“I suppose it does not feel the same without her . . . Some people leave too much space behind when they are gone.”
The wait is over, and Katharine wears the crown. But does she really? More queens seem to be popping out of the woodworks, and she has the sneaking suspicion that her other two sisters continue living, and that they will return to take the throne.
Once a generation, triplet girls are born to the queen. Separated from birth and taught the unique type of magic they each possess, they will meet again on their 16th birthday, when they fight to the death for the right to their throne.
“It is not lives we regret not living that are the real problem. It is the regret itself. It's the regret that makes us shrivel and wither and feel like our own and other people's worst enemy. We can't tell if any of those other versions would of been better or worse. Those lives are happening, it is true, but you are happening as well, and that is the happening we have to focus on.”
This book follows Elizabeth Scrivener, a curious teenager who grew up among the books and grimoires of her town. Abandoned at the Great Library as a baby, she was raised in the enormous building with the books of magic and mischief. The books are so magical, in fact, that they can even transform into monsters, depending on how powerful they are. Elizabeth is an apprentice librarian when she becomes a suspect in sabotaging the library. Outraged, she teams up with Nathanial Thorn, an insufferable sorcerer who claims he can help clear her name.
All of Us Villains is book one in the fantasy series written by Amanda Foody and C.L. Herman. Seven of the most influential families in Ilvernath, a small town with a secret to hide, send one champion, a teenager, into a death tournament every twenty years. The families are competing for high magic, the most powerful and uncommon resource left in the world. For hundreds of generations, these families have kept much of the truth of the tournament a secret.
I will never trust book Tok again. This “romantasy” (loose on the antasy part of the word) is exactly what the author described it as. A Frankenstein of every single romance-fantasy trope in one book. I don’t believe there is a single original plot within the book. The book takes you through the world of “Ilya” (what a creative name I know) where people called “Elites” reign with their powers and “Ordinaries” are well... ordinary. I love how the book does not let us infer or hypothesis power dynamics within this kingdom whatsoever.
The Raven Boys follows teenager Blue, a normal girl in a family full of psychics. All her life Blue has been told that she will kill her true love when she kisses them. When she is helping her aunt on St. Mark's Eve she sees a spirit, Gansey. There are only two reasons a non-seer would see a spirit on St. Mark’s Eve, either you’re his true love or you killed him. In Blue's case, it could be both.
All of Us Villains by authors Amanda Foody and C.L. Herman is about seven teenagers picked as champions in a tournament occurring each generation, where only one can reclaim ancient magic for their families. Now exposed to the world, the Blood Moon Curse tournament is being watched and followed by everyone in the city of Ilvernath. The story follows the perspectives of four champions and their internal battle to choose between supplying their family with glory or rewriting the rules of their predicament.
A young woman, during a moment of desperation, makes a deal with the devil. Eternal life, but at a cost she didn’t yet know. When it’s done and she realizes she’s been cursed to be completely forgotten by everyone she meets the moment she leaves their eye sight, she is forced to live a solitary life over centuries.
