Ana E. Way

  Thanks to NetGalley and Little Brown Book for the arc! This is the sequel and last book of the Divine Traitors duology. I got really excited to see this one on NetGalley so I requested it although I read the first one in French. It can be tricky to change languages in a fantasy series, but this was a smooth read. The only difficulty I encountered was that I had forgotten a lot of elements even though only 6 months had passed between the two books.  Since this is a sequel I won't enter in too many details about the story itself. The two sisters are, again, separated here, but this time they have no way of communicating with each other and have to just hope the other one is loyal to their sisterly bond. It is very hard to see characters suffer and feel so guilty all the time, especially when you remember that these two are only teenagers. Eliana is always self-doubting her actions and thoughts, thinking she should be MORE, and on the other hand, Faron spends her time berating ...

  Thank you thank you thank you to NetGalley and Faber for sending me (personally) an arc of Amara Sage's new book You may remember that in 2023 I read the author's debut novel (you can find my review here ) and liked it a lot. It was about a teenage girl who had grown up on the Internet and all the consequences of that. Here, we follow Saffron (amazing name btw) who is navigating the uncertainty of uni, evolving friendships and the hardships of finding love. Saffron feels like all her problems would probably resolve themselves if only she could lose weight. Knowing a little the author, I knew she would write about these themes with care and focus on self-acceptance and self-love. Needless to say, I was right. The journey for self-acceptance felt really fast (good for Saffron) to be realistic but maybe it's not as difficult as I think it is. The side characters are also well written, with a lot of nuance (for a while I wanted to hate her mother) and the love interest was a...

  Thanks to NetGalley and publisher for the arc! I'm not gonna lie, I saw this beautiful cover and the words "heist, magic, queer" and I was sold. The magic system was complex though easy to understand. I liked Cemmy as a main character, she was a traumatized teen trying to survive in a world that wanted her and her friends dead. I was glad that she got mad at her mom, in her place I would have snapped so much sooner. This book did what it wanted to do very well and it was really enjoyable although it dealt with grief and guilt among other themes. I already wanted to read Mindwalker by the same author, now I'm even more eager to get to it. Rep: bisexual MC, lesbian SC TW: death, persecution, discrimination, blackmail, torture, blood, lies

  Thanks to NetGalley and publisher This book was very confusing since the first pages, we know we are in a dystopian world where the internet has crashed down and created some sort of ghosts from the blurb only and we actually never learned much more about what and how it happened. At first I was frustrated of not having more information, but it actually made sense since the characters didn't seem to know much more either. What mattered to them was how to keep on living in a new world. The focus was, as I said, not on this new world but on the characters that live in it, mainly Katerina whose point of vue we follow. Through her eyes, we see a "new" society with the flaws of the past (of our present): racism, prone to discriminate and to ostracize those who don't fit their sense of security. But there are so many people who are different, Katerina is a mixed race single woman who travels, makes remedies and talks to bees, Elisabet who is on the spectrum, a mute boy se...

  Thanks to NetGalley for the eArc! I was very eager to read Allison Saft and I'm very happy to say that I loved her latest book and her writing. I'll happily read A far wilder magic that I have in the French edition because it's much prettier than the originals (sorry). In A Dark and Drowning Tide, we follow Lorelei, a folklorist who embarks on an expedition with five other students, among them Sylvia, her academic rival. But the expedition starts badly: Lorelei finds her mentor murdered in her cabin. Lorelei must see the mission through and find out who the murderer is before it's too late. Lorelei is not really a likeable character and not always relatable for someone who hasn't lived systemic oppression like she has. Indeed, not only Lorelei isn't nobility as her companions, but she is also Yeva (read: Jewish) in an extremely racist German-inspired world. Fortunately for me, the investigation wasn't the forefront of the story, and neither was the romance...

Thanks to NetGalley and publisher for this arc  Welcome to Forever  may have been a little ambitious for me. As you've read previously, I'm trying to read more SF and am often left confused, but still, I'm enjoying my reads. I didn't think this book would particularly challenge me, but here we are, with me unable to wholly enjoy this story because I felt left out. Welcome to Forever  was a 5 star prediction, and if my rating was solely based on the characters it would totally be. I feel  like it isn't a story especially hard to understand, so maybe it was not the right time for me to read it. I still enjoyed it though and gave it a 3.5 stars! I can't really explain what I didn't understand since I would be entering the realm of spoilers. At the beginning, we are with Fox, a memory editor who wakes up in a Center for Memory Reconstruction with no memory of who he is, and more importantly, of his dead husband. Throughout the book, he will discover and remember...

Thanks to NetGalley and publisher for this arc The Book of Doors is the kind of book that leaves you in a haze days after finishing it. I couldn't stop thinking of the story and the characters, and the next books I read really paled in comparison.  The Book of Doors follows Cassie, a bookseller who receives  a little notebook from a customer. She soon will discover that this notebook is actually the book of doors, a book that transforms any door in another door, allowing her to travel anywhere she wants. But she will also find out that she is now in grave danger (as is the world). I loved everything about this book. The idea of the books was really fun (well, not all of them), the characters were real to me, the friendship between Cassie and Izzy so beautiful and strong, the grief so heartbreaking and everlasting, the baddies so terrifying... Here comes a spoiler: I was surprised to see time travel and was a little worried of how it would be exploited, but I actually found it...