So I started this book and after reading the first two in a weekend I was very excited to see the ending of this trilogy. Wither captured my attention completely and I fell in love with Rhines world. The first book was amazing and reading into the second one I realized I didn't completely underst...
Series as a whole: good writing, mostly believable world, good pace. The series suffers from the trilogy problem--there is really only enough plot for two books, but authors and publishing companies love trilogies, so... Also, the ending to the series was pretty weak. If Happily Ever After was t...
So it started quite boring and I hoped it wasn't like the previous book. I was so happy when it eventually changed and got better!At first I wanted to give it 2 stars but because the end was so great and as I said it got better, it made star 4. The books were a bit tedious, the author made a seri...
Another novella that is purely a way to make more money off of a series. It mostly serves no purpose, other than reviewing information that people already know about the first one and give a sneak peak into the second one (which is especially pointless after the second has been published).The onl...
Deirdre tries massaging my shoulders, but she seems devastated that her efforts aren’t consoling me at all. “Isn’t there anything I can do?” she asks.I think for a moment, and then I say, “Could you send up someone to do my nails? And maybe an eyebrow wax, too? Maybe I’ll feel better if I can do ...
Probably because they were too much to carry wherever he was going. Or because he didn’t think they’d be useful. Clothes; my parents’ lab coats; my father’s glasses; a flightless paper kite I made when I was young; yellowed books about war or romance; my father’s twenty-first-century atlas.I flip...
“This is going to belong to you one day, when you’re grown,” the king said, and Azure listened intently. It was rare that his father spoke to him this way, and without his sister present at that. He knew that Celeste would be jealous. He would find her when he returned to the clock tower and she ...
Daphne was curled on the window ledge in her bedroom, staring at her reflection superimposed over the faraway view of the glasslands. She tapped her pen to the edge of her notebook. “Are you writing?” Judas said. He sat on the floor beside the windo...
Everyone but my brother, who never leaves his room, and Pen. Basil offers to tell everyone what’s happened, freeing me to look for Pen so that I might speak to her alone. I find her upstairs on her bed, staring at one of Birdie’s old catalogs. “These drawings are magnificent,” Pen says without lo...
Mrs. Mannerd was standing over him, holding his coat and boots. “Get dressed,” she said, and the urgency in her voice made Lionel forget that he was angry with her. “We’re going to get Marybeth.” Lionel was dressed and in the car before Mrs. Mannerd had even finished buttoning her coat. The sky w...
I can’t read her expression, but she’s watching Celeste button her coat, and I am sure that she knows what I’ve done.Pen looks up from her reading. “I should like to meet this king you’re forever running off to see.”Celeste hooks her elbow through mine. “You will,” she says. “Just not today. Priv...
Look at an artist’s hands—sullied by colors. Powerful and strange. —“Intangible Gods,” Daphne Leander, Year Ten PEN RETURNS WITH COMPLAINTS THAT THE prince was trying to spy on her while she used the water room, but she’s otherwise unscathed. “If th...
The flowers in the wallpaper were rustling on a breeze. “Felix?” she said. One of the flowers spiraled away from the wall and landed on her shoulder. By the time she reached for it, it was gone. How strange, she thought. Felix was the only one who did such things, and she could swear she felt him...