Laini Taylor’s Strange the Dreamer unfolds carefully, thoughtfully, methodically. You have to be patient to take it all in. Taylor’s writing is beautiful, and each character is so clearly defined.
Strange the Dreamer, by Laini Taylor
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Six of Crows, by Leigh Bardugo
Leigh Bardugo’s Six of Crows feels like a delightfully wicked combination of what’s best about The Outsiders + Oceans 11 + The Last Airbender. But that still doesn’t really do justice to the amazing story, characters, and world Bardugo has created here.
Small Spaces, by Katherine Arden
I adore Arden from her Winternight trilogy and was curious to see how her incredible writing and story-telling skills translated to middle-grade fiction. I’m glad to say that Small Spaces has the same polish and complexity I would expect from Arden, although maybe just toned down a little (appropriate to the younger audience).
The Cruel Prince, by Holly Black
I love how Holly Black doesn’t necessarily play by the rules. I see some calling her book The Cruel Prince a “dark” fantasy, and I would agree; people lie, people kill, people die. It gets messy. Wonderfully, deliciously messy.
Tess of the Road, by Rachel Hartman
It wasn’t until I finished Rachel Hartman’s Tess of the Road that I discovered this is actually a companion novel to two others written by Hartman (Seraphina, and Shadow Scale). This makes sense since my first reaction to this book was feeling like I had been dropped in the middle of a story, not the beginning of one.
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