Tag: genre: short stories

31. A book mentioned in another book – The Language of Thorns by Leigh Bardugo

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Finished 11/25/18

This was not the book I had originally planned for this prompt but after reading the Six of Crows duology, starting the Grisha Trilogy, and pre-ordering King of Scars (which all take place in the same world) I got hyped and bought the hardcover of this book. It’s so pretty and I started reading right away. The stories collected in this book are talked about in the Crooked Kingdom so I used it to check off this prompt. Easy peasy! This ended up being my last prompt for the challenge.

Now for the book, I really liked it. There’s six fairy tales, some retellings of classics but with a Grisha twist to them. The artwork is beautiful and adds to the whole experience while reading this book. I definitely recommend this to fans of the Grishaverse.

title: Warm-Up (The Villains #0.5)

author: V.E. Schwab

my rating: ⭐️⭐️⭐️/5
genre(s): Short Stories, Fantasy, Science Fiction, Adult

my thoughts: This was written before Vicious was released and is a prelude to that story. It’s not bad but I read it after Vicious and this is just a short intro to that world, it is very much a warm-up to that book. It was cool to see the connection between Warm-Up and Vicious.

Finish date: 06/30/18