#Dhonielle Clayton

[gollancz]

That's right baybeeee - ten years after it first launched, Gollanczfest is back and it's bigger than ever!

WHEN?

16th March 2024

Leonardo Royal Hotel, London

Tickets go on sale Friday 6th October at 10am UK time!

Early presale for tickets available exclusively to our newsletter subscribers

WHO?

Our headliner? Only VICTORIA AVEYARD

Other confirmed authors: Joe Abercrombie, Natasha Pulley, Garth Nix, Dhonielle Clayton, Joe Hill, Ben Aaronovitch, @joannechocolat, Aliette de Bodard, Sarah Hawley, @jonnywaistcoat, Esmie Jikiemi-Pearson . . . and MANY more

Plus: YOU

PLUS

All tickets come with a goodie bag full of Gollancz goodies work at least £30

VIP tickets are available with access to the green room, priority tickets to panels, and additional goodies

FREE SFF quiz run by the greatest quizmasters (allegedly, this may be a title they've claimed themselves and I cannot verify) Joe Abercrombie and Garth Nix!

We'll be announcing panels soon, but this is going to be a fun, friendly and festive day, full of nerdery, excitement and probably a lot of harried looking Gollancz staff stuffing their faces with sandwiches and trying to find where distracted authors have wandered off to.

PARTY TIME

#Gollanczfest #Book Events #Victoria Aveyard #Joanne Harris #Jonathan Sims #Joe Abercrombie #Garth Nix #Natasha Pulley #Ben Aaronovitch #Joe Hill #Esmie Jikiemi-Pearson #Sarah Hawley #Dhonielle Clayton #Aliette de Bodard #UK Book Events #SFF Book Events

[kevplummer]

I’ve had no time to draw anything so here’s just some anti HP stuff I’ve made in the past few months lol

#illustration #art #art zine #zine #harry potter #ursula le guin #a wizard of earthsea #legendborn #tracy deonn #amari and the night brothers #bb Alston #the marvellers #dhonielle clayton #naomi novik #a deadly education #ninth house #leigh bardugo #lotr #lord of the rings #jrr tolkien

[arcadialedger]

Instead of a Harry Potter reboot, why don’t we get an adaptation of Dhonielle Clayton’s ‘The Marvellers’ series, also known as Conjureverse?

It follows a young girl named Ella who goes to a magic school full of students from around the world. It is incredibly diverse, charming, and has wonderful messages about friendship for kids!

It is the magic school story this generation needs, one of the best middle grades I have read in a long time, and just plain old good.

#books #the marvellers #dhonielle clayton #middle grade #movie adaptation #tv adaptation #book to screen #bookworm #read #readers #fantasy #magic school #the arcadia ledger

[slaughter-books]

Day 3: JOMPBPC: Black Pride

❤️✊🏻🧡✊🏼💛✊🏽💚✊🏾💙✊🏿💜

#justonemorepage #jompbpc #black pride #whiteout #dhonielle clayton #tiffany d. jackson #nic stone #angie thomas #ashley woodfolk #nicola yoon #forever ends on friday #justin a. reynolds #the poet x #elizabeth acevedo #highly suspicious and unfairly cute #talia hibbert #beautiful books #amazing authors #lgbt+ #pretty flowers #i love books

[bansheebooks]

I still hate the feeling in these moments that my body doesn’t belong to me. I become a doll—an object to be embellished.

#bookedit #booklr #yalitedit #the belles #dhonielle clayton #fantasy #ya fantasy #* #*edit

[haveyoureadthisfantasybook]

vote YES if you have finished the entire book.

vote NO if you have not finished the entire book.

(faq · submit a book)

#fantasy #books #poll #Dhonielle Clayton #The Belles #result: no

[slightlyrebelliouswriter23]

#don't @ me for the colleen hoover pick okay i already own it 😭 #'twas a gift so i will read it but probably be grumpy about it #rip zlib #one last stop #casey mcquiston #agatha christie #hercule poirot #it ends with us #colleen hoover #the wisteria society of lady scoundrels #india holton #the belles #dhonielle clayton #reputation #lex croucher #lit #yalit #my poll #em reads

[haveyoureadthismgyabook]

Series info:

Book 1 of The Belles

Book 2: The Everlasting Rose

Book 3: The Beauty Trials

#books #ya #fantasy #the belles #dhonielle clayton #poll

[black-is-beautiful18]

J. K. Rowling stans are too bold. Why are y’all out here messaging nonwhite authors and telling them that they’re copying that despicable woman? Her books aren’t even that good for y’all to be acting like that. The concept of magic schools and magic systems was alive and well before Rowling existed. Leave Black authors and authors of color alone. Y’all are no better than the weirdo who tried to come for Deborah Falaye, the author of Blood Scion, saying that she was copying GrishaVerse because her book included the Orisha. The Orisha are literal gods from an actual belief system. That is how stupid and foolish y’all are about these people. Let’s not forget that Rowling isn’t a good person either. Y’all need to stop. Anyway, go pick up The Marvellers by Dhonielle Clayton.

#dhonielle clayton #the marvellers #harry potter #j k rowling #grishaverse #deborah f. savoy #deborah falaye #blood scion #blood scion by deborah f. savoy #leave black authors alone #black authors #racism in reading #unique writes

[moondustbooks]

February JOMP Day 5 - Pink Books 💗

#justonemorepage #jompbpc #books #booklr #pink book covers #pink books #the princess diaries #meg cabot #the sleeping beauty #mercedes lackey #shiny broken pieces #sona charaipotra #dhonielle clayton #you wish #mandy hubbard #kisses and croissants #anne-sophie jouhanneau #mammoth #jill baguchinsky #ya books #book photography #book photo challenge #moondustbooks

[the-final-sentence]

She gave me permission to listen to that whisper.

Dhonielle Clayton, from "The Need for Kisses"

#The Need for Kisses #Dhonielle Clayton

[semper-legens]

61. Tiny Pretty Things, by Sona Charaipotra and Dhonielle Clayton

Owned: No, library Page count: 438 My summary: Gigi, Bette, and June are all reaching the end of their time at the American Ballet Company. Senior girls, this is the time when they will be expected to work the hardest, be the best, and earn the title of prima ballerina. But only one can be prima, and the rest are ready to fight dirty to gain the coveted role. Pranks turn dangerous. Hatred turns bitter. This beautiful sport is about to become deadly. My rating: 3/5 My commentary:

I used to know a lot more about ballet. When I was little, I was fascinated by it - the athleticism of the dancers, the beauty and skill on display. My favourite ballet was Giselle, the story of a young woman driven to death by love, who rises from the grave as a ghost among the ghosts of other unmarried women. As I grew older, though, my interest moved from ballet to musicals, and my knowledge of it faded. But I still retained a vague interest. Which is why I picked up this book, a story of teenage girls in the American Ballet Company and the trials they go through as part of their chosen vocation. While on the whole I wasn't that fussed about the book, I did largely enjoy it, though I'm not sure I'd pick it up again.

The narrative switches between three characters - Bette, Gigi, and June. Bette is an established dancer from a family of dancers, who is also the head Mean Girl of the school and sore at being overshadowed. Gigi is an up-and-comer with a bright personality who worries about being sidelined because she's black. June is a strange, antisocial girl who is concerned with perfectionism and always being the best. As Gigi starts getting soloist parts, the others are jealous and competing with her, as well as dealing with their own issues. Bette has a controlling mother and believes that she should be on top at all times, just like her older sister Adele. June has an eating disorder and is bullied by the other Korean girls at the school, leading to her isolation. And Gigi has a medical condition that makes dancing dangerous, as well as having to deal with attacks from the other dancers that grow increasingly more vicious. The similarity of the plot to Giselle is noticeable, with Gigi and Bette fighting over the same boy, especially given that Gigi's full name is Giselle - or maybe that's just my personal obsession showing.

Ballet is a merciless thing. To learn how to dance ballet, you ideally have to start at a very young age, and even then only have a relatively brief window where you are at your peak and can perform. Competition for roles is fierce, and standards around appearance are stringent. That basically all the girls in this novel have eating disorders is unsurprising - many top ballet schools prize slim people with barely any body fat, and will harshly criticise any dancer who is overweight. Obviously this is dangerous in any person, but particularly in teenage girls. The art is physically demanding and takes a toll on a person's body, with injuries being commonplace. I think this book portrayed all of that adequately. June's eating disorder, Bette's pill addiction, Gigi's increasing paranoia - all of these things are at least versions of real things ballet dancers experience. On top of that, there's the stress and competition. Solo parts are highly sought after, and attacks on soloists aren't unheard of, dramatised here when Gigi has glass placed in her ballet shoe among other things. Also not unheard of is inappropriate relationships between teachers and dancers. Adults in the ballet world grooming their young charges is abhorrent, but it does happen, and we see hints of it here with Mr K, the girls' teacher.

So then why am I so nonplussed by the book? Eh, it's probably because I didn't really think the story was that strong. The mystery of who's hurting Gigi was really obvious considering that we only have two principal candidates, and Bette's an obvious red herring. My biggest problem, though, was that two of the three protagonists just aren't that likeable. I understand and sympathise with their struggles, but I don't think they're humanised enough to keep my interest. The bitchy and cut-throat nature of the ballet world is emphasised again and again and again, to the point where I just sort of stopped caring about anything that happened to these girls. Gigi was the most human for me, by virtue of her doing mostly nothing wrong. And I know, the book's more trying to criticise the culture around ballet and the atmosphere fostered at top ballet schools, showing that this profession is what has chewed these girls up and spat them out, their plight isn't really their fault. Doesn't mean it kept my interest as a narrative, though. Furthermore, the meanness and backstabbing of the narrative starts really early on, we rarely get any moments of levity, and I think that would have made all the difference to humanise these girls a bit more. It's also noticeable that June's tormentor, Sei-Jin, is gay and June uses this against her - so is Will, who blackmails Bette. Unfortunate handling of your queer characters there. But for all that, I have to praise it for one thing - though it's heavily implied, the book never quite comes out and says that June was the one attacking Gigi, leaving the reader to work it out for themself. I like that! It's a nice move, and I really would have had an issue if the last section had been just June narrating MWA HA HA I WAS A BITCH ALL ALONG, so kudos!

Next, a girl's story of fleeing from war.

#Tiny Pretty Things #Sona Charaipotra #Dhonielle Clayton #bookblr #book blog #book blogging #3

[ecoamerica]

Watch the American Climate Leadership Awards 2024 now: https://youtu.be/bWiW4Rp8vF0?feature=shared

The American Climate Leadership Awards 2024 broadcast recording is now available on ecoAmerica's YouTube channel for viewers to be inspired by active climate leaders. Watch to find out which finalist received the $50,000 grand prize! Hosted by Vanessa Hauc and featuring Bill McKibben and Katharine Hayhoe!

#ACLA24 #ACLA24Leaders #youtube #youtube video #climate leaders #climate solutions #climate action #climate and environment #climate #climate change #climate and health #climate blog #climate justice #climate news #weather and climate #environmental news #environment #environmental awareness #environment and health #environmental #environmental issues #environmental justice #environment protection #environmental health #Youtube

[razreads]

Scent delivers a memory to the mind that isn't impaired by time. You can go back to places you want to visit. You can recapture things that are lost. You can even open worlds...

Dhonielle Clayton, The Marvellers

#razreads #book quote #the marvellers #dhonielle clayton #smell #senses #memory #past #queue have a good day now

[slaughter-books]

Day 22: JOMPBPC: Colours

I love corresponding colours! 💛💜

#justonemorepage #jompbpc #colours #corresponding colours #the lesbiana's guide to catholic school #sonora reyes #the disasters #m.k. england #grown #tiffany d. jackson #the marvellers #dhonielle clayton #beautiful books #amazing authors #lgbt+ #💛💜 #i love books

[ijustkindalikebooks]

Can't wait to start this.

#books #booklr #bookblr #fiction #middle grade #the marvellers #dhonielle clayton

[curlyhairedbibliophile]

Cover Art | The Beauty Trials by Dhonielle Clayton

In this all-new novel from the world of Dhonielle Clayton’s sweeping, lush fantasy series the Belles, rebellious, outspoken, fan-favorite Edel Beauregard enters The Beauty Trials—a deadly competition to find the next Queen of Orleans. With the dangerous, erratic Princess Sophia imprisoned, Queen Charlotte decides to invoke the ancient tradition of The Beauty Trials—a series of harrowing tests meant to find the one true ruler of Orleans. Edel, who has always aspired to be more than just a Belle, decides to enter and, after promising to bind her arcana to keep from having an unnatural advantage, joins a few dozen other hopefuls intent on becoming the next Queen of Orleans. But the trials are far worse than any of them bargained for. As the women are put through dangerous tasks meant to test their strength, confidence, composure, and bravery, many perish, and Edel is mysteriously attacked by one of the other competitors—forcing her to use her powers just to survive. Will her subterfuge cost her the crown, or is there a larger conspiracy at play?

Artwork by Katt Phatt

Release date | Feb 14, 2023 Goodreads

#the beauty trials #the belles #dhonielle clayton #katt phatt #book cover art #book cover reveal #ya fiction #black authors #bipoc authors #booklr #bookblr