Book Reviews
Set during the Second World War, Salt to the Sea by Ruta Sepetys is an emotional, heartwarming story following thousands of refugees in East Prussia trying to escape to freedom on the Wilhelm Gustloff ship. The story of our main characters, Joana (a Lithuanian nurse), Emilia (a young Polish girl), Florian (a Prussian solider), and Alfred (a German sailor) all intertwine in what can be described as an even more devastating Titanic story.
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Lady Midnight and Lord of Shadows are the first two books in Cassandra Clare’s The Dark Artifices series, which is the third series in The Shadowhunter Chronicles. We first meet the characters that we follow in this series in City of Heavenly Fire, the sixth book in The Mortal Instruments, however Lady Midnight takes place a few years after when the characters are slightly older. With the release of the third Dark Artifices book, Queen of Air and Darkness, soon approaching, I thought that I would post a joint review for the first two books in anticipation for the next. Continue reading “LADY MIDNIGHT AND LORD OF SHADOWS REVIEW”
“A host of co-dependent teens with a battery of psychological issues comb rural Virginia for a dead Welsh king with dubious magical powers. Trees talk; hitmen put down roots; dead people live; living people die. Cars are described in loving detail. Fuckweasel. A house full of psychics tells everybody the future and drinks a lot on-page considering it’s a young adult series. Nobody kisses anybody, which is weird because everybody loves everybody. There’s rich boys! Poor boys! Sad boys! Angry boys! Raven boys! Collect them all!”
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