But the Kingdom needs only one huntress to save it, and what it takes could tear Kaede and Taisin apart forever. As members of their party succumb to unearthly attacks and fairy tricks, the two come to rely on each other and even begin to fall in love. And yet the two girls’ destinies are drawn together during the mission. Taisin is a sage, thrumming with magic, and Kaede is of the earth, without a speck of the otherworldly. To solve the crisis, the oracle stones are cast, and Kaede and Taisin, two seventeen-year-old girls, are picked to go on a dangerous and unheard-of journey to Tanlili, the city of the Fairy Queen. The people’s survival hangs in the balance. Worse yet, strange and hostile creatures have begun to appear. The sun hasn’t shone in years, and crops are failing. Nature is out of balance in the human world. Here’s the publisher’s intro to the plot: I keep looking for a missing chapter, or, better yet, a sequel. However, romance fans should know that the ending is bittersweet, and while I can accept a bittersweet ending in fantasy (this is marketed as fantasy, not romance) it felt unfinished. It’s beautifully written and exciting and magical. Genre: LGBTQIA, Science Fiction/Fantasy, Young Adult
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I found myself really emotionally compelled by the moth and the flame metaphor in particular. I also just thought this book in general did a really great job of using metaphor. This is purely because he is one of my favorite Roman gods and I really love the myth. I have loved how much mythology shows up in MacLean's books in the past but was absolutely delighted about the Janus integration. The reader knows this man is building his own trap, and it really propelled me through this book. You begin the book in Devil's POV, and get to see his motivations pretty clearly and quickly. The reader sees the hurt that is hurtling towards these characters and absolutely cannot look away. It is a little bit like looking at a crash about to happen. I thought that MacLean built the conflict in this book so well. I just found the word play and conversation in this book to be really really well done. I legitimately had trouble because I was underlining too much of the dialogue and it was slowing down my reading. The banter in this book is absolutely top notch. This book had everything I have loved about a MacLean book in the past, it just also takes an additional step. So it was really interesting to read this book just feel like MacLean had just kind of leveled up. I have been reading all of Sarah MacLean's books in publication order and have really liked them all, and really loved many of them. I had a tremendous time reading this book. He'll wager his life to be a true "A Friend of Spirits." Now he'll follow HER into hell, tamahaak held high, and fight as a proud Indian against the Anglo Oppressors. The dirty streets of Roanoketown were his home and his only family. The Troubleshooter takes the grit and slang of a hardboiled detective and drops it in a dystopian setting that mixes Fedoras, trench coats, flying cars and android policemen. 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Please be aware that the sidebar in 'old' Reddit is no longer being updated with information about Book Clubs and AMAs as of October 2018. His other major series, Fear Street, has over 80 million copies sold. In the early 1990s, Stine was catapulted to fame when he wrote the unprecedented, bestselling Goosebumps® series, which sold more than 250 million copies and became a worldwide multimedia phenomenon. Stine began his writing career when he was nine years old, and today he has achieved the position of the bestselling children's author in history. Stine, who is often called the Stephen King of children's literature, is the author of dozens of popular horror fiction novellas, including the books in the Goosebumps, Rotten School, Mostly Ghostly, The Nightmare Room and Fear Street series. Stine and Jovial Bob Stine, is an American novelist and writer, well known for targeting younger audiences. 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