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Children of Blood and Bone by Tomi Adeyemi
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it was amazing
bookshelves: young-adult, published-2018, for-podcast, read-2018, fantasy, stars-5

I am about to go and talk about this book for probably 2 hours with my co-host Stephanie, but I had to write a quick review of this book.

If you love YA fantasy, get this book. If you want to read more diverse authors, get this book. If you are like me and getting a bit sick of YA tropes getting recycled, GET THIS BOOK.

Seriously, I picked up this book because so many people on my twitter feed were retweeting the author's reaction to her books (arcs maybe?) coming in. I normally am a bit meh about new authors with this much hype, but she's just so damn adorable. I followed her instantly and picked up the book about a month after it came out. And then went "why did I get it in hardback??" Because the cover is so stupidly beautiful. That's why. I closed the book a few times just to stare at it.

The past year I've whined a bit about YA books and how much their tropes are starting to get to me. This book takes so many tropes that I normally am shying away from, flips them around a bit, shakes it up real nice, and produces such a good book.

Anyways, go listen to JBC — Stephanie and I are definitely going to talk about this one for awhile.
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Reading Progress

March 6, 2018 – Shelved as: long-term-to-read
March 6, 2018 – Shelved
March 6, 2018 – Shelved as: young-adult
March 6, 2018 – Shelved as: published-2018
June 3, 2018 – Shelved as: for-podcast
June 3, 2018 – Shelved as: next-up
June 5, 2018 – Started Reading
June 5, 2018 –
page 38
7.24%
June 5, 2018 –
page 77
14.67%
June 5, 2018 –
page 77
14.67%
June 6, 2018 –
page 113
21.52%
June 6, 2018 –
page 152
28.95%
June 7, 2018 –
page 191
36.38%
June 7, 2018 –
page 226
43.05%
June 8, 2018 –
page 306
58.29%
June 11, 2018 –
page 369
70.29%
June 11, 2018 –
page 413
78.67%
June 11, 2018 – Shelved as: read-2018
June 11, 2018 – Shelved as: fantasy
June 11, 2018 – Finished Reading
May 7, 2019 – Shelved as: stars-5

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