![]() ![]() ![]() She is, much like so many of us after the pandemic, nervously throwing herself back into the social fray. She is just re-emerging, self-aware and changed by her experience. Cat has wrestled her own demons in mental illness, to which each of her college friends reacted differently, creating uneasy circumstances for a reunion. Khaw’s protagonist, Cat, is instantly in charge of this journey with a strong voice, gorgeous descriptions with an edgy wit always thrumming beneath the surface. “But the interior didn’t smell like it’d had people here, not for a long, long time, and smelled instead like such old buildings do: green and damp and dark and hungry, hollow as a stomach that’d forgotten what it was like to eat.” ![]() You know you’re in the hands of a skilled storyteller who is going to take you on a very creepy journey. Cassandra Khaw, author of Nothing But Blackened TeethĬassandra Khaw’s prose (which they described in an interview as “ baroque as fuck”) grabs you firmly in the early pages of the novella Nothing But Blackened Teeth. ![]()
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![]() ![]() "Intelligent and entertaining. Or will it simply watch as this perfect world begins to unravel? Old foes and new enemies converge, and as corruption within the Scythedom spreads, Rowan and Citra begin to lose hope. His story is told in whispers across the continent.Īs Scythe Anastasia, Citra gleans with compassion and openly challenges the ideals of the "new order." But when her life is threatened and her methods questioned, it becomes clear that not everyone is open to the change. Since then, he has become an urban legend, a vigilante snuffing out corrupt scythes in a trial by fire. A year has passed since Rowan had gone off grid. The Thunderhead is the perfect ruler of a perfect world, but it has no control over the scythedom. ![]() Rowan and Citra take opposite stances on the morality of the Scythedom, putting them at odds, in the chilling sequel to the Printz Honor Book Scythe from New York Times bestseller Neal Shusterman, author of the Unwind dystology. ![]() ![]() ![]() My favorites are Duncan and Frederic, naturally! It took me one page (well, a few sentences really) to make me realize that this book was going to steal every bit of my day until I finished it. Even cooler, I loved that this attention to the princes and getting them a fair shake as heroes does not come at the expense of the princesses.Ĭhristopher Healy created well drawn and endearing characters, especially the heroes: Liam with his traditional Prince Charming-ness, the goofy Duncan with his magical good luck, Gustav and his brash stubborness, and Frederic with his surprisingly huge heart and wit. ![]() In a word, "The Hero’s Guide to Saving Your Kingdom" is fittingly, and utterly CHARMING! I loved the imaginative spin on classic fairy tales and the fitting attention paid to the Princes Charming as they embark on their own adventures to be considered worthy of their respective princesses. ![]() |