Here is a list of books you should read to chill and enjoy your hot summer days …
An Ordinary Age by Rainesford Stauffer
All too often, we’re told that young adulthood will be the time of our lives so why isn’t it? Stauffer explores the diminishing returns of young adulthood in this soulful book, providing a meticulous cartography of how outer forces shape young people’s inner lives. From chronic burnout to the loneliness epidemic to the strictures of social media, An Ordinary Age leads with empathy in exploring the myriad challenges facing young adults, while also advocating for a better path forward: one where young people can live authentic lives filled with love, community, and self-knowledge.
Nesta Archeron has never been everyone’s favorite. When the eldest Archeron sister was introduced in
A Court of Thorns and Roses, she was breathtakingly cruel. But when her little sister Feyre returned from the land of Prythian the Faerie land where she’d been taken by a shapeshifting High Fae lord it turned out Nesta was the only person who knew where she’d gone, and the only person who tried to follow.
While everyone else was taken in by stories about where Feyre went, Nesta saw through Fae glamour and spells, and was furious and alone in that knowledge. Nesta’s anger, over this and so many other things, blazed bright, and set her apart. What force of will allowed her to resist the magic that spelled pretty lies for everyone else? What would she do with all her fire and rage if she had her own magic, opportunity, a chance at another life?
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Over the course of multiple fantasy series, Sarah J. Maas has made an art of crafting fierce, self-destructive female characters. But few are as polarizing as Nesta, one of three human sisters turned High Fae, who takes center stage in this first truly adult entry in Maas
A Court of Thorns and Roses series.
A Court of Silver Flames picks up after the war against the King of Hybern. Already prickly and determined to hold everyone at arm s length, Nesta is now drowning in her trauma, numbing the pain with booze and sex.
In a bid to jolt her into recovery, her sisters order her to retreat to intense physical training with the one man she resents (and desires) most, the warrior Cassian. When she s not spending her time learning to defend herself, she works in a sacred library, helping an order of women file away books. But when the court is faced with a new threat from treacherous human queens, Nesta faces her greatest test: learning to love herself.
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