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garadinervi · 1 year

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Kurt Vonnegut, Slaughterhouse-Five; or, The Children's Crusade, Delacorte Press, New York, NY, 1969 [Laureate Fine Books]. Jacket Design by Paul Bacon

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brightbeautifulthings · 5 days

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House of Roots and Ruin by Erin A. Craig

"This house has always felt full of ghosts to me--not of spirits in white sheets and chains, nothing as cliched as all that--but of memories snatched away. Memories I'll never be able to claim as mine."

Year Read: 2024

Rating: 3/5

Flash Book Review: Atmosphere & Insta-Love

About: Verity is the youngest of the Thaumas sisters. After tragedy took so much of their family, her oldest sister, Camille, has kept her close at the Highmoor estate, but Verity longs for her own life to start. When she receives an invitation from the Duchess of Bloem to paint a portrait of her son, Alexander, Verity flees Highmoor without permission, afraid to see her life pass her by. She's instantly charmed by the beauty of Bloem and its kind future duke, but there are dark secrets beneath the surface of Chauntilalie estate. I received a free e-ARC through NetGalley from the publishers at Random House/Delacorte Press. Trigger warnings: character death (on page), child/parent death, poisoning, fire, violence, severe injury, ableism (countered).

Thoughts: This has a lot in common with House of Salt and Sorrows, as in, it's still recognizably Craig, an atmospheric mix of horror, fantasy, and mystery, with a strong dose of flawless romantic love interests. I think the difference for me came down in the kind of atmosphere. Whereas the first book had spooky ghosts and an ocean aesthetic, this one has lush gardens, plants, and mad science. I'm a ghost girl, not a flower girl, so it's fairly easy to see why I didn't really vibe with this, but that's going to vary from reader to reader. After the initial chilling twist (which, having now read the description, I realize is not actually a twist), most of the ghosts turn out to be helpful rather than spooky.

The plot is a little slow-moving, and there are points where it seems like we're floundering around in the same clues, all of which lead to a pretty obvious conclusion. I do enjoy Craig's flowery (in this case literally) descriptions and the rich cultural fantasy worlds she creates without ever bogging us down in world-building details. I don't find the People of the Petals as interesting as the People of the Salt, but again, that's just a personal preference. Verity is a more naive heroine than Annaleigh, but they're both ruled by their kindness. (In fact, I'm finding it a little difficult to tell Craig's leading ladies apart, if we're also including Small Favors.)

What really threatened the book for me is the romance. While I sometimes enjoy romance as a genre, I tend to not like it as well in my fantasy, and there's just so much of it here. The two leads have an instant connection that's very deep as well as sappy (I'm sorry, don't mind my aro heart), and Verity's instant devotion makes me want to shake her. Girl, you just met him five minutes ago, and you've barely even spoken to another man before this. While I appreciate a disabled love interest (Alex uses a wheelchair after a childhood accident left him paralyzed from the waist down), we're practically beaten over the head with his goodness. Let the man have a flaw. The ending seems to be going for shock value more than logic, and while I didn't love it, I'm interested to see how the consequences play out in the third book.

#book review #house of roots and ruin #erin a craig #sisters of the salt #ya fantasy #ya paranormal #delacorte press #random house #netgalley #3/5 #rating: 3/5 #2024

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haveyoureadthiscomic-poll · 3 months

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#the exile: an outlander graphic novel #outlander #diana gabaldon #delacorte press #graphic novel #graphic novels #poll

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readingwithwrin · 3 months

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Five Survive by Holly Jackson | Mystery Book Review

Title: Five Survive Author: Holly Jackson Publisher: Delacorte Press Published Date: November 29th, 2022 Genre: Mystery, YA, Thriller Source: Library Rating: ★ ★ ★ ★ .5 Goodreads Summary: Eight hours. Six friends. Five survive. A road trip turns deadly in this addictive YA thriller from the bestselling author of the worldwide phenomenon A GOOD GIRL’S GUIDE TO MURDER.Red Kenny is on a road…

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#4.5 stars #book review #delacorte press #five survive #good girls guide to murder #holly jackson #library read #mystery #spring break #thriller #YA

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autumn2may · 4 months

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Today JC Kang reviews Amélie Wen Zhao's Song of Silver, Flame Like Night! 🐉

"The characters and worldbuilding are top notch…[the story] evokes imagery through whimsical prose and keeps us on the edge of our seat through intense word wizardry."

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lilibetbombshell · 11 months

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quirkycatsfatstacks · 1 year

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Review: Evershore by Brandon Sanderson and Janci Patterson

Series: Skyward #3.1Authors: Brandon Sanderson and Janci PattersonPublisher: Delacorte PressReleased: December 28, 2021Received: Own Evershore is the third and final novella by Brandon Sanderson and Janci Patterson. It is part of the Skyward series and follows the events of Cytonic. Oh! And did I mention that the novellas are all going to get bundled into one pretty book? (Skyward Flight: The…

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oracleofmadness · 1 year

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This is an outstanding demonstration of a very in-depth modern tale of beautiful magic with a deeply moving plot. This story had me in all my emotions. I was cheering on the main character and crying with her all at once. Like i said, this sincerely deeply moved me in the best of ways.

Maude has never really had the perfect life, but her childhood was pretty good. She had a great friend, Odette, and years full of magic and story-telling. Creating dolls and monsters from within her own imagination and Odette's joy. But things get lost as one grows older. Children often lose their inner magic and even the best of friends don't always remain close. In this case, magic seemed to flee from Maude's grasp. In the rest of the world, it became something fake. Something easily bought and used by anyone and not very respected anymore.

Even though Odette and Maude are no longer close, Maude still feels a responsibility for Odette when her friend suddenly goes missing. A lost girl. But Maude knows she can find her. And, even more so, save her. She knows she can slay the dragon herself, however necessary.

This was inspiring and beautiful. Sad and yet, hopeful. I really enjoyed this.

Out April 18, 2023!

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bookstagramofmine · 1 year

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Book Review: Five Survive by Holly Jackson ~ TBR and Beyond Tours

Book Review: Five Survive by Holly Jackson ~ TBR and Beyond Tours @TBRBeyondTours @NetGalley #BookTour #BookBlog #BookReview

They say that when you’re trapped in a life-or-death situation, you really see a person’s true colors. That’s the premise that Holly Jackson plays around with in her new book Five Survive! As you all should know, I’m a fan of Holly Jackson! Her series, A Good Girls Guide to Murder, was fantastic, and when I saw that I could read the ARC for Five Survive, it took me less than 5 minutes to sign…

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publishedtoday · 1 year

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Five Survive - Holly Jackson

Eight hours. Six friends. One sniper . . . Eighteen year old Red and her friends are on a road trip in an RV, heading to the beach for Spring Break. It’s a long drive but spirits are high. Until the RV breaks down in the middle of nowhere. There’s no mobile phone reception and nobody around to help. And as the wheels are shot out, one by one, the friends realise that this is no accident. There’s a sniper out there in the dark watching them and he knows exactly who they are. One of the group has a secret that the sniper is willing to kill for. A game of cat-and-mouse plays out as the group desperately tries to get help and to work out which member of the group is the target. Buried secrets are forced to light in the cramped, claustrophobic setting of the RV, and tensions within the group will reach deadly levels. Not everyone will survive the night.

#five survive #holly jackson #delacorte press #november 29 2022

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winningthesweepstakes · 3 days

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A Place for Vanishing by Ann Fraistat

A Place for Vanishing by Ann Fraistat. Delacorte Press, 2024. 9780593382219 Rating: 1-5 (5 is an excellent or a Starred review) 5 Format: Hardcover Genre: Young Adult Horror/Sci Fi Fantasy What did you like about the book? After her failed suicide attempt, Libby and her family try to make a fresh start in a mysterious house that’s been abandoned for decades. But while the family struggles to…

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thegirlwiththelantern · 23 days

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2024 YA Fantasy Books

I didn’t really notice it while I was putting this list together but scrolling down just to check the formatting really put into perspective how many utterly amazing books there are. There might be more YA fantasy than adult fantasy that’s pulling at me this year. Sky’s End (Above the Black #1) by Marc J Gregson | 02 / 01 / 24 – Peachtree Teen Exiled to live as a Low, sixteen-year-old Conrad…

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brightbeautifulthings · 3 months

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Those We Drown by Amy Goldsmith

"He made it sound so simple--a girl there one moment, gone the next. But if this trip had taught me anything, it was that people didn't disappear. Things happened to them. Usually bad things."

Year Read: 2023

Rating: 2/5

About: Liv is the only scholarship student aboard the cruise ship, Eos, for an educational program called SeaMester that could be her ticket into a good college. The first night, her best friend, Will, becomes sick enough to be quarantined. The more days pass without hearing from him, the more convinced Liv becomes that something terrible is happening on the ship-- and that Will may no longer be aboard at all. As her paranoia increases, she fears that even the staff and her cohort may be part of a conspiracy of human sacrifices and old gods. I received a free e-ARC through NetGalley from the publishers at Delacorte Press. Trigger warnings: human sacrifice, abduction, injury, illness, gaslighting, classism, threats, bullying, underage drinking.

Thoughts: Everything about this, from the title and the description to the tentacles on the cover, said this book should have been for me. Watching The Beast (1996) as a kid with my dad instilled an early love in me for water monsters. Unfortunately, Those We Drown promises way more than it delivers. What little ocean horror we have is sadly underutilized, and the plot is much more focused on spiraling into paranoia and conspiracy than it is on diving into its world-building in any depth. By the time anything remotely full of teeth and tentacles appeared, not only did I no longer care, I had no idea what basis it even had for being there. Something something old gods and sacrifices. If you have a giant squid on the page and it doesn't attack anyone, what was even the point?

Instead, most of the page-time is devoted to Liv hating her rich cohort, obsessing about her ill-fated romance with Will, obsessing about yet another love/hate potential romance in Con, and chasing around increasingly ridiculous conspiracy theories. Does she have good reason for that? Yeah, absolutely. There is something nefarious aboard the Eos. But the reader came into the novel with that knowledge, and the whole is she being gaslit or is she genuinely unhinged cycle gets tired quick. I've said it before, and I'll say it again: paranoia is a difficult mood to sustain for any length of time, and it didn't endear me to Liv. Pull it together and have a little dignity, girl.

On a writing level, it reads like a first novel. That's not necessarily a bad thing, and the target YA audience probably won't be put off by it. Adult readers like myself might struggle a bit more. The descriptions are frequent and a bit forced, and there are some grammar and continuity errors. The first I can never help noticing (sentence fragments for days, and not as a style choice), but the second have to be glaringly obvious for me to pick up on them, since my general attitude is that time is more like a soup than a line. It makes Liv's character seem wildly inconsistent at times, though, when she walks into a glittering party going yes, this opulence suits me, to scorning it the next morning.

As I said, there's little coherent explanation of the supernatural elements, and the finale is left hugely open-ended, as if Goldsmith got so deep into her plot conspiracies that she couldn't write her way out of them. Given the complete lack of closure or explanation, I would say it reads more like the first book in a series than a standalone, but it's not billed or listed as such. Regardless, if books don't have plot closure, they should at least have thematic closure, or some general sense of why the readers and characters went through all of this. Those We Drown has none of those.

#book review #those we drown #amy goldsmith #ya horror #netgalley #delacorte press #2/5 #rating: 2/5 #2023

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hollymbryan · 1 month

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Blog Tour: Top 5 Reasons to Read ROYAL SCANDAL by Aimée Carter!

Welcome to Book-Keeping and my stop on the TBR and Beyond Tours blog tour for Royal Scandal by Aimée Carter, the follow-up to last year's Royal Blood! I love this series, and can't wait to tell you all about it, including my top 5 reasons to read!

About the Book

title: Royal Scandal author: Aimée Carter publisher: Delacorte release date: 26 March 2024

The second book in the Royal Blood series about an American girl who threatens the royal family by exposing their darkest scandals—even as they get more sinister. American girl turned monarchy nightmare, Evan Bright, has gotten used to the press about her but the media attention has only seemed to get worse. From desperate clickbait articles about her and the President’s son to Royal Record headlines pitting her against Princess Maisie, it seems everyone is dying for Evan to return back to America for good. Meanwhile Evan is receiving mysterious threats about her real story being reveiled in a tell-all biography. When more information is leaked about Evan, she fears she will always be Britain’s media villain. But the threats escalate when there is an attempted assassination with no suspects…and Evan believes the person is in the palace’s walls. They say what doesn’t kill you will make you stronger…but what if it’s the royal family who wants you dead?

Add to Goodreads: Royal Scandal Purchase the Book: Amazon | B&N | Bookshop

About the Author

Aimée Carter is a graduate of the University of Michigan and the award-winning author of more than a dozen books, including The Goddess Test series, the Blackcoat Rebellion series, and the Simon Thorn series for middle grade readers, now a #1 international bestselling series under the title Animox and Die Erben der Animox. Her newest middle grade book, Curse of the Phoenix, will be released in June from Margaret K. McElderry Books.

Connect with Aimée: Website | Twitter | Instagram | Goodreads | Facebook

Top 5 Reasons to Read

While this is the sequel to Royal Blood, you could conceivably read it on its own since enough backstory is inserted that you could follow along, although personally I would definitely recommend reading them in order.

It's an intriguing alternate history! The series imagines an alternate history of the monarchy in Britain, in which Prince Edward, Duke of Windsor, had *not* abdicated the throne to marry American socialite Wallis Simpson, and thus became King Edward VIII; his great-grandson, Alexander II, now sits on the throne.

It's about royals! Let's admit it, we in America are fascinated by the British monarchy, whether it be adoration or bemusement or even downright disdain. But can we imagine what it must *truly* be like to be a royal? As Evangeline says of Mary, "She has all the privilege and wealth and status anyone could ever ask for, but what's the point if it's really just a gilded cage?"

It's full of scandals! Evangeline is the previously-secret illegitimate daughter of King Alexander and the love of his life, an American woman. She's half-sister to Princess Mary (Maisie), and they were in fact born on the same day! Of course the revelation of Evangeline's existence and her presence at court causes absolute chaos in Britain, and scandal after scandal ensues.

It's packed with family drama! The Queen Mother, Constance, is absolutely awful, cold and hateful, to Evan; Alexander's wife, Queen Helene, isn't much better; Evan and Maisie have had to work out their prickly relationship; Helene is having an affair with Alexander's brother, Nicholas, the Duke of York; and of course there's the dastardly snake Cousin Ben, Nicholas' son with his first wife. Such drama and treachery!

It's got the first love we adore so much in YA! Evan and Kit are absolutely adorable together, but then there's also the gorgeous son of the American president, Thaddeus Park, who may throw a spanner in the works. There's also Maisie and her best friend turned girlfriend, Gia, and their struggles as Maisie tries to come to terms with whether her desire to be with Gia and be openly gay outweighs her duties as a royal and ability to inherit the throne.

There are so many more great reasons to read this one, and I'd encourage anyone who loves YA and/or enjoys reading about royalty to pick this series up! I was blown away last year by just how good Royal Blood was, and Royal Scandal is an incredible sequel!

Rating: 5 stars!

**Disclosure: I received a copy of this book from the publisher for purposes of this blog tour. This post is voluntary on my part and reflects my honest rating and review.

Make sure to check out the Instagram tour as well! You can find my post here, and the full schedule is here.

#royal blood #royal scandal #aimee carter #delacorte press #yalit #ya lit #ya literature #royalty #british royal family #alternate history #young adult #bookstagram #newrelease #new release #blog tour #new releases #top 5 reasons to read

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readingwithwrin · 2 months

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Triptych (Will Trent #1) by Karin Slaughter | Mystery Book Review

Title: TriptychAuthor: Karin SlaughterSeries: Will Trent #1Publisher: Delacorte PressPublished Date: June 1st, 2023Rating: ★ ★ ★ ★ Description: From Atlanta’s wealthiest suburbs to its stark inner-city housing projects, a killer has crossed the boundaries of wealth and race. And the people who are chasing him must cross those boundaries, too. Among them is Michael Ormewood, a veteran detective…

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#4 stars #book review #book to tv #delacorte press #karin slaughter #mystery #thriller #triptych #will trent

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dzelonis · 3 months

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Belva Plain - The Carousel

Links uz grāmatas Goodreads lapu Izdevniecība: Delacorte Press Manas pārdomas Kad Sallija aizved savu piecgadīgo meitu Tīnu pie bērnu speciālista un psihologa, jo pēc zīdaiņa māsas Suzannas uzrašanas, drastiski izmainījusies viņas uzvedība, māte pat ļaunākajos murgos nevarētu iedomāties dzirdam ārstes šokējošos jaunums. Bet tie ir tikai pirmie ziediņi, lai autores Belva Plain rokās iznāktu uz…

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#Belva Plain #Delacorte Press #Drama #Mystery #The Carousel

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