Alice was an odd girl, even for Ferenwood, where the sun occasionally rained and the colors were brighter than usual and magic was as common as a frowning parent. In a world saturated in color, where magic is common place and everyone has a special magical talent, Alice Alexis Queensmeadow stands out as peculiar, for lacking both color and magic. Skin and hair the white of milk, the only color she possesses is a golden honey hue to her eyes. At twelve years old, Alice […]
A Tale of Death, Magic, and Friendship with an Extremely Chatty Narrator
This YA novel was one of my Jolabokaflod books and I found it quite charming, even though I definitely felt like I was coming into the middle of a larger story. That’s because I was. Whichwood is a companion novel to Furthermore, which I haven’t read (but now want to). The bookseller at the Book Cellar (ha!) told my sister when she bought it that you didn’t need to read them in order, and I think she was right. This novel’s main character, Laylee, is […]
Shut up, Juliette
Shatter Me is a silly, overblown book that reads like the literary journal the kids in your 1990’s middle school published out of the public library and distributed in front of a local Hot Topic. I’m not going into a lot of plot detail here, because if you’ve read any dystopian YA novel in the past five years, you’ve read this one. I’m also going to be mildly spoiling the book, so, you know, beware. Juliette has been locked up in a solitary psych ward […]