The Grace Year | 
pickI don‘t want to give too much away, so all I‘ll say about the plot is that it is filled with non-stop action and intrigue, which makes it a fast read. You‘ll be flipping through it trying to find out what happens next. You definitely won‘t be bored.
Full review: https://oddandbookish.wordpress.com/2019/08/11/review-the-grace-year/
pickSixteen-year-old girls are sent away for their grace year to an encampment where they can “get rid of their magic” and thus return and be safe for the men to whom they are subservient. Independent Tierney chafes against this society and has a more practical approach. This book is brutal but good with shades of Lord of the Flies and the mass hysteria of the Salem Witch Trials. I highly recommend.
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Just finished reading The Grace Year for the #24in48 Hour #Readathon! And let me just say...Wow!
This book is so powerful! It got me ALL in the feels! I raged! I laughed! I cried! I'm shook!
Tierney, I mean...I just...*babbles incoherently*
Still trying to process everything I've read, everything I feel...
Well, bookish butterflies, which books are completely hijacking your emotions and making you question life? Hmm?
#scifi #dystopia #yalit
pickTitle: The Grace Year ARC
Author: Kim Liggett
Read Dates: June 25th- July 3rd 2019
Why did I choose to read this book?
I chose to read this book because it was sent to me as an arc
Did I like it? I love it it's a very emotional story
Questions for you:
1. Have you read this book? How'd you like it?
2. Who was your favorite character?
3. What's your favorite book and author?
Best reading spot ever!
pickCompletely engrossing, this tale taps into the emotional rollercoaster of female adolescence, but framed within a society where women are subservient wives or of no use to society. And what happens when one girl chooses to question all she thinks she knows and open her eyes to the real value she has in the world. Brave, bold and viscerally told. A wonderful story of survival of body and spirit, when all the world seems pitted against you.
pickPretty good for what it is - Hunger Games meets Handmaid's Tale meets Lord of the Flies. The influences were just a little too obvious and I would have liked more scene building, I never really got a good sense of the setting or the size of their society. But it was engrossing, I tore right through it.
Won from a #goodreadsgiveaway
Received this gorgeous ARC from Wednesday Books and Macmillan. What a fascinating story about the power of women, told as a dystopian fairy tale. From the blurb: “We‘re told we have the power to lure grown men from their beds. They believe our skin emits a powerful aphrodisiac...That‘s why we‘re banished for our sixteenth year: to release our magic into the wild before we‘re allowed to return to civilization.” #ARC
The Grace Year
By Kim Liggett
I have heard nothing but great things about this book! I can‘t wait to start this one. Keep your eyes open for my review 📚
Release date 9/17/19
I have been entering giveaways on #goodreads for so long and I finally won one!!
pick😲This YA dystopian novel is what my dreams are all about! Dark, mysterious, & keeps the reader questioning what‘s real. Pub date 9/17- go preorder this!
16yo girls are sent 2a remote camp every year 4their “grace year.” The men in society believe women 2have magical powers & must spend this year of exclusion in order 2rid themselves of the magic. But what really happens during this year? No one knows; discussing grace year is strictly forbidden
pickRating-5/5 Stars
Release-9/17/19
I could not put this down! It was fast pace, gruesome, horrifying, yet beautiful. Women are not treated as equals to men. At age 16, girls must go to an island for a year to rid their magic, so they can return pure to he married or to work. Yet, something happens on the island. There are poachers killing them and the girls turn on one another. Can they survive this world?
#recommend #netgalley #bookstagram
Since it was announced, I've been dying to read this. Last night, finally got a copy. Heck. Yes.
This is a 'read now' on #Netgalley for a limited time! A million thanks to Jessica @Lovesbooks87 for sharing this awesome piece of news! ❤️
Go go and 'Read Now'!! 📖🎉💃🏽
I have been hearing so much buzz about this book. I was so bummed that it doesn't come out until September, until I saw that for a limited amount of time that it is READ NOW on Netgalley. So if you have been wanting to read it I would check out Netgalley ASAP!!!!
#MayMonthlyWrapUp
I read some great books this month, not as much as I would have liked but still...
- I went to #Yallwest
- Claire LeGrand/Marissa Meyer signing
- Continued my challenges (a bit behind on them and some book clubs but I‘m determined to catch up) and started the library‘s summer book bingo
- On track with my Goodreads reading challenge
- Fave Books: The Grace Year (review below), Lock Every Door, The Grief Keeper
pickWow. I honestly need a day to digest what I had read. This felt so timely and so spot on for me. Comparisons to The Handmaiden‘s Tale do The Grace Year an injustice; this is its own story and it‘s just as amazing.
Back home to a sunny Seattle after a whirlwind and very fun weekend in Santa Monica at #YALLWEST 📚 Friends, books, the beach, amazing authors (especially time with author Katya De Becerra 💜), and I am grateful, exhausted, and ready to read and review this big stack!
Thank you, everyone at YALLWEST! ✌🏼🥰
pickUnf. What a beautiful, gutting, suckerpunch of a book! Brutal from beginning to end, this clear commentary on the abhorrent treatment of women will make your blood boil. Yet, there is the reminder that we are stronger together, that we can create change and tear apart the status quo working as a team. Women are a force to be reckoned with!
