Why am I passionate about this?
I rediscovered my love of romantic fantasies when my mother went into the hospital, and I needed a place to go to escape the horror of watching a parent’s health fail. I not only buried myself in reading fantasies filled with magical love stories, I started writing them again. Throughout my life, I’ve reached for fantasy novels whenever life got tough. As a child, I would read nearly every fantasy I could find. As an adult, my tastes have changed, and I’m looking for fantasy novels with a romantic twist. But still, it’s the heroine overcoming adversity despite the worst odds that gives me hope and comfort exactly when I need it.
Dorothy's book list on romantic fantasy novels to escape troubling times
Why did Dorothy love this book?
Holly Black has taken me into the world of fairies—not Disney’s sparkly version of fairies, but a darker world of fairy lore that stems back into our ancient past time and time again.
With this book, I immediately fell in love with the blending of dark magic with a modern, sassy twist. Two human girls are pulled into the fairy world when their parents are murdered, and they are adopted by the killer, who also happens to be a fairy.
Jude, one of the adopted girls, is bullied all through school in this magical land for being human. She must learn how to be just as vicious, if not more vicious than her magical schoolmates to survive. Jude is everything I wish I could be. I find myself revisiting this series from time to time to remind myself how to be tough in the face of adversity.
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"Lush, dangerous, a dark jewel of a book . . . intoxicating" - Leigh Bardugo, #1 New York Times bestselling author of Six of Crows
Of course I want to be like them. They're beautiful as blades forged in some divine fire. They will live forever.
And Cardan is even more beautiful than the rest. I hate him more than all the others. I hate him so much that sometimes when I look at him, I can hardly breathe.
One terrible morning, Jude and her sisters see their parents murdered in front of them. The terrifying assassin abducts all three…