Scavenge The Stars

By: Tara Sim

Released On: January 7th, 2020

My Rating: 4 ( ★ ★ ★ ★ )

Goodreads Rating: 3.74 ( ★ ★ ★ ★ )

Genre: Young Adult, Fantasy, Retelling

Series: Scavenge the Stars #1

Summary:  When Amaya rescues a mysterious stranger from drowning, she fears her rash actions have earned her a longer sentence on the debtor ship where she’s been held captive for years. Instead, the man she saved offers her unimaginable riches and a new identity, setting Amaya on a perilous course through the coastal city-state of Moray, where old-world opulence and desperate gamblers collide.

Amaya wants one thing: revenge against the man who ruined her family and stole the life she once had. But the more entangled she becomes in this game of deception—and as her path intertwines with the son of the man she’s plotting to bring down—the more she uncovers about the truth of her past. And the more she realizes she must trust no one…

Packed with high-stakes adventure, romance, and dueling identities, this gender-swapped retelling of The Count of Monte Cristo is the first novel in an epic YA fantasy duology, perfect for fans of Sarah J. Maas, Sabaa Tahir, and Leigh Bardugo. (Via Goodreads)

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wowjulie:

#allthebooksof2016 day 3: new favorite authors
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AARED is my favorite but all of Morgan Matson’s books are fun, summery reads. Hopefully they’ll get me through another winter. ❄️

paperbackd:

“The streets of Prague were a fantasia scarcely touched by the twenty-first century - or the twentieth or the nineteenth, for that matter. It was a city of alchemists and dreamers, its medieval cobbles once trod by golems, mystics, invading armies. The wind carried the memory of magic.” || Prague, 2018

the-book-ferret:

“Also, please don’t use Reichenbach as a verb. xxxx”
― Brittany Cavallaro, The Case For Jamie

strandbooks:

The QUEEN of the stacks reads on her throne of books.

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chrisflemingslegs:

mythosphere:

Victor Frankenstein: I’ve created life but I refuse to put any effort into helping that life develop. I won’t teach him, love him, or defend him even though I forced him into existence with a fully operational adult brain lol. Peace, bitch.

The Monster: Am Eloquent Baby

Boomers: He’S NOt thE ViCtIM, HE’s tHe MOnsTEr

An ironic parallel considering the idea of “tough love” parenting that plenty of boomers like to use. If they buy into the idea that their kids just have to toughen up and face the real world without guidance or emotional support, I’m sure it does scare them to read a story where someone who wasn’t given any support began to resent their creator and turn on them.

it’s like that post that’s like ‘knowledge is knowing that frankenstein is the doctor; wisdom is knowing that frankenstein is the monster’. like the whole point of the post is that frankenstein’s monster is a victim of viktor frankenstein’s own monstrosity.

mary shelley did not lose her virginity on her mother’s grave just for people to misunderstand her best known work over a century later.