Loved this book. It drew me in from the very first paragraph. There's alot of great reviews/synopsis online, so I'll just add that I enjoyed the book enough to go out and buy my own copy (copy I was reading was library) plus book two.
I really wanted to like this book, but all the characters were passive to the point that I couldn't even be bothered to cheer for them, and the bizarre dual (but overlapping? maybe?) timelines and the fact that one POV character was in first person and the other in third just confused me, rather tha...
I do not understand where all the awards came from. This book was sloooooow, hardly anything ever happened. It was so very depressing also. Reading about all those boys starving day after day was not pleasant. It was slow - as I mentioned - lacking plot, flat characters and from what I hear... NO e...
1.5 starsThis was a book I had to force myself to finish, which is rarely a good sign. It was a horrible book and I mean that especially in the sense that horrible things just keep happening and no one does a thing to stop them. Or they claim that they will, but then either allow or participate in y...
I stumbled on this in the YA section of my library and grabbed it when the back cover description started with "In a world where magic has been outlawed ...". It was a very quick read. Each chapter alternates between the story of two people, who in the beginning seem to have nothing in common. Th...
Written in alternative chapters this story of a girl who lives in a world where magic is frowned on, ridiculed and punished and a boy where magic is rampant but to become a magician you have to survive the school. A place where you starve until you work out how to create your own food, a place wher...
Skin Hunger, the first novel in the A Resurrection of Magic trilogy, starts this interesting series off with a bang. This vivid and gritty novel grabs the readers attention from page 1 and does not let go. Told in alternative chapter narration, the reader is dives head first into two different chara...
Errrmmm I don't have much to say about it. It wasn't bad, but it was kind of dull. The two alternating stories didn't have enough connection, there was no strong plot line -- just a big lump of random events. The characters weren't interesting, the writing wasn't interesting. There was some potentia...
Take any of those twee stories about wizarding school and then shove bleak, black despair down its throat. That's this book. It starts out sweet and cliched: a little farm girl can commune with animals, but her father hates magic; a little boy is about to enroll in wizard school. The chapters ar...
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