It’s a remarkable coincidence that I read this book so quickly after finishing Between the World and Me. It’s an excellent fictional companion, but it also broke my heart completely. You know those books that somehow grab onto you and just haunt you after you’ve finished? For me, this was that book. Rashad is 16, a high school student, and part of the ROTC. He’s a typical kid. And he’s black. One Friday evening, he enters a convenience store to buy a bag of chips. […]
You stumbled on the finish line there, Marissa
3.5 stars WARNING! This review WILL contain spoilers for earlier books in the series. Do NOT keep reading this review if you’re not caught up, having read all three previous books! There are also some minor spoilers for this book, but if you skip my list of dislikes, you’ll avoid them. Winter was one of the books I was most anticipating in the second half of 2015. Marissa Meyer’s retellings of Grimm fairy tales with a clever YA sci-fi dystopian twist just kept getting better […]
My favorite of the Emelan books.
For the past several years, I’ve been sloooowly making my way through all of Tamora Pierce’s books, first with all the Tortall books, and then with Emelan. I’ve liked all the Emelan books, but have always preferred the Tortall books. This is the first Emelan book that has made that opinion waver a little. Maybe it’s just because this is the first time Pierce’s self-imposed structural limitations on this series have been lifted. The first four books were for children, about children (ten and eleven […]
Be prepared for a very flawed heroine with this one.
Oh, man. This was agony. It ended really well, but the process of getting there was SO STRESSFUL. Most of the way through this book, I wasn’t sure where it was going, or what the point of it all was, but at the end it all came together, and the reasoning behind all the other stuff that had happened became clear. I know if I went back and re-read this now, I would feel much differently about it. Eon (sometimes subtitled Dragoneye Reborn or Rise […]