Blue Lily, Lily Blue – Maggie Stiefvater

i can’t let myself forget that.  two is for rivalry and fighting and murder.  terrifying and thrilling, willing to do whatever she asked.  i think the frightening is a side effect, not the intention.  i just want to pretend. i want to pretend that i could.  the most lasting wound was invisible but persistent.  never […]

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The Black Witch – Laurie Forest

“Don’t thank me,” he says, all amusement gone. “Real education doesn’t make your life easy. It complicates things and makes everything messy and disturbing. But the alternative, Elloren Gardner, is to live your life based on injustice and lies.” This book is well timed, a piece of fantasy that rings of truth in all the […]

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Waer – Meg Caddy

it was the nature of life to devour the living. time eats all bones.  one of the great secrets of storytelling, lad, is knowing when a tale isna yours to tell we can never restore what was taken from us, but we can remember it, and pay honour to those we lost. after that, we […]

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Waking Gods – Sylvain Neuvel

this is the second book of a series (the first is called “sleeping giants”) but what i like most about this science fiction series is that if you accept the idea that we are not alone in the universe [so, aliens exist] then the series is almost completely plausible. it is written in an interesting format consisting […]

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Wintersong – S. Jae-Jones

mortal, you know nothing about the power of wishes — what the old laws giveth, they taketh in return. i thought of the careless wishes I had thrown around, and a whisper of foreboding touched me. all must be in balance.  my funeral? i thought it was my wedding — there is no difference here.  i […]

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