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21st Century Love Songs by The Wildhearts

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The Wildhearts are proud to announce the release of 21st Century Love Songs, their brand new...

Kitteh Kat (4 KP) rated The Perks of Being a Wallflower in Books

Jun 22, 2017

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Immersive and powerful

This book has been sat on my shelves since September, just waiting for the right moment to be read.
An increasingly powerful book that focuses on the life of outcast high school students that are relatable but not overshadowed by popular teenagers.
Grappling with love; loss and life, a teenager writes letters to a stranger (possibly considered to be the reader) explaining his life and his struggles with starting high school and all the aspects that can come along with it - falling in love, making friends, experimenting with drugs/alcohol/sexuality- as well as a multitude of family issues.
The end of the book is revealing and intense and leaves the reader considering the moral behind the book.

My personal opinion is that I would have loves the story to be longer, as I finished it within an evening and for character introductions to be more stable or descriptive.

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Goddess in the Stacks (553 KP) rated Girls Made of Snow and Glass in Books

Sep 5, 2017

Wonderful plot, subverted tropes, lesbian romance (0 more)

A bit of stilted dialogue at the beginning, some predictable actions by characters (0 more)

One of my best books of 2017!

I received an ARC of this book through Goodreads and got to read it before the release date (September 5th! GO GET IT!) and I was SO excited to read it. It did not disappoint! This is her debut novel, and the story is absolutely fantastic. It’s billed as a “fantasy feminist fairy tale” and I think it lives up to that pretty well. There are no princes in this story. There are a couple of men – the King, the Queen’s father, and the Huntsman, but they are not who the story is about. The story really is about the relationship between the Queen/stepmother and her stepdaughter, the Princess.

You can read my full review here: https://goddessinthestacks.wordpress.com/2017/09/05/book-review-girls-made-of-snow-and-glass/