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Title: Daughter of Smoke and Bone (Daughter of Smoke and Bone trilogy, #1) Author: Laini Taylor Publisher: Little, Brown Rating: 4.5/5 Synopsis (taken from the series' official site): Once upon a time, an angel and a devil fell in love. It did not end well. Meet Karou. A young art student from Prague. She has bright blue hair, an ear for languages… and a haunted past she can’t quite remember. When a mysterious stranger — the beautiful, haunted Akiva — fixes his fire-colored eyes on Karou in an alley in Marrakesh, the result is blood and starlight, secrets unveiled, and a star-crossed love whose roots drink deep of a violent past. But will Karou live to regret learning the truth about herself? And will this newfound love survive the threat of a brutal otherworldly war? Cover: Review: The first thing that struck me about Daughter of Smoke and Bone was the beauty of Laini Taylor's prose. While reading this book, I told my mother that I wanted to take Taylor&

I want part of this blog to be dedicated to celebrating authors who write about girls and do it well and I especially want to celebrate female authors who write about their fellow women. This is the first in a series of posts celebrating some of my favorite female authors. The first author I wanted to highlight is Sarah Rees Brennan. This probably doesn't come as much of a surprise since her novel Unspoken was the first book I reviewed for this blog. Part of what makes Sarah Rees Brennan's female characters stand out is the fact that there are so many of them. Despite the fact that her debut novel is told from the point of view of a male character, the majority of her work still focuses on the points of view of girls. Her first novel, The Demon's Lexicon , introduces the character of Mae who goes on to narrate one of the novels in the series. Another character in the series is Sin. The two girls are different but they are both strong characters who stand up for themselves

These are two books I've had in my to be read pile for quite a bit. I bought both of them this summer and hadn't gotten around to reading them until now.  Sabriel by Garth Nix is about a young girl named Sabriel who is the daughter of a necromancer and while at boarding school in Ancelstierre, she finds out her father, the Abhorsen is in danger and she must go to the Old Kingdom to save him.  East by Edith Pattou is a retelling of "East of the Sun and West of the Moon," and is reminiscent of Beauty and the Beast , but instead of taking place in France, it's set in an Arctic climate. 

Title: Unspoken  (Lynburn Legacy, #1) Author: Sarah Rees Brennan Publisher: Random House Rating: 4/5 Synopsis (taken from the jacket flap): Kami Glass loves someone she's never met...a boy she's talked to in her head ever since she was born. She wasn't silent about her imaginary friend during her childhood, and is thus a bit of an outside in her sleepy English town of Sorry-in-the-Vale. Still, Kami hasn't suffered too much from not fitting in. She has a best friend, runs the school newspaper, and is only occasionally caught talking to herself. Her life is in order, just the way she likes it, despite the voice in her head. But all that changes when the Lynburns return. The Lynburn family has owned the spectacular and sinister manor that overlooks Sorry-in-the-Vale for centuries. The mysterious twin sisters who abandoned their ancestral home a generation ago are back, along with their teenage sons, Jared and Ash, one of whom is eerily familiar to Kami. Kami i

Reading and writing are my two great loves and I especially love reading about girls. I also feel that girls don't appear enough in popular media. I've loved books all my life and one of my favorite things is sharing the books I love with other people. I'm also hoping that young girls find this blog and that I can make it easier for them to find characters they can relate to. I also hope to write about a wide range of books and characters and help readers see a point of view they might not have seen before. I want this blog to start a discussion between me and my readers about the ways girls are represented in books and so I want my readers to feel free to comment on any of my posts. I'll be posting my first review soon.