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House of Earth and Blood (Crescent City, #1)

Sarah J. Maas

Start date: April 1, 2022

Finish date: April 30, 2022

Why we're reading this: Featured Buddy Read for April
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Oct 11, 2020 Anita rated it it was amazing · review of another edition

Great book

I grabbed this because it fit my usual interests. And then I couldn't out it down..started switching between the Audible and written versions. Stopped skimming and started reading each word. Laughed, cried. Thank you. Great book. ...more

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Aug 31, 2020 Ketutar Jensen rated it did not like it

Shelves: dnf

Sarah. You can not use existing words and give them a new meaning just because it happens to suit you. You have quite a lot of influence among young fantasy readers, and I fear that I will be hearing a lot of people talking about Vanir as if it was a synonym to sidhe, and other words you have used. It seems to me that you didn't even bother checking if the words already existed and had a meaning.

And the names... *sigh*

And the complete mess of mythologies and cultures and... eh.

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Oct 07, 2022 Deyara rated it it was amazing

Accidentally read book 2 first (thanks for listing it wrong, random librarian!) Went back and read this and loved it even more. Some tears, but a decently paced story with great characters. Interesting world too.

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