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It has been a great year for audiobooks and we are partnering with AudioFile Magazine to present AudioFile Magazine’s Best Young Adult Audiobooks for 2019. Don’t forget to visit AudioFile Magazine’s website to check out all of AudioFile’s 2019 Best Audiobooks!
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Forget the traffic, long lines and crowded parking lots instead spend this Black Friday tackling that TBR with the BFRaT hosted by Amber atDu Livre
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Rating: ★★★+.5 | 15 hrs 14 mins | Brilliance Audio | YA Fantasy | 09/29/2015
I’m on a mission to read the Grishaverse series before the Netflix show comes out and right now I have Crooked Kingdom and King of Scars left.
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8 hours 39 minutes| Hachette Audio | Fantasy | 1/02/18
Here we go.
I’m a big fan of Holly Black’s Curse Workers’ series and I’ve always found it interesting that The Curse Workers series is SO unlike her other writings which feature witches, wizards and fae. Black has been writing YA about faerie for years and Curel Prince has been a big hit. I was intrigued because of the high review Kat gave it and was ready to dive in.
The book follows three sisters who are whisked away against their will to Faerie where they live among the gentry. But to truly earn a place among the Folk, they must make a way for themselves no matter the cost.
17-year-old Jude Durate is fierce and determined so when she has the opportunity to join the Court of Shadows, a group of royal spies, to ensure the next King of Faerie is crowned she takes her chance. I sort of wish the book was about this–but it wasn’t. Jude’s role as a spy in more of a side plot to make room for all the …cruelness.
Honestly, I found the first 30% of the book kind of unpleasant, I didn’t really enjoy watching the main character basically get tortured only to have her main tormentor, Prince Cardan, on the way to partially redemption at the end. It truly felt like we were supposed to look at the events that happened and understand he didn’t mean for it to be that way. Because he can’t stop thinking about her. Ugh.
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| From Silent Reading Party Instagram |
Last month we headed to The Graduate Hotel Richmond to par-tay…and by party, I mean read books!
I’d read about the Silent Reading Party in and wanted to see what it was all about. The reading parties are organized by Richmonder Sarah Choi, and in the year she’s been hosting the event it has really taken off. I woke up bright and early at 6:30AM the day ticket went on sale to make sure I got two tickets for Jess and I to attend. I was glad I did because the 50 tickets were sold out in less than a minute. I just think that’s so amazing that people are vying for tickets just to sit and read.
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