Sara Raasch's Blog, page 278

Hi ms. Sara, i was just thinking back to the time when me and my friend were pondering how does one pronounce Meira's name. I was wondering if you could clear it up once and for all? Thank you so much and I can't wait to read Ice like Fire!

I have a whole section on pronunciation over here!

Hi Sara, I've just gotten my copy of Ice Like Fire in the mail and I'm really excited to read it. Problem is it's been a year since I've read Snow Like Ashes and I can't remember exactly what happens, care to help?

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"Dont forget to fight for yourself as well—there is no shame in that."

“Dont forget to fight for yourself as well—there is no shame in that.” - Ice Like Fire...

"The most power magic of all is choice, and of that power, the strongest choice anyone can make is an..."

“The most power magic of all is choice, and of that power, the strongest choice anyone can...

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Fictional Male Characters

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                                   YA Fantasy Reading List
A Court of Thorns and Roses
Dragged to a treacherous magical land she only knows about from stories, Feyre discovers that her captor is not an animal, but Tamlin, a High Lord of the faeries. As her feelings toward him transform from hostility to a firey passion, the threats against the faerie lands grow. Feyre must fight to break an ancient curse, or she will lose Tamlin forever.  
An Ember in the Ashes
Laia is a Scholar living under the iron-fisted rule of the Martial Empire. When her brother is arrested for treason, Laia goes undercover as a slave at the empire’s greatest military academy in exchange for assistance from rebel Scholars who claim that they will help to save her brother from execution.  
Red Queen
In a world divided by blood–those with common, Red blood serve the Silver-blooded elite, who are gifted with superhuman abilities–seventeen-year-old Mare, a Red, discovers she has an ability of her own. To cover up this impossibility, the king forces her to play the role of a lost Silver princess and betroths her to one of his own sons. But Mare risks everything and uses her new position to help the Scarlet Guard –a growing Red rebellion–even as her heart tugs her in an impossible direction. 
Throne of Glass
After she has served a year of hard labor in the salt mines of Endovier for her crimes, Crown Prince Dorian offers eighteen-year-old assassin Celaena Sardothien her freedom on the condition that she act as his champion in a competition to find a new royal assassin. 
Tricksters’ Choice
Alianne must call forth her mother’s courage and her father’s wit in order to survive on the Copper Isles in a royal court rife with political intrigue and murderous conspiracy. 
Cinder
As plague ravages the overcrowded Earth, observed by a ruthless lunar people, Cinder, a gifted mechanic and cyborg, becomes involved with handsome Prince Kai and must uncover secrets about her past in order to protect the world in this futuristic take on the Cinderella story. 
Snow Like Ashes
Orphaned Meira, a fierce chakram-wielding warrior from the Kingdom of Winter, must struggle to free her people from the tyranny of an opposing kingdom while also protecting her own destiny. 
Scarlet
Will Scarlet shadows Robin Hood, with an unerring eye for finding treasures to steal and throwing daggers with deadly accuracy, but when Gisbourne, a ruthless bounty hunter, is hired by the sheriff to capture Robin and his band of thieves, Robin must become Will’s protector risking his own life in the process.
Crimson Bound
Rachelle must protect the king’s bastard son while searching for the weapons that will save her world from endless night.     
Shadow and Bone
Orphaned by the Border Wars, Alina Starkov is taken from obscurity and her only friend, Mal, to become the protegé of the mysterious Darkling, who trains her to join the magical elite in the belief that she is the Sun Summoner, who can destroy the monsters of the Fold. 
Falling Kingdoms
War brought them together. Love will tear them apart. Princess Cleo of Mytica confronts violence for the first time in her life when a shocking murder sets her kingdom on a path to collapse. Once a privileged royal, Cleo must now summon the strength to survive in this new world and fight for her rightful place as Queen. The King of Limeros’s son, Magnus, must plan each footstep with shrewd, sharp guile if he is to earn his powerful father’s trust, while his sister, Lucia, discovers a terrifying secret about her heritage that will change everything. Rebellious Jonas lashes out against the forces of oppression that have kept his country cruelly impoverished–and finds himself the leader of a people’s revolution centuries in the making. Witches, if found, are put to death, and Watchers, immortal beings who take the shape of hawks to visit the human world, have been almost entirely forgotten. A vicious power struggle quickly escalates to war, and these four young people collide against each other and the rise of elementia, the magic that can topple kingdoms and crown a ruler in the same day. 
The Kiss of Deception
On the morning of her wedding, Princess Lia flees to a distant village. She settles into a new life, intrigued when two mysterious and handsome strangers arrive–and unaware that one is the jilted prince and the other an assassin sent to kill her. Deception abounds, and Lia finds herself on the brink of unlocking perilous secrets–even as she finds herself falling in love.  

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OMG OMG OMG it’s here!!! I’m so extremely happy! Love these books and the swag is so cute! And all the handwriting it’s one of the most amazing things I’ve ever seen! *-*

SO BEAUTIFUL! I’ll keep this treasure with my Meira drawing :D

Thank you so much @sararaasch! This is so amazing!!! I’ll start reading it right now!