Flora Segunda by Ysabeau S. Wilce
If Tamora Pierce and Diana Wynne Jones had ever teamed up to write a trilogy of novels about a crypto-Spanish city-state that had just been made into a client state by Aztec-esque empire where the daughter of the warlord's main (lady!) military commander was a longing-for-adventure lover of Indiana Jones-style novels about a famous Magician/Shapechanger/Ranger of the past named Ninni Mo and the adventures said girl falls into ... Well then. Ysabeau S Wilce wouldn't have needed to write this trilogy.
They are a JOY AND A DELIGHT you guys.
So their real and full titles are:
Flora Segunda: Being the Magickal Mishaps of a Girl of Spirit, Her Glass-Gazing Sidekick, Two Ominous Butlers (One Blue), a House with Eleven Thousand Rooms, and a Red Dog
Flora's Dare: How a Girl of Spirit Gambles All to Expand Her Vocabulary, Confront a Bouncing Boy Terror, and Try to Save Califa from a Shaky Doom (Despite Being Confined to Her Room)
and
Flora's Fury: How a Girl of Spirit and a Red Dog Confound Their Friends, Astound Their Enemies, and Learn the Importance of Packing Light
AND HAVE I MENTIONED I LOVE THEM? BECAUSE I DO. LOTS.
LOTS.
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Middlegrade story about girl with crappy home situation getting put in temporary foster care. Not bad, but not my thing.
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I don't think I like Barry Lyga. I read his Astonishing Adventures of Fanboy and Goth Girl and haaaated it.
In I Hunt Killers, Jasper was raised and trained by his serial killer dad to be the perfect serial killer successor, his dad is not in jail (on purpose?) but suddenly these near-exact recreations of his dad's murders are happening all over town. Jasper decides he must use the skills his dad taught him and get inside the mind of this killer to find and stop him. I was unwilling to suspend my disbelief for this scenario.
2012 2013 ARC boys contemporary crime detective ebook family father-son relationships fathers and sons fiction friendship high school horror identity murder mystery psychopaths read in 2012 serial killer series sociopath suspense teen teen fiction thriller to-read wishlist young adult Buddy by M. H. Herlong
Set in New Orleans pre-Hurricane Katrina, boy wants dog, but family is quite poor ninth ward-ers. Boy's family hits stray dog on way to church, dog is hurt, they bring dog with them to church and events happen so that the dog get's taken to the vet, looses a leg, but gains a devoted owner. Boy works very had to keep dog, Hurricane comes, Dog cannot come with whole large family in small vehicle. Dog is left behind. Things happen. DOG DOES NOT DIE. Bittersweet ending.
Not my thing, but not bad.
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In a dystopic future America where people are divided into numbered castes we have this Cinderella/The Batchelor/Love Triangle Story. It is CREEPILY conservative and hetrocentric. I spent the whole book really unnerved. Our main girl, whose name is AMERICA is chosn out of a lottery of entrants to be part of a group of 35 girls from all the castes to be a potential wife to the crown prince the compete Bachelor-style for his favor (on TV and everything). There are rebel groups, a lower-caste secret boyfriend and lots of descriptions of dresses.
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ONLY THE MOST WONDERFUL AND POWERFUL BOOK I HAVE READ ALL YEAR.
If you like the kinds of things I like, this should be VERY HIGH on your to-read list.
I have too many feelings to actually tell you anything about the actual story.
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I like how this is developing! Still fun fun fun.
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I thought Dead Like Me was a midling-ok show, but it is a work of STAGGARING GENIUS compared to Croak. The ADJECTIVES. The poorly done HUMOR. The ~SASS of the main character. The COINCIDENCES. THE MANUFACTURED DRAMA.
I hate-read this book.
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