Good morning, everyone, and welcome to another instalment of the Fandom project! This time, we are once again discussing books, this time, young adult books. Check out previous posts in this series here.
Once again, the list is quite long, so I will just mention the wiki and not go into deeper details about what each one needs help with. If I did that, the post would be too long, and no one would have time for it.
As I've mentioned in previous posts, if you can create & edit a Tumblr post, you can edit articles on a wiki. Here, you can find an easy step-by-step guide on how to get started with contributing, but you can also message me & I will help guide you through any question marks.
13 Treasures Series // A Walk to Remember // The Amateurs // The Archived // Artemis Fowl // Beautiful Disaster // Big Little Lies // The Bone Season // Books of History Chronicles // The Book Thief
Charlaine Harris // Chris Van Allsburg // Chronicles of Nick // Cornelia Funke // Covenant // Dan Brown // Daughter of Smoke and Bone // Destroyermen // The Devil Wears Prada // Diana Wynne Jones // Divergent // The Diviners Series
Emily of New Moon // Endgame // Eric Flint // Famous in Love // The Fault in Our Stars // Fever/Highlander // Fifty Shades of Grey // Fire and Thorns // Gabriel Allon // Gail Carriger // Gail Carson Levine // Gallagher Girls // The Giver // Guards of the Shadowlands
Half Bad Trilogy // Hardy Boys // Hush, Hush // If I Stay // Island in the Sea of Time // J. K. Rowling // Jane Austen // John Green // John Wayne Cleaver // Just One Day // L. J. Smith // The Last Kingdom // Little Britches // Little Women // Lockwood & Co. // The Lone City // The Lovely Bones // The Lying Game
Mara Dyer // Maximum Ride // Me Before You // Meg Cabot // Millenium Trilogy // Monsters of Verity // Mortdecai // Neil Gaiman // Nerve // Outlander // Paws and Claws Mysteries // The Phantom of the Opera // Phillip K. Dick
R.L. Stine // Rain of the Ghosts // The Reckoners // Red Queen // Roman Mysteries // The Selection // Shades of London // Sharpe // Shopaholic // Sir Robert Carey Mysteries // Starbound Trilogy // Starcrossed // Storm and Silence
Takashi Matsuoka // Trudi Canavan // Uglies // Unearthly // Unenchanted // Vicious // We Were Liars // Wicked Lovely // The Witchlands // The Work and the Glory
If your favourite book or series isn't mentioned here, I suggest checking out the literature page, the book club or go to this page & simply search for your favourite book/series/author. Its almost guaranteed to have their own wiki!
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I'm currently in what i call my "Lana Del Rey phase"
Artists: Lana, The Neighbourhood, Marina, Melanie Martinez, Mazzy Star, Sex after Cigarettes
Books ♡
Read: Still missing by Chevy Stevens, Stolen by Lucy Christopher, I stop somewhere by T.E Carter, Church by Stylo Fantome, The perfect chemistry by Simone Elkeles, Held by Edeet Ravel, Bully by Penelope Douglas, Before I fall by Lauren Oliver, The kind worth killing by Peter Swanson, Too late by Colleen Hoover, The way I used to be by Amber Smith
Tbr: Flawed by Kate Avelynn, Twilight by Stephenie Meyer, Mara Dyer triology by Michelle Hodkin, The places I've cried in public by Holly Bourne, Say I love you by Kanae Hazuki, We are okay by Nina LaCour, Hades Hangmen series by Tillie Cole, Things I'm seeing without you by Peter Bognanni, I hold your heart by Karen Gregory, The way I am now by Amber Smith, Skins by Ali Cronin, Sadie by Courtney Summers, Every day triology by David Levithan, Blackwood institute series by J. Rose, How It feels to float by Helena Fox, Emergency contact by Mary H.K Choi, Preach by Stylo Fantome, If I stay by Gayle Forman, Speak by Laurie Halse Anderson, Wrecked by E. R Frank, Red by Isobel Alice K, Asking for It by Lilah Pace, Cracked up to be by Courtney Summers, White Oleander by Janet Fitch, Hick by Andrea Portes, The torn skirt by Rebecca Godfrey,
Style essentials: chokers, platforms, tote bags, lace bras, stockings, skirts, off the shoulder tops, gloss, perfume, painted nails sparkles, red or black, fishnets, eyeliner, mascara, black n white ribbons, chains
Shows n movies: la belle personne, Hick, in treatment, skins, speak, sharing the secret, trust stoker, back roads, little tailor, the idol, look away, adolescence, baby, tart, down in the valley, i believe in unicorns, dear prudence, palo alto, shangri-la suite, before i fall, white oleander, the society, Scum's wish, Say I love you, tvd, spinning out, clementine, young & beautiful, normal people, the sistehood of the traveling pants, a faithful man, the dreamers, a faithful man
Hobbies: take pictures, listening to music while slow dancing at night, singing, reading books, write poetry, night photoshoot,
Only social media: Tumblr n Instagram
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A Court of Thorns and Roses by Sarah J. Maas
4.5/5 stars
Spoilers for the first book in the A Court of Thorns and Roses series
Like so many others, this is the book that got me back into reading after a five-ish year slump. In saying that, I liked it at first, but did not love it until after I read the second book and things fell into place. I love series that give you all the answers and you don’t even realize it (see The Unbecoming of Mara Dyer). I did see spoilers prior to finishing this book, and that was mainly the reason I kept reading. I felt like when you compare this to the second book, it feels like SJM was ironically writing certain tropes, and then decided she wanted to take the story seriously toward the end. For example, the concept of Calanmai. Faeries having a sex ceremony once a year to help the crops grow felt a bit ridiculous to me in the context of the rest of the plot. And then Tamlin being basically overtaken by some sort of horny magic? Things like that made me think she wrote the first book with a different direction in mind than what we see in the rest of the series. I found myself often sending out of context snippets to my friends and going “this is so ridiculous and I think I’m just reading fairy porn.” But I couldn’t stop. The writing and plot improves massively throughout the next two books, but that is a big risk for an author to take because you will have readers who don’t go past this first book. In this case, it paid off.
I absolutely loved all of the Under the Mountain chapters. The 280 pages before it almost felt like a prequel and Under the Mountain felt like when the plot truly began. Rhysand was such an interesting character to read about. I love characters who aren’t outright evil and leave you guessing. I didn’t realize how boring Tamlin was until Rhys was introduced. Though I was fully daydreaming about Tamlin while reading this book.
The writing style is very simple and easy to read and it’s okay to like that. This isn’t some great classic novel that you can compare to Shakespeare; it’s just fun and easy. A lot of sentences are repeated through this book and the others in the series which felt slightly lazy to me, but again, it’s a fun read and you shouldn’t take it too seriously.
If you’ve read this and you’re on the fence about continuing, definitely read the next book because it will likely change your opinion on this one. This first book isn’t that great on its own, but paired with the second and the things that are revealed, you might even find yourself doing a reread.
I would like to add that the original prints of these books had a pronunciation guide at the beginning and I don’t know why that was taken out of the newer prints, but it should come back. I was out here pronouncing Lucien as Lu-seen and Rhysand as Rice-and until I put on the audio book towards the end. And bogge is actually bo-gee and not bog??
I think it absolutely deserves 5 stars when paired with A Court of Mist and Fury, but I’ll be giving it 4.5 because it was only 4 stars on its own before I finished the second book and everything fell into place.
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