The Girl Who Drank the Moon by Kelly Barnhill I wrote a whole long thing about this one. I didn’t like it as much as the two previous books in the series, with Down Among the Sticks and Bones (which was book 2) still being my obvious favourite. Tash has an in-your-face female BFF and they have a huge fight, and though Tash is certainly at fault for some of it, it’s not entirely on her to smooth things over in their friendship. I did like the version of this in Tash Hearts Tolstoy which I read last year. She says, “You need to tell me if something bothers you,” and that’s what serves as her reciprocating Alice’s apology and I’m not really a fan of that.

The one little problem I have is with the conflict resolution with Alice’s BFF, because it ends with Alice apologizing and her friend… not. Sloane is a living embodiment of a Wicked Stepsister archetype constantly fighting the urge to murder everyone around her, in case you needed to be sold on this series.Īsexual romance where the protagonist is adorable and confused and questioning, and her love interest is the best ever. The sequel was much easier to get into than the first one, and Sloane gets a bunch of point-of-view chapters which is pretty much all I want out of the year. Here’s three’s review of the first book in the trilogy if you need a push. Get started on this series if you like fantasy. There are a couple of things about the ending that bother me (like if they changed history so drastically I don’t think the same people would all exist hundreds of years later), but I’ll gladly set them aside to have the book end the way it does (because it’s necessary to see everyone we already know living drastically different lives in order for it to have as real an impact as it does, even if it’s silly) because it is so different from and more honest and thoughtful than 100% of the high fantasy I’ve ever read. The way this series ends is BOLD. I’ve never read anything like it. The Fate of the Tearling by Erika Johansen So today, on the day of 2018’s Spring Equinox, here are the books I’ve read so far. Instead of doing this monthly like last year, I thought I’d be super pretentious and do them for every change of season. Or if they go to Eeyore’s place, then it’smysteriously fall.) (I think every Winnie the Pooh story takes place during spring.

Knit One, Girl Two by Shira Glassman