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Oct 15, 2024 | 
kirkusreviews.com | Freja Nicole Woolf |Rae Carson |Marie Lu
Despite the stale fat-to-curvy pattern, compelling world building with a Southern European, pseudo-Christian feel,... Adventure drags our heroine all over the map of fantasyland while giving her the opportunity to use her smarts. Elisa—Princess Lucero-Elisa de Riqueza of Orovalle—has been chosen for Service since the day she was born, when a beam of holy light put a Godstone in her navel.
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Aug 27, 2024 | 
kirkusreviews.com | Gary Schmidt |Ben Philippe |Rae Carson
Lachrymose but brimming also with love and heart. Having lost one beloved foster sibling in Orbiting Jupiter (2015), Jack Hurd faces the devastating prospect of losing another in this equally intense companion volume. Schmidt packs his story with seemingly tough but emotionally vulnerable males circling orphaned Jupiter, who is 3 years old and a charismatic scene stealer.
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Jun 11, 2024 | 
kirkusreviews.com | Rae Carson |Scott Reintgen
Despite the stale fat-to-curvy pattern, compelling world building with a Southern European, pseudo-Christian feel,... Adventure drags our heroine all over the map of fantasyland while giving her the opportunity to use her smarts. Elisa—Princess Lucero-Elisa de Riqueza of Orovalle—has been chosen for Service since the day she was born, when a beam of holy light put a Godstone in her navel.
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Mar 17, 2024 | 
kirkusreviews.com | M.R. Street |Soman Chainani |Iacopo Bruno |Rae Carson
Rich and strange (and kitted out with an eye-catching cover), but stronger in the set pieces than the internal logic. Chainani works an elaborate sea change akin to Gregory Maguire’s Wicked (1995), though he leaves the waters muddied. Every four years, two children, one regarded as particularly nice and the other particularly nasty, are snatched from the village of Gavaldon by the shadowy School Master to attend the divided titular school.
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Feb 3, 2024 | 
kirkusreviews.com | Rae Carson |Ransom Riggs
Despite the stale fat-to-curvy pattern, compelling world building with a Southern European, pseudo-Christian feel,... Adventure drags our heroine all over the map of fantasyland while giving her the opportunity to use her smarts. Elisa—Princess Lucero-Elisa de Riqueza of Orovalle—has been chosen for Service since the day she was born, when a beam of holy light put a Godstone in her navel.
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Jan 11, 2024 | 
kirkusreviews.com | Ann Lin |Rae Carson |Ransom Riggs
A deliciously edgy plot and lingering mysteries will leave readers eager for the sequel. Kitchen helper Kurara, who works in the floating castle Midori and has memories she can’t unlock, finds herself on a quest to restore her best friend’s body following a disaster.
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Nov 20, 2023 | 
kirkusreviews.com | Brandon Sanderson |Rae Carson |Marie Lu
A grand finale, presented with a touch light enough to buoy all the self-actualization. Also: giant space worms!Hotshot pilot Spensa Nightshade completes her apotheosis in this series closer, as human rebels and their alien allies mount a climactic assault on the galactic empire.
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Aug 26, 2023 | 
kirkusreviews.com | Ashley Poston |Rae Carson |Natasha Preston
From the Girl of Fire and Thorns series , Vol. 1 Despite the stale fat-to-curvy pattern, compelling world building with a Southern European, pseudo-Christian feel,... Adventure drags our heroine all over the map of fantasyland while giving her the opportunity to use her smarts. Elisa—Princess Lucero-Elisa de Riqueza of Orovalle—has been chosen for Service since the day she was born, when a beam of holy light put a Godstone in her navel.
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Jul 31, 2023 | 
kirkusreviews.com | Danielle Paige |Brandon Sanderson |Rae Carson
This sprawling, action-packed origin story, layered in mystique, will pull readers into its fascinating world. When a ruthless queen attempts to banish a mysterious coterie of magic-wielding sisters, the youngest of them develops an intricate plan of revenge in this spin on “Cinderella.”Each member of Entente has a distinct magical gift, but Farrow, the youngest member of the collective, has difficulty managing hers.
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Jul 13, 2023 | 
kirkusreviews.com | Rae Carson |Marie Lu
From the Girl of Fire and Thorns series , Vol. 1 Despite the stale fat-to-curvy pattern, compelling world building with a Southern European, pseudo-Christian feel,... Adventure drags our heroine all over the map of fantasyland while giving her the opportunity to use her smarts. Elisa—Princess Lucero-Elisa de Riqueza of Orovalle—has been chosen for Service since the day she was born, when a beam of holy light put a Godstone in her navel.
