New Youtube Video: The Grace Year Book Preview
New Youtube Video:
Link: https://youtu.be/TkBQ9qrb-Lc
Description:
This week I am teaming up with Wednesday Books to bring you a book preview for The Grace Year by Kim Liggett!
Book Previews Coming Soon: More to be added! Check back for these videos!
Subscribe, like, comment…You know what to do. Let me know what you want to see and I will try to make it happen.
My Thoughts:
Book: The Grace Year
Author: Kim Liggett
Rating: 5 Out of 5 Stars
I would like to thank Netgalley and the publisher, Wednesday Books, for providing me with the ARC.
I must start out by saying this. Um…Hello, where did you come from? You were not even on my radar until last week. Why aren’t you getting more attention? The pretty pink cover doesn’t even start to describe you.
Now, that we have that out of the way. This book has been getting a lot of hype recently and it is as good as what people say it is. This is a dystopian story set in a very strict community in which the church and the men have complete control. The women are treated like objects and aren’t allowed to do anything. Part of this is that the church has complete control over everything and has told women that they have magic, which is a result of Eve and it will make men do evil things. Oh, women are also not allowed to gather, chose who they want to marry, and are sent into the woods in their sixteenth year to rid themselves of magic, aka the Grace Year. If they leave the place they have been sent during their grace year, poachers (men hired to kill) will hunt them down so their body parts can be sold for medicine. So, that is the tone of the world.
Tierney is our main character. She is smart, sassy, and questions everything. So, yeah, she’s really not that different than many of our young adult leads. This is her grace year and she has her heart set on working in the fields once she comes back. So, before the girls leave on their Grace Year, some of them receive a veil from a boy and that is who they are going to marry. The boys do all of the picking and the girls have no say. Tierney and the rest of her county believe that she will never get a veil because of her behaviour. This doesn’t really go as planned.
Michael is Tierney’s best friend. He has developed a crush on her and wants to save her from the hard life. He accepts her as she is and understands that he won’t be able to change her. To me, this is a great quality in a guy.
Rycker is our other main lead. He is a poacher. However, not everything is as what it seems with him. I really can’t go into details on his character without spoiling the book, but he is a lot more complex than what it seems.
The book opens up a lot of room for discussion. I can honestly see this as going down as a rather conversational book because of the context with the church. People are going to buck and say that it gives the church a bad rep. However, stop and think about it for a second. There are many places in our world where women are treated this way and it’s sad. I know a lot of people say that this book is just for girls, but the boys need to read this too. Girls are going to see that we need to stick together in our society. Boys, you will see that this is not how we treat girls.
It’s kind of funny how a lot of the negative reviews about this book are coming from male readers. They claim it makes them uncomfortable and is full of trigger warnings. Um, you know what? It probably makes you uncomfortable because at some point in your life you have probably treated a woman this way. This applies to everyone: if you want to grow as a person, you need to read and see things that make you uncomfortable.
Okay, I’m done preaching. This book, which I predict will be a bestseller, is currently on my top reads of 2019. The Grace Year will be out on October 1, 2019.
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Link: https://youtu.be/TkBQ9qrb-Lc
Description:
This week I am teaming up with Wednesday Books to bring you a book preview for The Grace Year by Kim Liggett!
Book Previews Coming Soon: More to be added! Check back for these videos!
Subscribe, like, comment…You know what to do. Let me know what you want to see and I will try to make it happen.
My Thoughts:
Book: The Grace Year
Author: Kim Liggett
Rating: 5 Out of 5 Stars
I would like to thank Netgalley and the publisher, Wednesday Books, for providing me with the ARC.
I must start out by saying this. Um…Hello, where did you come from? You were not even on my radar until last week. Why aren’t you getting more attention? The pretty pink cover doesn’t even start to describe you.
Now, that we have that out of the way. This book has been getting a lot of hype recently and it is as good as what people say it is. This is a dystopian story set in a very strict community in which the church and the men have complete control. The women are treated like objects and aren’t allowed to do anything. Part of this is that the church has complete control over everything and has told women that they have magic, which is a result of Eve and it will make men do evil things. Oh, women are also not allowed to gather, chose who they want to marry, and are sent into the woods in their sixteenth year to rid themselves of magic, aka the Grace Year. If they leave the place they have been sent during their grace year, poachers (men hired to kill) will hunt them down so their body parts can be sold for medicine. So, that is the tone of the world.
Tierney is our main character. She is smart, sassy, and questions everything. So, yeah, she’s really not that different than many of our young adult leads. This is her grace year and she has her heart set on working in the fields once she comes back. So, before the girls leave on their Grace Year, some of them receive a veil from a boy and that is who they are going to marry. The boys do all of the picking and the girls have no say. Tierney and the rest of her county believe that she will never get a veil because of her behaviour. This doesn’t really go as planned.
Michael is Tierney’s best friend. He has developed a crush on her and wants to save her from the hard life. He accepts her as she is and understands that he won’t be able to change her. To me, this is a great quality in a guy.
Rycker is our other main lead. He is a poacher. However, not everything is as what it seems with him. I really can’t go into details on his character without spoiling the book, but he is a lot more complex than what it seems.
The book opens up a lot of room for discussion. I can honestly see this as going down as a rather conversational book because of the context with the church. People are going to buck and say that it gives the church a bad rep. However, stop and think about it for a second. There are many places in our world where women are treated this way and it’s sad. I know a lot of people say that this book is just for girls, but the boys need to read this too. Girls are going to see that we need to stick together in our society. Boys, you will see that this is not how we treat girls.
It’s kind of funny how a lot of the negative reviews about this book are coming from male readers. They claim it makes them uncomfortable and is full of trigger warnings. Um, you know what? It probably makes you uncomfortable because at some point in your life you have probably treated a woman this way. This applies to everyone: if you want to grow as a person, you need to read and see things that make you uncomfortable.
Okay, I’m done preaching. This book, which I predict will be a bestseller, is currently on my top reads of 2019. The Grace Year will be out on October 1, 2019.
For Business Inquiries: Aphrodite-venus-u.k@hotmail.com
Publishers, authors, and companies-I do take requests for reviews, interviews, product endorsements, and etc. Check on my livejournal page for more information as to what content I am looking for. Dates do fill up quickly-I only like to feature on thing a day so you aren’t overlooked.
Links:
Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCicZ...
Goodreads: https://www.goodreads.com/AlysonSeren...
Livejournal: http://serenastone.livejournal.com/pr...
Fictionpress: https://www.fictionpress.com/u/773118...
Fanfiction: https://www.fanfiction.net/u/2489110/...
Amazon: https://www.amazon.com/s?i=digital-te...
Smashwords: https://www.smashwords.com/profile/vi...
Teacherspayteachers: https://www.teacherspayteachers.com/S...
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