Title: Beauty Queens Author: Libby Bray Publish Date: May 24, 2011 Publisher: Scholastic, Inc Format: Audiobook Length: 14 hours, 8 minutes Source: Sunflower OverDrive Library Date Read: April 25-26, 2020 Review A fun romp in the jungle that tackles a lot of patriarchial claptrap that teen girl...
The Diviners by Libba BrayThe Diviners was well written and I appreciated the aesthetic of the roaring '20s. On the other hand, damn anyone for taking bible verses out of context!! UGH! It makes me want to gag! I mean the world is full of crazies just like the Brethren in the Pillar of Fire Church.A...
Hmmm… I came across an article that mentioned the magic in this series was actually a metaphor for girls coming into their own powers. Whether the author intended it to be taken that way or not, I found the book less random when I read with that in mind. Although, whenever the thought slipped my min...
Just tooooo broad for me and wildly unbalanced between humor and "take me seriously!". Didn't hate it, appreciate what it was trying to do, it probably delights/resonates with other readers/ but it was not matching my energy.
It takes a special talent to write a 600 plus page book and have zero character development. I am also perplexed that it took to the 80 plus percent mark (according to my Kindle) before all of the characters even met up to fight to "Big Bad" in this book. Evie and Sam are awful. I wish that one or b...
Hey Dolls and how are you?! I hope you are all Jake! I am doing pretty Jake myself. I would have gotten this review up a long time ago, but one laziness set in. And just when I was ready to put this one up. There was an unexpected death in my family and it has been a very hard week last week for us ...
Sigh. I have very mixed feelings about this. I love the first one, enjoyed the second one and feel like this book three is very fillerish for the final book. A lot of the scaryness is gone. It's very political and not at all why I started this series and got so invested. I'm one of those people that...
Loved this sequel to 1920s YA supernatural/paranormal/horror/historical fiction/romance/...comedy-fantasy? Or whatever it is? Love to see the genre boundaries getting blurred like this. Libba Bray is an incredibly skilled writer, successfully juggling an enormous cast with complex motivations and ba...
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