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Books on Sale: Tiny Pretty Things by Sona Charaipotra & More

RECOMMENDED: Tiny Pretty Things by by Sona Charaipotra and Dhonielle Clayton is $1.99! This is a YA book set at a ballet academy and Redheadedgirl gave it an A:

The cover copy describes this as Black Swan meets Pretty Little Liars. The melodrama factor is high. There’s harassment that escalates to attempted murder, maimings, vandalism, and HIPPA violations. The end was, the more I think about it, the most satisfying unsatisfying ending imaginable, and I am SUPER glad that I went to the We Need Diverse Books panel at RT, and that I snagged a copy. I’m really excited to see what else these two write, separately or together.

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For Darkness Shows the Stars by Diana Peterfreund

For Darkness Shows the Stars

For Darkness Shows the Stars is a science fiction YA romance loosely based on Persuasion by Jane Austen. It’s not a very good version of Persuasion, and it’s not very good as romance, but it’s quite good as science fiction and I felt intense empathy for the heroine even though I frequently felt that her story was not the most interesting story in the book. For Darkness is about Elliot North, a Luddite. Many generations ago, … Continue reading For Darkness Shows the Stars by Diana Peterfreund