Arc provided by Margaret K. McElderry Books through Netgalley Release Date: September 22 nd Look, reading the first pages, I thought for sure that this was going to be a winner: the concept! For crying out loud!I haven't read a book with an addictive concept like this one in ages.Unfo...
I loved Erin Bow’s previous books, Plain Kate and Sorrow’s Knot. They also made me cry kind of a lot, so I was expecting The Scorpion Rules to be emotionally damaging. But oh, dear reader, I was still not prepared. Which is to say, this probably isn’t a book for everyone. The world it depicts is b...
Erin Bow’s The Scorpion Rules tells the story of what happens after the singularity. Sometime presumably in the near future, increasingly horrific natural disasters and a series of gruesome wars swiftly reduce the human population at an incredible rate. In order to save humanity from itself, the UN ...
Um. I didn't quite get this book. Writing prose was pretty good, the characters were decent, the pacing was hell, and the story really lost me. Despite speed reading the last 140 pages at 2 am, I got that we needed to not bind the dead, but I had so many questions left over from throughout the book....
See more of my reviews on The YA Kitten! My copy was an ARC I got in a swap. For years, a copy of Plain Kate sat patiently on the shelf in my high school library and yet I never checked it out. The rave reviews were nearly everywhere in the blogosphere, but it took me until my last year and a half...
After enjoying Plain Kate by Erin Bow, I was looking forward to Sorrow's Knot. I'm so happy to say that I enjoyed it every bit as much as I did her first novel, if not a bit more! Usually when I read novels I end up guessing how the story will go after a certain point, but in this one, the story kep...
Occasionally, in the middle of all of the books that you like, or mostly like, or really don’t like but wish you did, or love but only with half your heart, there’s a book that changes you a little bit as you read it. It holds you close and when you’ve closed the covers it stays with you. For me, th...
Plain Kate can carve wood like a master, even at such a young age. But when her father dies and whispers begin circulating around the town about witches, Plain Kate may have to make a bargain with a witch to save her life.I didn't really like this book because it didn't have direction. I fell in lov...
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