Ignite the Sun
by Hanna C. Howard
5/5 stars
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Ignite the Sun! What a great title and gorgeous cover!
Siria Nightingale (great name) is about to turn 16 in a world where darkness rules and the sun is a myth. Her friends Yarrow and Linden (great names) have helped to guide her education, and unknown to her are part of the resistance. They have all been looking for someone who was born at dawn 16 years ago who will transform on their birthday into a fabled sunchild.
And adventure and a quest ensues!
This was a wonderful fun, fast read, in the vein of the Hobbit/LOTR but very YA appropriate.
Loved the mythology and the characters.
There is danger, lessons learned, bravery, sacrifice, young love, and all of that fun stuff.
It was just what I needed to read right now.
I hope to see more from this author.
Thanks to NetGalley for ARC of this wonderful book. My opinions are my own.
The Rabbit Girls
by Anna Ellory
3/5 stars
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I have very mixed feelings about this book.
It took me a super long time to finish it.
I read something like the first 15-20% and I just wasn't feeling it, it was really slow going, very hard for me to get through. I almost shelved it and said forget about it.
ut I persisted just a bit longer, maybe because of how much I liked Lilac Girls which was on the same topic.
So then about 25% in, it started to get better for me, and I really got into the story.
I think when the present-day storyline became more compelling and you saw how it related to the older storyline, it was more interesting for me.
Even though towards the end I saw the twist coming, I didn't see it WAY far off, and it was very satisfying.
So I'm glad I stuck with it, although I'm not sure every reader would.
Children of Virtue and Vengeance
by Tomi Adeyemi
3/5 stars
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Well, I have to admit I read a few other reviews of this book before writing this, because I wanted to see if it just me...
Maybe this suffers from sequel syndrome, but I just did not love it at all.
It was like whiny, and long-winded to me, and I kept feeling like boo hoo, get on with it!
And then for the very last chapter to be COMPLETELY out of left field the way it is... with NO closure at all! I was almost offended. After reading this whole freakin' book, this is how you close????
I absolutely LOVED CofBaB, it was one of those rare 5-star books for me, but this one really can't even pull 4 stars.
The characters just mark time, I felt like there was really almost no character development or transformation at all, which to me is the hallmark of a great story.
Hopefully, the next one will be MUCH improved, but I don't know if I'll be rushing to pre-order the HB like I did with this one.
Read "Celia at 39" instead, that's the one I can't get out of my head.
