Tricks for Free

Really enjoying this series and love Annie. So glad we are getting a longer arc for her. This was an interesting setting for sure and was very entertaining. I just found it weird that she was so trusting of certain people when I didn't think it fit her personality.

Ah, I did miss the mice...

Whoo! Definitely needed this read after the heaviness of The Poppy War. And yep, it's confirmed: Antimony Price is my favourite of the Price children, and that's due in no small part to what happens in this book. I mean, yeah, Verity and Alex are awesome, but Antimony's just got a special place in my heart thanks to her ambivalent relationship with her siblings. I love the themes of found family we get in this one (that's been in all the books in this series, but it's especially strong in Antimony's arc), as well as the sheer courage that Antimony has to just do the right thing, even if it means she might not ever see her family again before she dies. Also: really, RIDICULOUSLY happy with the romance that Antimony's got going - more so than Verity's romance tbh XD.

If you're a fan of this series, and especially if you love Antimony, then you're deffo gonna love this one. Can't wait for the next book - which, if I've got the pattern right, ought to be the last book in Antimony's arc. Got my fingers crossed that all my faves make it through to the end...

There are people who say you never really escape from high school, you just keep finding it in different forms, over and over again, until it finally kills you. Those people are assholes, and should not be allowed in polite company. That doesn't mean they're wrong.

The room seemed even larger without the safety of the elevator behind me. I took a few hesitant steps forward, wishing I had a knife, or better yet, twenty knives, or better yet, twenty knives and a brick of C-4. Plastic explosives are a strange and dangerous security blanket, but they tend to make whatever's scaring me go away quickly, so I'm in favor.

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Magic for Nothing

Half-Off Ragnorack

I went very still as it struck me that, tight now,l was living like a cryptid. l was hiding from people who wanted to do me harm as much because of who 1 was as because of anything I'd done. That was normal – being a Price meant I‘d had a bounty on my head horn the day l was born – but the isolation that came with it was new. The need to view everyone around me as a potential danger, to hide, it was all new, and it burned. There were dragons working all over Lowryland, and while none of them were part of my personal clique of Mean Girls, none of them knew my name either. It wasn't safe. It might never be safe again, not until we'd found a way to end the danger posed by the Covenant – and that was something we'd been trying to accomplish for generations.

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Chaos Choreography

Magic for Nothing

Lowryland