I don’t get into dramas because they always confuse me and I never really know who’s side to choose. The publication of this book was cancelled for some time due to the controversies stirred by some people (I had to read a whole reddit post about it because I’m late to everything) but I am so so glad it got published.
Everything about this book was amazing. There are some oh-so loveable characters and the author has done an incredible job with the mysteries and well the whole story. I mean, I’m not really a big fan of retellings and Anastasia is one of my favourite stories and to pull off it’s retelling is an incredibly hard job but Amélie has performed it brilliantly.
Anyyyyway, I finished this book in almost one sitting and I’ve got my finals in less than a week! It’s so so addicting.
I may or may not have died when I saw that Holly Black dedicated the book to Leigh Bardugo.
I think this is without a doubt one of THE most anticipated books of 2019 but because of that I was kind of scared if the book would live up to its expectations or not. It did and I am very happy for that.
After Jude is exiled by her husband (this word feels kind of awkward) she kind of accepts her fate but then something happens and she has to go back without, obviously, getting caught. I don’t think I need to explain what’ll happen next because it’ll get kind of spoilery.
Such a perfect story, such a perfect theme and such.perfect.relationships (I mean Cardan and Jude are kind of toxic but oh well)
I’m just genuinely sad that this series came to an end. I just want more.
For all my dudes who enjoy fantasy, this is going to be your next favorite book.
A disgraced pilot saved by elemental magic. A jaded spy haunted by his past. Occult forces threatening to ruin them both.
Synopsis:
All Voi wants is to fly her plane and live a decent life, but something stands in her way: emelesia, a rare condition likely to land her in a mental asylum. Forever. Then comes Mr. Callahan, the mysterious agent who convinces Voi to spy for a cure. The catch? She has untapped elemental powers, and the enemy is psychic.
Desperate for a remedy, the aviatrix trains for a dangerous mission, wary of the person she’s being molded into. The threat of coercion hovers constantly: become an elemental agent, or face the asylum. Meanwhile, Voi struggles with unusual side effects—from overwhelming urges to unintentional manifestations of her powers, due to unchecked emotions.
Between learning how to control her abilities, Mr. Callahan’s growing reluctance towards her potential, and dealing with psychic revolutionaries… becoming an elementalist seems less and less appealing. Can Voi and her handler learn to trust one another, or will the machinations of paranormal politics lead to their undoing?
If you like psychics, spies, pilots, airships, political intrigue, or elemental magic…then this story is for you.
The book brought out a whole different side of fantasy books and honestly, I was not ready. You have a brave pilot (Voi) for the main character, a very charming yet a bit clumsy spy, Callahan, as the second main. But the story-the book- is not bound to these characters. There are many with their own story (although obviously related to the main one) This is the author’s first published book but it definitely doesn’t feel like it. I mean everything about this book is so good
Now for the Giveaway part which I know is the sole reason y’all are here for. You don’t have to do much.
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In all honesty, I requested this book mainly because the blurb said that it’s a lot like Stranger Things and they were right!
I wouldn’t call it a complete ‘fantasy’ but there’s some aspects of fantasy in it.
There’s a group of five friends each dealing with their own problems when two of them (Charlie and Peter) discover this “God Game’. At first they don’t think much about it, they think it’s just someone messing with them behind the screen but then it starts sending them messages which are very secretive and very personal.
Things get intense and it starts making them do these dark and different tasks and are forced to do all these things because they are kind of threatened to be killed if they stop playing the game.
In all of this mess, the group falls apart, they start questioning each other and things get very dark.
This was quite a thrilling book, It’s fast paced and it’s a bit of a mix of a lot of movies and books so I think a lot of people will enjoy this.
Many thanks to the publisher for providing me an ARC of this book.
I think The Twilight Series just met its competition.
I’ve been waiting for this book to come out ever since its release was announced so you can imagine just how annoyed I am. I tried SO hard to finish at least half of the book but I just could not.
I’m not gonna lie, I just cannot believe Leigh Bardugo wrote this. The same author who wrote Six Of Crows, wrote this? Nah.
All the 200 pages I read, I didn’t have a single clue about what was happening. Didn’t know who (or what) this Dante was, realized halfway through that Alex hadn’t even finished highschool and that she was rescued from a life of misery blah blah. Plus there’s tons and tons of assault and other things in detail.
In all of this mess, it’s kind of hard to give a damn about Yale’s secret societies.
“The question is not simply whether to live or die but what kind of life is worth living.”
I feel kind of like an ass for rating a memoir because you can’t rate a person’s life. But I’m giving it five stars to show how this book made me feel.
This book was possibly one of the most saddest books I’ve read this year.
It’s informative, it’s unique and it’s heartwarming but I’m not going to lie, reading this was depressing. It’s different when you read a fictional death but to know the author-Paul- died at such a young age sucks,man. And the epilogue written by his wife, Lucy, just felt like a punch in the gut.
When Breath Becomes Air is insightful and educational. Cancer is a horrendous thing but I applaud Paul for dealing with it bravely and gracefully.
I hope his daughter grows up to know just how much of a legend her father was.
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