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Children of Blood and Bone

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  This review will be about Children of Blood and Bone by Tomi Adeyemi. Published on March 6, 2018, It’s the first book of the series : Legacy of Orisha series. The second book is published and the third book comes out in June 2024. It’s classified as a Young Adult, Fantasy, Romance. ⭐⭐⭐ A little about the book: They killed my mother. They took our magic. They tried to bury us. Now we rise. Zélie Adebola remembers when the soil of Orïsha hummed with magic. Burners ignited flames, Tiders beckoned waves, and Zélie’s Reaper mother summoned forth souls. But everything changed the night magic disappeared. Under the orders of a ruthless king, maji were killed, leaving Zélie without a mother and her people without hope. Now Zélie has one chance to bring back magic and strike against the monarchy. With the help of a rogue princess, Zélie must outwit and outrun the crown prince, who is hell-bent on eradicating magic for good. Danger lurks in Orïsha, where snow leoponaires prowl and vengeful...

Realm Breaker

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  This review will be about Realm Breaker by Victoria Aveyard. Published on May 4, 2021, It’s the first book in the Realm Breaker series with 3 books in total. Its genre is classified as a Young Adult High Fantasy Adventure series.  ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ A little about the book;  Save the world or end it. A strange darkness is growing in the Ward. Even Corayne an-Amarat can feel it, tucked away in her small town at the edge of the sea. Fate knocks on her door, in the form of a mythical immortal and a lethal assassin, who tell Corayne that she is the last of an ancient lineage—with the power to save the world from destruction. Because a man who would burn kingdoms to the ground is raising an army unlike any seen before, bent on uprooting the foundations of the world. With poison in his heart and a stolen sword in his hand, he'll break the realm itself to claim it. And only Corayne can stop him. Alongside an unlikely group of reluctant allies, Corayne finds herself on a desperate journey t...

Thunderhead

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  This review will be about Thunderhead by Neal Shusterman. It is the second book of the Arc of a Scythe series, published on January 9, 2018. This series is a Young Adult Dystopian Fantasy genre, based off of Goodreads. ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ A little about the book: Rowan has gone rogue, and has taken it upon himself to put the Scythedom through a trial by fire. Literally. In the year since Winter Conclave, he has gone off-grid, and has been striking out against corrupt scythes—not only in MidMerica, but across the entire continent. He is a dark folk hero now—“Scythe Lucifer ''—a vigilante taking down corrupt scythes in flames. Citra, now a junior scythe under Scythe Curie, sees the corruption and wants to help change it from the inside out, but is thwarted at every turn, and threatened by the “new order” scythes. Realizing she cannot do this alone—or even with the help of Scythe Curie and Faraday, she does the unthinkable, and risks being “deadish” so she can communicate with the Thunderhead...

The Mime Order (some spoilers)

This review will be about The Mime Order by Samantha Shannon which was published January 27, 2015. It’s the second book to the The Bone Season Series. I’ve done a review for the first book and I decided to try out the second to see if it was any better. The listed genres on goodreads is; Fantasy, Dystopian, Young Adult, Adult, Romance, SciFi, and Urban Fantasy.  A little about the book:  Paige Mahoney has escaped the brutal prison camp of Sheol I, but her problems have only just begun: many of the survivors are missing and she is the most wanted person in London... As Scion turns its all-seeing eye on the dreamwalker, the mime-lords and mime-queens of the city's gangs are invited to a rare meeting of the Unnatural Assembly. Jaxon Hall and his Seven Seals prepare to take center stage, but there are bitter fault lines running through the clairvoyant community and dark secrets around every corner. Review with some spoilers: I have to say, the second book is a lot better than the ...