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omg I finally read it! Thank GOODNESS for the audiobook because Scandinavian, Viking, Celtic, Gaelic pronunciations just go right over my head.
I'm actually kind of mind blown how much happens in one single standalone book! I love fantasy historical fictions and standalones so this was pretty perfect. I loved the characters. The change of cultures was really refreshing for me. I DEVOURED this romance. Enemies to lovers is such a good trope and it was so well used in this.
I'm actually kind of mind blown how much happens in one single standalone book! I love fantasy historical fictions and standalones so this was pretty perfect. I loved the characters. The change of cultures was really refreshing for me. I DEVOURED this romance. Enemies to lovers is such a good trope and it was so well used in this.
omg the Stalking Jack the Ripper series feels! Now I'm disappointed this is a standalone. I want more. I got far too emotionally attached to the characters and especially the romance. I loved the time period and it's a geographic setting we don't normally get. The mystery had me going the whole book. I feel like Jenn Bennett could do so much with Theodora's character and her romance over a couple more books.
3.5/5
I feel like this started out strong but I started struggling with it by the end. Maybe I'm back in that "I've read a lot of books like each other" sort of mood but this just fell into a lot of the traditional YA fantasy tropes and structure. What I enjoyed the most was the magic but I wanted...more from it? (I'm horrible at figuring out my brain). I love that we got Black rep and I can appreciate having a more traditional YA fantasy with a cast that isn't white. Rep is important.
Rep: Black own voice
I feel like this started out strong but I started struggling with it by the end. Maybe I'm back in that "I've read a lot of books like each other" sort of mood but this just fell into a lot of the traditional YA fantasy tropes and structure. What I enjoyed the most was the magic but I wanted...more from it? (I'm horrible at figuring out my brain). I love that we got Black rep and I can appreciate having a more traditional YA fantasy with a cast that isn't white. Rep is important.
Rep: Black own voice
3.5/5
Okay I think I have to reread this to give it a proper review. This was marketing to have horror influences...I don't see it. It's just a kinda darker fantasy so the whole book I was confused and just waiting for something darker to come in that would justify that "horror" tag. It didn't. I'm so annoyed with books being mismarketed. I had no issues with the characters and I liked the conflict. I could've done with some more worldbuilding but I...don't.see.the.horror.
Okay I think I have to reread this to give it a proper review. This was marketing to have horror influences...I don't see it. It's just a kinda darker fantasy so the whole book I was confused and just waiting for something darker to come in that would justify that "horror" tag. It didn't. I'm so annoyed with books being mismarketed. I had no issues with the characters and I liked the conflict. I could've done with some more worldbuilding but I...don't.see.the.horror.
DNF @ page 195
I just can't read anymore YA fantasies right now with the same structure, characters, tone, place and conflict.
I just can't read anymore YA fantasies right now with the same structure, characters, tone, place and conflict.
oh I loved this. I was curious how we were going to tackle being Jewish and in Russia and to my pleasant surprise...we didn't shy away from the history of anti-Semitism. I loved the community and the characters and the overall message while playing with dragons.
Rep: Russo-Jewish
Rep: Russo-Jewish
Okay so full disclosure that I am not an unbiased reviewer.
I literally spend my days trying to find books for unserved Indigenous communities AND OH MY GOD THERE IS LIKE NOTHING OUT THERE! Now I don't live anywhere near a Navajo territory but having a book I can take to the communities I do serve with a power-wielding bad-ass Indigenous girl fighting against some evil dude trying to destroy the environment...is amazing! She's incredibly relatable and I love her family's backstory.
Rep: Navajo rep, Indigenous own voices
I literally spend my days trying to find books for unserved Indigenous communities AND OH MY GOD THERE IS LIKE NOTHING OUT THERE! Now I don't live anywhere near a Navajo territory but having a book I can take to the communities I do serve with a power-wielding bad-ass Indigenous girl fighting against some evil dude trying to destroy the environment...is amazing! She's incredibly relatable and I love her family's backstory.
Rep: Navajo rep, Indigenous own voices
It'd be...like super cool if I could read A book by Mindy McGinnis that doesn't make me cry or hate someone.
The book is incredibly important. Actually pretty amazingly ironic that someone on my Facebook timeline posted a "Why is my EpiPen so expensive yet druggies get free Narcan" post the afternoon I was reading this. I also live in a geographic space that had the same attitude towards drugs until fentanyl hit us because it finally impacted the middle-class white community.
Also, the reason your EpiPen is so damn expensive is because of little shits like this douche and the politicians that take his lobby money. Not someone who got hooked on opiod because a doctor overprescribed them because the same little shit lobbied them too. Lobby your politicians to be better. Thanks.
The book is incredibly important. Actually pretty amazingly ironic that someone on my Facebook timeline posted a "Why is my EpiPen so expensive yet druggies get free Narcan" post the afternoon I was reading this. I also live in a geographic space that had the same attitude towards drugs until fentanyl hit us because it finally impacted the middle-class white community.
Also, the reason your EpiPen is so damn expensive is because of little shits like this douche and the politicians that take his lobby money. Not someone who got hooked on opiod because a doctor overprescribed them because the same little shit lobbied them too. Lobby your politicians to be better. Thanks.
