Welcome back from Winter Break, students and teachers! Hope your time away from school was filled with reading for FUN! Mine was! Here are the two books I finished over the break--neither of them for our little ones, but definitely suitable for young adults on up.
Mystery in White: A Christmas Crime Story by J. Jefferson Farjeon was one of Santa's Christmas books to the family this year, so of course I had to read it! Published in 1938, it has an Agatha Christie vibe to the writing. The period parlance of the characters took awhile to get used to, but once I did it seemed delightful, despite the murders and mystery. And I love a whodunit with a tidy ending!
Speaking of tidy endings...my next fun read did NOT have one! Luckily, the sequel comes out on my birthday this year.
At over 500 pages, I thought Tomi Adeyemi's Children of Blood and Bone would be a one-and-done novel, but I was wrong. After traveling through the fantasy country of Orisha with diviner Zélie, her kosidan brother Tzain, and a rogue princess in hopes of bringing magic back to the diviners, I was left with more questions than answers. This book has everything for fantasy lovers--make-believe places drawn from African lore, exotic African language, origin stories steeped in magic, adventure, plot twists and turns (and a fair amount of bloodshed), and a touch of romance. It had me looking at my white curly hair afterward hoping for a spark of magic to fly from my fingertips. Embedded in the fantasy is a serious message about power and prejudice, which Adeyemi discusses in the author's notes.
It's Monday! What did you read over Winter Break?
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