Tag Archives: YA

What I Read Last Week – 28th May to 4th June

Posted on 05/06/2022 by Roseanna

I finally (and by “finally” I mean “alarmingly swiftly because OBSESSION”) finished playing the base game of Fire Emblem: Three Houses* and so I remembered books were a thing again, at least until I do another playthrough. But I leaned … Continue reading →

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Pet – Akwaeke Emezi

Posted on 01/08/2020 by Roseanna

This one was… difficult to rate. My normal policy is to rate a book what I think of it as I, as I am now, come to it in the moment I read it. I don’t rate for “if I’d … Continue reading →

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Blood, Water, Paint – Joy McCullough

Posted on 22/11/2019 by Roseanna

I’ve mentioned before that I don’t really read YA, and it’s not like my last foray into it was… without regret. But I had Blood, Water, Paint recommended to me by someone whose taste I trust, and it was in … Continue reading →

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Children of Blood and Bone – Tomi Adeyemi

Posted on 11/10/2019 by Roseanna

It’s been a while since I made a(nother) fruitless attempt to consume audiobooks, so I was due a new try. And this one I actually finished, so not even fruitless. I don’t think that’s happened since the summer I spent … Continue reading →

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The City of Brass – S. A. Chakraborty

Posted on 03/07/2019 by Roseanna

Well that was shit. Not like, angry-makingly, blood-boilingly shit – that would have been entertaining. Just… crap. But I’ll get to that in a minute. I don’t, as a general rule, read YA fiction. There are a couple of things … Continue reading →

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Assassin’s Apprentice – Robin Hobb

Posted on 04/06/2017 by Roseanna

So. Robin Hobb. We meet again. I have something of a history with Robin Hobb. If you’d asked me who my least favourite author was at any point between the age of 14 and the age of… 24, say, I’d … Continue reading →

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Fire and Hemlock – Diana Wynne-Jones

Posted on 04/02/2017 by Roseanna

Nostalgia time! So I have three favourite books by Diana Wynne-Jones, Hexwood, The Merlin Conspiracy and Fire and Hemlock, though all for different reasons. Hexwood confused child-me (in a good way), and even though I reread it later and found it not at all … Continue reading →

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Goldenhand – Garth Nix

Posted on 29/12/2016 by Roseanna

I meant to get around to buying this immediately when it came out in September, but my reading pile has been pretty busy for a while now. I blame Flatmate and his insistence on lending me good things to read. … Continue reading →

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