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HERE THERE ARE MONSTERS

For those who are not faint of heart, morally or otherwise, and who wish to sink into an intricate, subtle, and deeply...

A creepy, insidious tale that shows how treacherous a sister’s attachment can be.

After a move, two teenage sisters find themselves in a new home on the edge of the woods, where Skye branches out while introspective Deirdre finds solace playing games her sister no longer has patience for. When Deirdre vanishes, Skye is forced to reexamine the past choices she made to protect her sister and must decide if she will face the grim, irreversible consequences of saving Deirdre again. These memories form a haunting exposition that Bérubé (The Dark Beneath the Ice, 2018) uses in conjunction with the plot to covertly insert suspense. They are so seamlessly executed that readers can forget whether they are in Skye’s past or present world. This does conjure up some confusion but also creates an immersive, nuanced world and characters who can’t be labeled as merely “good” or “bad.” Three section breaks named after different characters have lush illustrations of flora and fauna and lines quoting poet Gwendolyn McEwen that act as an aesthetic backdrop to the actual story; each is narrated from Skye’s first-person perspective. All characters default to white.

For those who are not faint of heart, morally or otherwise, and who wish to sink into an intricate, subtle, and deeply unsettling read. (Horror. 14-18)

Pub Date: Aug. 1, 2019

ISBN: 978-1-4926-7101-5

Page Count: 352

Publisher: Sourcebooks Fire

Review Posted Online: April 15, 2019

Kirkus Reviews Issue: June 1, 2019

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SIX OF CROWS

Cracking page-turner with a multiethnic band of misfits with differing sexual orientations who satisfyingly, believably jell...

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Adolescent criminals seek the haul of a lifetime in a fantasyland at the beginning of its industrial age.

The dangerous city of Ketterdam is governed by the Merchant Council, but in reality, large sectors of the city are given over to gangs who run the gambling dens and brothels. The underworld's rising star is 17-year-old Kaz Brekker, known as Dirtyhands for his brutal amorality. Kaz walks with chronic pain from an old injury, but that doesn't stop him from utterly destroying any rivals. When a councilman offers him an unimaginable reward to rescue a kidnapped foreign chemist—30 million kruge!—Kaz knows just the team he needs to assemble. There's Inej, an itinerant acrobat captured by slavers and sold to a brothel, now a spy for Kaz; the Grisha Nina, with the magical ability to calm and heal; Matthias the zealot, hunter of Grishas and caught in a hopeless spiral of love and vengeance with Nina; Wylan, the privileged boy with an engineer's skills; and Jesper, a sharpshooter who keeps flirting with Wylan. Bardugo broadens the universe she created in the Grisha Trilogy, sending her protagonists around countries that resemble post-Renaissance northern Europe, where technology develops in concert with the magic that's both coveted and despised. It’s a highly successful venture, leaving enough open questions to cause readers to eagerly await Volume 2.

Cracking page-turner with a multiethnic band of misfits with differing sexual orientations who satisfyingly, believably jell into a family . (Fantasy. 14 & up)

Pub Date: Sept. 29, 2015

ISBN: 978-1-62779-212-7

Page Count: 480

Publisher: Henry Holt

Review Posted Online: June 28, 2015

Kirkus Reviews Issue: July 15, 2015

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THE QUEEN OF NOTHING

From the Folk of the Air series , Vol. 3

Whether you came for the lore or the love, perfection.

Broken people, complicated families, magic, and Faerie politics: Black’s back.

After the tumultuous ending to the last volume (marriage, exile, and the seeming collapse of all her plots), Jude finds herself in the human world, which lacks appeal despite a childhood spent longing to go back. The price of her upbringing becomes clear: A human raised in the multihued, multiformed, always capricious Faerie High Court by the man who killed her parents, trained for intrigue and combat, recruited to a spy organization, and ultimately the power behind the coup and the latest High King, Jude no longer understands how to exist happily in a world that isn’t full of magic and danger. A plea from her estranged twin sends her secretly back to Faerie, where things immediately come to a boil with Cardan (king, nemesis, love interest) and all the many political strands Jude has tugged on for the past two volumes. New readers will need to go back to The Cruel Prince (2018) to follow the complexities—political and personal side plots abound—but the legions of established fans will love every minute of this lushly described, tightly plotted trilogy closer. Jude might be traumatized and emotionally unhealthy, but she’s an antihero worth cheering on. There are few physical descriptions of humans and some queer representation.

Whether you came for the lore or the love, perfection. (Fantasy. 14-adult)

Pub Date: Nov. 19, 2019

ISBN: 978-0-316-31042-0

Page Count: 320

Publisher: Little, Brown

Review Posted Online: Aug. 27, 2019

Kirkus Reviews Issue: Sept. 15, 2019

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