Every now and then, for years, TW has asked me if there are any more Seraphina books.. I dutifully look, even though there just never are any… and suddenly, there was! It’s not really a Seraphina book, but it’s a book about one of Seraphina’s sister. Turns out, Tess of the Road is the 2018 Cybils YA Speculative Fiction winner.
We listened to it on audio, as we did the Seraphina books, and liked it a lot, maybe more than I liked the Seraphina books. I hope there’s a sequel.
We got lucky and TW found the third book in The Custard Protocal, Competence on the shelf at the library. I read most of it during #Readathon but couldn’t quite manage the last hour it would have taken me to finish it last night. I think this series has grown into itself, after what felt like a bit of a rough start. (Or maybe I just missed the original Soulless characters so much that it took me some time to grow into the series?) The South American “vampires” were awesome as was Percy’s solution for their problem.
Great #Readathon book, great addition to the series.
The sequel to Every Heart a Doorway, Down Among the Sticks and Bones was about Jack and Jill and their doorway “adventure.” Good story, even if it was bloody and sad. I’m not sure I’d have saved my sister if she’d done what Jill did. Jack’s a better woman than I am.
The next book will bring us back to Eleanor West’s boarding school. I’m looking forward to it.
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I did finish Every Heart a Doorway during our #FakeReadathon on Sunday. It’s a quick and easy read so there was little reason for me NOT to finish it. Also, it was good.
I thought it was YA but quickly realized that it wasn’t. It definitely was not. It was also a lot darker and creepier than I expected it to be. Not that I really knew what to expect… this book has been in my Evernote TBR file for more than two years. I only barely remembered anything about it. And I didn’t realize it was part of a series until Saturday.
I enjoyed it enough that I’ve already reserved the second book at the library.
Oh, I almost forgot… this one has a Transgendered character (who I assume is a character we’ll see again in the rest of the series) AND an Aesexual character (who I believe was only in this first book — but I’m not really sure since this is fantasy and anything can happen in fantasy.)
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I have absolutely no idea how When, (on audio!), landed in my library bag. It doesn’t seem to be a Cybil from any recent year that I was just now getting to. It’s not queer YA. I just, I have no idea. Anyway. It was different. Maddie has a “talent/gift/curse/?” that I haven’t seen in a book before. (Or in real life, thank goodness.)
I liked most of the characters. I didn’t love the ending, though. How her talent/gift/curse/? evolved into something different there at the end when she talked to Aiden at the end (when it never had before?) … that made no sense. We could have done without that. Blah.
Once I got over the fact that The Plastic Magician isn’t part of the Paper Magician series but is about completely different people, I enjoyed it. (Many characters from the Paper Magician trilogy do make appearances in The Plastic Magician, so that’s a bonus.)
I might actually like Alvie better than Ceony.
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I finally, FINALLY finished The Master Magician. I started it a couple of weeks ago and couldn’t get into it. Too much work stress and then a trip to California and then the boys and their parents moved to Georgia and I just didn’t read a darn thing.
This book moved really quickly, once Ceony moved out of Magician Thane’s house. It also didn’t feel very suspenseful, which is interesting since they were fighting the Excisioner. Overall, I liked the book but I wish Ceony had really been recognized as a Master Magician.
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We listened to The Girl Who Drank the Moon on audio and I thought it was going to be a walk in the park. Some cute little creation type story about witches and swamp monsters and dragons. And it was all of that. It was also a cautionary tale about adoption, among other things.
I enjoyed it and think part of that is because I listened to the audio rather than reading the print version.
(Interestingly, I thought this was a Cybil but it’s not — it’s a Newberry. I wonder why it didn’t make it the Cybils. Odd. Seems very Cybil-like.)
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I’m confused about how The Paper Magician ended up in my library bag. I thought at first that it had been on my TBR list for awhile and I’d reserved it when I did a bunch of reserves a few weeks ago, but that’s not it. Then I thought it was an Amazon best seller from last year and it hit my holds when I went through another mad round of reserves, but no. So I must have picked it up from the new arrivals shelf at the library but why would it be on the new arrivals shelf when it’s several years old?
SO WEIRD. Whatever. I really, really enjoyed it and hope to goodness the library has the other books in the series. I need to know what happens to Ceony next.
Updated: hmmm, turns out the series has been optioned by Disney so that might be how the book wound up in my bag… I may have seen this info on a blog or Facebook after all. Huh. This book would make an excellent Disney movie.
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You may remember that I read all/most/some(?) of the Daughters of La Lune series and was troubled when I realized I hadn’t read the first book… so I read the first book and now I kind of wish I hadn’t read The Witch of Painted Sorrows. The end was rushed and left more questions than it answered. Worse yet, those questions were NOT answered in the follow up books.
SO ANNOYING.
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