A spoiled, privileged, none-too-smart girl with a mental illness is thrown into the most awful of jails and must content with a cruel prison guard who is determined to uncover the secrets that put her there. Mira is the Hopebearer, nothing more than a pretty face and a voice for the Luminary Council to placate […]
When Ruby is captured and sent to prison for being a Fireblood in a land ruled by Frostbloods, she is unexpectedly rescued by a group of monks who want to use her to challenge the rule of the current Frostblood king. But Ruby will first have to master her uncontrollable pyromancy if she’s to stand […]
In a world once known as ours, the decimated population has split itself into homogeneous tribes with distinct traditions and magical powers and a strong hatred of one another. Then one girl is revealed to be a halfbreed… What I liked about Moon Chosen: The different magical abilities of the different tribes of peoples. I liked […]
I was drawn to read The Thief because I’d heard amazing things about its sequel, The Queen of Attolia, and I wanted to get into the series and see what everyone was so excited about. The Thief is the story of a – you guessed it – thief named Gen who is forced into using […]
Welcome to the first stop on the Frost Like Night blog tour, hosted by Rockstar Books! It’s my absolute honour to welcome Sara Raasch to Young Adult At Heart today for an interview to celebrate the release of Frost Like Night, the final book in her Snow Like Ashes trilogy. I remember reading and loving […]
SUMMARY To escape an arranged marriage, a countess impersonates her housemaid and joins the Glittering Court, an exclusive finishing school for lower class girls, teaching them to be worthy wives for the new nobility of Adoria, a new settlement across the sea. But Adelaide’s subterfuge is detected by the handsome Cedric Thorn, son of the […]
First of all, yes, this is one of those ‘pseudo-fantasy-lite’ novels where the kickass assassin/princess gets to wear pretty dresses and falls in love with the prince BUT Do not dismiss it because it’s more Twilight/Disney Princess (written for girls where girls star as the hero I might add) than Lord of the Rings, or […]
I absolutely adored the first book in this series, Storm Siren. I found Siren’s Fury, the second book, to be largely a waste of time. However, I had faith that the third book, Siren’s Song, wouldn’t let me down, and I was right. Siren’s Song has a plot that sends Nym and her cohorts all […]
Last year I tried to read Siren’s Fury but ended up putting it down halfway through for a few reasons. Back then I didn’t have a co-blogger, so I needed new content and this book was taking too long for me to read. Literally nothing had happened in the plot except that my girl Nym […]
SUMMARY Safiya and Isuelt are two BFFS gifted with magical powers – the ability to sense truth from lies for Safi, and the ability to see emotional auras or ‘threads’ for Isuelt. The pair want nothing more than the freedom to live their lives as they wish, but their statuses and powers mean that they […]
