The City of Stardust

JuliaTheBookNerd

The City of Stardust | Georgia Summers

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Eggs Beautiful editions ✨💙💫 4mo

bookish_wookish So pretty! 4mo

ShelleyBooksie Gorgeous 4mo

Velvetfur Omg the gorgeous picture on the edge! 😍 4mo

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BookBelle84

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I really enjoyed the whimsy and beautiful writing of this novel. Reminded me of an adult Stephanie Garber. The ending left me a bit, wanting, but I enjoyed the journey. Gorgeous world and gorgeous cover!

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ladym30

The City of Stardust | Georgia Summers

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wanderinglynn That cover 😍 7mo

ladym30 @wanderinglynn Indeed!😍 7mo

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CaitlinR

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I actually enjoyed this light read. The author explores the ways in which we adjust our stories and concepts of love to protect ourselves from difficult truths.

According to Penelope, ostensibly a teacher, actually something much more and terrible, the Everly family owes her a blood debt; Violet sets out to remove the curse, sometimes aided, sometimes betrayed by Penelope‘s acolyte: Alexander. The plot gets a bit muddy at times.

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Branwen

The City of Stardust | Georgia Summers

My three day weekend started today! 🥳🎉🎉🎉 I've got tons of reading planned! And of course lots of tea and snacks! 🤭 It is sunny today, which is super nice! And even though it's a little bit chilly, reading at the park has been the perfect way to spend this Friday! 💕📚

AnnCrystal 👏😍👍. 9mo

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Lizpixie

The City of Stardust | Georgia Summers

Bk9 of my recent #BookMail is a fantasy.A young woman descends into a magical underworld of power-hungry scholars & fickle gods bent on revenge to break her family‘s curse. For centuries Everlys have seen best vanish, payment for a crime no one remembers & a purpose no one understands.Their tormentor Penelope,never ages or gets sick & never forgets a debt. Violet is the last Everly, given 10yrs to find her mother before the family is gone forever.

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CocktailsandBooks

The City of Stardust | Georgia Summers

I've been sitting on this ARC for weeks. Time to start it!

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julesG

The City of Stardust | Georgia Summers

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I admit, I was drawn in by the cover.

Violet Everly‘s family is cursed. A curse was put on the family thousands of years ago. Each generation the family has to hand over the most promising Everly to Penelope, an ageless woman. The ‘sacrificed‘ Everly would then become a scholar in Penelope‘s world. No one knows what the Everly family did thousands of years ago to be cursed, but everyone in ⬇️

julesG the family knows that there has to be a sacrifice once every generation. Marianne, Violet‘s mother, was supposed to be the last generation‘s sacrifice, but she vanished when Violet was ten. Penelope gave Violet's uncles ten years to find Marianne, or she would come to collect Violet. Now Violet needs to find her mother or break the curse to free the Everlys, otherwise she'd be sacrificed to Penelope. That is my take on what this book is about.
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julesG I did not like the book. I was confused by the flowery language that packs a lot of words into a sentence which eventually doesn‘t tell me anything. Further confusion was created by the omniscient narrator switching between different POVs from one paragraph to the next. All that is interspersed with fairy tale interludes. Set in present tense, so that distinguishing between what timeline (present or past) and which character I was following was⬇️ 11mo

julesG confusing. It just didn‘t work for me.

World-building is essential in fantasy novels, yet within all that flowery language I couldn‘t find an explanation for how the magic system works, what kind of curse was put on the Everly‘s and why, and quite frankly, by about 60% of the book, I didn‘t really care anymore. I still finished the book but only to see what explanation there might be for the curse. I still don‘t know.

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julesG I hope that the finished book was less of a mess than the ARC I read. 11mo

Leniverse Sounds more like a first draft than an ARC! That really is a gorgeous cover though. 11mo

dabbe #hailthebail! 🤩🤩🤩 11mo

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Branwen

The City of Stardust | Georgia Summers

My Illumicrate box for this month came with a beautiful library stamp! I have always wanted one of these! Doesn't it look marvelous?! 🥰📚 #illumicrate

AnnCrystal 👏☺️👍. 11mo

julesG Lovely stamp! And thanks for reminding me that I have to finish reading the ARC of this book. 🙈 11mo

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nitalibrarian

The City of Stardust | Georgia Summers

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Delivered today - Walmart edition of House of Shadow and Flame. I was most interested in the bonus chapter that comes with this edition. And I received the FairyLoot January Adult Fantasy book, which is The City of Stardust.

Prairiegirl_reading Gorgeous edition! 11mo

currentlyreadinginCO Ooooo 11mo

BennettBookworm Stunning 11mo

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mcipher

The City of Stardust | Georgia Summers

Lovely beach walk today, but we didn‘t outrun this “distant” storm 😅 …. It was awfully nice to come home to put on dry clothes and read a few chapters of this ARC (which is giving me Starless Sea vibes 🥰)

mhillis Beautiful photo! 11mo

Soubhiville Oooo, you‘ve got me stacking this title! 11mo

dabbe #photocontestwinner 🤩🤩🤩 11mo

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Booksblanketsandahotbeverage

The City of Stardust | Georgia Summers

Yay! Look who was just approved! *happy dance* Has anyone read this yet and if so, what did you think?

Update: I bailed 🤷‍♀️ It was too slow…

Booksblanketsandahotbeverage I just saw the #Friendsgiving tag by @Catsandbooks - my goals - I want to start this one during Thanksgiving week so I can get a good jump on it! 13mo

Catsandbooks Wonderful! Enjoy! 🦃🧡 13mo

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