Welcome to The Sense List, a new feature on Books and Sensibility with a wrap up of YA news and events that we took notice
of. This new feature is inspired by YA Highway’s Field Trip Friday and Novel Thoughts This Week In YA
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Book Review: Unearthly by Cynthia Hand
“Am I a player in this scenario or a puppet? I guess, in the end, it doesn’t matter. It is what it is: my destiny.”
– Cynthia Hand, Unearthly
So, seriously Harper Teen is the best ! I got this book for .99 on my Kindle over the holiday season. Before that, it wasn’t even on my radar , it was just another pretty girl in a pretty dress cover.
I’m not a big fan of paranormal romances. To me they all tend to be the same and have a similar kind of ugh-inducing female protagonist who doesn’t exist outside of the new guy they met. And while Unearthly falls victim to some of the usual tropes in paranormal romance (new person in school, love interest is dating mean girl, single parent . . .) I took a liking to it.
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The Sense List Vol. 1
Book Review : Illuminate by Aimme Agresti
Illuminate (Gilded Wings # 1) is one of those novels where the mystery and glamour will instantly pull you in, as the characters uncover the seemingly perfect facade of The Lexington Hotel, owner Aurelia Brown and the perfect employees known as the Outfit.
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IMM Vol. 17
IMM is a weekly meme hosted by The Story Siren. Here is what we received this week !
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Book Review : Red Glove by Holly Black
“Changing is what people do when they have no options left.”
― Holly Black, Red Glove
In the second book in the Curse Workers Series, our coffee addled protagonist Cassel Sharpe is still clever as the devil and twice as pretty. Red Glove expands the world we were introduced into in White Cat, something I think every good sequel needs to do. In this novel, we meet new characters, get to see more into Wallingford and learn more about curse worker politics
The plot wasn’t as tight and concise as the first one. This novel reads less like a con job and more like a murder mystery While this series is a fantasy, White Cat felt more realistic than Red Glove. That isn’t to say it’s awful, it just doesn’t flow as well as it did in the first book.
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