So I just finished Marie Lu’s Young Elite’s series and…
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The Rose Society by Marie Lu
- Release Date: October 13th 2015
- Audiobook Hours: 11 hours 7 minutes
- Genre: Historical Fantasy
- Publisher: G.P. Putnam’s Son (Penguin)
Child sex trafficking, slave camps, genocide and a one sided love triangle ?
Yep, I must be reading a fantasy YA novel !
We’re back in Marie Lu’s vaguely Italian 12th century where the scarred children who survived a blood fever are known as malfettos and some malfettos known young elites have developed special powers. After the events of the last book all malfettos have been banned from the city and forced into refugee camps for the safety of the city (stop me if you’ve heard this one). There is a lot going on in this book but most we follow along while our heroine Adelina Amouteru goes off to find other young elites outside the city.
The Rose Society has to be one of the most subversive and creative YA books I’ve ever read. I liked the first book in this series but this second book has really hooked me. Marie Lu is breaking a lot of the typical YA fiction rules and I am here for it.
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The Totally Should’ve Book Tag
The Totally Should’ve Book Tag was created by EmmmaBooks on Youtube and I decided to do it after seeing Lisa and Becca do it onLost in Lit !
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The Sun is Also A Star by Nicola Yoon
- Release Date: November 1, 2016
- Pages: 384
- Genre: Contemporary
- Publisher: Crown (Random House)
Tasha Kingston’s family is 24 hours away from being deported to Jamaica after her father drunkenly tells a police officer they’ve been in the country for over a decade on expired travel visas. Tasha isn’t ready to leave America, she has a fake social security number and was prepared to go to college and become a data scientist. She resolves to spend her last day doing everything she can to find a way to delay the deportation. What she doesn’t plan on is meeting Daniel Bae, the idealistic aspiring poet who believes their meeting was an act of faith. Tasha is pragmatic and doesn’t believe in fate or soul mates but as they spend the day together Daniel starts to change her mind and get inside her heart. But what does any of it mean when in 24 hours she won’t be allowed back in the United States ?
Honestly, I was kind of lukewarm on the romance, I just have a hard time investing in romances in such a condensed timeline. To me the most interesting thing about this book is how the story is structured. Not only do we get Daniel and Tasha’s POVs we also get these mini sections called “brief histories” that give you a minor characters past and future or give you a history on a certain subject. I liked the way these sections broadened the 24 hour timeline a little bit.
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Dreams of Gods and Monsters Gif Review
Imma let you finish Twilight, but The Daughter of Smoke and Bone series is the best YA paranormal romance about a teenager and male-paranormal-who-is-super-old-but-looks-super-hot-and super young-so-we-swear-it’s-not-creepy of all time. Of all time.
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