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Book Review: A Face Like Glass by Frances Hardinge

April 16, 2018 by motifink

In the underground city of Caverna the world’s most skilled craftsmen toil in the darkness to create delicacies beyond compare. They create wines that can remove memories, cheeses that can make you hallucinate and perfumes that convince you to trust the wearer even as they slit your throat. The people of Caverna are more ordinary, but for one thing: their faces are as blank as untouched snow. Expressions must be learned. Only the famous Facesmiths can teach a person to […]

Categories: Amulet Books, NetGalley, NetGalley Review, Pretty Covers, Young Adult • Tags: A Face Like Glass, book review, fantasy, Frances Hardinge, ya

Book Review: A Stolen Crown (Stolen Royals #2) by Kelsey Keating

April 4, 2018 by motifink

When Princess Cecily Degalt travels south to wed a prince she’s never met, she’s ushered into a strange new world alongside her best friend and bodyguard, Rory Castille. With an MIA fiancé, his handsome twin brother, and a kidnapping gone wrong, life in Myrzel isn’t quite what Cecily expected. Rory will do anything to keep Cecily from harm–but when Rory’s darkest secret comes between her and Cecily, the greatest danger to the princess might be Rory herself. Torn apart for […]

Categories: Fantasy, NetGalley, NetGalley Review, Young Adult • Tags: A Stolen Crown, book review, fantasy, Kelsey Keating, magic, romance, Stolen Royals #2, Swanifide Publishing, ya

Book Review: Sky in the Deep by Adrienne Young

March 28, 2018 by motifink

OND ELDR. BREATHE FIRE. Raised to be a warrior, seventeen-year-old Eelyn fights alongside her Aska clansmen in an ancient, rivalry against the Riki clan. Her life is brutal but simple: fight and survive. Until the day she sees the impossible on the battlefield—her brother, fighting with the enemy—the brother she watched die five years ago. Faced with her brother’s betrayal, she must survive the winter in the mountains with the Riki, in a village where every neighbor is an enemy, […]

Categories: Mythology, NetGalley, NetGalley Review, Young Adult • Tags: Adrienne Young, Arc, book review, fantasy, NetGalley, romance, Sky in the Deep, Vikings, Wednesday Books

Book Tour: Phoenix Fire by S.D. Grimm

March 19, 2018 by motifink

After spending her life in foster care, Ava has finally found home. But all it takes is a chance encounter with hot nerd Wyatt Wilcox for it to unravel. Now, things are starting to change. First, the flashes of memories slowly creeping in. Memories of other lives, lives that Wyatt is somehow in. Then, the healing. Any cut? Gone. But when Cade and Nick show up, claiming to be her brothers, things get even weirder. They tell her she’s a […]

Categories: entangled teen, Pretty Covers, Romance, Young Adult • Tags: Arc, book review, book tour, fantasy, NetGalley Review, Phoenix Fire, romance, S.D. Grimm, ya

Book Review: Imitatore by A. Rose

March 12, 2018 by motifink

In Sophie’s world, those born with one power are superior, those born with none are inferior, and she is the one destined to save them all. Sophie’s ability to have multiple powers makes her an anomaly, at the age of 23 she has six powers and has yet to master each one. At the order of her father, the Governor, those powers are kept secret in order to protect her from those who may want to exploit them. So when […]

Categories: Adult Ficiton, NetGalley, NetGalley Review, self published • Tags: A. Rose, african american author, Arc, book review, fantasy, Imitatore, NetGalley, self published

Book Review: The Hollow Girl by Hillary Monahan

February 26, 2018 by motifink

Five boys attacked her. Now they must repay her with their blood and flesh. Bethan is the apprentice to a green healer named Drina in a clan of Welsh Romanies. Her life is happy and ordered and modest, as required by Roma custom, except for one thing: Silas, the son of the chieftain, has been secretly harassing her. One night, Silas and his friends brutally assault Bethan and a half-Roma friend, Martyn. As empty and hopeless as she feels from […]

Categories: Delacorte Press, NetGalley, NetGalley Review, Paranormal, Young Adult • Tags: Arc, book review, fantasy, Hillary Monahan, NetGalley, revenge, The Hollow Girl, witchcraft

Book Review: Wintersong by S. Jae-Jones

January 30, 2018 by motifink

All her life, nineteen-year-old Liesl has heard tales of the beautiful, mysterious Goblin King. He is the Lord of Mischief, the Ruler Underground, and the muse around which her music is composed. Yet, as Liesl helps shoulder the burden of running her family’s inn, her dreams of composition and childish fancies about the Goblin King must be set aside in favor of more practical concerns. But when her sister Käthe is taken by the goblins, Liesl journeys to their realm […]

Categories: Fantasy, NetGalley, NetGalley Review, Romance, Young Adult • Tags: Arc, book review, fantasy, NetGalley, retellings, S. Jae-Jones, Thomas Dunne Books, Wintersong, ya

Book Review: First Grave on the Right by Darynda Jones

January 17, 2018 by motifink

Charley Davidson is a part-time private investigator and full-time grim reaper. Meaning, she sees dead people. Really. And it’s her job to convince them to “go into the light.” But when these very dead people have died under less than ideal circumstances (like murder), sometimes they want Charley to bring the bad guys to justice. Complicating matters are the intensely hot dreams she’s been having about an entity who has been following her all her life…and it turns out he […]

Categories: Adult Ficiton, NetGalley, NetGalley Review, Paranormal • Tags: adult, Arc, book review, chick lit, Darynda Jones, fantasy, First Grave on the Right, paranormal, st. martin's press

Webtoons Wednesday: DICE (Season 1) by Hyunseok Yun

December 27, 2017 by motifink

What if you can restart your life with a different setting just like a game? DONG TAE always get bullied by his classmates, but TAE BIN, sits right next to him, is handsome and popular at school; and now, TAE BIN suggests DONG TAE to play a little game.- Webtoons This was good. Like really good and I am very happy it is still an on going series. First and foremost, Dong Tae is a tool. I didn’t like him […]

Categories: comics, webtoons, Young Adult • Tags: book review, comic, DICE, fantasy, Hyunseok Yun, webtoons

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