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I admittedly picked this up because of the cover…love it!

YA Fantasy featuring sorcerers and fortune tellers and a MC with a snarky attitude and sharp wit…great story! I breezed through this one and found the layers of magic fascinating. There are grisly murder scenes - not overly graphic, but with enough detail you get the picture - and a dash of romance. One false step, and everything could #GoDownInFlames . #TeenAngst #BBRC

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Librarybelle Things do nearly go down in flames or have a bad ending at one point…so an apt choice for the #BBRC prompt 9mo

LibrarianRyan Nice. I have this sitting on my shelf and have not gottten to it yet. I haven't gotten to much lately. 8mo

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humouress

The Troubled Girls of Dragomir Academy | Anne Ursu

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The beginning and ending. I like the last lines. I don‘t think it‘s spoilery but I‘ll hide it, just in case.

humouress Part of the message throughout this book is that girls and women are treated as secondary to boys and men, who hold the power. Ursu isn‘t over subtle: That is not to say that girls and women did not matter to Illyria: behind every great tapestry was a woman who wove it, just as behind every great sorcerer was a wife to tend to his domestic affairs, a governess to teach his children, a cook to warm his gullet, a maid to keep his fires lit. 9mo

humouress The beginning and ending. I like the last lines. I don‘t think it‘s spoilery but I‘ll hide it, just in case. 9mo

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humouress

The Troubled Girls of Dragomir Academy | Anne Ursu

E-book ISBN: 9780062275141

So glad there‘s a map at the beginning. She must be a fan of the Belgariad - place names include Torak and Kel 😊

Chrissyreadit 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣 10mo

humouress I like the cover, with the Dread swirling around the Academy. 9mo

humouress Just got to the part where 12 yo Marya has just decoded the history of the Academy and decides people need to know - so she‘s taking it to the headmaster and teachers. The people who are hiding things from the girls. I couldn‘t look. I had to put the book down in the middle of a chapter. But now I‘m desperate to find out what happened. Reader‘s dilemma 🤗 (edited) 9mo

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MaggieCarr

The Troubled Girls of Dragomir Academy | Anne Ursu

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I felt heavy themes in mis recorded histories at the mercy of men to control women but didn't say as much to my daughter (buddy read). I love that she can learn humans are flawed at the root through middle grade fantasies at her age. Men and women should be equal in what they are able to accomplish with their gifts, talents and pay and I think my daughter's eyes are opening to how far we have come as a gender and how far we need to keep pushing.

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cottagelantern

The Troubled Girls of Dragomir Academy | Anne Ursu

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5 ⭐️s
Let no one say that magic school stories are overdone and archaic; Anne Ursu proves all such judgements wrong in her story of Marya, a young girl suppressed and abused, who through simply being herself and following her instincts brings about the restoration of female autonomy throughout her entire world. I loved the main character, the magical school, the themes, the side characters, the side plots, everything!

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Johanna414

The Troubled Girls of Dragomir Academy | Anne Ursu

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Much of the story felt very bleak and I found myself getting so frustrated for the characters, but it had a satisfying ending. I didn‘t love it, but it was pretty good. #middlegrademarch @megnews @sblbooks

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Twainy

A Labyrinth of Scions and Sorcery: Book Two in the Risen Kingdoms | Curtis Craddock

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🎧 This is the 2nd book in the high fantasy Risen Kingdom trilogy. It continues the story of Isabelle & her musketeer Jean Claude & thankfully it‘s all story? No fluff fantasy! 🙄

Isabelle has fallen from Grace when she‘s unfairly accused of breaking the treaty she helped write. Everything‘s fought to attain is taken away from her.

⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ 👇🏻

Twainy Before you know it the game‘s afoot! Jean Claude has come across horrific murders committed by someone calling himself the Harvest King, a mystery to solve, a killer to stop. The capitol is in chaos.

Isabelle & Jean-Claude must stop a coup, save the emperor & catch a killer. 2y

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BookishBlonde12

Air Awakens (Air Awakens Series Book 1) | Elise Kova

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“They were sending her to war, so she would go and become something they had every right to fear.” #fantasy #fiction #newadult #fantasyromance #romance #highfantasy #magic #sorcerers #YA #youngadultfantasy

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BookishBlonde12

A Trial of Sorcerers | Elise Kova

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“She had two choices. One was to continue lying there, doing nothing. The other was to get up and defy all odds. To reach and try for something that the world didn‘t think she should have.”
#fantasy #youngadult #romance #magic #YA #youngadultfantasy #fantasyromance #highfantasy #fiction #adventure #epicfantasy #sorcerers

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