A Psalm of Storms and Silence (A Song of Wraiths and Ruin #2) - Roseanne Brown

★ ★ ★ ★ ★/5

Bring back breathtaking duologies!! I mean it when I say that I've yet to meet a duology I haven't liked. Sometimes two books are all you need and three just stretches it too much. This book, this ending, isn't quite a conclusion, and yet I'm happy with it. I didn't get the closure I necessarily wanted but it was written so well that I can live with it. This book starts off with Karina on the run and Malik acting as the apprentice for the very man who betrayed his foster family to bring back his unrequited love from the dead. Yeah, needless to say, there's a lot going on. I, for one, am still not going to forgive Farid's betrayal. I liked him in book one and I cannot believe what a manipulative asshole he is in the book, not to mention abusive. I feel so bad for Hanane, poor girl did not ask to be brought back from the dead to be at Farid's beck and call. Her backstory is so sad, she was essentially groomed by him because she pitied him and now she has to live with being in a weird state of not dead but not alive. Which makes sense as to why she sacrificed herself in the end. I'm glad we got to see some healing between the two sisters, and a glimpse of what it would've been like if Hanane lived and became Empress. Karine and Malik on the other hand, wow the sexual tension was through the roof. I can't believe they let their ancestor's quarels dictate their relationship for so long. SO what if your "kinds" hate each other?? It's been like a thousand years, c'mon. I'm glad they got over the miscommunication in the end, because things were so messy. I think my favorite part of the duology was Hyenas random appearance to cause chaos- definitely a fan of that mentality. And since Hyena is the one telling the story in the end, that's why we get an ending that's kind of up in the air, we will never truly know if Malik and Karina found each other again, but I'd like to believe that they do, because I'm not entirely heartless. Overall, I really liked this duology and I would definitely recommend to any YA fantasy lovers out there, this series is like a breath of fresh air to the genre.

Today I read "Into the Heartlands" the Scholastic/Marvel graphic novel for kids. I kind of forgot about it, but I did post about it months ago, so I thought I'd share some thoughts.

If you have a kid who really likes Shuri, this would be a good book to get them. It's set when Shuri is a tween and T'Challa looks to be a teenager (he is not yet Black Panther).

I expected it to follow the movie canon, but it it's more closely aligned with the comics canon because it mentions T'Chaka's first wife, N'Yami, who was T'Challa's mother. (See the family tree I posted years ago.)

N'Yami is described as a great genius and Shuri finds a book of hers that might help her save Ramonda from a techno-organic virus.

I liked the blended family aspects of this.

7, 14 , 15 ?

End of the Year Asks

7. Favorite actor of the year?

Pedro Pascal, no question. i do a lot of rping off-tumblr now, and one of my partners uses him as a fc for a character and i. have ended up binge watching a ton of interviews with him in. he's so cute i swear. i love him.

14. Favorite book you read this year?

oooooh, that's tough. but it's got to be A Song of Wraiths and Ruin by Roseanne A Brown!! i honestly loved the book (and it's SEQUEL OH MY GOSH I LOVE THE WHOLE DUOLOGY). actually, i think i love A Psalm of Storms and Silence more? i don't know, i really loved both books.

but i wouldn't have got into either of them if i hadn't read Beasts of Prey by Ayana Grey first, which is also so good oh my gosh i loved it. it introduced me to black fantasy and??? i wish i'd had these books as a kid. just seeing people who look like me in stories means a lot, you know?

anyway lemme move on before i ramble too much about how these books changed my life for the better and gave me the comfort that i didn't know teenage me needed until this year.

(also not my fave but shout out to The Ones We Burn by Rebecca Mix which also fuckin slapped oh my gosh????)

15. What’s a bad habit you picked up this year?

i don't think this is a habit i particularly picked up, but more like one that's just gotten worse which i think is a testament to how anxious i've felt this year: i pick at the skin on my lips a lot when i'm on edge. and i've been doing that so much more. but this year has been stressful for me so. lmao.

James Islington returns with a new series, Roseanne A. Brown continues on with her exciting Rick Riordan Presents sequel, and R. F Kuang off...

ᅟ𝐞𝐭𝐞𝐫𝐧𝐚𝐥ᅟ𝐬𝐮𝐧𝐬𝐡𝐢𝐧𝐞 : 𝗇𝗈𝗐ᅟ 𝗂𝗍'𝗌ᅟ 𝗅𝗂𝗄𝖾ᅟ 𝗂'𝗆ᅟ 𝗅𝗈𝗈𝗄𝗂𝗇' 𝗂𝗇ᅟ 𝗍𝗁𝖾ᅟ 𝗆𝗂𝗋𝗋𝗈𝗋ᅟ 𝗁𝗈𝗉𝖾ᅟ 𝗒𝗈𝗎ᅟ 𝖿𝖾𝖾𝗅ᅟ 𝖺𝗅𝗋𝗂𝗀𝗁𝗍ᅟ 𝗐𝗁𝖾𝗇ᅟ 𝗒𝗈𝗎'𝗋𝖾ᅟ 𝗂𝗇ᅟ 𝗁𝖾𝗋

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if dreams do come true, i wanna hug a girl before i die

𝗋𝗈𝗌𝖾 1995, 𝗍𝗁𝖾 𝖻𝖾𝖺𝗎𝗍𝗂𝖿𝗎𝗅 𝐞𝐫𝐚 🦪

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A Song of Wraiths and Ruin (A Song of Wraiths and Ruin #1) - Roseanne Brown

★ ★ ★ ★/5

This is one of the better young adult fantasy books I've read in a while. Our two main characters must kill each other for the families but they fall in love along the way and chaos ensues. Obviously, this story is a lot more complicated than that, with ancient malevolent spirits, betrayals, scheming, and other miscellaneous magical forces, but the basis of it is this; is it a story of the past, present, and the power to create the future. This book has me tearing through the pages trying to read more and more until it ends with me shocked at how long it's been since I started. Yes, it's one of those books. Malik and Karina's story is too engaging for anything less. Lucky for me, I finally have my hands on the sequel and will be hibernating until I've finished it. My more coherent thoughts will be in that review... coming shortly.

-Park Roseanne.🐿️

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⠀ . ◜ 📜⠀⠀⠀⊱⠀⠀⠀ℛ𝘰𝘮𝘢𝘯𝘤𝘦.⠀  ׁ  ۪⠀⠀⠀

͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ 𝗌𝗂𝗅𝖾𝗇𝖼𝖾 𝖻𝖾𝗍𝗐𝖾𝖾𝗇 𝗌𝗈𝗇𝗀𝗌.

'' I just wanna be the one ... '' 𓂃 🪷