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#SpringSkies

The tagged is the first book in a magical YA trilogy where a 14-year-old girl finds out she has magical powers. #ChildWithPowers

#Two4Tuesday

1️⃣ I have always wanted to learn how to crochet or knit. I always think of buying those little how-to kits but don‘t think I would follow through on my own! 🧶

2️⃣ The tagged book is the first in a YA fantasy trilogy set at Miss Castwell‘s Institute for the Magical Instruction of Young Ladies. It‘s especially fun on audiobook.🪄✨

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How old are these kids? I hate when teenagers are written all over the place. I mean they are in real life but this felt so inconsistent. I almost got behind the world. I could almost get behind the writing. Just not quite. Granted this is young adult, obviously, but just didn‘t move at the right pace for me.

#FallTreasures

Catching up by combining two prompts #schooltheme z& #bonfire This series is set at Miss Castwell‘s Institute for the Magical Instruction of Young Ladies & fire plays a role in the magic, including a mention of a sort of cake bonfire…

“Mum rarely let me have birthday candles after an incident on my tenth birthday in which the flames somehow ignited the much-scrimped-for birthday treat into a butter-fueled inferno.” 🔥🎂🔥

#FallTreasures

I went to my #Audible library for this #schooldays prompt. All of these are set in boarding schools, many magical. I am currently reading & listening to The Broken Girls & loved the tagged book—the first in a series & enjoyed The Mystery of Alice. The bottom room is still in my #TBR stack.

I really enjoyed this story. It had a lot of similar aspects to Harry Potter with being set at a magic school. I liked the characters and thought it was very fun and entertaining!

Cute. May read part two soon.

#QuotsyMar20 #miserable

Playing catch up again. 😬

“What was it about magic that could drain a person‘s health away so completely? It seemed so counter-intuitive that a force that was supposed to give so much to your life was able to make it so miserable. “

#FebruaryFeels #FebStats

Not much time for reading this month due to work, work events, a cold, & 10-day house guests but I managed to finish 6 books + 1 cookbook & I got midway through 2 more.
No 5⭐️ reads but all 3 audio books were standouts. I managed to post on Litsy daily & complete 2 monthly challenges: #QuotsyFeb20 with @TK-421 & #FebruaryFeels with @Eggs

Total: 7
Audiobooks: 3
Print: 3
E-Book: 1
Fiction: 5
N/F: 2
Women Authors: 7

Although this YA series is not as snort-laugh inducing as the author‘s other series, it is charming & fun. Magical Guardians are the elite & non-magical snipes serve them. A young snipe girl finds out she has magic & the matriarch of the family she serves hides her as a long-lost niece so both families don‘t suffer. Sarah/Cassandra is sent to magical boarding school. Loved the characters & Narrator Amanda Ronconi is excellent. 1st book in series.

A lighter book for #audiosouping today, it‘s been on my audiobook #TBR for ages. Molly Harper‘s YA series. Enjoying the magic & boarding school setting & it‘s fun to hear her usual narrator Amanda Ronconi doing a British accent when I‘m so used to her southern one for Harper‘s other series. The soup is another Ellie Krieger from Whole In One: Mushroom Stroganoff Soup (noodles, sour cream & milk to be added). Finished soup pics coming later. 😋🍲

I really enjoyed this book. It was like a proper British tea wth scones and all. It had magic and a boarding school with dark secrets and some catty girls. It was a very cute YA story, the characters were likable, and the ending was fabulous.

#WinterGames @rather_be_reading @StayCurious @Clwojick #TheFilthyAnimals
#ImpulseRead

Great start to a series. I loved the story and the characters. The MC was such a surprise. I thought for a bit she would let others continue to push her around but I can she that she is turning into a strong young woman. Can't wait to read the next book! 5⭐

A close up of the wooden bookmark from @AmyG - a perfect item for my #screamathonswap

This was the first book in Molly Harper‘s Sorcery and Society series. It‘s a gaslamp fantasy set in a world where society is divided between the Guardian upperclass who have magic, and the Snipe underclass who do not. When Sarah, a sickly Snipe girl, suddenly performs magic in front of her Guardian employer she is suddenly thrust into a treacherous new world. She is given a new identity and sent off to a prestigious magical boarding school.

A fairly standard magical school story, (I guess that‘s a genre now). But a fun, diverting read.

Daffodils are blooming here! After 7 days of rain, it was so great to see the sun! #litsywalkers #audiowalking

This is a really fun light fantasy that pulls a lot of really enjoyable and commonly used tropes. The audiobook narrators are fantastic and the comedic lines are delivered perfectly! I am always a sucker for a girl finding the Draco of the school and then deciding to hang with her Ron and Hermione instead and then they stand together to defeat a great evil!

I've just heard too little of this book. I'm curious!

#2018CheckIn

1) 72
2) 90
3) my only 5 ⭐️ reads were a re-read of HP Chamber of Secrets and a cookbook about edible cookie dough. Tons of 4 ⭐️ books though.
4) tagged been looking forward to it since I got it from #Netgalley I need to get to it soon.