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Three Dark Crowns

You would not believe rhe lengths i had to go through to get this book but once i did it was so worth it. Its set in a magical island called fennbirn, and focuses on three princesses, Mirabella, Katherine, and Arsinoe, who have all been tasked with killing each other, and have each been gifted with different powers. For a storyline that revolves around sororicide, this book takes place before the killing starts, as theyre all preparing for the opening ceremony, despite the fact that two of the sisters gufts havent developed yet. I really liked get to know each of the characters and their seperate storylines. (none of them actually met in the book exept towards the end) i also like how the characters by the end are nothing like youd thought theyd be at the beginning. Katherine, the poisener queen, is set up to seem cold and cruel, but by the end of the book you really fall in love with the characters sweet innocent nature, and just want her to be left alone. Arisonoe on the other hand is the exact oppisite, as the queen of the nateralists, and given power over well, nature, you expect a hippie flower child, but by the end she turns out to be cunning and ruthless, which makes for a really unteresting character. Theres also several things you wouldnt expect in the plot. Mirabella, who has powers over the elements, is easily the most powerful of the three, but is also the only one who doesnt want to participate in the fight even though it would be an almost assured victury since her sisters powers havnt even developed. The underlaying theme with this book is expect the unexpected, never think you know whats going to happen. 9/10 would recommend if youre sick of cliches and want a book that will suprise you

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Beastly Bones

I was so exited to read this one. After spending a few chapters investigating a cannibalistic, shapeshifting demon cat, (it becomes relevant later i promise) Jackaby and Abigail Rook are sent off to the country side to investigate the skeleton of a dinosaur, whose bones are going missing. Abigail is thrilled for a number of reasons, she gets to pursue her life long passion, paleontology. as well as pursue her shapeshifting almost boyfriend charlie barker, who had been living there ever since outing his secret to the city in order to save her life. They arrive and are met with two fueding paleontologists, a corpse, an enigmatic trapper, a ballsy news reporter, and a dinosaur skeloton that might be something a little more recent, and a lot more fantastical, a dragon. If that wasnt enough, attacks start popping up around town, animals at first, but then moving up to the massacre of two people, and the question everyones asking, is the dragon really dead? I love these books, and the way they make every obscure detail thoughout the book come together at the end ìn a way no one expects. 9/10 would recommend to anyone who likes to read mysteries and fantasy

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City Of Lost Souls

I’m a huge fan of this series, and the way the auther uses imagery. Its beautifully descripive without getting tedious. I had read the other books and had high hopes for this one. It picks up a few weeks after the last one left off with clary on trial after Jace’s disappearance. She is cleared of charges, and immidiatly afterword goes and tries to rob the institute, because… screw the rules. There she finds out that Jace has paired up with her evil demon brother sebastion. She finds out that they are somehow linked and Jace is now his weird psudo servant. Never being one to do things by half measures, or measures at all proportional to the situation, Clary goes undercover and infiltrates their magic teleporting bachelor pad, yes thats right, magic teleporting bachelor pad. She goes along with jace and sebastian, and helps them with their evil plan. Only, its not that evil, it actually sounds kinda reasonable, and Clary spends most of this book jet setting around the world, debating whether or not her killer demon brother is actually evil (he is), while her friends actually fix the problem. This book is where the supporting characters deserve all the glory. They figure out how to sever jace and sebastians bond, summon an angel to get a magic sword, then go to battle against a bunch of jacked up demon warriors, all while dealing with their own seperate plotlines. This book did not fail to leave me turning page after page, completely engrossed in the lives of each character.

9/10 would recommend to anyone who likes books with strong subplots

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Reawakend

WARNING SPOILERS! I had some problems with the character developement with this one. It center around goody two shoes rich girl lillian young. I was actually exited about that one, its a fairly unused trope and left a lot of room for character growth. While working through collage brochures in a museum, she comes face to face with a resurected mummy amon, who has to save the world. Unfortunatly the only way he can do this is to tie his soul to hers, and use her as a human battery, while she's fleeing in terror. Despite this she still ends up falling in love with him as hes dragging her across egypt, because... muscles. Yes the thousand year old mummy happens to be incredibly hot. He has to resurect his brothers so they can all be sacrificed to stop the god seth from rising. The thing i had the most problem with was lilys character developement. She had previously been a very kept good girl, who did everything her parents told her. She viewed herself serving amon as breaking free and becoming rebellious. Aside from being slightly more sarcastic, she goes from blindly following one set of athority figures to another, and displays no real character growth. 6/10 would recomend to people who like books about mythology and romance

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A Court of Thorns and Roses

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This book was a slight guilty pleasure, and if youre super awkward like me, not the best for reading in public. Feyre lives on the edge of an enchanted forest with her disgraced merchant father and two bratty sisters. She is responsible for caring for the entire family because theyre legit too used to being rich to do it themselves. One day while out in the woods hunting for her obnoxious family, she finds a faerie dressed as a wolf and kills it somehow. Through a set of convoluted laws that she apparently shouldve known for some reason. She is taken to the castle of one of the friends of the faerie she killed, where instead of being imprisend, or punished in any sort of way, she is treated as an honored guest, because logic. There is a curse no one’s allowed to talk about, as well as an evil queen, and a mysterious threat an ocean away. I liked the world building in this book. It went into extensive detail explaning everything from the garden in the castle to the faint scetches she drew on her furniture at home.

8/10 would recommend to anyone who likes books with fantasy royalty and politics

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A School For Unusual Girls

WARNING SPOILERS! This book was really hard to find, i actually had to go out and buy it, but it was so worth it. The book is set in post Napoleon era britan. Georgiana is a young aspiring chemist trying to make invisible ink. The only problem is that its post napoleon era britain and that sort of thing is frowned upon in young girls. After setting fire to her families barn in an experiment gone wrong, she's sent to the dreaded stranje house. A finishing school known for its, severe, learning tactics. To her confusion, upon arrival they give her her own lab, complete with a hot nobleman working along side her. Together they must figure out how to make a working invisible ink in time to stop an assassination. I loved this book. You dont find that many nerdy heroines, there's the mainstream nerdy bookworm types everywhere, but georgiana is an honest to goodness complete chemistry nerd. It made me quite glad im taking chemistry just so i could understand all of what she's talking about. The supporting characters were amazing too. The other girls at stranje house, as well as stranje herself, were clever, brave, and equipped with their own unique gifts. Their personalities and backstories had obviously been given quite a bit of thought, and i feel like each one of them deserves their own book. 9/10 would recommend to anyone who loves Espionage and chemistry

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Half Bad

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Okay the summary for this ones going to be a little tricky because i found it SUPER confusing but here it goes. Nathan Bryn is a witch, but not just a witch, he’s the son of a villianous evil witch and hated by almost everyone. The book describes his flat out awful childhood living with his grandmother where everyone exept his immidiate family hate him, mostly, he has a scummy sister who comes back later to try to kill him. Any way he befriends this pure witch who’s super great, smart, nice, pretty,and just generally perfect without any sign of an actual flaw. Her brothers get mad at him for daring to socialize with their perfect princess sister and hes sent to a “good” witch for containment. Hes tortured a lot and developes slight stockholm syndrome. Its here i’ll mention this is like three quarters of the book. It actually developes a plot later on where he joins a secret society, steals a magic artifact, and meets his absentee father but its all within the space of like four chapters, and it was so rushed my head was spinning trying to understand it all. Overall this book was chapters and chapters of plotless angst then with a few insanely fast moving chapters tacked on at the end. Its like they tried to fill in an entire books worth of plot at the end as an after thought. Also for a book about good and bad witches, little to no magic is used. This has to have been one of the angstiest books I have ever read. Its like that one guilty pleasure scene in a book where the main character gets hurt and everyone gets all angsty and emotional about it, that is the entire book. exept without a plot, or compelling characters, its just the one kid having sucky things happen to him, over, and over.

4/10 would recomend to people who like lots of angst

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The Red Queen

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For the most part this was a pretty good book. Its set in a dystopian reality and there’s very subtle hints that its really a super distant future but that’s just my personal theory. The world is seperated into distinct factions with the downtrodden red bloods and the superhuman power mad silver bloods. The protagonist, mare barrow, is redblooded but with the powers of a silver. To keep this hush hush, the royal family tries to marry her off to one of the princes until such a time she can be dispised of discreetly. She unsterstandably is not thrilled with this for a number of reasons, primarily self preservation, but also because she has growing feelings for the prince, no not the one shes ingaged to, she’s into his brother. She joins up with a red blooded rebellion after the assassinination of her brother and general chaos ensues, including a bunch of plotwists that i unfortunatly saw coming after reading a bunch of untagged spoilers online. Thanks for that one guys. Whilst i primarly liked the main character, she had a serious case of Katniss Everdeen syndrome, angry at the world and uses it to cover up lack of emotional range. Speaking of which there were so many hunger games paralels you could make a drinking game. Angry character, check. Perfect little sister she feels the need to protect, check. Childhood friend/kind of love-intrest she leaves behind, check. Oppressive classist government that tries to turn her into a figurehead, check. Rebellion against said government that takes place in an area everyone thinks is a radiation filled wasteland, check. Its uncanny. 7/10 I’d recomend this book to anyone who likes a good dystopian.

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Rebel Belle

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I ended up finishing this book in two days i loved it so much. It takes place in modern day Alabama and is centered around a ditzy overachieving southern belle, Harper Price. She gets super powers the night of homecoming from a dieing janitor of all places. Later she finds out that she’s a Paladin, mystical warrior in charge of protecting the oracle, who happens to have been reincarnated into her academic rival, David Stark. I think it's really cool that they twisted the whole “pretty girl finds out she’s the chosen one and needs to be protected by magical body guards” cliche into pretty girl is the magical is the magical bodyguard. The entire books tells how she hilariously deals with her new skills, her social life, and many many extracurriculars, all leading up to a cotillion that may or may not destroy the world.

10/10 Would completely recommend if you like new takes on old story lines

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