Recensie: De kat en de stad

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Auteur: Nick Bradley
Titel: De kat en de stad
Genre: Contemporary Literatuur
Taal: Nederlands
Jaar: 2020
ISBN: 9789026354441
Aantal pagina’s: 217
Gelezen: Augustus 2021
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Omslagtekst:
De kat en de stad van Nick Bradley speelt zich af in Tokio, waar een lapjeskat zich geruisloos door de straten beweegt. Op elk nieuw pad dat ze kiest, raakt ze het leven van enkele ogenschijnlijk willekeurige bewoners van de miljoenenstad, en ze verbindt hen op onverwachte wijze. Maar de stad verandert en de kat wordt langzaam maar zeker verdreven naar de achterbuurten. Daar komt ze in aanraking met enkele outcasts, van een dakloze die zich schuilhoudt in een vervallen hotel en een kluizenaar die zijn huis niet uit durft tot een buurtwinkelbediende op zoek naar de liefde. De kat cirkelt om hen heen, en brengt hen ongemerkt dichter bij elkaar.

In een serie betoverende, met elkaar verweven verhalen, in stijl variërend van manga tot illustraties met bijschriften, schrijft Nick Bradley over interactie en verwijdering, overleven en zelfdestructie, de wens ergens bij te horen en de behoefte om te ontsnappen. De kat en de stad van Nick Bradley is een elegante roman over de andere, minder bekende kant van Tokio. Inventief en met een speelse politieke boodschap.

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Recensie: The betrothed

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Auteur: Kiera Cass
Titel: The Betrothed
Genre: YA, Romance, Fantasy
Taal: Engels
Jaar: 2020
ISBN: 9780008158828
Aantal pagina’s: 400
Gelezen: Mei 2020
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Omslagtekst:
When King Jameson declares his love for Lady Hollis Brite, Hollis is shocked—and thrilled. After all, she’s grown up at Keresken Castle, vying for the king’s attention alongside other daughters of the nobility. Capturing his heart is a dream come true.

But Hollis soon realizes that falling in love with a king and being crowned queen may not be the happily ever after she thought it would be. And when she meets a commoner with the mysterious power to see right into her heart, she finds that the future she really wants is one that she never thought to imagine. 

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Recensie: Ever Alice (DNF)

43694151Auteur: H. J. Ramsay
Titel: Ever Alice
Genre: Adaptatie, fantasy, ya
Taal: Engels
Jaar: 2019
ISBN: 9780996923941
Aantal pagina’s: 
347
Gelezen:
April 2020
♥ DNF

Omslagtekst:
Alice’s stories of Wonderland did more than raise a few eyebrows—it landed her in an asylum. Now at 15 years of age, she’s willing to do anything to leave, which includes agreeing to an experimental procedure. When Alice decides at the last minute not to go through with it, she escapes with the White Rabbit to Wonderland and trades one mad house for another: the court of the Queen of Hearts. Only this time, she is under orders to take out the Queen. When love, scandal, and intrigue begin to muddle her mission, Alice finds herself on the wrong side of the chopping block.

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Recensie: Toil & Trouble

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Auteurs: Tess Sharpe, Jessica Spotswood, Brandy Colbert, Zoraida Córdova, Andrea Cremer, Kate Hart, Emery Lord, Elizabeth May, Anna-Marie McLemore,  Tehlor Kay Mejia, Lindsay Smith, Nova Ren Suma, Robin Talley, Shveta Thakrar en Brenna Yovanoff
Titel: Toil & Trouble – 15 tales of women & witchcraft
Genre: Korte verhalen, fantasy
Taal: Engels
Jaar: 2018
ISBN: 9781335016270
Aantal pagina’s:
405
Gelezen:
Juli 2018 – Mei 2020
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Omslagtekst:
A young adult fiction anthology of 15 stories featuring contemporary, historical, and futuristic stories featuring witchy heroines who are diverse in race, class, sexuality, religion, geography, and era.

Are you a good witch or a bad witch?

Glinda the Good Witch. Elphaba the Wicked Witch. Willow. Sabrina. Gemma Doyle. The Mayfair Witches. Ursula the Sea Witch. Morgan le Fey. The three weird sisters from Macbeth.

History tells us women accused of witchcraft were often outsiders: educated, independent, unmarried, unwilling to fall in line with traditional societal expectations.

Bold. Powerful. Rebellious.

A bruja’s traditional love spell has unexpected results. A witch’s healing hands begin to take life instead of giving it when she ignores her attraction to a fellow witch. In a terrifying future, women are captured by a cabal of men crying witchcraft and the one true witch among them must fight to free them all. In a desolate past, three orphaned sisters prophesize for a murderous king. Somewhere in the present, a teen girl just wants to kiss a boy without causing a hurricane.

From good witches to bad witches, to witches who are a bit of both, this is an anthology of diverse witchy tales from a collection of diverse, feminist authors. The collective strength of women working together—magically or mundanely–has long frightened society, to the point that women’s rights are challenged, legislated against, and denied all over the world. Toil & Trouble delves deep into the truly diverse mythology of witchcraft from many cultures and feminist points of view, to create modern and unique tales of witchery that have yet to be explored.

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Recensie: P.S. I like you

25486998Auteur: Kasie West
Titel: P.S. I like you
Genre: YA, Contemporary, Romance
Taal: Engels
Jaar: 2016
ISBN: 9780545850971
Aantal pagina’s:
330
Gelezen: Maart 2020
♥♥♥

Omslagtekst:
While spacing out in chemistry class, Lily scribbles some of her favorite song lyrics onto her desk. The next day, she finds that someone has continued the lyrics on the desk and added a message to her. Intrigue!

Soon, Lily and her anonymous pen pal are exchanging full-on letters—sharing secrets, recommending bands, and opening up to each other. Lily realizes she’s kind of falling for this letter writer. Only, who is he? As Lily attempts to unravel the mystery and juggle school, friends, crushes, and her crazy family, she discovers that matters of the heart can’t always be spelled out…

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Recensie: Since you’ve been gone

18189606Auteur: Morgan Matson
Titel: Since you’ve been gone
Genre: Contemporary YA
Taal: Engels
Jaar: 2014
ISBN:9781442435001
Aantal pagina’s
: 449
Gelezen: Februari 2020
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Omslagtekst:
It was Sloane who yanked Emily out of her shell and made life 100% interesting. But right before what should have been the most epic summer, Sloane just…disappears. All she leaves behind is a to-do list.

On it, thirteen Sloane-inspired tasks that Emily would normally never try. But what if they could bring her best friend back?

Apple picking at night? Okay, easy enough.

Dance until dawn? Sure. Why not?

Kiss a stranger? Um…

Emily now has this unexpected summer, and the help of Frank Porter (totally unexpected), to check things off Sloane’s list. Who knows what she’ll find?

Go skinny-dipping? Wait…what?
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Recensie: Tilly and the bookwanderers

32946432. sx318 Auteur: Anna James
Titel: Tilly and the bookwanderers
Serie: Pages & Co (deel 1)
Genre: Jeugd, boeken over boeken
Taal: Engels
Jaar: 2018
ISBN: 9780008229863
Aantal pagina’s: 400
Gelezen: Maart 2020
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Omslagtekst:
A magical adventure to delight the imagination. A curl-up-on-the-sofa debut from a uniquely talented author.

Eleven year-old Tilly has lived above her grandparents’ bookshop ever since her mother disappeared shortly after she was born. Like the rest of her family, Tilly loves nothing more than to escape into the pages of her favourite stories.

One day Tilly realises that classic children’s characters are appearing in the shop through the magic of `book wandering’ – crossing over from the page into real life.

With the help of Anne of Green Gables and Alice in Wonderland. Tilly is determined to solve the mystery of what happened to her mother all those years ago, so she bravely steps into the unknown, unsure of what adventure lies ahead and what dangers she may face.
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Recensie: The love letters of Abelard and Lily

33413929. sy475 Auteur: Laura Creedle
Titel: The love letters of Abelard and Lily
Genre: Young Adult contemporary
Taal: Engels
Jaar: 2017
ISBN: 9780544932050
Aantal pagina’s
: 339
Gelezen: Februari 2020
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Omslagtekst:
When Lily Michaels-Ryan ditches her ADHD meds and lands in detention with Abelard, who has Asperger’s, she’s intrigued—Abelard seems thirty seconds behind, while she feels thirty seconds ahead. It doesn’t hurt that he’s brilliant and beautiful.

When Abelard posts a quote from The Letters of Abelard and Heloise online, their mutual affinity for ancient love letters connects them. The two fall for each other. Hard. But is it enough to bridge their differences in person?

This hilarious, heartbreaking story of human connection between two neurodivergent teens creates characters that will stay with you long after you finish reading.

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Recensie: The Night Circus

13611052Auteur: Erin Morgenstern
Titel: The Night Circus
Genre: Young Adult, Fantasy
Taal: Engels
Jaar: 2011
ISBN: 9780099554790
Aantal pagina’s: 502
Gelezen: Februari 2020
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Omslagtekst:
The circus arrives without warning. No announcements precede it. It is simply there, when yesterday it was not. Within the black-and-white striped canvas tents is an utterly unique experience full of breathtaking amazements. It is called Le Cirque des Rêves, and it is only open at night.

But behind the scenes, a fierce competition is underway: a duel between two young magicians, Celia and Marco, who have been trained since childhood expressly for this purpose by their mercurial instructors. Unbeknownst to them, this is a game in which only one can be left standing, and the circus is but the stage for a remarkable battle of imagination and will. Despite themselves, however, Celia and Marco tumble headfirst into love – a deep, magical love that makes the lights flicker and the room grow warm whenever they so much as brush hands.

True love or not, the game must play out, and the fates of everyone involved, from the cast of extraordinary circus per­formers to the patrons, hang in the balance, suspended as precariously as the daring acrobats overhead.

Written in rich, seductive prose, this spell-casting novel is a feast for the senses and the heart.
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Recensie: Het koninkrijk

45997497. sy475 Auteur: Jess Rothenberg
Titel:
Het koninkrijk
Genre: Young Adult Fantasy
Taal: Nederlands
Jaar
: 2019
Aantal pagina’s: 319
ISBN: 9789048843794
Gelezen: December 2019
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Omslagtekst: 
Welkom in het Koninkrijk… waar ‘Happily ever after’ niet alleen een belofte is, maar een wet.

Het Koninkrijk is een fantasy-pretpark waar gasten worden ondergedompeld in een wereld vol virtuele draken, gigantische kastelen en hightech wezens.

Ana is een van de zeven Fantasisten, wondermooie android-prinsessen die ontworpen zijn om dromen waar te maken. Dan ontmoet ze Owen, die in het park werkt, en Ana krijgt voor het eerst gevoelens die verder gaan dan haar programmering… Ze is verliefd.

Maar het sprookje verandert in een nachtmerrie als Ana beschuldigd wordt van de moord op Owen. Het is het begin van de rechtszaak van de eeuw. Door getuigenissen in de rechtbank, interviews en Ana’s herinneringen ontstaat een verhaal van liefde, leugens en wreedheid – en wat het écht betekent om mens te zijn.
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