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“Fel crouched on the deck, her eyes just above the top of the Silence’s railing, watching the pirate ship anchored nearby. She tried to stop trembling.”
Fel is the only child who has ever escaped from the Abode, a workhouse for children, hidden from the world inside thick, swirling mists. Fel finds a home with a family of reformed pirates, but the discovery of a magical object from her former life sends her back to the Abode to rescue her friend Molly.
Fel’s reappearance sets in motion an adventure that goes far beyond saving one girl.
A coming-of-age story for anyone 8 or older, The Abode offers readers a complex fantasy complete with pirates, dragons, and the Abode’s children, who discover who and what they really are.
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The Abode is one of the most unique middle grade fantasy books I’ve ever read! A unique take on dragons too! If you want a book about friendship, adventure, and finding one’s true self, it’s all there!
***Thank you to the author for a free copy of the book. All opinions are my own. ***
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Beauty knows the Beast’s forest in her bones—and in her blood. Though she grew up with the city’s highest aristocrats, far from her father’s old lodge, she knows that the forest holds secrets and that her father is the only hunter who’s ever come close to discovering them.
So when her father loses his fortune and moves Yeva and her sisters back to the outskirts of town, Yeva is secretly relieved. Out in the wilderness, there’s no pressure to make idle chatter with vapid baronessas…or to submit to marrying a wealthy gentleman. But Yeva’s father’s misfortune may have cost him his mind, and when he goes missing in the woods, Yeva sets her sights on one prey: the creature he’d been obsessively tracking just before his disappearance.
Deaf to her sisters’ protests, Yeva hunts this strange Beast back into his own territory—a cursed valley, a ruined castle, and a world of creatures that Yeva’s only heard about in fairy tales. A world that can bring her ruin or salvation. Who will survive: the Beauty, or the Beast?
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A Beauty and the Beast retell?? Yes please! This was a fantastic book, and the only reason it’s missing a star is because I wish there was some sort of romance in it. Other than that, it was terrific! And I love the cover so much.
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The outbreak started in New York. Within days the infection had spread to every corner of the world. Nowhere is safe from the undead…
Bill watched from his window as London was evacuated. His leg broken, he is unable to join the exodus. Turning to his friends in the government, he waits and hopes for rescue. As the days turn into weeks, realising inaction will lead only to starvation and death, his thoughts turn to escape.
Forced to leave the safety of his home he ventures out into the undead wasteland that once was England, where he will discover a horrific secret.
This is the first volume of his journal.
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I like zombie and apocalyptic books, and although this one held my interest, I’m not sure if I’ll continue the series. It reminded me a bit of Cast Away with Tom Hanks, as most of the movie we are just watching Tom, and with London we are solely with Bill. Well, I guess it’s his journal after all. It definitely was gripping at times and I was nervous for the character. I don’t know, maybe I will pick up the second book. 🙂