Loops and their favorite flicks, Jack knows he’s falling—hard. Soon she’s meeting his best friends, Jillian and Franny, and Kate wins them over as easily as she did Jack. Jack’s curse of almost is finally over.But this love story is . . . complicated. It is an almost happily ever after. Because Kate dies. And…
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Book Review- Enchantée
Title: Enchantée Author: Gita Trelease Published: 21st Feb 2019 Pages: 480 Genre: YA, Historical Series: Enchantée #1 Rating: 5/5 stars Paris in 1789 is a labyrinth of twisted streets, filled with beggars, thieves, revolutionaries—and magicians… When smallpox kills her parents, Camille Durbonne must find a way to provide for her frail, naive sister while managing her volatile brother. Relying on petty magic—la magie ordinaire—Camille painstakingly transforms scraps of metal into money to buy the food and medicine they need. But when the coins won’t hold their shape and her brother disappears with the family’s savings, Camille must pursue a richer, more dangerous mark: the glittering court of Louis XVI and…