Beautifully written, with language grounded in the historic-fantasy desert setting and delicate, almost fairytale-esque storytelling. Which unfortunately does make for a more distant reading experience than I think most current YA readers are accustomed to. Detached, mythic tone, with some commentar...
A Thousand Nights -- E.K. Johnston *Retelling based on the frame story of One Thousand and One Nights Beautifully written retelling of One Thousand and One Nights using the frame story of Scheherazade only. This particular retelling seems to be popular at present... or rather, the Arabian-based ...
A Thousand Nights is a loose-ish retelling of the Scheherazade story. It’s E.K. Johnston’s third book, and it’s firmly cemented her as a go-to author for me. I got the ARC for this one just before the Cybils started, so I set it aside until now. And while I’m sorry I had to wait this long, I’m happy...
Lo-Melkhiin killed three hundred girls before he came to my village looking for a wife. She that he chose of us would be a hero. She would give the others life. Lo-Melkhiin would not return to the same village until he had married a girl from every camp, from every town, and from each district insid...
Lo-Melkhiin killed three hundred girls before he came to my village looking for a wife.She that he chose of us would be a hero. She would give the others life. Lo-Melkhiin would not return to the same village until he had married a girl from every camp, from every town, and from each district inside...
I received this book for free from Pan MacMillan in exchange for an honest review. This does not affect my opinion of the book or the content of my review. SUMMARY A nameless heroine sacrifices herself to save her sister and become the bride of a demonic king whose brides never live for long. She ...
***This review has also been posted on The Social Potato I cannot tell you how much I wanted to love this book and how disappointed I am that it didn’t sweep me away. There are SO many things I love about this book but the slowness of it became a big issue for me.Slow books can be a hit or miss for ...
The exoticness of the setting was highlighted beautifully through the likeness of it's narrator. The "Lady Bless", which funny enough I don't think we even learned her true name, just titles like the one above for instance that were used by many characters. I loved seeing this world through the shre...
I received a copy from Netgalley. Sadly, this is a DNF for me. I was really looking forward to it, and really really excited when Pan Macmillan approved my Netgalley request, but I barely made it to 18% and that was a struggle. It's flat and its boring. The writing is beautiful, very descript...
*This book was sent to me by NetGalley in exchange of a honest review* Synopsis on Goodreads. The writing in this book is beautiful and magical. I loved learning more about the way people live in the desert and I found it really well detailed. It is full of cultural details and I really loved t...
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