The Feminist Bookworm

The end of year reading survey is a really fun way to reflect on your reading year and the books you read, as well as the books you are looking forward to in the new year! I love doing this survey every year, so here is the 2018 edition! I worked really hard to make sure I answered each question with only one book. All of these questions were created by Jame from the Perpetual Page Turner, so definitely check out her blog and original post here ! Number Of Books You Read: 89 Number of Re-Reads: 8 Genre You Read The Most From: YA  1. Best Book You Read In 2018? Without a doubt, The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo by Taylor Jenkins Reid.   2. Book You Were Excited About & Thought You Were Going To Love More But Didn’t? The Towering Sky by Katharine McGee. I absolutely love this series, and I love Katie, but I didn't love this conclusion as much as I was expecting to. This third book ended up being my least favorite in the series.  3. Most surprising...

You guys, I did it! I finally read Strange the Dreamer . And not only that, I read the sequel, Muse of Nightmares . I can't believe I waited so long to read these because I loved them so much! With Strange the Dreamer , it's best to go in knowing simply the bare bones of the story. It's a dual perspective novel, but the second perspective will come as a bit of a surprise. Anyways, Strange the Dreamer follows Lazlo Strange, an orphan who is now a librarian. Lazlo is obsessed with a mythical city called Weep. However, Weep was not always known as Weep. When Lazlo was a little boy, the true name of the city was literally ripped from his memory, and everyone else's for that matter, and replaced with the name Weep. Lazlo is obsessed with uncovering the truth about Weep, and what kind of magic could rip a name from memory and history. Strange the Dreamer is phenomenal! It is so whimsical and atmospheric and rich in detail. What really sets these books apart from a...

I honestly can't give this book a rating. I just can't. It has so many triggers that there is no way I can label them all, but sexual assault, sexual abuse, physical abuse, and animal cruelty are among some of the triggers. This is a VERY graphic book and quite controversial for a variety of reasons, one of which is that it's marketed to the YA community. This book is a very dark, very graphic, very feminist take on the ORIGINAL (not the Disney story, the original tale, the one with rape) tale of Sleeping Beauty. In this very patriarchal fantasy world, a prince, in this case, Prince Emory, must travel to a faraway land upon the death of a king, slay a dragon, rescue a damsel, and marry the damsel, who he names Ama (for a disgusting reason, I might add) and who has no memory of her prior life before being rescued by the prince. Ama is supposed to accept that she is a damsel, going to marry a queen, and going to give birth to a son who will repeat the cycle. But Ama asks...