tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-23203690489437234582024-03-21T16:08:31.064-08:00YAs read YAsUnknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger71125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2320369048943723458.post-45864526204081924302015-02-16T11:37:00.001-09:002015-02-16T11:37:40.355-09:00*Even sadder flute noises*<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
Well, I've come to the conclusion that I really don't have the time to run this blog. Mostly because I actually have a life now, more than I did when I started. So I'm probably not going to be posting much. I don't like feeling pressured to finish books. If I find a book I feel really strongly about, however, I might review it. Or if I find something really, really cool.<br />
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Like this! <a href="http://doublediamond.net/aow/homepage.php" target="_blank">A search engine to find diverse books!</a> V cool. I'm having a lot of fun with it.</div>
Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2320369048943723458.post-36926883143861186372015-01-30T20:35:00.000-09:002015-01-30T20:35:07.819-09:00A Thousand Pieces of You<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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Just after his invention of a reality-hopping device, Marguerite's father is murdered. With the help of one of her parent's assistants, Theo, she chases after the man she's convinced killed her father.</div>
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Sad start to the review, but here goes. I honestly wasn't too interested at first. There were other books to read, and it just wasn't that gripping in the beginning. But... oh my Thoth, once it got good? It got <i>good</i>. The plot heated up outside of some weird revenge-thriller. Not all of it was perfect, but it was mostly pretty great.</div>
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I genuinely enjoyed the characters. Even the Love Interest wasn't defined solely by Love Interest-ability (this brings me a weird kind of joy). I don't even know how to describe it. The parents were a little Leave It to Beaver, ruffle your hair type parents, but it didn't really take away from the novel.</div>
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Also- ploooottt twiiiiistttsss? I don't think I've read such a twisty novel in a long time. And each twist was pulled off well, with foreshadowing, but not a ridiculous amount of foreshadowing. But (you people are getting so tired of 'but's in my review, huh?) the thing is, it was maybe one twist too many. Getting excited got sort of... boring. And in between twists, it didn't feel as interesting. Which is kind of sad, because they were still good twists.<br />
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The universes were <i>great</i>. I mean, I'm not too great (see, there it is again), but 'great' is my version of being one step behind throwing it at people and screaming 'READ IT READ IT READ IT'. The Russia universe seemed kind of like a 'royalty AU' fanfiction at first (it technically was), but once the train scene hit? Ho ho ho, dear reader, it was <i>awesome</i>. [Spoilers of war] <strike>But did we need the sex. </strike>[Back, spoilers, back] <br />
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Okay, I have a question. Is there a sequel? <i>Will</i> there be a sequel? Because the end sort of felt undone. It ended the plot of the story, but there were so many possibilities and outcomes that just <i>need</i> to be addressed in a second book. Or in fanfiction. Heck, the end of the book essentially gave the plot of another! Argh. Now I need to check.<br />
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Conclusion: Amazon calls it 'Book One'. So I think we're good. <br />
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And, as last paragraphs always are, the romance aspect of things. This entire paragraph is a spoiler, so if you don't want to see it, <i>avert ye virgin eyes</i>. I actually sort of liked the romance. It was a good romance. They both seemed to genuinely like each other, and we weren't slammed with descriptions of Paul every single time she looked at him. It wasn't super sudden either. They had known each other for a while and were friends. The angst over 'Russia Paul is dead' made sense, even if angst isn't my favorite trope in novels.<br />
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So. Good book. Might be a little hard to get into, but worth it once you start.<br />
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<b>(Posting on time? Ha. Ha ha ha. Ha. Luckily, I finished a couple books while procrastinating on writing this, so you might get the next one before winter ends.)</b></div>
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Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2320369048943723458.post-91782298317258085282015-01-16T16:41:00.000-09:002015-01-16T16:41:25.967-09:00Sanctum<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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Dan, Abby, and Jordan return to Brookline following a trail left by their previous enemy. Someone's been sending them photographs of a circus, with threatening notes scribbled on the backs. As they follow the clues, they find themselves deeper and deeper in the history of Brookline.</div>
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I seriously expected some second book syndrome. Even series I love with all my heart, I kind of roll my eyes (or glare, for the <i>Son of Neptune</i>). Plot twist! This book didn't have SBS! Or, in a mild enough form that I chose to ignore it. Either way, that's pretty good.</div>
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The characters stayed consistent. I mean, that's kind of like half of SBS. The characters get a wild makeover and suddenly they're just them by name. This makes it easier on me, because I can just redirect you to the first review for my feelings on the characters.</div>
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The main problem I had with this book was just the sheer overpowering Dan-ness. He did a lot, which is okay! Cool! That's the great part of a proactive protagonist! But at the same time, he did a <i>lot. </i>He really overshadowed the other two characters.<br />
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I loved all the plots/subplots. Horrific horror. (I'm going to admit- I don't read that much horror. It's up to someone else if it was really that scary. I thought it was.) Secret societies? Rad. They're ignored so often for things that aren't actually that scary, like zombies. I mean, secret societies really mess stuff up. And carnival horror, which have boomed for no apparent reason, since there hasn't been an actual carnival boom, totally worked.<br />
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One problem with the plot/subplots, though. I was sort of torn between it being a secret society horror or a carnival horror. Or an asylum horror (see paragraph under this one). They were all connected, yeah, but I felt like the connection to the carnival was kind of weak. Like it might simplify the novel a bit more if [Iiiii don't care if the world knows what my spoilers are] the hypnotist's stone [Goodbye, spoiler] had just been moved to a different setting and the carnival been cut off. Say, the [hello, spoilers, my only friend] hypnotist was passing through, sans carnival, and Daniel Crawford I saw him instead of going to the carnival [please wash hands of all spoilers]. I don't know. I might just be being fussy about plot matters.<br />
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Okay, I've grown and learned since I read Asylum, the first book. And I've realized something kind of great about this series. Most books relating to mental asylums portray the patients as 'evil, SCARY mentally ill ppl oh no bby so dangerous :'('. Honestly? Mentally ill people aren't scary. The wardens were <i>terrifying. </i>So, I'm really, really glad that there's an asylum horror that doesn't reduce the mentally ill to props. A book that's honest about the history of asylums.<br />
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<b>(I might as well just make the date for these things the 16th, huh. Also, short review because tttthhhhbbbbpppthbpppppp.)</b></div>
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Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2320369048943723458.post-44282873341446731622014-12-30T12:00:00.000-09:002015-01-16T16:23:41.863-09:00Blind<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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kid, but now it seems everyone is watching her. And just as she's about
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<span id="freeText6794729681076013391">Unlike most books on here, I didn't pick up this book because 'wow! That sounds interesting!' (that came later), but instead the creeping feeling that I should. </span><span id="freeText6794729681076013391"></span><span id="freeText6794729681076013391"> </span>It was on one of my lists, and I was curious. Would I need to take it off the list? Was it even a good book? So, out of curiosity and some vague worries, I picked it up.</div>
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The first thing I noticed was backstory. This is kind of alarming, because I usually feed on a diet of trashy mermaid romances where backstory and plot are treating like some kind of plague. And <i>Blind</i> has a lot of backstory. A lot. While the book follows the plot of a murder mystery type scenario, it would be a bit easier to say that it was about Emma's journey from first being blinded to accepting her disability and doing the things she wants to do. This isn't necessarily a bad thing. Actually, the backstory is really interesting. </div>
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It would be nice, however, if the book was a little less expound-y. It wasn't fluff sentences or fluff scenes that were the problem, but things that could take one sentence taking a paragraph instead. That didn't happen too often, but enough to be kind of irritating. Most of them were referring to Zach (more on him later).</div>
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The characters were really cool. Logan especially. Instead of being your Typical YA Best Friend (TM), she was actually a person. A real person, whose life didn't revolve a) Emma, or b) helping Emma get together with Love Interest. Even with some of the qualities of the Typical YA Best Friend (TM) like being snarky, or being emotionally strong, she was rounded out and interesting to read.</div>
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Emma broke out of the mold of what I except from the Typical YA Heroine (TM). She wasn't defined by something like shyness or stubbornness, but by being her own person. She had opinions and did things, acting like someone who you might know instead of cardboard cut out you might know. Even if she acted a little cynical sometimes, it didn't come off as that aggravating type of cynicism I've gotten way too used to reading, where the narrator sounds like they think they're better than everyone. I liked it.</div>
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Even secondary or background characters were individuals. Emma's sisters (and brother) didn't feel like they were there for the 'look, a baby! Oh, don't you love the BABY?! BABY BABY BABY!' factor. I hate that factor. I've mentioned this in previous reviews. I don't think you guys need a recap on it. Anyway, each of Emma's six siblings were unique. At the same time, they acted their age and did their own thing. Other secondary characters, even ones that had like <i>two lines</i> were individuals. Do you know how hard it is to give a character two lines and still make me think 'yep, this is a person. I like this person. Yep.'?! It's really hard. A flower crown to the author.</div>
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As mentioned in the first paragraph, there was backstory. And the backstory was well written and didn't seem like it was just there to clog things up. However, it did slow down the pace of the novel. The book's only 394 pages. That's not that bad. But it feels so much longer. I'm going to admit, I'm not quite done with it at the writing of this paragraph (December 20). </div>
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I honestly don't know what happened. The book was still good, but something must have happened at the halfway mark.</div>
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First of all, the pacing picked up. Great! I'm going to admit, the slowness of the first half was seriously starting to bother me.<br />
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But Emma also suddenly achieved Stage Four Other Girls Syndrome. It just happened. She went from being all cool and original to sounding a lot like the very Typical YA Heroine (TM). Sad. She hit the points of: feminist is a dirty word, all gays are dead, all gays are messed up, and you're a slut. What?! I expect books to <i>start</i> like this, not end like this. Was this some kind of messed up character arch? Le sigh.<br />
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Zach's status of Love Interest was dropped, to be picked up by Sebastian. Sebastian was cool, so I didn't mind. At the same time, could Dee being Sebastian's girlfriend have <i>not</i> incited an Other Girls reaction? Please?<br />
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<b>(Sorry I missed the 15th. Busy season. Hopefully I can read more books over break and put them in a queue</b>.)</div>
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Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2320369048943723458.post-64549739176080877052014-12-06T09:16:00.002-09:002014-12-06T09:16:57.574-09:00*Sad flute sounds*<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
Well, I did all the masterposts. It took longer than I hoped, but it happened. I'm still editing some things (realized the fact I used blocks of text is really inaccessible, so I'll space things out), but that's all for now. Hopefully, there'll be more diverse reads in the future. Like, a lot more. A LOT more. Anyhow, here are some websites I thought you guys might like, if you enjoyed the posts.<br />
<a href="http://disabilityinkidlit.wordpress.com/" target="_blank"><br /></a>
<a href="http://disabilityinkidlit.wordpress.com/" target="_blank">Disability in Kidlit</a><br />
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<a href="http://www.diversityinya.com/" target="_blank">Diversity in YA</a><br />
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<a href="http://americanindiansinchildrensliterature.blogspot.com/" target="_blank">American Indians in Children's Literature</a> (Yes I know it says 'Children's Literature', but it deals with YA books too)<br />
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<a href="http://weneeddiversebooks.tumblr.com/" target="_blank">We Need Diverse Books</a><br />
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<a href="http://harmonyinkpress.tumblr.com/" target="_blank">Harmony Ink Press</a> (Publishes MOGAI books, also posts other things)<br />
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<a href="http://writingwithcolor.tumblr.com/" target="_blank">Writing with Color</a> (For if you're trying to write a character of color, occasionally does book recs)<br />
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I'll still take recommendations/corrections on any of the lists! I still will in a month, I still will in a year, I still will forever.<br />
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Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2320369048943723458.post-30648592869118229442014-12-06T08:50:00.004-09:002014-12-06T09:20:55.332-09:00Masterpost of Diversity p.3<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
Our last installment (sadly) of the masterposts. It took longer than I thought, mostly because lists of books with disabled protags were just <i>The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night Time </i>(which is friggn' offensive) and <i>It's Kind of a Funny Story </i>(which I included, though I don't like it). Thank you to everyone- <i>everyone-</i> that has made a list that includes neither of the two. As always, if you see something wrong on the list, tell me. I'll correct it as soon as possible. Recommendations are always welcome!<br />
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Trueman Bradley: Aspie Detective- Alexi Maxim Russell (Autism, tw death) <br />
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Mindblind- Jennifer Roy (Autism)<br />
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House Rules- Jodi Picoult (Autism, tw murder)<br />
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Marcelo in the Real World- Francisco X. Stork (Autism)<br />
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Rogue- Lyn Miller-Lachmann (Autism, tw bullying and slurs)<br />
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Viral Nation- Shaunta Grimes (Autism, tw violence, disaster)<br />
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Colin Fischer- Ashley Edward Miller, Zack Stentz (Austism, tw murder)<br />
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Somewhere Only We Know- Cheyanne Young (Anxiety)Health and Safety- Nick James (Anxiety, tw medication)<br />
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Wild Awake- Hilary T. Smith (Social anxiety)<br />
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The Boyfriend List- E. Lockhart (Anxiety, tw alcohol)<br />
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This is Not a Test- Courtney Summers (Depression, tw death)<br />
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It's Kind of a Funny Story- Ned Vizzini (Depression, Anxiety, tw suicide attempt, self harm, drugs)<br />
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All the Bright Places- Jennifer Niven (Depression, tw death, suicide)<br />
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Lovely, Dark, and Deep- Amy McNamara (Depression, tw death, accident)<br />
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Kissing Doorknobs- Terry Spencer Hesser, A.J. Allen (OCD)<br />
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Don't Touch- Rachel M. Wilson (OCD)<br />
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Schizo: A Novel- Nic Scheff (Schizophrenia, tw death, kidnapping, the slur in the title...)<br />
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Invisible- Pete Hautman (Schizophrenia, tw bullying)<br />
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The Half Life of Molly Pierce- Katrina Leno (DID)<br />
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Girls Like Us- Gail Giles (Learning difficulties, tw abuse)<br />
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Bleeding Violet- Dia Reeves (Schizoaffective ?)<br />
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Cryer's Cross- Lisa McMann (OCD)<br />
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She Is Not Invisible- Marcus Sedgwick (Blind)<br />
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Diamond Eyes- A.A Bell (Blind, tw mental institutions)<br />
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Blind- Rachel Dewoskin (Blindness, tw accident, suicide)<br />
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Girl, Stolen- April Henry (Blindness, tw kidnapping)<br />
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Silence In Center- Jody Studdard (Hearing impairment)<br />
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Five Flavors of Dumb- Antony John (deaf)<br />
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The Dark Days of Hamburger Halpin- Josh Berk (deaf, tw murder)<br />
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Otherbound- Corrine Duyvis (Epilepsy)<br />
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100 Sideways Miles- Andrew Smith (Epilepsy, tw death)<br />
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The Island at the End of the World- Austin Aslan (Epilepsy, tw natural disaster (tsunami), medication)<br />
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The Unintentional Time Traveler- Everett Maroon (Epilepsy)<br />
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Summer of Yesterday- Gaby Triana (Epilepsy)<br />
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When Mr. Dog Bites- Brian Conaghan (Tourette's, tw death)<br />
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Two Girls Staring at the Ceiling- Lucy Frank (Crohn's disease)<br />
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Tripping- Heather Waldorf (Amniotic band syndrome)<br />
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The Elementals- Sara Polsky (Withered leg, tw death)<br />
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Adrenaline Crush- Laurie Boyle Crompton (Shattered leg, tw accident, war mentions)<br />
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Izzy, Willy-Nilly- Cynthia Voigt (Leg amputation, tw accident)<br />
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The One Where the Kid Nearly Jumps to His Death and Lands in California- Mary Hershey (Leg amputation, tw accident)<br />
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A Time to Dance- Padma Venkatraman (Leg amputation, tw accident, death)<br />
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The Running Dream- Wendelin Van Draanen (Leg amputation, tw accident)<br />
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Alchemy and Meggy Swann- Karen Cushman (Dislocated hips)<br />
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Handbook for Dragon Slayers- Merrie Haskell (Clubfoot)<br />
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Boy on the Edge- Fridrik Erlings (Clubfoot, tw bullying, violence)<br />
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Push Girl- Chelsie Hill, Jessica Love (Wheelchair user, tw accident)<br />
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Dangerous- Shannon Hale (Congenital limb deficiency)<br />
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Shark Girl- Kelly Bingham (Hand amputation, tw accident- shark attack, plenty of water mentions)<br />
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Accidents of Nature- Harriet McBryde Johnson (Cerebral Palsy)<br />
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Stoner and Spaz- Ron Koertge (Cerebral Palsy, tw drugs, alcohol, sex)<br />
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The Color of Silence- Liane Shaw (Cerebral Palsy?, tw death, accident, prison)<br />
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Drowned- Nichola Reilly (Nondescript physical disabilty, tw drowning)<br />
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The Lightning Thief- Rick Riordan (ADHD and dyslexia, tw violence, lots of water, death)<br />
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Say What You Will- Cammie McGovern (Dual POV: Cerebral palsy and OCD, tw death mention, disease, alcohol, drug mentions)<br />
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Dr. Bird's Advice for Sad Poets- Evan Roskos (Depression, Anxiety, tw abuse)<br />
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The Shattering- Karen Healey (OCD and learning disorders, I think? tw suicide, death)<br />
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<b>(A shout out to all the people who didn't write 'autistic white dude solves murder case with undiscovered genius' stories. You are very important. Also, I know Percy Jackson is technically middle grade. Shhhhhhhhhhhh.)</b></div>
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I can't summarize memoirs. Sorry. Look, it's about Katie Rain Hill, a trans girl who currently goes to college at Tulsa. The end. </div>
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Reviewing memoirs is kind of weird, as I have said multiple times about reviewing things that are anything but strictly fiction. Am I judging your life to see if it's interesting enough? That would be weird. Frankly, if I wrote a memoir, I'd probably get one stars if we were judging on how interesting it is. But, anyway, onto the review.</div>
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As a non-binary person, it's good to see a book about being trans that isn't just anthropology (I have a simmering hatred for anthropologists, but that's not related) and sniffy phrases like "transgendered" and "man who identifies as a woman". If you read too much of that, no matter how nice it tries to be, you start feeling miserable. Your identity is picked apart piece by piece, given "explanations", and you go from a person to an "it". Anyway, I am so glad Ms. Hill wrote this.</div>
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The book tackles gender confusion and transphobia. I can't believe she can describe gender uncertainty so well. You have a bunch of things going on, and you don't know why. She talks a lot about genital dysphoria, which is important and does need to be addressed. However, I'd like to see a little more on baseline dysphoria, where something's just a little off. It's the fly that buzzes over your head as you work.<br />
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Another topic is depression. She had severe depression from age seven, and attempted suicide twice. Thank God she didn't. She got into the gritty parts that fiction doesn't want to touch on (Yes, latest book, depression is <i>totally </i>when all you do is cry but power through /sarcasm). Not bathing, not leaving your room, not even knowing what to do in life. But she doesn't write it like it's just her backstory and doesn't affect her anymore. It does. She notes that.<br />
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Really, none of the book was written in any way but relatable. Who's been on national TV here? Oh, look, one hand in the back. But she makes it feel as close to you as tripping on your own shoelaces. It feels like you've done it, now that you've read about it. I love that.<br />
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If there was one thing I wanted to see less of, though, it was sex mentions. I know, they didn't happen often, but there were a couple that could have been cut. Then again, I have no clue how important that kind of thing is to allosexual* people. Those wacky allos.<br />
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<b><span style="font-size: small;">(A note for the book- genderqueer is not the "in between" of male and female. That would be like saying every color is in between blue and pink.)</span></b></div>
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Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2320369048943723458.post-71084612228589817462014-11-15T12:00:00.000-09:002014-11-15T12:00:02.344-09:00Afterworlds<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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Darcy Patel wrote a novel in a month. The experience was surreal, and only got more so as she's rocketed into the publishing world. She puts off college, takes days out for editing, finds and apartment in NYC, and falls in love.</div>
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Every other chapter is that of Lizzie, Darcy's protagonist. Like Darcy, she's been thrown into a new, strange world. The difference is, Lizzie's a spirit guide.</div>
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There are 599 pages in this book, and the last time I read something so long without taking two week breaks in between chapters was when I read <i>Blood of Olympus</i>. That was for a series I am deeply invested in and feel the need to finish in three days. This? Scott Westerfeld's ranking on my author list is "male author that does not make me feel the need to watch 'Male Novelist Jokes' every other page". It took me more than three days, but managed to get finished before the 200 page book I'm currently putting off by writing this review.</div>
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Westerfeld, also, has totally touched down on Poe's Law with Lizzie's chapters. They're satire- but I couldn't tell until I saw something that said so. If you're reading this before you read the book, you should know that. And I have to say, that makes it pretty good satire.</div>
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The non-Lizzie chapters were well written, if a bit slow. I don't know if this was just 'writing is slow, so nothing really important will happen for a while' or what, but it didn't seem as fast-paced. Then again, I may just be desensitized to contemporary. It's not my main genre.<br />
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The Lizzie chapters give me, now that I know they're a parody, a sort of vertigo. Yeah, they feel a lot like the cheap paranormal romances I love and hate, but they're different- mostly, the love interest would never be named something more than one syllable. Come on, Yamaraj? That's like three. Point is, they were the egregiously obvious parodies I'd expect. Frankly- and I haven't read most of what Scott Westerfeld writes, so give me a pass here- I thought it was totally in line with what an advanced writer might do, if they aren't writing literary fiction by then.<br />
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The characters in both stories left me torn between 'yes much development very' and 'is this even a real person'. It seems kind of contradictory, but that's how it felt. Sometimes they felt flesh and blood, other times paper and ink. It depended on the chapter.<br />
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On the romance: You know how for Mardi Gras there'll be those giant king cakes? And if you get the baby doll baked in the cake, it's good luck? Well, that's how reading Darcy's chapters felt. You have your cake, and cake's amazing. Then you take a bite and get a baby. By which I mean two girls. Together! In a way that isn't portrayed as earth-shattering or nonexistent!<br />
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Yamaraj as a love interest was, for a satire, a little too distant. I mean, come on Mr. Westerfeld. YA boyfriend are super clingy and get angry if it's so much implied if the protagonist has friends. If you're going to mock a genre, you got to do it right.<br />
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Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2320369048943723458.post-82829204019771103522014-10-30T16:45:00.001-08:002014-10-30T16:45:23.451-08:00Popular<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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Before the beginning of her eighth grade year, Maya Van Wagenen discovers a book in the back of her closet. It's from the 1950's and is titled <i>Betty Cornell's Teenage Popularity Guide. </i>Being on the lowest rung of the social ladder and not having much to lose, she decides to run a social experiment. Every month she'll obey a chapter from Betty Cornell's book, down to wearing long skirts and girdles. </div>
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Behold my horrid summary of a great book. Instead of cold sociological reviews that try to explain that we're popular because we need to mate (to psychologists- this may surprise you, but Freud wasn't some great insight), it peels back what it's actually like, from a real person's perspective, to try and attain popularity.</div>
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I hate to use 'back of the book quotes' language, but the book was poignant. And funny, and weird, and worth a read.</div>
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The book isn't completely about the fight for popularity. It talks about the other things that happen in Maya's life, things that ultimately do affect her and how she acts. She learns from her experience. It totally brings me back to 8th grade. I'd been trying to forget that, but okay.<br />
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It's amazing to see what does and doesn't work 60-ish years after the popularity guide was written. Pearls- yay. Cardigans and long skirts- nay.Vaseline on eyelids-maybe. And there's so much detail! She made notes throughout the experiment and was writing the book as it happened, so I guess that explains it, but still. Woo hoo for not being vague.<br />
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The point of the book is something that I think is good to know, not just be told. Beauty is on the inside. Okay, so you've heard it a thousand times. But to have actually shown is so much better. I can't try and explain why. Point is, read the book. It's a good book.<br />
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Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2320369048943723458.post-6466043725436963252014-10-18T20:37:00.000-08:002014-10-18T20:37:24.015-08:00Parantnormal, the Second One<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
Finally thinking I had absolutely nothing to complain about anymore, you sigh in relief. You slip into the lull of safety. But it's not true. I'm here to bristle about all the things I forgot in the last Parantnormal. So here we go.<br />
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<b>1. There are only so many ways to spell 'fairy'</b><br />
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Fairy, faery, fairie, fair folk, faerie, faeiry, fayry, fayrie, faiery... There are probably more. There should <i>not </i>be more. With every mutation of the word, my Irish heritage aches. Look, the concept is the same. It doesn't matter how you spell it! But it needs to be readable. It's okay to say 'fairy'. I get it that 'fairy' evokes images of small children's dolls, but it's just how it's spelled. Faery is okay too.<br />
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People sometimes shorten it to just "the Fay/Fae/Fai". Fine. That's okay. It sounds more modern that way. However, please, stop acting like the word "fairy" will suddenly destroy your story. If the story is good, it will be fine.<br />
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Hey, I'm a mythology geek. All mythologies are cool. But Greek mythology is everywhere, from English classes to YA novels. Is it because everyone knows about it? Well, that's your problem. It's not new, it's not fresh and interesting. If you're writing something focused on Greek mythology, try to think about it a little harder. For the plot, does it require being Greek? Or could it just be any pantheon? Really consider it.<br />
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If your first thought is that it wouldn't require as much research, or that everyone would know what you're talking about, stop having that thought. All mythologies require research. And most books, based on any mythology, explain the myths they reference. So you could use anything. Really.<br />
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Is the story about a child of Zues that controls storms? Is it vital that it's Zues, Zues, and nothing but the Zues? If not, look- other storm gods! Thor, Set, Oya, Taranis... I just googled 'storm gods'. There are plenty more than that.<br />
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Forever wondering about this. Werewolves are German, vampires, well, vampires range, but most people go with the East European ones. But I get it, you want them in the same place. Okay, okay. Why are they fighting? <br />
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I swear, it's never explained past 'it's alway's been this way, so...'. There's nothing contradictory about werewolves and vampires. They can be friends. Really. Or do you just need a reason to make your romance forbidden? As always, it would be fine if it was just explained.<br />
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Writing about any were-blahblahblah society will take research on the species. Wolves are not exempt from this. No matter how much you <i>think </i>you know, you have to look a little farther. First of all- pack hierarchy isn't just "two ton muscle wolf rules all with lady wolf, all other wolves are under them". There's a breeding pair (the alphas), their kids, and maybe their kids' kids. Wouldn't werewolf society be at least close?<br />
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The last lady wolf phenomenon is one of the strangest, but also really common (and cissexist). Tell me again why it needs to happen. There's thousands of werewolves, but long ago all the girls died. But-but!- now heroine comes along, and she must hide from society because all the guys want to mate with her. Then Love Interest comes along, teaches harder that not all men are animals (I'm ao hilarious), somehow managing to be the only man that doesn't immediately treat her like breeding stock. But still proves his point.<br />
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Another, "the inner wolf" thing. So, there's you. You are the narrator. You are human. Then there's your inner wolf, who's also you, but is a wolf. And talks to you. And when you change, you're still you, not that inner wolf. I'm confused. Why don't you consider that inner wolf to be you, since you are a wolf? What is that inner wolf? If, when you transform, you don't <i>become</i> that inner wolf, what's the point?<br />
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She's going to find her mate, she's the Omega, it's- <i>gasp</i>- the Alpha. Who has abs of chiseled smoke. And he's possessive and, honestly, kind of terrifying. Or he rejects her, she mopes, then he comes around and is possessive and terrifying. He uses the dialogue tag "growled" a lot. His name may or may not be a version of "Zack" or "Jack". An ack name.<br />
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This happens in every genre, but it's particularly common in paranormal stuff. Here. I'll even script it out for you. You'll know what I'm talking about.<br />
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You're special. You have a destiny.</div>
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Whhhaaaaaaaaattt. That's so weird and horrible.<br />
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The two hundred page snog sessions could easily go away. It <i>needs</i> to go away. We might like the filler, but not as much as we'd like to hear the plot.<br />
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Do you need a love triangle but have only one good guy? Do you not want to just write in a new character? Well, do I have a solution for you! Just take your villain, the murderer, the monster, and make him hot! Buy Villain-Good Guy-Heroine Love Triangle now and get a free bottle of Creepiness! Buy now!<br />
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Have you considered not doing that.<br />
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<b>(Also, did anyone else already finish Blood of Olympus? Because I did. Solangelo YEAH.)</b></div>
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Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2320369048943723458.post-66811160306414688782014-10-15T12:00:00.000-08:002014-10-15T12:00:03.190-08:00Odin's Ravens<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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If you want an original summary, I'm afraid you're out of luck. Sorry about that. Here's the one off goodreads:<br />
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thirteen-year-old Matt Thorsen, a modern day descendant of the Norse god
Thor, was chosen to represent Thor in an epic battle to prevent the
apocalypse he thought he knew how things would play out. Gather the
descendants standing in for gods like Loki and Odin, defeat a giant
serpent, and save the world. No problem, right?</span><br />
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descendants' journey grinds to a halt when their friend and descendant
Baldwin is poisoned and killed and Matt, Fen, and Laurie must travel to
the Underworld in the hopes of saving him. But that's only their first
stop on their journey to reunite the challengers, find Thor's hammer,
and stop the apocalypse--a journey filled with enough tooth-and-nail
battles and larger-than-life monsters to make Matt a legend in his own
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A bit of backstory. This is the second book in the Blackwell Pages series. You may feel duped of the review of the first book, but more backstory- I never read the first book. I was so excited to see a book on Norse mythology (and I had heard of the series before) I bought it right then and there in a little airport bookstore. It took about fifteen minutes for me to notice the little yellow banner on the spine that read "Book 2". So thank you, authors, for having this book make sense for all of us that never read the first. That is a talent. A flower crown for the two of you.</div>
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I'm sure my readers are getting just a little tired of Norse mythology. I can see you scowling and pointing to the book <i>I just reviewed </i>that was also the second book of a Norse series, raising one unamused eyebrow. To that I'm sorry. Norse mythology is my special interest, and most people in my life probably feel the same way you do. I'll try and keep it short.</div>
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Ahhhhh, characters, characters. Loved the characters, and it was multiple POV so we got to read from 4/5 of the important POVs. No Baldwin sections that I remember. Disappointing, I know. Baldwin was the only person who was mildly HAPPY. Not to say that the others were bad, just not Baldwin. Can you guess my favorite character?</div>
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A few things left me wondering if they were added in for plot convenience. For instance, the bags that Helen gave the kids. Those were just really... Convenient. It took out an element of urgency. Though, this could be swept under the rug by the fact it's MG. I suppose I'm a bit older and than the target audience.</div>
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Also, names. I need to decide if I hate or love the names. I mean, I like meaning names, but <i>Helen</i>. As Hela. And Ray and Reyna being Freyr and Freyja. Reyna and Freyja even have the same name meanings. But Ray means 'counsel protection' so, ya'know, we're not completely following a pattern here. I'm so confused. I love and hate the names.<br />
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ending. THE END. HOLY CRAP. Now I need book three, which isn't out yet.
It joins the ranks of the three other books that are coming out in
2015, but I want now. Let me tell you, if you feel at all bored (why
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If there was one problem I had, it was just how white the cast was. No diversity whatsoever. I know, I know, they're the descendants of Norse gods, and most people in Scandinavia are white. However, it's not like they're descendants on <i>both </i>sides (unless they were, in which a case, sorry, missed that), so they could have mixed race. Or something. And it so straight. No, I don't care that it's middle grade, if there can be straight romance, there can be gay romance. One is not more taboo than the other. Copy this over for disability, class, and anything else you can think of that I can't.<br />
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And the romance seemed a little unnecessary, too. Or, I think it's unnecessary because I'm worried Laurie will end up in a love triangle. Or, I think it's unnecessary because the chemistry between [Spoilers we have heard on high] Owen and Laurie [sweetly spoilering o'er the plains] is next to nil. Or, I think their chemistry is next to nil because I didn't want romance. It's cause and effect, but I'm not sure which is which.<br />
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On the Day I Died<br />
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Cadence Fleming</div>
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(Trigger Warnings (book and review): Death, fire, spiders, blood, the undead, murder- Okay, -almost anything that has the potential to kill you was in here. For the love of a Smiling God, do not read if you have basically any triggers.)</div>
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Mike is driving fast to get home before he almost hits a dripping wet girl with his car. He slams on the brakes, and, knowing he's already late and the girl is clearly miserable, offers her a ride home. Except her mother says she's dead, and her real home is White Cemetery. Michael's visit there, however, leaves him trapped by the ghosts that need to tell their stories.</div>
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I read this book the first time the same year it was published. I didn't have a blog at the time, and my tastes were kind of underdeveloped back then anyway. It became my favorite book. I read again recently and came to some frightening truths about younger me (Why did I feel the need to read about all these deaths? Why was I upset when a cat was mentioned to have died, but not when the narrator died? What was wrong with me?). It now ranks as 'decent' on my book-o-meter. Let's find out why.</div>
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This book is the ultimate exercise of writing different voices. And it succeeded. The characters were all obviously individuals. Heck, it sounded like it could have been different writers writing, even, which I mean in the best way possible.<br />
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So, another part of this book is that they died in supernatural ways. A couple, though, went from 'ooooh spppoooookkkkyyyyyyy' to 'wait what'. And the first didn't really even go under the theme of supernatural. Unless there's something I missed there, which is totally possible.<br />
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The writing style, while it varied from story to story, was consistently interesting. Or, didn't leave me skipping over paragraphs out of boredom, even in the slowest-building stories. However, the descriptions weren't usually as detailed as I wanted. There was a lot left to the imagination.<br />
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An anthology of ten short stories usually means ten different settings. Or, it's in New York. But instead On the Day I Died is set in Chicago, and does that fine. It's not the same story over and over again, it's not even really the same setting over and over again. Way to milk your surroundings. Also in a good way.<br />
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Overall, good light reading for creep addicts. </div>
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<span style="text-align: center;"><b>(Sorry for the patheticness of this review, and the fact I missed the 15th...)</b></span></div>
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<span style="text-align: center;"><b>~Corinne</b></span></div>
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Sorry about being gone so long. School's back, less reading time, the usual.<br />
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I have to drop the queue for the 1st. I just don't have time for three things a month, though hopefully I'll do better as I get back into the rhythm of things.<br />
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Also, masterpost three is in the works. So y'all know.<br />
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<b>~Corinne</b></div>
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Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2320369048943723458.post-88844652447510061802014-09-01T12:00:00.000-08:002014-12-06T09:23:11.351-09:00The Masterpost of Diversity p.2<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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Well, here we are, list number two. Hopefully, this list will be longer than the last. Once again, leads count, all else does NOT. Also once again, please tell me if I missed a trigger warning, you want to add a book, I was wrong about the diverse-ness, or if the book is actually really offensive and I need to take it off (I haven't read most of these books, sorry!).<br />
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Thank you to mrkohler for correcting me on a couple things I got wrong and adding books to the list! </div>
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<span style="font-size: x-large;"><u>Part 2 People of Color</u></span></h2>
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<span style="font-size: x-large;"><u>Africa</u></span></h2>
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<b><br /><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-weight: normal;">Zebra Crossing- Meg Vandermerwe (South African)</span></span></b><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-weight: normal;">Chausiku: The Gathering Storm- Pamela E. Cash (Anzande, tw death)</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-weight: normal;">The Milk of Birds- Sylvia Whitman (Sudanese, tw death, rape)</span></span><br />
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<b><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-weight: normal;">The Chaos of Stars- Kiersten White (Egyptian)</span></span></b><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-weight: normal;">Now Is the Time for Running- Micheal Williams (Zimbabwean, tw war, death)</span></span><br />
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<b><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-weight: normal;">Lost Girl Found- Leah Bassoff, Laura DeLuca (Sudanese, tw war, death)</span></span></b><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-weight: normal;">Akata Witch- Nnedi Okorafor (Nigerian)</span></span><br />
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Threatened- Eliot Schrefer (Gabonese, tw death)</div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-weight: normal;">Spirit of a Mountain Wolf- Rosanne Hawke (Pakistani, tw slavery, death)</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-weight: normal;">Island's End- Padma Venkatraman (Indian, tw disaster)</span></span></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-weight: normal;">The Fire Wish- Amber Lough (Middle Eastern)</span></span></span></span><br />
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Shabanu: Daughter of the Wind- Suzanne Fisher Staples (Middle Eastern)<br />
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The Master Puppeteer- Katherine Paterson, Haru Wells (Japanese, also, might be MA, not YA)<br />
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Silver Pheonix- Cindy Pon (Chinese)<br />
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<span class="author notFaded" data-width=""><span class="contribution"><span class="a-color-secondary">Book of a Thousand Days- Shannon Hale, James Noel Smith (Central Asian???)</span></span></span><br />
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A Teaspoon of Earth and Sea: A novel- Dina Nayeri (Iranian, technically MA)<br />
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The Walled City- Ryan Graudin (Chinese)<br />
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A Time to Dance- Padma Venkatraman (Indian, tw amputation, death, blood, injury)<br />
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Huntress- Malinda Lo (Chinese)<br />
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Ash- Malinda Lo (Chinese)<br />
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Shadows on the Moon- Zoe Marriott (Japanese, tw self harm)<br />
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<span class="author notFaded" data-width=""><span class="contribution"><span class="a-color-secondary">Prophecy- Ellen Oh (Korean)</span></span></span><br />
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The Pearl that Broke its Shell- Nadia Hashimi (Afghan, tw drugs)<br />
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<span class="author notFaded" data-width=""><span class="contribution"><span class="a-color-secondary">Of Metal and Wishes- Sarah Fine (Okay, Noor means Iranian, but I think it's set in east Asia? Does anyone know?)</span></span></span><br />
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<span class="author notFaded" data-width=""><span class="contribution"><span class="a-color-secondary">Exquisite Captive- Heather Demetrios (Persian, I think? Tw death) </span></span></span><br />
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Tiger Moon- Antonia Michaelis (Indian)<br />
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In the Name of God- Paula Jolin (Syrian, tw war)<br />
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When My Name was Keoko- Linda Sue Park (Korean, tw war)<br />
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Zero Defect- Aarohan Atwal (Indian)<br />
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<span itemprop="author" itemscope="" itemtype="http://schema.org/Person"><span itemprop="name">A Single Shard- Linda Sue Park (Korean)</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-weight: normal;">Toads and Diamonds- Heather Tomilson (Indian, tw disease)</span></span><br />
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Moon at Nine- Deborah Ellis (Iranian, tw threat of death)<br />
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Spirit's Princess- Esther M. Friesner (Japanese, tw disaster)<br />
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Stormdancer- Jay Kristoff (Japanese, tw death, injury, disaster)<br />
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Year of Impossible Goodbyes- Sook Nyul Choi (Korean, tw war)<br />
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-weight: normal;">Alpha Goddess- Amalie Howard (Indian)</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-weight: normal;">Forbidden- Kimberely Griffiths Little (Mesopotamia, which would be Iran/Iraq nowadays)</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-weight: normal;">Love's Prey- Meg Xuemei X (Chinese, tw abuse)</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-weight: normal;"><b><u><span style="font-size: x-large;">Australia</span></u></b> </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-weight: normal;">Does My Head Look Big in This?- Randa Abdel Fattah (Palestinian-Australian, tw slurs, bullying)</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-weight: normal;">The Interrogation of Ashala Wolf- Ambelin Kwaymullina (Indigenous Australian)</span></span></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-weight: normal;">Ten Things I Hate About Me- Randa Abdel-Fattah (Lebanese-Australian)</span></span></span></span><br />
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Preloved- Shirley Marr (Chinese-Australian, tw death)</div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-weight: normal;"> <span style="font-size: x-large;"><u><b>Europe</b></u></span></span></span></span></span></div>
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The Icarus Girl- Helen Oyeyemi (Nigerian-English)<br />
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-weight: normal;">Between Two Worlds- Katherine Kirkpatrick (Greenland Iniut, tw death)</span></span><br />
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<span class="author notFaded" data-width=""><span class="contribution"><span class="a-color-secondary">I Love I Hate I Miss My Sister- </span></span></span>Amélie Sarn (Algerian-French, tw murder)<br />
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Kiffe Kiffe Tomorrow- <span itemprop="author" itemscope="" itemtype="http://schema.org/Person"><span itemprop="name">Faïza Guène (Moroccan-French)</span></span><br />
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<span itemprop="author" itemscope="" itemtype="http://schema.org/Person"><span itemprop="name">Mixing It- Rosemary Hayes (Middle-Eastern-English, tw terrorism, injury)</span></span><br />
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A Spy in the House- Y.S. Lee (Asian-English, tw death)<br />
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<span itemprop="author" itemscope="" itemtype="http://schema.org/Person"><span itemprop="name">Where I Belong- Gillian Cross (Somali-English)</span></span><br />
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<span itemprop="author" itemscope="" itemtype="http://schema.org/Person"><span itemprop="name">From Somalia with Love- Na'ima B. Robert (Somali-English)</span></span><br />
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<span itemprop="author" itemscope="" itemtype="http://schema.org/Person"><span itemprop="name">The Night Itself- Zoe Marriott (Japanese-English) </span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-weight: normal;"> <span style="font-size: x-large;"><b><u>North America</u></b></span></span></span></div>
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The Chaos- Nalo Hopkinson (Caribbean-Canadian ((tricked you, huh, thinking I'd say American. BUT NO.)))<br />
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Shadows Cast by Stars- Catherine Knutsson (First Nations of Canada, tw blood)<br />
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<b><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-weight: normal;">Skraelings: Clashes in the Arctic- Rachel Qitsualik-Tinsley, Sean Qitsualik-Tinsley (Inuit, tw murder, war)</span></span></b><br />
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<b><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-weight: normal;">For Today I Am a Boy- Kim Fu (Chinese-Canadian)</span></span></b><br />
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<b><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-weight: normal;"><span itemprop="author" itemscope="" itemtype="http://schema.org/Person"><span itemprop="name">Throwaway Daughter- Ting-xing Ye (Chinese-Canadian, tw massacres ?)</span></span></span></span></b><br />
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Names on a Map- Benjamin Alire Saenz (Latino, tw war)<br />
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Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe- Benjamin Alire Saenz (Latino, <span itemprop="author" itemscope="" itemtype="http://schema.org/Person"><span itemprop="name">tw violence, death,
homophobia, brief transphobic language, mentions of drug use, alcohol,
injuries (there's a lot of them, okay))</span></span><br />
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<span itemprop="author" itemscope="" itemtype="http://schema.org/Person"><span itemprop="name">Caminar- Skila Brown (Latino, tw death, war)</span></span><br />
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<span itemprop="author" itemscope="" itemtype="http://schema.org/Person"><span itemprop="name">The Girl Who Could Silence the Wind- Meg Medina (Latino)</span></span><br />
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<span itemprop="author" itemscope="" itemtype="http://schema.org/Person"><span itemprop="name">Yaqui Delgado Wants to Kick Your Ass- Meg Medina (Latino, tw bullying, assault, injury)</span></span><br />
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<span itemprop="author" itemscope="" itemtype="http://schema.org/Person"><span itemprop="name">Under the Mesquite- </span></span>Guadalupe Garcia Mccall (Latino, tw illness)<br />
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Black Hole Sun- David Macinnis Gill (Latino)<br />
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The House of the Scorpion- Nancy Farmer (Latino)<br />
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Jumped In- Patrick Flores-Scott (Latino, tw gangs)<br />
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-weight: normal;"><span itemprop="author" itemscope="" itemtype="http://schema.org/Person"><span itemprop="name">The Book of Unknown Americans: A novel- Cristina Henriquez (Latino)</span></span></span></span><br />
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The Living- Matt De La<span class="author notFaded" data-width=""> Peña
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<span class="author notFaded" data-width=""><span class="contribution"><span class="a-color-secondary">Marcelo in the Real World- Francisco X. Stork (Latino- also also ALSO autistic Latino)</span></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-weight: normal;">Fated- Alyson Noel (Latina, tw death)</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-weight: normal;">Flowers in the Sky- Lynn Joseph (Latina)</span></span><br />
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Mexican WhiteBoy- Matt de la Pena (Latino)<br />
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Crossing the Line- Malin Alegria (Latina)<br />
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Sanctum- Sarah Fine (Latina, tw suicide)<br />
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-weight: normal;">Death, Dickinson, and the Demented Life of Frenchie Garcia- Jenny Torres Sanchez (Latina, tw death)</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-weight: normal;">Summer of the Mariposas- Guadalupe Carcia McCall (Latina, Tw death)</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-weight: normal;">The Last Summer of the Death Warriors- Francisco X. Stork (Latino, tw murder, disease)</span></span></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-weight: normal;">The Lost Sun- Tessa Gratton (Latino, I think? It's mentioned like, once.
And I am only using it's real title because I have to. Tw alcohol,
death, blood)</span></span></span></span><br />
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Hammer of Witches- Shana Mlawski (Latina, when will I stop loving that title? NEVER.)<br />
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Ask My Mood Ring How I Feel- Diana Lopez (Latina, tw disease)<br />
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We Were Here- Matt de la Pena (Latino)<br />
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Illegal- Bettina Restrepo (Latino)<br />
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-weight: normal;">Sofi Mendoza's Guide to Getting Lost in Mexico- Malin Algeria (Latina)</span></span><br />
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Santa Olivia- Jacqueline Carey (Latina, tw death)<br />
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What Can(t) Wait- Ashley Hope Perez (Latina)<br />
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-weight: normal;">Shelter- Patricia H. Aust (Latino, tw abuse)</span></span><br />
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<span class="author notFaded" data-width=""><span class="contribution"><span class="a-color-secondary">Drift- M.K. Hutchins (Mayan???)</span></span></span><br />
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Tankborn- Karen Sandler (African American)<br />
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This Side of Home- Renee Watson (African American)<br />
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Not Otherwise Specified- Hannah Moskowitz (African American, tw eating disorders)<br />
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Orleans- Sherri L. Smith (African American)<br />
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Liar- Justine Larbalestier (African American, tw death)<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-weight: normal;"> </span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-weight: normal;">Echo- Alicia Wright Brewster (African-American, tw death)</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-weight: normal;">Mare's War- Tanita S. Davis (African-American, tw war)</span></span><br />
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<span class="author notFaded" data-width=""><span class="contribution"><span class="a-color-secondary">Kergulen- R.A. White (African-American, tw abuse)</span></span></span><br />
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If You Come Softly- Jacqueline Woodson (African-American)<br />
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Dust Girl- Sarah Zettel (African American)<br />
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Bad Kitty- Michele Jaffe (African American? Tw murder)<br />
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Pinned- Sharon G. Flake (African American)<br />
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Flygirl- Sherri L. Smith (African-American, tw war)<br />
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Pointe- Brandy Colbert (African-American, tw eating disorders, drugs, alcohol)<br />
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-weight: normal;">Shrink to Fit- Dona Sarkar (African-American, tw eating disorders)</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-weight: normal;">Rumor Central- ReShonda Tate Billingsley (African-American)</span></span></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-weight: normal;">Lies We Tell Ourselves- Robin Talley (African American, tw bullying, racism)</span></span></span></span><br />
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Copper Sun- Sharon M. Draper (African-American, tw slavery)<br />
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Tears of a Tiger- Sharon M. Draper (African-American, tw death, alcohol use)<br />
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The Battle of Jericho- Sharon M. Draper (African-American)<br />
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-weight: normal;">Crystal- Walter Dean Myers (African-American)</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-weight: normal;">Charly's Epic Fiascos- Kelli London (African-American)</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-weight: normal;">Next- Kevin Waltman (African-American)</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-weight: normal;">Foul Trouble- John Feinstein (African-American)</span></span><br />
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When I Was the Greatest- Jason Reynolds (African-American, tw weapons, violence)<br />
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-weight: normal;">Call Me By My Name- John Ed Bradley (African-American, tw racism)</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-weight: normal;">Kinda Like Brothers- Coe Booth (African-American)</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-weight: normal;">A Wish After Midnight- Zetta Elliot (African-American, tw drugs, racism, war)</span></span><br />
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Kendra- Coe Booth (African-American)<br />
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Willow- Tonya Cherie Hegamin (African-American, tw slavery)<br />
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<span itemprop="author" itemscope="" itemtype="http://schema.org/Person"><span itemprop="name">Rebels by Accident- Patricia Dunn (Egyptian-American, tw war)</span></span><br />
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My Most Excellent Year: A Novel of Love, Mary Poppins, and Fenway Park- Steve Kluger (Chinese-American, tw death)<br />
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Bird- Crystal Chan (Chinese-American? That's an assumption, I don't know. Tw death)<br />
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Team Human- Justine Larbalestier, Sarah Rees Brennan (Chinese-American, tw anything to with vampires)<br />
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Girl in Translation- Jean Kwok (Chinese-American)<br />
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The Painted Boy- Charles de Lint (Chinese-American, tw death)<br />
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-weight: normal;">Seeing Emily- Joyce Lee Wong (Chinese-American)</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-weight: normal;">Girl Overboard- Justina Chen (Chinese-American, tw injury)</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-weight: normal;">Paper Daughter- Jeanette Ingold (Chinese-American)</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-weight: normal;">Crossing- Andrew Xia Fukuda (Chinese-American)</span></span><br />
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Possess- Gretchen McNeil (Chinese-American, tw death)<br />
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Mismatch- Lensey Namioka (Chinese-American)<br />
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-weight: normal;">Revenge of the Mooncake Vixen- Marilyn Chin (Chinese-American)</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-weight: normal;">Chloe Leiberman (Sometimes Wong)- Carrie Rosten (Chinese-Jewish-American)</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-weight: normal;">Gilded- Christina Farley (Korean-American)</span></span> </span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-weight: normal;">Stop Me If You've Heard This One Before- David Yoo (Korean-American, tw disease)</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-weight: normal;">To All the Boys I've Loved Before- Jenny Han (Korean-American)</span></span><br />
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The Fold- An Na (Korean-American)<br />
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Since You Asked- Maurene Goo (Korean-American)<br />
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Good Enough- Paula Yoo (Korean-American)<br />
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Necessary Roughness- Marie G. Lee, Marie Myung-Ok Lee (Korean-American)<br />
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-weight: normal;">Finding My Voice- Marie G. Lee (Korean-American, tw racism)</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-weight: normal;">Persimmon- Doc Pruyne (Korean-American)</span></span><br />
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Relax, I'm a Ninja- Natalie Whipple (Japanese-American)<br />
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Outside Beauty- Cynthia Kadohata (Japanese-American)<br />
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-weight: normal;">Coral Hare: Atomic Agent (A WW2 Spy Novel) Inspired by actual historical events- Clive Lee (Japanese-American, tw war)</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-weight: normal;">Orchards- Holly Thompson (Japanese-Jewish-American, tw suicide)</span></span><br />
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The Lost Girl- Sangu Mandanna (Indian-American- might just be Indian, tw death)<br />
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Shine, Coconut Moon- Neesha Meminger (Indian-American, tw terrorism, racism, anything to do with 9/11)</div>
Born Confused- Tanuja Desai Hidier (Indian-American)<br />
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Monsoon Summer- Mitali Perkins (Indian-American)<br />
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The Not-So-Star-Spangled Life of Sunita Sen- Mitali Perkins (Indian-American)<br />
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Red Turban White Horse- Nandini Bajpai (Indian-American)<br />
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Ask Me No Questions- Marinda Budhos, Ferdidnando Scianna (Bangladeshi-American)<br />
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Nothing But the Truth (and a few white lies)- Justina Chen (Taiwanese-American)<br />
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The Emerald City- J.A. Beard (Tibetan-American)<br />
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-weight: normal;">She's So Money- Cherry Cheva (Thai-American)</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-weight: normal;">Roots and Wings- Many Ly (Cambodian-American)</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-weight: normal;">Sophmore Undercover- Ben Esch (Vietnamese-American, tw drugs)</span></span><br />
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Skunk Girl- Sheba Karim (Pakistani-American)<br />
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Boy vs. Girl- Na'ima B. Robert (Pakistani-American)<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-weight: normal;"> </span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-weight: normal;">The Art of Secrets- James Klise (Pakistani-American, tw fire)</span></span><br />
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Molly By Any Other Name- Jean Davies Okimoto (Asian-American)<br />
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-weight: normal;">Guantanamo Boy- Anna Perera (Pakistani-American)</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-weight: normal;">Extreme American Makeover- Mitali Perkins (Pakistani-American)</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-weight: normal;">Permanent Record- Leslie Stella (Iranian-American, tw bullying)</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-weight: normal;">Bestest. Ramadan. Ever- Medeia Sharif (Muslim-American)</span></span><br />
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The Tyrant's Daughter- J.C. Carleson (Middle-Eastern-American, tw death)<br />
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Nation- Terry Pratchett (South Pacific Islander, tw death, tsunami, and all that goes with it)<br />
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<b><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-weight: normal;">If I Ever Get Out of Here- Eric Gansworth (Tuscarora, tw alcohol, bullying)</span></span></b><br />
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<b><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-weight: normal;">The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian- Sherman Alexie, art by
Ellen Forney (</span></span></b><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-weight: normal;">Spokane,</span></span><b><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-weight: normal;"> </span></span></b><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-weight: normal;">t</span></span><b><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-weight: normal;">w slurs, bullying,
alcohol abuse, and death) </span></span></b><br />
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<b><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-weight: normal;">More Than Good Enough- Crissa-Jean Chappell (Misccosukee)</span></span></b><br />
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<b><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-weight: normal;"><span class="author notFaded" data-width=""><span class="contribution"><span class="a-color-secondary">The Gathering- Kelley Armstrong (Navajo, tw death)</span></span></span></span></span></b><br />
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<b><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-weight: normal;"><span class="author notFaded" data-width=""><span class="contribution"><span class="a-color-secondary"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-weight: normal;">How I Became a Ghost- Tim Tingle (Choctaw, tw death)</span></span></span></span></span></span></span></b><br />
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<b><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-weight: normal;"><span class="author notFaded" data-width=""><span class="contribution"><span class="a-color-secondary"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-weight: normal;">Killer of Enemies- Joseph Bruchac (Apache, tw death, weapons, violence)</span></span></span></span></span></span></span></b><br />
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<b><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-weight: normal;">Rain is Not My Indian Name- Cynthia Leitich Smith (Native American, tw death)</span></span></b><br />
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Hooked- Liz Fichera (Native American, tw racism, bullying)<br />
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<b><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-weight: normal;">Sorrow's Knot- Erin Bow (Native American, tw death)</span></span></b><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-weight: normal;">Wolf Mark- Joseph Bruchac (Native American, tw alcohol, drugs)</span></span><br />
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Wildefire- Karsten Knight (Polynesian-American,
tw violence)<br />
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The Summer Prince- Alaya Dawn Johnson (Brazillian)<br />
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Origin- Jessica Khoury (Brazillian? Somewhere in the Amazon.)<br />
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So This is How it Ends- Tui T. Sutherland (Latino, Egyptian, might be others?)<br />
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Otherbound- Corinne Duyvis (I... I actually have no clue. No one tells me anything.)<br />
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Let's Get Lost- Adi Alsaid (Multiple, I think? And no, of COURSE I'm not adding this just because it mentions my home state, GEEZ. Tw death.)<br />
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Bleeding Violet- Dia Reeves (Biracial- Black and white, tw mental illness)<br />
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Romiette and Julio- Sharon M. Draper (Latino and African-American, tw gang stuff)<br />
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An Ocean Apart, A World Away- Lensey Namioka (Torn between Chinese and Chinese-American)<br />
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-weight: normal;">Drama Queens in the House- Julie Williams (Biracical- Black and white)</span></span><br />
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How To Salsa in a Sari- Dona Sarkar (African-American-Indian, Latina, tw bullying)<br />
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-weight: normal;"></span></span><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-weight: normal;">The Other Half of My Heart- Sundee T. Frazier (Biracial, black and white)</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-weight: normal;">The Counterfeit Family Tree of Vee Crawford-Wong- L. Tam Holland (Chinese-American-White)</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-weight: normal;">The Girl of His Dreams- Amir Abrams (Latino, African-American)</span></span><br />
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<span class="author notFaded" data-width=""><span class="contribution"><span class="a-color-secondary">The Girl from the Well- Rin Chupeco (Japanese-Hawaiian, tw death)</span></span></span><br />
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<span class="author notFaded" data-width=""><span class="contribution"><span class="a-color-secondary">Gadget Girl: The Art of Being Invisible-</span></span></span> Suzanne Kamata<br />
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Jet Black and the Ninja Wind- Leaza Lowitz and Shogo Oketani (Japanese-American-white, tw death and violence)<br />
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Ink- Amanda Sun (Japanese-American-white)<br />
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No Surrender Soldier- Christine Kohler (Dual POV: Japanese and Chamorro, tw rape, murder, war, disease)<br />
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-weight: normal;"><b>(I wish Good Enough and More Than Good Enough could be put next to each other, so it would look like they were arguing. Also, every time I have to put down something vague like "Native American" or "Asian American", someone steps on a puppy's tail.)</b></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-weight: normal;"><b>~Corinne </b></span></span></div>
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Tessa Gratton<br />
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Signy Valborn climbed the New World Tree when she was seven, looking for Asgard at its top branches. It wasn't there, but the Allfather was. He promised her that if she could solve a riddle, she could join the ranks of the Valkyries. For ten years, Signy has trained to become a Valkyrie, trying to solve her riddle all the while. After running from home to live in the streets of Chicagland, she's not eager to trust Ned Unferth, who claims to know the answer. A Greater Mountain Troll, he claims, will hold the solution. Signy knows she's running out of time. She'll have to trust him.</div>
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You know, I was so proud of my summary for <i>The Last Mango</i> (If you're confused, read the review for the predecessor book- then you'll know why I refuse to call it by its real title.). Not sure what went wrong this time.</div>
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Yes, kid, this is a kissing book. There is lots of kissing. You're going to have to get used it. But, hey, there's a plot, too, so get over yourself. Here are the characters who may or may not have kissability:</div>
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Signy Valborn- KISSING RATE: HIGH- Finally, a strong female character that isn't a) basically a male character that the author decided should be female, or b) a sex object hiding under the strong female character guise. Signy was a genuinely interesting and cool character to read about. She had almost all the traits you want in a female character, without the chaser of "stage seven Other Girls syndrome" and "magically fails to do anything when Love Interest comes along". A+ main character.</div>
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Ned Unferth- KISSING RATE: Lower than Signy, but higher than, say, Sharkman- This is ~Love Interest~. You can tell just by those squiggles that I have a bone to pick. However, I actually have no reason to pick that bone other than Ned's brooding and angst. And the brooding and angst was reasonable too. So, while his character wasn't my favorite, there's no reason to actively hate him. Sad, I know.<br />
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Soren Bearstar- KISSING RATE: haha your girlfriend got turned into a goddess everybody point and laugh- I actually liked him better in this book than in the last. Is that weird? He was the MC of the last book. Anyway, he felt more sympathetic and real this time around.<br />
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Sharkman- KISSING RATE: Lower than Ned, but higher than Soren- Not important, I know, but for a secondary Love Interest, he probably should have shown up more. Or at least had a personality. Or something.<br />
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Baldur- KISSING RATE: Probably still higher than Soren- Okay, I'm only putting him down because I thought he was cool. He only showed up once.<br />
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The writing style wasn't too compelling. It wasn't really boring, but it didn't demand my attention. I felt like the narrator could have been a little less detached. However, it was good to see some real emotions from this main character, even if they felt a little bit at a distance. Perhaps third person would fit the style a bit better.<br />
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The balance of action and character development was pretty sweet. Not summer blockbustery, but also not romantic tragedy. Realistic, without one subplot beating out another. Or, well, as realistic as a fantasy book can get. You know. Anyway, veddy veddy good, Ms. Gratton, veddy veddy good.<br />
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I'm torn whether I liked this book or the last book better. The last one I liked the characters and plot better, but this one didn't have the same problems that bothered me last time.<br />
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<b>(Let's face it, if my immune system was better, you guys wouldn't get anything.)</b></div>
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Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2320369048943723458.post-3789138141776975122014-08-15T12:00:00.000-08:002014-08-15T14:56:02.158-08:00Say What You Will<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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Trigger Warnings for the book: Death mentions, disease, alcohol use, drug mentions </div>
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Born with cerebral palsy, Amy can't walk without a walker, talk
without a voice box, or even fully control her facial expressions.
Plagued by obsessive-compulsive disorder, Matthew is consumed with
repeated thoughts, neurotic rituals, and crippling fear. Both in
desperate need of someone to help them reach out to the world, Amy and
Matthew are more alike than either ever realized.</div>
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When Amy decides
to hire student aides to help her in her senior year at Coral Hills
High School, these two teens are thrust into each other's lives. As they
begin to spend time with each other, what started as a blossoming
friendship eventually grows into something neither expected.</div>
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Yes, I ripped the description off Amazon. Sue me, I hate trying to summarize contemporary books. Anyway, this book... *sigh, runs hand through hair* How to describe this book...</div>
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Let me start by saying I did not hate this book. I also didn't love it. But I can't say my opinion was neutral, either. There were a bunch of high points, but also some low points, and instead of cancelling each other out, it just dizzied my opinion on the book. So I'll section this review into two parts- positive and negative.</div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-weight: normal;">(I wish I could make that rainbow and sparkly, but, alas, I don't know how to do a glitter effect. Maybe another time.)</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-weight: normal;"> <b>Point One. </b>This book was <i>honest</i>. I saw it compared to The Fault in Our Stars and just kinda... Well, the Fault in Our Stars isn't an honest book. It's pretty romanticized (listen as the nerdfighters gasp and plot their revenge against me). Say What You Will had an air of, "This is just how it is. There's no need to doll up the truth." Which, I've gotta say, I love. Thank you, Ms. McGovern, for giving the book the most genuine feel I've ever read.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-weight: normal;"><b>Point Two.</b> Stories about disabilities that aren't completely, "Look, people with disabilities! Existing! So brave!" are hard to come by. Inspiration may be nice, but there's no need to used disabled people as your pawn in the inspiration game. Another thank you to the author for not making Amy an object to gawk at. Amy (and Matthew) went way beyond the feel-good-story characters I expected.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-weight: normal;"><b>Point Three. </b>Not only were the characters people, they were good people! Interesting people! Honestly, if at the end of the book there was a little note that said "Surprise! There is no Cammie McGovern! This is a joint autobiography!" I might not actually be surprised. They sounded so real.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-weight: normal;"><b>Point Four.</b> Frrriiiieeeennnddddshhhhiiiiiipppppp. Instalove and enemies-turned-lovers are my two least favorite kinds of romance. Friendship based love is totally the best. It's realistic and warm and fuzzy without the lustity-lust-lust atmosphere I get from love at first sight, or basically anything where the Love Interest(TM)'s first description is that he/she was so hot that you'd melt looking at them.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-weight: normal;"><b>Point Five. </b>The romance was pretty darn great too. It didn't morph their relationship into something weird and unrecognizable. [Congratulations! It's a spoiler!] And then, when sex did come up, it wasn't an immediate take-off-your-clothes-we're-not-even-gonna-think-about-it thing. Why does that keep happening? I have no idea. But it's nice to get a break from it. [The spoiler disappeared, never to be seen again] Okay, I'm gonna have to say, it was pretty cute. There. You heard it from me, folks.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: small;">Sadly, we'd have to get to this eventually. Even with all the good stuff there was:</span></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: small;"><b>Negative Point One. </b>[Wake me up... when the spoilers end] The baby. Yup. Third novel on here with a useless baby. It's not that it wasn't important to the plot, really, it's just there are so many better plot points that could have been used. I don't want another novel with the main girl getting pregnant. I don't need that. No one needs that. It's getting old, people. I'm also absolutely terrified that the book I'm reading now is going to do that. At least in this book the baby's put up for adoption. We really, <i>really</i> don't need another BABY. BABY ALL. ONLY BABY NOW. BABY LIFE. BABY BABY BABY. Story. [Goodbye, spoiler! We'll miss you! Write home!]</span></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: small;"><b>Negative Point Three. </b>More of *sigh, flop onto the couch* The Other Girls. And here's the confusing part. Amy had a more mild case of The Other Girls syndrome than Matthew. She at least accepted them like people. Matthew went so far as slut shaming and acting like Amy was the only decent girl. That's, like, a stage four Other Girls case. All I can say is "no".</span></span></span></span></div>
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Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2320369048943723458.post-9102305763473981302014-08-01T12:00:00.000-08:002014-08-01T12:00:00.752-08:00A Time to Dance<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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Veda is a dance prodigy, used to applause and attention. After an accident, however, her dreams are shattered with her leg. A below-the-knee amputation has to be preformed, making Veda's once graceful movements slow and clumsy. But instead of giving up, she tenaciously chases her dream, entering beginner dance classes to relearn balance and flexibility. There she meets Govinda, a young dance teacher who believes in dance as a spiritual pursuit. With him, Veda's view of the world changes, and she finds what dancing means to her.</div>
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Anyway, this book had the perfect set up to be the bane of my existence. A novel in verse (Is it poetry? Is it a novel? WHO KNOWS.), spiritual, inspirational... I mean, nearly everything I don't like was there. Yet this book was <i>so good</i>.</div>
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Veda was such a great character. It was amazing, seeing the world through her eyes. Despite one of the reasons I don't like novels in verse being they suck the life out of characters, she warded off the voice-vampire like a PRO. I think we need more Vedas in fiction.</div>
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The descriptions were A++. Even the kind of weird or disturbing ones, such as the phantom limb sensation or the time at the beginning of the book when Veda can't find her crutches and collapses in the bathroom. Despite accentuating that kind of thing, it made the beautiful scenes ten times more beautiful. It was great.</div>
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The spiritual bits, which usually just make me feel weird about myself, were actually pretty darn great to read. Instead of having a preachy tone of, "This should be you. This character is so religious. They're getting the nice afterlife. You? You're getting a second-rate death. Hah." it didn't push its boundaries as fiction. It felt more comforting than imposing. Remember, if you're going to write a book with spiritual themes, TAKE AFTER THIS BOOK.</div>
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Ah, romance. The way romance was handled never dipped into "intolerable" zones. It always stayed tolerable or better. This sounds like a half insult. It's actually a full compliment. Her crush on Jim brought out a really realistic side. Because, like, at least half of readers out there have a crush they really regret now. You think I'm not talking to you. I am. When Govinda showed, he was perfect love interest material. He's cool. It's nice to not be stuck with 'dark and brooding lovey dovey interest winterest'. Very, very nice.</div>
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I wholeheartedly recommend this book to anyone.</div>
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<b>(Thank Squid for the 31st, or you guys might not have gotten this)</b></div>
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Three years ago, They came. Amy was watching TV while it happened, witnessing what looked like a spacecraft in the city center. Since then, They have attacked every human they find, and they attack to kill. Amy has managed to survive and rescue a toddler she named Baby. They both have to work to survive, staying in Amy's (luckily reinforced) house.</div>
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Sorry if this review is short or just weird, it was a while ago that I read it. By a while I mean like a week. Memory capabilities, amirite?</div>
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I'm surprised that I actually liked Baby. Usually small children in YA are used as an 'aww he's so cwute don't you wub dem' factor. Which I <i>hate</i>. They don't have a personality beyond being cute. However, Baby was interesting and individual. She was actually <i>likeable</i>, not just a prop. It's sad that's so exciting, but still.</div>
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Amy was very close to your typical YA heroine, but had an original streak enough to keep her interesting. She actually can express concern <i>and</i> do things! Wow! Why is this so hard to grasp in other books? Ms. Lunetta, thank you for allowing emotions and actions to coexist. That is important.</div>
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[Please properly dispose of all spoilered goods] Sadly, this is another book demonizing science. I hate this for two reasons- for the love of Athena, science is frickn' beneficial to society, and also the target for a lot of YA is girls. You wanna know what career field girls are being pushed out of? Science. Girls need to learn that science is cool and they can be part of it without being terrible plague-monsters. Girls could cure cancer and get us to Mars if we stopped acting like science was a boys-only club. THIS IS SO IMPORTANT TO ME I AM SCREAMING STOP DEMONIZING SCIENCE. [Spoilanger over]</div>
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The pacing was good, though not much seemed immediately important until later in the book. The subtle details from the beginning being huge later was cool, but if the writing style hadn't immediately caught me I might have gotten bored with the lack of plot progression. As I just said, though- the writing style was (waitforitwaitforit) fan. (Okay, if you read the book you'd get it.)<br />
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The Florae (just referred to as They in the beginning) were an awesome example of a monster species. The had strengths and weaknesses, and the weaknesses weren't the usual Achilles heel sort of this. They couldn't hunt in the dark, which doesn't seem like it should be big and original, but it is. There's more, I just feel like discussing more would count as spoilers. Anyhow, great monsters. <br />
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[Spoilered milk] The ending was kind of... eh. I liked the idea of the Florae being alien or plant based. But the zombie thing? Meh. It just felt like a cop-out. No need for more zombie fiction, I swear. [Shh, it's over now... It's alright]</div>
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On the romance. It was kind of strange to me, like they weren't really being romantic but they also weren't in the sort-of-friends category? I kind of wish they were either slightly more romantic so it would feel like boyfriend/girlfriend, or slightly less so it was more close friends. </div>
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While I love YA, diversity can be hard to come by. Really, really hard. Really, really... *sigh* So I decided to put together a GIANT LIST OF DIVERSE BOOKS. Yes. I did. I count it as diverse if a/the main character is, so besties don't count. Some books appear on multiple lists. They will be put in parts because by God, I know a lot of books and if I put them together it would take up way too much space. <br />
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Feel free to comment if I forgot something! Also, I haven't read most of these, so if I need to take them off or put a trigger warning on them, tell me. <br />
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Ash- Malinda Lo<br />
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Huntress- Malinda Lo<br />
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Bluebell Hall- Kayla Bashe (Heard there was a trans side character? I could be wrong)<br />
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Everything Leads to You- Nina LaCour (Lesbian or Bi, I don't know)<br />
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If You Could be Mine- Sarah Farizan (Tw drug use, death mention)<br />
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Far From You- Tess Sharpe (Tw drug use, death, sad gays (Okay, not a tw, whatever))<br />
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<span itemprop="author" itemscope="" itemtype="http://schema.org/Person"><span itemprop="name">The Dark Wife- Sarah Diemer (Tw rape mention, death- might be more, I didn't read all of it)</span></span><br />
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Far From Xanadu- Julie Anne Peters<br />
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<span itemprop="author" itemscope="" itemtype="http://schema.org/Person"><span itemprop="name">Tessa Masterson Will Go to Prom- Emily Franklin, Brendan Halpin</span></span><br />
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The Summer I Wasn't Me- Jessica Verdi<br />
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<span itemprop="author" itemscope="" itemtype="http://schema.org/Person"><span itemprop="name">Gravel Queen- Tea Benduhn</span></span><br />
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Ask the Passengers- A.S. King<br />
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The Miseducation of Cameron Post- Emily M. Danforth (Tw drug
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Nik Nassa & the Mark of Destiny- A.J. Salt<br />
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<span itemprop="author" itemscope="" itemtype="http://schema.org/Person"><span itemprop="name">Crush- Jane Futcher </span></span><br />
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<span itemprop="author" itemscope="" itemtype="http://schema.org/Person"><span itemprop="name"><span itemprop="author" itemscope="" itemtype="http://schema.org/Person"><span itemprop="name">Gravity- Leanne Lieberman</span></span></span></span><br />
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<span itemprop="author" itemscope="" itemtype="http://schema.org/Person"><span itemprop="name"> </span></span>Silhouette of a Sparrow- Molly Beth Griffin<br />
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<b> </b>The Story Thief- Shari McNally<br />
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Sister Mischief- Laura Goode<br />
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The Girls From Alcyone- Cary Caffrey<br />
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Pink- Lili Wilkinson<br />
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Girl Walking Backwards- Bett Williams (Tw self harm)<br />
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Good Moon Rising- Nancy Garden (Tw homophobia)<br />
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Starting from Here- Lisa Jenn Bigelow (Tw death and some biphobic stuff)<br />
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The Beast of Callaire- Saruuh Kelsey (Tw death)<br />
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Sister Girl- Jonna Ivin<br />
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Because of Her- K.E. Payne<br />
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Kissing Kate- Laurn Myracle (Tw alcohol use)<br />
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Annie on My Mind- Nancy Garden<br />
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What's up with Jody Barton?- Hayley Long (Lesbian? Gay? Summary was too vague to tell, but I think this is the right list)<br />
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Wildthorn- Jane Eagland<br />
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<b> </b>No One Needs to Know- Amanda Grace, Mandy Hubbard<br />
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Her Name in the Sky- Kelly Quindlen<br />
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Moon at Nine- Deborah Ellis (Tw war, death)<br />
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Lies We Tell Ourselves- Robin Talley<br />
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Tell Me Again How a Crush Should Feel: A Novel- Sara Farizan<br />
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Freak Camp: Posts From a Previously Normal Girl- Jessica V. Barnett<br />
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My Best Friend, Maybe- Caela Carter<br />
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<b> </b>An Unstill Life- Kate Larkindale (Tw homophobia, and most likely death mentions)<br />
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She Loves You, She Loves You Not- Julie Anne Peters</div>
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Hero- Perry Moore<br />
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Witch Eyes series- Scott Tracey<br />
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Falling from the Sky- Nikki Godwin (Tw death)<b> </b><br />
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Exiled to Iowa. Send Help. And Couture- Chris O'Guinn<br />
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Superhero- Eli Easton<br />
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Boy Meets Boy- David Levithan<br />
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The Misfits- James Howe<br />
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Vast Fields of Ordinary- Nick Burd<br />
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One Man Guy- Micheal Barakiva<br />
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Call Me by Your Name- Andre Aciman<br />
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My Life as a Myth- Huston Piner<br />
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With or Without You- Brian Farrey (Tw violence, homophobia, prolly another sad gays story)<br />
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<span itemprop="author" itemscope="" itemtype="http://schema.org/Person"><span itemprop="name">In Mike We Trust- P.E. Ryan (Tw death)</span></span><br />
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I'll Give You the Sun- Jandy Nelson<br />
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Hat Trick- Jeff Adams<br />
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Omorphi- C. Kennedy (Tw abuse, violence)<br />
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Swimming to Chicago- David-Matthew Barnes (Tw suicide)<br />
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Freak Show- James St. James (Has drag queens. *slow voice* I do not<i> like</i> drag queens.)<br />
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Gives Light- Rose Christo (Tw death)<br />
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Wicked- Christian Marotti, Clover Donovan<br />
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The Red Sheet- Mia Kerick<br />
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Turning 16- Perie Wolford<br />
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Safe- C. Kennedy (Tw abuse)<br />
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The Unwanted- Jeffery Ricker (Tw death?)<br />
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Ghost Songs- Andrew Demcak (Tw alcohol abuse, past death)<br />
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Tristant and Elijah- Jennifer Lavoie<br />
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Caught in the Crossfire- Juliann Rich<br />
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The Before Now and After Then- Peter Monn<br />
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<span itemprop="author" itemscope="" itemtype="http://schema.org/Person"><span itemprop="name">Vintage: A Ghost Story- Steve Berman (Tw death) </span></span><br />
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<span itemprop="author" itemscope="" itemtype="http://schema.org/Person"><span itemprop="name">Unnatural- Micheal Griffo (Tw basically anything having to do with vampires (death, blood, etc.))</span></span><br />
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<span itemprop="author" itemscope="" itemtype="http://schema.org/Person"><span itemprop="name">Dolphins in the Mud- Jo Ramsey (Autism spectrum is involved! That's a first for this list.)<b> </b> </span></span></div>
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Otherbound- Corinne Duyvis (OMG WE HAVE THE SAME NAME YAY)<br />
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Team Human- Justine Larbalestier, Sarah Rees Brennan<br />
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It's Our Prom- Julie Anne Peters<br />
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Adaption series- Malinda Lo<br />
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<span itemprop="author" itemscope="" itemtype="http://schema.org/Person"><span itemprop="name">Empress of the World- Sara Ryan</span></span><br />
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Indigo Springs- A.M. Dellamonica (Tw death)<br />
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<b> </b>A Map of Home- Randa Jarrar<br />
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Teenage Rewrite- Brandon Williams<br />
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Postcards from No Man's Land- Aidan Chambers, Eric Dinyer (Tw warfare, death, violence, injury, the likes)<br />
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Tides- Betsy Cornwell (Tw eating disorders and OH MY GOD SELKIES SELKIES SELKIES I AM VIBRATING WITH CELTIC JOY)<br />
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The Sky Always Hears Me: And the Hills Don't Mind- Kirstin Cronn-Mills (Tw alcohol abuse)<br />
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Grasshopper Jungle- Andrew Smith<br />
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<b> </b>A Kiss in the Dark- Cat Clarke<b> </b><br />
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The Difference Between You and Me- Madeline George<br />
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<b> </b>Not Otherwise Specified- Hannah Moskowitz (Tw eating disorders)<br />
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Teeth- Hannah Moskowitz<br />
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Santa Olivia- Jacqueline Carey (Tw death)<br />
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Life Skills- Jo Ramsey (short story)<br />
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Listening Skills- Jo Ramsey (short story)<br />
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Luna- Julie Anne Peters<br />
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I am J- Cris Beam<br />
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<span itemprop="author" itemscope="" itemtype="http://schema.org/Person"><span itemprop="name">Beautiful Music for Ugly Children- Kristin Cronn-Mills </span></span><br />
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<span itemprop="author" itemscope="" itemtype="http://schema.org/Person"><span itemprop="name">Parrotfish- Ellen Wittlinger </span></span><br />
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Straight, No Chaser- Raul Santiago<br />
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<span itemprop="author" itemscope="" itemtype="http://schema.org/Person"><span itemprop="name">Shadows on the Moon- </span></span><span itemprop="author" itemscope="" itemtype="http://schema.org/Person"><span itemprop="name">Zoë Marriott (It's on a list for trans characters, I know that- tw self harm)</span></span><br />
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Coldest Girl in Coldtown- Holly Black (On a goodreads list for books
with trans characters, so.... tw death, blood, not sure about anything
else)</span></span><br />
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<span itemprop="author" itemscope="" itemtype="http://schema.org/Person"><span itemprop="name">Where No One Knows- Jo Ramsey (Pyrokinetic trans dudes, ooooooh, tw fire) </span></span><br />
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<span itemprop="author" itemscope="" itemtype="http://schema.org/Person"><span itemprop="name"><u><span style="font-size: large;">Ace/Aro</span></u> </span></span></h4>
<span itemprop="author" itemscope="" itemtype="http://schema.org/Person"><span itemprop="name">Quicksilver- R.J. Anderson</span></span><br />
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Boy Proof- Cecil Castellucci<br />
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<span itemprop="author" itemscope="" itemtype="http://schema.org/Person"><span itemprop="name">Guardian of the Dead- Karen Healey (Tw death, gore (that I know of)) </span></span><br />
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Accepting Me- Jo Ramsey (Aromantic and ace)<br />
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Demonosity- Amanda Ashby<br />
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Dust- Elizabeth Bear (Ace, and also there's agender people -squee!-<b> </b> tw anything to do with cannibalism)<br />
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How to Say Goodbye in Robot- Natalie Standiford (I think it's ace or aro? I could be wrong)<br />
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What Happened to Lani Garver- Carol Plum-Ucci (Genderqueer- Summary kind of bothers me. "And most disturbing of all, is Lani a boy or a girl?" How is that disturbing. Tell me. Also, it's an "issues" book. Neh.)<br />
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Golden Boy- Abigail Tarttelin (intersex)<br />
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Cycler- Lauren McLaughlin (Genderfluid- but with the whole XX to XY shebang instead of just the identity)<br />
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<span itemprop="author" itemscope="" itemtype="http://schema.org/Person"><span itemprop="name">Freakboy-
Kristin Elizabeth Clark (Genderfluid, transgender character- be warned,
I am VERY VERY uncertain of the portrayals in this book from the
summaries I've read, also, lots of dysphoria)</span></span><br />
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Brooklyn, Burning- Steve Brezenoff (Non-Binary, I think/hope)<br />
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Every Day- David Levithan (Genderfluid, or so I hear)<br />
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Pantomime- Laura Lam (Intersex- sorry, spoiler)<br />
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Changers Book One: Drew- T Cooper (Another Genderfluid XY-XX thing? Um, okay.)<br />
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Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe- <span itemprop="author" itemscope="" itemtype="http://schema.org/Person">
<span itemprop="name">Benjamin Alire Sáenz (Gay, Bi- tw violence, death,
homophobia, brief transphobic language, mentions of drug use, alcohol,
injuries (there's a lot of them, okay))</span></span><br />
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Please Don't Kill the Freshman- Zoe Trope (Trans, lesbian)<br />
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<span itemprop="author" itemscope="" itemtype="http://schema.org/Person"><span itemprop="name">Two Boys Kissing- David Levithan (Gay, heard there's a trans character)</span></span><br />
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<span itemprop="author" itemscope="" itemtype="http://schema.org/Person"><span itemprop="name">Beauty Queens- Libba Bray (Bisexual, 1 Trans character wow)</span></span><br />
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The End- Nora Olsen (Bisexual, Lesbian- more but, I don't know, tw death and warfare)<br />
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Boyfriends with Girlfriends- Alex Sanchez (Bi, Gay)<br />
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Down to the Bone- Mayra Lazara Dole (Genderqueer character! Yay! Oh. And Lesbian. Also that.)<br />
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Debbie Harry Sings in French- Megan Brothers (Gender and sexuality confusion- questioning)<br />
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Dramarama- E. Lockhart (Within this book is a gay character. Which one? I don't know.)<br />
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<b></b>Dirty London- Kelley York (Lesbian, Gay)<br />
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Geography Club- Brent Hartinger (Gay, Bi, Lesbian)<br />
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<span itemprop="author" itemscope="" itemtype="http://schema.org/Person"><span itemprop="name">The Year They Burned the Books- Nancy Garden (Gay, Lesbian) </span></span><br />
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<span itemprop="author" itemscope="" itemtype="http://schema.org/Person"><span itemprop="name">Fool for Love- Lisa Lees (Lesbian, intersex)</span></span><br />
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<span itemprop="author" itemscope="" itemtype="http://schema.org/Person"> <b>(This took on-and-off work over WEEKS to finish it. Mostly organizing it... Anyhow, part one! Hope this helps someone! :3)</b></span><br />
<span itemprop="author" itemscope="" itemtype="http://schema.org/Person"><b>(Thanks to Jo Ramsey for telling me about her other books so I could add them!) </b></span></div>
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<span itemprop="author" itemscope="" itemtype="http://schema.org/Person"><b>~Corinne</b></span></div>
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Nawra, a refugee displaced by the Janjaweed's destruction, lives in Darfur, Sudan. K.C., an American teenager with a hatred of reading and writing, lives in Richmond, Virginia. Surely sisterhood can't reach over such a divide. But after K.C. is signed up for a nonprofit called Save the Girls, she is put in contact with Nawra. Through letters they bond, and over time they form a friendship no distance can conquer.</div>
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Okay, I just wrote possibly the cheesiest sounding summary ever. Okay.</div>
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The book was less cheesy. Its writing style was beautiful, littered with the letters between the two. The two points of views were distinct and both very nice. Actually, scrapping the word 'nice'. The views, the characters, the story was amazing.</div>
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K.C. is the kind of character I want to see more of. Instead of severe 'not like the other girls' syndrome and a thing for tea, her grades are subpar and her relationship with others in her school is realistic. Wooooooooooooo! I mean, I like tea and all, but it's nice to get away from the sniffy Manic Pixie Dream Girls every once and a while.</div>
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Nawra was a great character, but with one flaw. It's that whole no-contractions-poetic-speech thing again. However, she was still a fab PoV character. Love her.</div>
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The plot itself was kind of unclear. I'm not sure if there was a goal that was supposed to be reached or what. There was, however, a good amount of character development, so I'll assume it was a SOL (Snippet of Life). Okay, K.C. got a good amount of character development. I'm not certain how much of that attention should have been focused on Nawra.<br />
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Okay, I feel bad, because all of my grievances seem to be focused on Nawra, but I had one more thing behind the spoiler brackets. [Just ignore the rest of this (sarcastic after the first sentence) paragraph] Why is it that I have found two books in a very recent span of time that portray the teen character having a baby as super positive? Like, WOW, a BABY. HOW COULD YOUR LIFE GET BETTER than a <i>BABY</i>. BABYS ARE THE BEST. BABYS FIX EVERYTHING. Step aside, future, we've got a BABY. [*heavy, spoilerific breathing over*] Yeah, no, I don't like that. Stop.</div>
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Ignoring that, I liked the details that were in the story. The sayings, the details on food and culture. Am I the only one who really likes scenes with characters eating? It just brings me this sense that they're real people. I could be the only one who thinks that, though.<br />
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*Long sigh* Okay, I have exactly one more complaint. Just one. IT'LL BE IT, I SWEAR. It's the kind of white savior complex going on. Like the idea that K.C. is rescuing Nawra by being from America and having money. I didn't word it right, but it makes sense in context of the book, trust me.<br />
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The descriptions were fan. Not purple, for one, which I almost expected from Nawra's voice. Not beige from K.C.'s end. Very nice, very nice. *Golf clapping*<br />
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Also, subplots! I love subplots. And these were perfect, not distracting from the main plot (if there was one), but also not too minor to catch. Well-written subplots make stories feel so much better.<br />
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Last, romance. WOOOOOOOO IT WASN'T OVERLY DISTRACTING AND ANNOYING. WOOOOOO MY EXPECTATIONS ARE SO LOW THAT A DECENT ROMANCE IS SOMEHOW LIKE THE FOURTH OF JULY. Still, great!<br />
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<b>(Oh my God I missed the second queue use noooooo.)</b></div>
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<b>(There's a reference to my next review in here.)</b></div>
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<b>~Corinne </b></div>
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<b>(This failed to launch for some reason- here, I have to post it MANUALLY. UGH.)</b></div>
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Robin McKinley</div>
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Maggie lives in a world that has separated itself from magic. Newworld's workings are based on science, and magic was gene-chopped from every family generations ago. But Val, her new stepfather, carries with him a presence that can only be the magic of the Oldworld, where he came from. Shadows seem to center around him, and he refuses technology in his shed/office. But soon Maggie will have to face a reality that forces her to rely on Val's shadows and, possibly, her own heritage.</div>
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THERE. Summary DONE. If anyone can figure out what genre this book is, I'd be glad. Dystopian, fantasy, paranormal? I think I'll just file it under "other".</div>
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I'm going to have a Jill appreciation moment. Practically first YA BFF that wasn't cast aside for romance. Platonic relationships for the win!</div>
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On a less savory note, the plot didn't really come to a boil until nearly the end of the book. There was a lot of set-up, and that set up was cool, but even at the end the conflict seemed a bit hazy. I have a feeling this book is the first in a series and I'm missing the others. </div>
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The characters were so great. I'm giving them individual paragraphs because I don't want a huge text block.</div>
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Maggie- Somewhat irritating tendency to use valley girl-esque slang, but that kind of added to character, so it was all okay. Cool with animals and non-animal things that may or may not be sentient, always a plus. Interesting character for a POV. B+ Character, would be A if she wasn't so obsessed with butts.<br />
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Jill- The best character by far. She's possibly the only character that, despite her foresight, was any bit NORMAL.If you can't tell from the top note, yeah, I really love how she was in a platonic relationship that wasn't thrown aside for the romance. Even if she acted as wingman occasionally.<br />
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Takahiro- Quiet, but not brooding. Interesting to learn about, but not because of some super deep-dark mysterious past. [DEAR GOD THE SPOILERS HAVE RETURNED, HIDE YOUR CHILDREN] He wasn't totally love interest material. However, no love interest is perfect- they can just sucker punch cliches like Taks here. [Hush my darling, don't fear my darling, the spoilers sleep tonight...] It's also really nice not to have another white love interest. Speaking as a white person, I'm okay without another black-hair-green-eyes-tan-skin-but-still-white guy.<br />
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Casimir- Well, I thought <span style="font-size: small;"><span style="color: windowtext; font-family: "AR CHRISTY";">[THE Spoilers from Italy are coming today</span></span>
] That he was going to be the love interest, and was kind of thrown off by how he wasn't. Really, he was kind of pushed away. Sad. [*creeps away from the spoilers with a sense of loss and confusion*] Anyhow, I think he would have been cool if he'd been given a little more time. Interested in science, knows his mythos... THERE WAS SO MUCH THERE. WHY.<br />
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Val- Seems like the bad guy, but I assure you he isn't. Fun to read about, decent for sympathizing. I'm glad he didn't end up as the villain, because that would be way too easy.<br />
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The writing style was a bit weird. There was a lot of future slang and a clear attempt at being open to the "younger" audience (read: valley girl talk). There was also virtually no commas. That's not a voice complaint, that's a comma-hoarder feeling bizarre that no one agrees with them. It's not a perfect voice, but you can get into it easily enough.<br />
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The fantasy elements were awesome. I loved the shadows, even though they weren't described in detail (lots of legs, snake-like, silver eyes- anything else?). I wish the cobeys were explained a bit more, but, eh, we can't have everything.<br />
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I'll admit, it didn't exactly keep you on the edge of your seat. The exciting stuff only really started in the last two thirds of the book. That was disappointing, but at least it happened eventually.<br />
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Now, to the romance. If you don't like spoilers just go to the point where I sign off. It'll be easier that way. Takahiro as the love interest gave me mixed feelings. While it's nice to have a love interest that isn't the mysterious bad boy, he didn't seem like a love interest. He doesn't seem to talk to Maggie until they fall in love. The two have one common interest- origami. That's ONE thing. ONE. I require two common goals or interests to be pleased.<br />
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I'm going to put up a queue on here. My own schedule is pretty erratic, so I'm thinking that if I just write the reviews and let them auto-post at set times, it'll be easier on all of us. I'm shooting for three times a month, on the 1st, 15th, and 30th. Complaints will show up when I write them.<br />
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Paul is the new kid at Mortingham Boarding Academy, and he has a dark secret.<br />
Caitlyn admires Paul from afar and resents that he only has eyes for Erika.<br />
Erika thinks that she and Caitlyn are best friends, but she's wrong.<br />
Adam is a bully with a major chip on his shoulder.<br />
Mark is outgrowing his old friends but doesn't know how to make new ones.<br />
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horrifying infection will spread across the school grounds, and a group
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Silver is a book I'll have trouble describing. I desperately want to say it was good or bad, but it just... wasn't. It felt like it wasn't even there. However, I'll try my best to break it into parts.</div>
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The plot screamed "zombies!", but it wasn't a regular zombie book. It had a different take on zombies, making them something new and interesting. It also wasn't a robot-uprising book. Frankly, I hadn't ever thought the two <i>could</i> even come together, much less so well. Anyone know any other genre combining books like this? I'm really getting to like them.</div>
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The characters were distinct in their own ways, but I'm going to have to admit their voices didn't seem too different. That might have been just because the narrative was third person (making it, like, a yasreadyas first, I think). At the same time, it was just a little too hard to differentiate them. The boys were much better off than the girls in that respect. They had plenty of development and were active characters. Generally, they were just <i>so much better</i> than the girls. Caitlyn and Erika were nearly indistinguishable if you didn't pay attention to the opinions they were stating. </div>
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Continuing on the last paragraph, I don't even think this book passed the Bechdel test. With two female main characters, I'm not certain if it passed the <i>narrative</i> Bechdel test, if that exists. Caitlyn's thoughts entirely revolve around Paul or being mad at Erika because Paul likes her. Just read the mini descriptions in the summary. The boys all get blurbs of their own. Caitlyn's is about Paul. Erika's is about Caitlyn, and it tracks back to Paul. I don't know, it just made me really uncomfortable how little Caitlyn and Erika acted on their own.</div>
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The boys, I'll restate, were really interesting. Paul was an extremely proactive character who's actions were great to follow. Mark was my personal hero, as the socially inept geek trying to look normal. And failing. Miserably. There are probably a few readers on here who can relate to that. Adam's backstory was blurry and a bit generic (bully who's only mean because of a bad home life, thus making them unaccountable for all actions), but his character, present tense, was strong and true. </div>
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The descriptions in this book were fantastic. How the Infected were shown was so interesting. It felt like you could really see them. Also, they were painfully creepy. So maybe you don't want to see them. However, if you enjoy being plagued by nightmares for what may be the rest of your natural life, this is your book!</div>
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Subtle mentions at the beginning of the book may become very important later on, just warning you. I liked how everything tied together that way.</div>
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Since the romance didn't quite exist outside of one-sidedly, I'll give you this mini-rant. Why is science always the bad guy in these books? Why? You are not helping anyone by making science evil. I mean...</div>
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<b>(Before I forget, trigger warnings for the book- Suicide, death) </b></div>
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Trigger warnings for the book- mentions of rape and death</div>
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Sixteen-year-old Sebah's home is washed away in a flash flood, killing her family. She is left with only a swamp kit, Screamer, and her mantle. She finds a nook in the rocks to live in, but she grows weaker by the day.</div>
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Eventually, a man washes up next to her. Now she has to take care of him, too, but he's slipping away. When they come upon an ark, will she be willing to leave him behind?</div>
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So, this book is kind of a retelling of Noah's Ark. I'm going have to admit, the last time I read the Bible I had a high fever and no clue what was going on. I'm not shooting for biblical accuracy here.</div>
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Sebah was a great character. She was smart and protective and... eee, I just wanted to hug her! Later in the book she no longer seemed to do anything, becoming a sort of plot device instead of a character, but if she stayed like she was in the beginning, I think I would have loved her.</div>
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I dearly hope Aban wasn't meant to be a sympathetic character. He's arrogant and possessive of Sebah. When the first thing a character does is grab the MC by the hair and say 'you are mine, you will be my wife', I start to hate them. And continue to hate them. Frankly, I was kind of glad when [spoiler] he died.[end spoiler]</div>
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There's a thousand Cinderella, Little Red Riding Hood, Snow White, and so on retelllings, and I LOVE seeing something new. I think a take on Noah's Ark was a great idea, and (to my limited knowledge of the story) it had great execution.</div>
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The story didn't have a lot of dialogue. Sebah, after all, is mostly with animals. However, that didn't make the book feel empty. Ms. Napoli wrote the lack of speech well, still building characters and pushing intrigue without spoken words. </div>
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The one thing I really need to get off my chest, though, is the rating for this book. I think I might have really liked it had it not been labelled as YA. The voice of the story seemed very grown-up, and the goings-ons follow suit. There's a lot of talk of 'mating' or implied mating. Or descriptions of mating. If it was just the animals I would push it aside and ignore it, but it applies to Sebah, too. She mentions 'mating' with Aban multiple times. I understand it becomes important later on, but the wording messed it up.</div>
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(Still on the same thing as last paragraph) There's a lot of things I had to file under 'either I read something wrong or you said something wrong'. Sebah [HOLY SPOILER BATMAN] gets pregnant and then there's a lot of boob talk. Later, when she has the baby there's things like 'I heard the baby's cry and milk rushed from my breasts'. Like, o<i>kay</i>. Really, didn't need to hear that. [It's okay, the spoiler is over]. What I'm trying to say is it didn't read like a YA. I think I would have been okay with it had it been called an adult book instead of a YA.</div>
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The stuff about Noah's family was really interesting. I wish there was a bit more on Ada and Leba, but what was there was great. The way Noah developed was amazing.</div>
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So, here's something weird that I want to say but isn't important. There's a lot of retellings that are set in modern times. Honestly, I haven't seen many 'add a character but keep the rest' stories. I liked that. It was fun that way.</div>
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The romance. The <i>ro</i>mance. You already heard my piece on Aban. [Just ignore the rest of this if you don't like spoilers] Bash would have been an okay character if he hadn't turned into another love interest. He felt like an excuse to keep Sebah from being independent. I loved the parts where she was independent.</div>
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<b>(I liked this book a bit more than I let on, sorry)</b></div>
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Laureth's father is the famous author Jack Peak. When on a routine trip, he goes missing. He won't answer his phone. Laureth's mother refuses to question it. Laureth might be the only one who will do anything about it. Her father's notebook appears in New York, the only evidence of him after the disappearance. Laureth books a flight to NYC, but there's another a problem. Laureth is blind. With her seven year old brother and her other senses, she'll have to brave the concrete jungle and find her father.</div>
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Okay, first thing, I am <i>so</i> glad the author didn't resort to third person because of "wow. much blind. such hard. no colors. :(". A lot of books are extremely visual and it's kind of nice to read one that isn't. There's plenty more senses than sight.</div>
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Laureth, as a character, was fab. Beyond fab. She fit strong female character criteria without equating strength with masculinity or a lack of emotion. She's a bit impulsive (lives in London, books a flight to NYC when it's implied her father's there). She's also clever and a little frustrated, but not cynical. Really refreshing as a heroine.</div>
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Benjamin was a little harder to judge as a character. I haven't been seven in a long time. Frankly, I have no idea how seven year olds usually act. He seemed a bit older than most seven year olds, but at least that's addressed. He didn't seem to develop much, or at least I didn't notice it.</div>
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There were a few things I wish were explained. For instance, the Benjamin Effect. Is it a coincidence or...? It's plot convenient sometimes and inconvenient at others. I feel like it's mentioned enough to get some vague maybe-it's-this.</div>
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In concept, the plot is rather dull. Person disappears. MC must go on a quest over a large distance to find them. Self discovery. Secondary characters appear. Person is found in an odd place/way. Yaaaaaaay. However, the execution is what makes a story sparkle. This was executed fantastically. The details made it feel like it was new and shiny. Very nice. *golf clap*</div>
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The occasional interception of normal text with passages from their father's notebook was interesting. I kind of expected just some italicized text for excerpts from other things. I liked how it was set-up, like the pages were scanned in. The notes and smiley/frowny faces made the whole thing feel alive.<br />
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The story was kind of a slow build. It wasn't blockbuster movie action-packed or anything. It was okay that way, but it didn't push me to finish it as much as I wanted to be pushed. There were a lot of scenes reflecting on things that happened before he disappeared, which gave it a more philosophical than thriller-y feel. Not sure how I felt about that.</div>
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On the romance- HA HA PSYCHE THERE IS NO ROMANCE THANK GOD. THANK THOTH THANK FREYJA THANK ANU. I'M FREE. I DIDN'T HAVE TO PUT UP WITH UNNECESSARY ROMANCE OR GAG ON SAPPY DIALOGUE AND KISSES EVERY TWO PARAGRAPHS. YEEEEEEEEEESSSS. HEY, LET'S THANK MAMLAMBO, TOO, JUST 'CUZ.</div>
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<b>(Sorry for the outburst- but I think this is the only book I've reviewed without any hint of romance) </b></div>
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<b>~Corinne</b></div>
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