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January book haul! I‘m super excited about these. Found a few at a used bookstore, won The Gilded Wolves in a giveaway from BookSparks(!) and the rest are from my inability to hold onto gift cards for very long when books are involved 😂 #bookhaul

The pacing of this book and the POV did not always work for me. But it built a cool world and I liked the main characters.

Such an amazing #witchpleaseswap package! Thank you so so much. I keep finding more hidden treats inside of boxes. This was extremely fun to unpack.

Magic - √
Evil & Oppressors - √
Revolution - √
Nothing is what it seems - √
Surprises at every turn - √

It's obviously the perfect getaway I needed and I recommend it for both teenagers and adults.

God damn it I had to bail again. This one just makes me not escape reality when I want to. So even though the concept in and of itself was fresh and surprising, it just reduces me to a ball of nerves while thinking intermittently about real life, especially after recent events politically>.

Would definitely read again.

I just finished this book yesterday. Despite being a quick read, Rees Brennan packed quite a punch in this one. A retelling of A Tale of Two Cities, Wind and Fire explores both sides of revolutions and those who are caught in between.
Also there's magic and kissing.
#retelling #dickens #sarahreesbrennan

TELL THE WIND AND FIRE by Sarah Rees Brennan is a dystopian YA fantasy retelling of Charles Dickens' A TALE OF TWO CITIES. While it's unlikely to satisfy YA purists, I found it a fascinating blend of genres.

Omigosh I loved this book so much! Such a creepy inventive dystopian world. Really a big surprise for me. It's a loose retelling, but a powerful one. Stayed with me for days. This is a paranormal in a frightening future New York city.

This was one of the books that I read in about a day.

Who will you save when the cities burn?

Well shoot. I didn't expect this book to make me cry, but that ending packed a bit of a wallop. There were a few flat moments in the middle but no biggie. The characters could've been more fleshed out for this standalone but I liked them nonetheless, Carwyn was my fave. It was good and worth a read.

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That sounds about right. 😂

Hooked. I am so hooked. Intrigue just punched me in the face.

Oh shoot! Only a few pages in and then this happens. That's one way to hook me. I now wanna know where this is gonna go.

Based on A Tale of Two Cities by Charles Dickens, which I have never read! 😅

It's always fun finding your name in a book, especially when it's a beautiful sentence.

Not perfect by any means, but there was enough that I did enjoy. 3.5/5

The dead drift away from us, like reflections in moving water, hardly seen before they are lost.

I wasn't sure what to make of this. I love the two boys, but found Lucie too strident, too distant to create any sympathetic feelings toward her. Yet the ending was quite powerful, and I have loved all of Rees Brennan's earlier novels. I am mixed about this one.

I‘m a force of nature too. You thought you were teaching me something else, to be something lesser. Try teaching fire to do anything but burn. It‘s time for you to learn better.”

Slow start, slow middle.. Picks up in action about 2/3 in.

I am halfway through this soon to be released Sarah Rees Brennan novel, and I am still not sure what I think of it.