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JFernly@bookwyrm.social

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twilight obsessed autistic who is forever reading YA favourite genres: fantasy(queer fantasy) and YA (queer YA)

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2024 Reading Goal

26% complete! JFernly has read 8 of 30 books.

reviewed Cruel beauty by Rosamund Hodge

Rosamund Hodge: Cruel beauty (2014, Balzer + Bray/HarperCollins) 4 stars

Betrothed to the demon who rules her country and trained all her life to kill …

I really wanted to like this book but...

2 stars

This book was so close to being perfect and then the author shot herself in the foot.

Hodge set up the perfect story about accepting your flaws and seeing your worth and the worth of those you love not just in-spite of but because of those flaws. Then she dropped the ball like she was playing hot potato to moralize at the readers. Hodge leaves us with the message that no one is truly worthy of love, care, or sacrifice but for some inexplicable reason (it is literally never explained) we do these things for each other anyways. Exceptionally Catholic take.

I was actually surprised Lux and Nyx weren't granted forgiveness for their sins at the end but were instead left to live out their wretchedly impious and impure lives.

There was also some lovely conversation around the lesser peasant hedge gods and how these are only for foolish uneducated …

Robin McKinley: Sunshine (Paperback, 2004, Jove) 4 stars

There are places in the world where darkness rules, where it's unwise to walk. But …

This Book Rocked My World

5 stars

Sunshine just might be my new favourite novel. I finished the audio book and immediately ordered a hard copy so I can have a version to make notes on and read more closely. 10/10