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April YA Book Releases

The Reappearance of Rachel Price by Holly Jackson

YA Thriller

Author of A Good Girl's Guide to Murder

true crime, missing persons, memory loss

Fate Be Changed by Farrah Rochon

YA Fantasy

Twisted Tales series

princess, disney, curses

Your Blood, My Bones by Kelly Andrew

YA Fantasy

Author of The Whispering Dark

dark magic, gothic, lgbt

The Black Girl Survives in This One: Horror Stories by Desiree S. Evans and Saraceia J. Fennell

YA Horror

Author of Cool. Awkward. Black.

anthology, ghosts, zombies

Something Kindred by Ciera Burch

YA Contemporary

Author of Finch House

lgbt, coming of age, photography

Against the Darkness by Kendare Blake

YA Fantasy

Buffy: The Next Generation #3

vampires, witches, high school

The Final Curse of Ophelia Cray by Christine Calella

YA Historical

Debut author

pirates, identity theft, navy

Calling of Light by Lori M. Lee

YA Fantasy

Shamanborn Series #3

class differences, dark forest, sacrifice

We're Never Getting Home by Tracy Badua

YA Contemporary

Author of This Is Not a Personal Statement

aapi, religion, friendship breakup

The Kill Factor by Ben Oliver

YA Horror

Author of The Loop

dystopian, survival, social injustice

Song of the Six Realms by Judy I. Lin

YA Fantasy

Author of A Magic Steeped in Poison

aapi, royalty, music

Off With Their Heads by Zoe Hana Mikuta

YA Fantasy

Author of Gearbreakers

korean, retelling, sapphic

Harley Quinn: Redemption by Rachael Allen

YA Adventure

DC Icons Series #3

superheroes, lgbt, action

Powerful by Lauren Roberts

YA Fantasy

The Powerless Trilogy

forbidden romance, assassination, class difference

To a Darker Shore by Leanne Schwartz

YA Fantasy

Author of A Prayer for Vengeance

beauty standards, invention, monsters

Return of the Vengeful Queen by C. J. Redwine

YA Fantasy

Author of The Shadow Queen

pirates, political, revenge plot

The Notes by Catherine Con Morse

YA Contemporary

Debut author

boarding school, musical arts, aapi

The Lilies by Quinn Diacon-Furtado

YA Thriller

Debut author

detective, time loop, dark academia

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Book Review: Fate be Changed by Farrah Rochon

Post by: Jessica Title: Fate Be Changed By: Farrah Rochon Cover: I like the cover but I don’t love it. I don’t think it’s super eye-catching. It caught my eye but that’s because I loved Brave and I knew immediately who the shadowy figure on the cover was. I do like the added detales at the bottom.  Story: ★★★ So all the Disney Twisted Tales have a tagline on the cover that says what the…

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Book Review: Fate be Changed by Farrah Rochon

Post by: Jessica Title: Fate Be Changed By: Farrah Rochon Cover: I like the cover but I don’t love it. I don’t think it’s super eye-catching. It caught my eye but that’s because I loved Brave and I knew immediately who the shadowy figure on the cover was. I do like the added detales at the bottom.  Story: ★★★ So all the Disney Twisted Tales have a tagline on the cover that says what the…

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Book Review: "Fate Be Changed" by Farrah Rochon (Disney Twisted Tales)

⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ Rating: 5 out of 5. I have been waiting impatiently for this book since the announcement! I was so happy when they pushed the release date up by a month. Merida has long been my absolute favorite Disney princess. It might have something to do with the fact that we both love horses and archery, and we both struggle with a mass of curly hair. Curly girlies stick together! And the fact that…

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Twisted Tales: Fate Be Changed Review

What if the witch gave Merida a different spell?

Merida’s impulsive ways have always driven a wedge between Merida and her mother. The princess would prefer to ride Angus, shooting arrows into the horizon rather than focus on politics and embroidery. But when her mother tries to force Merida to pick a husband during the Highland Games, they get in their biggest fight ever and Merida ends up in the hut of a witch who offers Merida a spell that will make Queen Elinor change her mind.

That’s how we know the story but Merida thinks she can shortcut it by taking the potion herself, figuring it will change her constraining position as princess.

Instead Merida ends up twenty years in the past and lost in the woods when she runs into a teenage version of Elinor who is running away from her own betrothed.

In a classic butterfly affect, Elinor encountering Merida in the woods means she never meets Fergus, nurses him to health and fall in love. Meaning Merida is potentially erasing herself from existence. Not to mention threaten the future kingdom of Dun Broch as its Fergus’ leadership that unites the disparate clans.

Rochon does a wonderful job with this Back to the Future/Highlands tale by sharing chapters between Merida and Elinor, Merida obviously getting the bulk of the character development and page time, but Elinor herself gets nice amount of insight and development into how she grew into the queen we see in the movie and softening thanks to the adventures she share with past Merida.

At first I was a bit worried that Rochon was going to reash Elinor as being just like Merida when she was younger, more interested in nature and exploring and running away because she doesn't want to get married. Fortunately, she doesn't as Rochon characterizes that Elinor was fine with her position but getting betrothed to an arrogant lunkhead she loathes is what she has a problem with. Especially as with the marriage, she won't have any say in running the kingdom, her husband makes all the commands even though he's the one marrying in.

Meeting Merida hampers that along with her rightfully pointing out that as a pampered princess she doesn't know how to hunt, skin hares or fish, make a fire, or anything. So she agrees to smuggle Merida into the castle in exchange for wilderness lessons,

It is the love for her kingdom and family that convinces her to delay her freedom flight more and more as she, Merida and Fergus realize there's a potential plot against the McCameron kingdom. During their investigation, she begins to envision how the kingdom could be run if she had the chance to rule (with Fergus by her side as she realizes how much his vision for Dun Broch aligns with hers). One where she could incorporate her love for the arts and literature with a more welcoming, nurturing side and ensuring every citizen has food to eat with other necessities.

As Elinor begins to see the potential good she could do if she stays, and how fufilling the responsibilities could be, Merida also begins to see how she too had been selfish and shortsighted. Her role as a diplomat mattered in uniting clans, ensuring prosperity and peace, and she should be paying attention to her princess lessons. Also in seeing how her grandparents' rule and their more stern, traditional ways, she also begins to appreciate how her mother's ways was more respectful and affectionate even at their worst arguements.

It is also incredibly heartwarming as Elinor's friendship with Merida and burgeoning relationship, Fergus makes her realize that part of her constraining duty as princess is that she has focused all her life on responsibility and how all her actions relate to being a princess. Fergus and Merida are the first person to see her as Elinor first rather than Princess Elinor.

Fergus has scant page-time compared to his future daughter and wife but its memorable to see the young, cocky warrior who gets under Elinor's skin and his utter loyalty to the kingdom despite being the McCameron's main rival clan. You can see shades of the boisterous family man he'd become along with the current stance of warrior trying to prove himself. And yes, the romance between Elinor and Fergus is sweet and sparkling.

Merida really grows from impulsive woman to one who thinks things through and begins to understand how other lives. Not just her mother, but appreciation for the work of scullary maids and srevants, the servant hierarchy, and the history of her land in seeing the thinly veiled resentment between clans during this warring era.

Rochon nicely balances the potential murder plot with new romance and time travel, giving full arcs to Elinor and Merida but there are few faults like how Merida is not only contending with the time travel spell but the fact that she's also turning into a bear because she ate the cake. I guess it gave Merida an additional thing to worry about but I feel if you took it out, it wouldn't have changed much besides Merida struggling to hide her suddenly hairy body and claws.

Also Rochon is a romance author which is why Fergus and Elinor's slap-slap-kiss-not-so-different romance works but I couldn't help but feel taken out of the story when Rochon has Merida think about the barely concealed tension simmering between them. It reminded too much of a contemporary romance more than something from Merida's thoughts.

Otherwise, it was a great novel with bits of Celtic lore, court intrigue and tartans.

4 arrows

[itachi86]

ooh that new twisted tale book is out today

[in-tenebris-et-in-solitudine]

Master Your Emotions..

[moonlightmagical]

buddy dawn cannot raise himself from the grave.

buddy dawn is not a chosen one.

buddy dawn is a child.

buddy dawn was manipulated by organized religion through no fault of his own, most likely since he was born.

buddy dawn had his throat slit by people he probably considered good friends.

buddy dawn is kristen applebees in a different—worse—life.

buddy dawn is dead, and there’s a good fucking chance helio won’t answer his questions.

[s1ithers]

it could be a drider-kissing game

[poorly-drawn-mdzs]

Turtle Takedown Teamwork.

[First] Prev <–-> Next

[arthursfuckinghat]

The tragedy that is Arthur Morgan is something that keeps me up at night.

That man lived day to day thinking life was just a tally chart of his sins and that he was forever damned, to the point where he was silently suicidal.

He lived and died thinking that no matter what good he did, it would never make up for his existence - in the type of life he didn't get to choose.

And what's worse is that he still tried. He tried and gave absolutely everything to the people he cared about, to the people he loved, and he watched all of it crumble before him.

He was a dog that was tricked into thinking it was a wolf, a stag who was taught to be a moose, that died to unwavering loyalty.

[justplaggin]

noragami – the final chapter || thank you adachitoka (and fast-moon) for a beautiful send-off

[duckiemimi]

i hate myself so much rn.

[wi1dshxpe]

gortash sets up a lending library at his estate after seeing durge’s in the bhaal temple. they both know they’re the only people who use them so it turns into a sort of game. durge loves music, so after enver’s last visit a book about viola has appeared in the temple library. enver fancy’s himself a jeweler so it’s only natural a scroll about gem welding would end up in his library. books relating to their schemes, hobbies, pasts, futures, inside jokes and aspirations get passed back in forth. the only extended pause is when a novel about star crossed lovers gets dropped in the bhaal library. it’s weeks before the favor is returned and enver receives a scroll about bhaalist marriage ceremonies. he doesn’t know whether to take it as an advance or a threat, so he accepts it as both.

[jojo-schmo]

I wish I could tell the original artist that this drawing permanently changed the entire direction of my life in 2009. I want to shake their hand, look them in the eye, and admit I would not be who I am today if this drawing didn’t exist.

EDIT: Original artist is @ivynajspyder !!!!

[wayward-banana]

babe wake up I remembered to do a new years Takumi after 4 years