Category: Adventure

Dec. 3rd: A book about friendship

12/3/2019

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Friendship > romance in Seafire!

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D&D REad-Alikes

11/11/2019

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Last month, I shared on the Teen Instagram a list of read-alikes according to your Dungeons and Dragons class. In case you missed it, here it is again!

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Dino comes face-to-face with his ex-best friend, after a year apart, in his family's mortuary, as he's putting her make-up on for her funeral. To his complete surprise, she sits up and promises she's not dead. The organs tied up in a bag inside her empty chest cavity beg otherwise. And so begins a hilarious adventure of these two friends as they careen around Palm Springs, Florida witnessing people not-die, getting into accidental? break-ups, digging up bodies, trying to figure out why July isn't dead, and the list continues. There's a surprising heartwarming aspect to the story, too, as both July and Dino learn what it means to be friends, to grow-up, to take ownership of our own lives, and to be in a relationship.

HILARIOUS! I'm not usually one for laugh-out-loud-funny books, but The Past and Other Things That Should Stay Buried does a great job of being all funny and a little serious.

5/5 stars!

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For fans of Daughter of the Pirate King

4/17/2019

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Did you read and love Tricia Levensellar's Daughter of the Pirate King and Daughter of the Siren Queen duology?

Well, Seafire is right up your alley (gangplank?)!

Caledonia and her best friend Pisces have their lives turned upside down when they are about 12 years old when their brother, parents, and their ship are attacked by Bullets, army minions of Aric, a tyrant overlord. In retaliation, the girls salvage their ship, take command of it, and adopt quite the crew --entirely made of girls-- over the next four years. But when they take on a Bullet as a prisoner after he saves Pisces's life, their course changes. The Bullet, Orin, knows where Caledonia and Pisces's brothers are. And even though they've become drugged minions like the other Bullets, Caledonia and Pisces and the crew of the Mors Navis set out to rescue them. It's quite the trip to get there... will they make it in time? Will the crew survive? And when they find their brothers' ship, will their brothers' spirits have survived?

Seafire is an awesome sci-fi story that is set in the indeterminate future with advanced technology, but also with some aspects of modern-day living lost. Caledonia and Pisces are strong female characters who have their own minds, and their all-female crew are diverse in their likes, abilities (one is mute), personalities, and penchant for violence. It is fast-paced and the emphasis is on friendship and how the crew has come together--many of them orphans--to become a family for one another.

There is very little romance, and while the reader gets clear affirmation that some of the girls in the crew are lesbians, we are not 100% sure of Caledonia and Pisces's sexualities. I came away, though, thinking that Caledonia is bi and Pisces is a lesbian.

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For the Supernatural Fans

4/9/2019

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For all you Supernatural fans who can't get enough of the flannel-wearing, trenchcoat-sporting, and rugged looks of the Winchester brothers and Cas, I present to you this list of read-alikes from Bustle:

CW juggernaut Supernatural just aired its 300th episode during its 14th season on television. It goes without saying that this a huge milestone in the world of TV, where hitting syndication (typically 88 episodes, or about four seasons) is all that most programs can ask for. If you're not familiar with the premise, the show stars Jared Padalecki and Jensen Ackles as the Winchester brothers Sam and Dean — famed hunters of all things ghostly, demonic or otherwise evil — as they fight the bad guys, grapple with their pasts, and gift viewers with arguably one of the greatest family love stories to ever hit TV screens.

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Dec. 24th: An adventure story

12/24/2018

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With 2019 upon us, I leave you with an exciting adventure story, to take with you on your adventure into 2019. What was your favorite adventure-y read of 2019?

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Dec. 14th: A villain you love to hate

12/14/2018

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Which books you read this year had a villain that inspired you to send them **smite thee** vibes?

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Dec. 6th: A book that surprised you

12/6/2018

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What book surprised you in 2018?

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Dec. 5th: A fantasy

12/5/2018

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To what fantastical realm or magical creatures did you encounter and couldn't get enough of this year?

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An Ember in the Ashes

11/1/2018

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This is the series I've been obsessed with as I mourn the end of Queen Sarah J. Maas's Throne of Glass series (the seventh and final book Kingdom of Ash was released on October 23rd and is available in the Teen Room: YA F Maa-- check the new side of the A-frame).

A patron requested that I order Reaper at the Gates earlier this summer, and I was reading book reviews about it, it piqued my interest, so I started with number one in the series: An Ember in the Ashes.

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