This time for my quick reviews I have the Folk of the Air series by Holly Black! (Minus The Lost Sisters, which will be in a separate post since it's a short story.) If you haven't heard of it, it's a YA series about a human raised in the fae realm. I know this is an unpopular opinion, but I wasn't a big fan. I was probably being a bit nice with my 3.5 star ratings, now that I think back on it,...
Books with Classification: Genre: Young Adult
When Juliette wakes up in the last place she ever expected to be and receives terrible news, she finally decides that she's not the timid person she used to be and is ready to fight. Warner has the resources, Juliette has the strength, her friends have their own strengths and powers, and they all have the same goal: kill the Supreme Commander and take down The...
Now part of a group of rebels, many of whom have special abilities like her, Juliette starts trying to hone her powers as the group prepares for war. Juliette thought she'd be happy at Omega Point, but she's not so sure she fits in, and her relationship troubles, as well as an unplanned hostage situation, complicate...
At 14, Juliette was taken from her parents and eventually left to rot in an asylum because her touch has the power to kill people. Years later, she's given the chance at a better life, in exchange for becoming a weapon of torture, and she'll have to decide if she's willing to pay that price or if she'd rather take her chances on the run with the only boy who's ever shown her...
Clock mechanic Danny, clock spirit Colton, and their friends are still trapped on an airship, being threatened into going along with plans they don't believe in. But when a greater enemy emerges, they'll have to reconsider what's right and wrong and who their allies...
Danny and Daphne, clock mechanics, get sent to India to help figure out why clock towers are falling and how time is continuing on without them, but a mysterious stranger keeps showing up and seems intent on getting to Danny. When Colton realizes Danny could be in danger, he sets off to try and save...
In an alternate world where time is controlled by clock towers, relationships between mechanics and clock spirits are forbidden. But when Danny, a mechanic, meets Colton, a clock spirit, he finds himself falling in love, while also unraveling the mystery of a nearby stopped...
With a coup at their doorstep, Serefin, Nadya, Malachiasz, and friends flee the palace and end up on a quest into a dangerous forest of legend. Each has their own goals and motives, but each might be nothing more than a pawn to the gods in a much bigger...
Nadya can communicate with the gods, and she may be the last cleric in Kalyazin who can do so, which is why she's been hidden away in a monastery---in the hopes that she will turn the tide of the war in favor of her country. But when her monastery is attacked by the enemy---Tranavians---she flees and teams up with three others, including a Tranavian blood mage, in order to sneak into Tranavia,...
Half-kitsune Yumeko and her friends are still on a mission to stop the Master of Demons from summoning the dragon and making a wish that will destroy the world as they know it, and the situation is more dire than ever. But secrets, plans, and enemies, both known and unknown, lie in wait to throw them off course at every...