[Review] The Word for World is Forest by Ursula K. Le Guin

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Series or Stand Alone: Hainish Cycle #5

Release Date: 17 March, 1972 (audio 7 December, 2009)

Publisher: Audible Frontiers

Genre: Science Fiction/Colonial Science Fiction/Adventure

ASIN: B00304MW0Y

Edition: Audiobook

Rating: ★★☆☆☆

Review Written: 3 February, 2020
Warnings: Racism, Character Death, Mentions of Rape

Summary:  

The planet Athshe was a paradise whose people were blessed with a mystical awareness of existence.

Then the conquerors arrived and began to rape, enslave, and kill humans with a flicker of humanity. The athseans were unskilled in the ways of war, and without weapons. But the gentle tribesmen possessed strange powers over their dreams. And the alien conquerors had taught them how to hate....

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[Review] Queen of Nothing by Holly Black

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Series or Stand Alone: The Folk of the Air #3

Release Date: 19 November, 2019

Publisher: Little, Brown Books/Hatchette Audio

Genre: Young Adult/Fantasy and Science Fiction/Contemporary Fantasy/Romance/Mystery

ASIN/ISBN: B07Y3TLVZ5 / 9780316310406

Edition: Audiobook and Barnes and Noble Exclusive Edition Hardback (also available in Kindle and Non-exclusive hardback edition)

Rating: ★★★★★

Review Written: 2 December, 2019
Warnings: Racism, Character Death, Magic, Manipulation

Summary:  

He will be destruction of the crown and the ruination of the throne.

Power is much easier to acquire than it is to hold onto. Jude learned this lesson when she released her control over the wicked king, Cardan, in exchange for immeasurable power. Now as the exiled mortal Queen of Faerie, Jude is powerless and left reeling from Cardan’s betrayal. She bides her time determined to reclaim everything he took from her. Opportunity arrives in the form of her deceptive twin sister, Taryn, whose mortal life is in peril.

Jude must risk venturing back into the treacherous Faerie Court, and confront her lingering feelings for Cardan, if she wishes to save her sister. But Elfhame is not as she left it. War is brewing. As Jude slips deep within enemy lines she becomes ensnared in the conflict’s bloody politics. And, when a dormant yet powerful curse is unleashed, panic spreads throughout the land, forcing her to choose between her ambition and her humanity…

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