This book reminds me a ton of another book I did a passionately positive review of earlier this year, I Stop Somewhere. The Nowhere Girl is another rageful takedown of rape culture, and I hope this becomes an entire young adult subgenre, as hard as these types of books can be to read. In The Nowhere Girls, the actual victim of the central crime is not a main character: instead, the story is set in a small town in which a teen girl was gang raped, […]
The Best in a Great Series
The Tiffany Aching books are tied for my favorite books in all of Discworld (the other favorite being the City Watch books, because I love Sam Vimes), and based on the title of this review you won’t be shocked to find that I Shall Wear Midnight is my favorite of all the Tiffany Aching books. So, why are the Tiffany books tied as favorites? I could go on forever! Tiffany isn’t just a complex female character, she’s a complex young woman who is given a […]
Well That Turned Sexist!
I had an odd experience I’ve never had before reading this book: I recommended it to someone enthusiastically when I was 50% through it, then the next day when I finished it I took back my recommendation with equal enthusiasm and with so much vigor that they immediately removed the book from their wish list. Spoilers will be contained in the review after this point, so read at your own risk: That’s because the book definitely does a good job of making you want to […]
Hooray for Good Sequels!
Sequels don’t always do justice to their original books, especially in YA trilogies, and I must admit I was wary going into this one as I had just finished reading all of the “Daughter of Smoke and Bone” trilogy, three books in a row, and found that they faltered as the series went on. Don’t get me wrong, I still enjoyed the trilogy, but I was worried that I’d get the same feeling from those books of hoping that Taylor would stop adding other plot […]