Omg!!! I saw this book and had recognised it off a book tubers account and later found out it was only $6 dollars! So I picked it up thinking that if I didn't enjoy it I hadn't wasted my money at all but I had enjoyed it more than I expected! It's such a beautiful book with a huge plot twist that...
Welcome to Book CityDate: December 21, 2014Spoilers AheadHeadlineThe Cabinet of WondersMarie RutkoskiPetra Kronos has a simple, happy life. But it’s never been ordinary. She has a pet tin spider named Astrophil who likes to hide in her snarled hair and give her advice. Her best friend can trap li...
My professor for fiction workshop class at grad school wrote this book. While I was judging the book based on what I usually do when reading teen fiction, I was also evaluating the novel based on what makes it a big publication seller. But then when I was reading the novel, I experienced somethin...
It was really difficult to get into this book. Either I did not pay attention in the beginning, or the author did not appropriately bring me into the world of the book. It is a strange sort of magical book, but I kept reading it because my daughter (11 years) had recommended it to me. Halfway ...
I needed something relatively mindless to read while on vacation. This was a book at the top of the library's e-books. It's mostly set in Prague so I figured it should be okay. I enjoyed it. The writing style is nice and I enjoyed the characters. It's loosely based around actual history so that m...
Welcome to Book CityDate: December 27, 2014Spoilers AheadHeadlineThe Celestial GlobeMarie RutkoskiAfter stealing her father’s eyes back from Prince Rodolfo, Petra Kronos lives in constant danger. She and her tin spider, Astrophil, end up hiding out in London, where she learns more about her magic...
You want to know my pet peeve in books/movies? Bad plot devices and one of the worst offenders is making the main character unreasonable and a little obnoxious in order for them to not take good advice and thereby save the day in their own way. There is a workaround for this problem people! It ...
Welcome to Book CityDate: December 28, 2014 Spoilers AheadHeadlineThe Jewel of the KalderashMarie Rutkoski Upon arriving in the Romany homeland to deliver the Mercator Globes, Petra Kronos, Tomik, and Neel formulate a plan to save Petra’s father, who has been transformed into a Gray Man. But when...
The first book was good....but the second book was...AWESOME ARE YOU KIDDING ME THE ENDING WHEN KESTREL GOT CAUGHT HAD MY HEART BEATING LIKE A PHYSCO WITH A DRUM OH MY AND KESTREL WAS GREAT SHE REMEMBERED TO GIVE THE MOTH AND TOOK THAT SLAP LIKE IT WAS NOTHING but why cant kestrel and arin just l...
She hadn’t done this for a long time, since before she ran away to Prague. When she woke, she remembered that other Petra whose life had been just about perfect. Now, her cheek still on the pillow, she felt older—but also less sure of herself, which really didn’t seem fair. Weren’t you supposed t...
she roamed the dreaming house, saw copper pots gleaming in the dark kitchen like a row of hung moons. Her feet made mouse sounds on the staircases. She found the library, remembered touching the spines of the books when she’d lived here before. She touched them again. She remembered and touched t...
Dawn. I’ll be there.” Petra practically ran home. Through the twilight, she saw the sign with a compass that looked like a flower transformed into a machine, or a machine transformed into a flower. Petra veered. She sprinted around the house to the back. She took off her shoes and loped through D...
Zephyr cast a glance over the Green Mill Lounge’s sunken garden, at the sweat-dazzled ladies in their thin dresses leaning on men who called for more buckets of champagne. The Chicago night was fuzzy with heat. Not that Zephyr felt it. That would require skin. It was a good thing she didn’t have ...