Y‘all I can‘t even begin to say how much I love this latest in a series of books that all feel like coming home despite the variety of worlds they occupy

Charlie turns twelve, a hidden mirror is found, animals are vanish, strange and uncertain alliances are forged, and those who were lost are now found. All a very standard term at Bloors academy. Another thrilling book in one of my favourite magical school series 💚💜💙

AKA Billy‘s no good very bad terrible month. Poor mite‘s had it bad for a long time but this is a bit much even for him. Luckily Charlie and the gang are getting better at this whole saving people thing (although Charlie (with all his rushing in) does still make rather large mistakes on occasion. He is, after all, only 12). As always, magic and mayhem go hand in hand at Bloor‘s academy as true friendship must battle against those who crave power.

On a side note as I read this series, I love a creative way to draw a family tree (or a map, but alas, no maps in Children of the Red King)

Charlie Bone off to stick his neb in dangerous places to save other children once again. The circle of friends gets tighter and tighter as the lines between friend and foe are clearly drawn and amidst it all poor Billy is still left with no one to defend him from the Bloors and their machinations. Not just yet.

Henry Yewbeam! The boy is too curious and not nearly sensible enough for his own good, her and Charlie get on like a forest fire 😆 Ever wanted to meet your ancestors but when they were the same age as you? If they‘re foolish enough to find a time twister and stare straight into it you just might get to. Dopey boys and the wonderful terrible adventures they get themselves into.

While waiting for my Kel books to arrive I‘ve decided to reread another old favourite of mine, Charlie Bone (the red kings children). I do love these books so much Charlie is a lovely (although often foolish and quite headstrong) boy who upon realizing he possesses gifts the Yewbeams never expected him to gets swept up in a whirlwind of adventures all while learning about a past he never knew his family had.

Dragons and duckmoles and badgers oh my! A grand adventure through the divine realms, a war of grand (you could even say divine) proportions, promises broken, and secrets revealed! A wonderful conclusion to this lovely series! I can‘t wait to get to Kel‘s books! (I just have to wait for them to arrive)

My favourite of all of Daine‘s books (although the last is a close second) a truly fantastic book where we explore Tortal‘s southern neighbour for the first time and Daine looses her temper in just the most massive way posible (with a little help from a meddling old woman)

We get to meet the pack! And a whole host of other friends (furred, feathered, two legger, and immortal) as well as a cast of foes, but isn‘t that always the case. Likewise, Daine starts the long (though not as long for her as many others) slog of growing up.

Daines turn! I love her so much y‘all, kel will always hold court as my favourite but before there was Kel there was Daine and there‘s a special place in my heart for this lovely wild girl who is (understandably) So So scared of herself and what she can do. Lucky for her she‘s about to find the best friends (family) a young girl could ask for.

Now a full and (mostly) accepted knight and shaman of the Bazhir Alanna goes off seeking adventure and forgetting that adventures equal stories and stories equal fame. She travels to the roof of the world, seeks glory for her king, has dalliances with dragons, and learn yet more techniques with both fist and blade. All of which will help her with what waits for her when she finally makes it home to the castle.

Although the slowest of Alannas four books it is still one of my favourites (if we can excuse the white saviourness of it which being the very early 90s when it was published makes plenty of sense) I love the tribes and their magic and the lil teen shamans and the way Alanna both loves the desert and chafes under the expectations of the Bazhir

So many of Alannas most important things appear in this book! Her cat, her ember, her sword. Both her great loves and the first war she sees and the first time she really starts to use her gift for something good. A fantastic start to her adulthood and end to her youth happen here 💙💚💜

I‘ve loved these books for my whole life and upon my latest reread the internalized sexism didn‘t bother me nearly as much as when I was in my late teens. I love this series so much because it‘s such a lovely way to introduce you to all the key players in tortall as children 💙💚💜

I love Rick and these books are very good but they‘re also just, so long. There‘s a specific kind of irony in these books about a bunch of adhd/dyslexic kids being so long that my adhd/dyslexia adjacent brain makes it hard to read them 😆 I do enjoy them still but it takes longer to read them then it should take me because big book 🤷🏼‍♀️
I stand by my previous assessment that this series could have been split in half and made into two series.

Two down three to go! This series is so much longer than the original 😆 it almost should have been ten books (aka my adhd/dyslexia adjacent brain has a much harder time with this size of book)
I do love them all so though, little Hazel and Frank, the kindest child Mars/Aries has ever had, and of course the hero himself Percy Jackson. I‘ve missed this lot these last couple years. I‘m really enjoying spending time with them again.

Oh no! This one ended so sad and worrisome. I want to read the next one rn :( unfortunately I have used up my book budget for the month. I love this series though it‘s so lovely and fun to read.

As someone who works with ‘challenging‘ kids? I highly endorse the message of simply pretending you cannot hear people who are being assholes about your students (I love this man I think)

It‘s Jurassic park if Jurassic park was a zoo and not a theme park which really, if you think about it for thirty seconds, really should have been run as a zoo and not a theme park. Much less deadly if it‘s a zoo and not a theme park. Anyway I adored this one and am so excited to see where it goes. Also! Each chapter has a page of info from actual Dino scientists between it which is very exciting for me personally. 🦖💜🦕

My local bookshop recommended this one to me and I just adore it. The little girl is so cute and the monster doctor teacher is wholly relatable to someone who also looks after other peoples children and just wants them to be safe and whole. It‘s a very sweet beginning and I‘m excited to be able to read more of it 🖤🖤🖤

I do love these book, trying to reread the whole series because one of my dnd groups is doing a summer shot of a pjo based campaign. I‘m quite excited about it honestly. Anyway these books are, as always character based action stories that I just adore. I particularly adore the focus on the differences between the Greek and Roman aspects in this series.

It genuinely is as good as people say it is yall. Took me an age to actually read it but that has nothing to do with the book and everything to do with not having enough time in the day. Despite how fantastic it was it is a rather rough read in terms of content so fair warning on that one.

I‘ve absolutely read this before, though I don‘t recall when, but it was a lovely read regardless. An ocean side exploration of a families shared and yet distinct history and the complications that come with that.

As always Seanan McGuire delights and thrills with her latest incryptid novel. Alice is just as wonderful a lead character as I‘d hoped she‘d be, and made better (in my opinion), with all the flaws she contains.

“Sometimes the right thing and the best thing and the good thing and the thing you want are four different things, and you have to try to figure out which one of them will do the least amount of damage.” -Enid Healy

Hey Jonathan? Pretty sure I know why Alice is so fucked up my man.
(I do so love all the various branches of this family but oh Lordy do they ever screw each other up, love them, but they‘re a mess)

Y‘all this book is genuinely scary, it‘s middle grade horror but like? Idk if I know many middle grade kids I‘d hand it to. Then again most of Kenneth books are are like that really, of the ones I‘ve read.
Anyway if you‘re looking for a scare read this book, it‘s very cool, and the protagonist clearly has ocd although they don‘t name it that in the book. However if you‘re scared of wasps already this is maybe not the book for you

Y‘all, read the warning on this one (it‘s in the book) before you read but also? I love Seanan‘s writing so much and Antsy‘s book is no exception I love this series so much and I love this book and this girl and this story so much y‘all.

Y‘all this book was So Good. It genuinely made me cry several times, an all too relevant story about hatred and racism in the lives of immigrants through the eyes of a tenacious and resourceful young girl who‘s going to change the world one person at a time.

I enjoyed this far more than I expected to honestly, a fairly fast paced train heist adventure set just years after the Canadian railway was finished, with era appropriate racism and sexism none the less (none of it shown in a kind or forgiving light, which was pleasantly surprising in a novel intended for children)

Y‘all this book was so good. I read it in two sittings because I wanted to savour it but found I couldn‘t put it down for very long. I‘m in love with the concept and the characters and it‘s just like a lovely, well, mug of something warm and comforting. I do so adore it 💙☕️💚

The book was alright, I read it in basically one sitting despite not particularly caring about the characters. The only one I liked at all was barely in the book, seems like she‘s slightly more in the second book but unfortunately it seems to not exist anymore. In any case it had some interesting ideas and an interesting take on the fae. It seemed right up my alley so im not sure why im so ambivalent towards it 🤷🏼‍♀️

Gee does this description of the 1870s-1080s feel familiar or what? Lovely to know we now have the same conditions that spawned Jack the Ripper (most likely because they never really went away)

Score 1 for the fucked up grass score 0 for the lovesick Olivia

I love carnivorous predatory plants. I love that Mira comes up with plants even more fucked up than I do

“The one constant in the universe is that life wants to continue living, whatever the consequence. Whatever the cost. Life endures.” - Dr. John Shipp

I love that Seanan/Mira includes quotes from the characters yall. It‘s always so good. (Also sorry for photo quality I was reading in a club)

✌🏼 Y‘all I‘m so excited to finally read this ✌🏼

Y‘all I knew I would love this book and I very much did. What a lovely lovely ending to this wonderful series. I love these funky lil worms so much.

Y‘all I finally finished it. It‘s so good, Orfeus is a fool (affectionate) and the rest of the cast of characters are brilliant and lovely and foolish in their own right and I love them all.
If you like solarpunk futures, assassins, scientific schemes, and a main character who if entirely too hard on themselves in all the wrong ways then is this the book for you!

I finished this whole one on the 3 hr plane ride to Toronto this morning (left at midnight 🏠🕰 and arrived at 6:30am Toronto 🕰 lol, no sleep for me) and I love it so much. Chime is easily one of my fav animal companions and it‘s a joy to be back with Little Bear and Tris is as much a match for my soul and Sandry is. Despite my annoyance with the whole ‘death must be magically bleached from existence‘ annoyance I do love this story a whole lot.

Daja is far and away my favourite (don‘t tell the others) and this book makes my heart hurt for her and for everyone who got caught up in one man‘s ego, despite the fact that they‘re all fictional.

Y‘all I Love Briar so much and he‘s such a sweet teacher and Evvy is wonderful and they teach each other in the way that also student/teacher pairs should. Not to mention this book has my favourite Tamora Pierce trope of ‘you disappeared and I lost my temper‘ while something is just Totally Destroyed in testament to said temper.

Y‘all I love Tris so much, her temper is intimately familiar to me as it‘s almost as sharp as mine. Also? I‘m so mad that someone fucked with weather that I‘m going to do something that they could very well kill themselves trying to stop? Mood, also what I would do with that much power

I always forget and am again made So Soft about how good a teacher Briar is. Getting Evvy a stone alphabet to tackle reading and learning stone uses all at once in a way she‘ll enjoy and care about. To be fair Evvy makes it easy to teach her because she‘s so excited to learn but still, I love them both so very much, these children who luck plucked off the streets and straight to the folk who could teach them best.

Y‘all I love this book and these characters. Sandry has always been one of my favourite character from the first time I read ‘start lapping kitty‘ and she shines in this book. Pasco, though not one of my favourites is a lovely contrast for dear Sandry who despite only being 14 is mature in all the ways tragedy makes you and I still love him dearly.

Don‘t mind the picture I forgot to take a decent one before I gave my sister her copy back.

Y‘all is fine, it‘s an interesting enough story but it starts to drag if you don‘t read fast enough and I think it would have been a better audiobook than a read

Y‘all I love this whole quartet so much it hurts sometimes. Briar‘s book, which apart from the plague is mostly about him realizing how much he‘s changed in a year, is such a good way to round out and finish off the first quartet. A lovely sort of ‘we‘ve come so far, how far will we go‘ thought.
I can‘t wait to read the next one (starting tomorrow, when my sister brings me her copy of the first because I‘m missing it).