Rainy Day Reads

Challenges: Around the Year in 52 Books: A book with at least two perspectives (multiple points of view) In this book we follow August and Kate. They live on opposite sides of the Seam, a wall that divides their city in two. Kate is human and wants nothing more than to impress her mafia-crime-boss-like father, while August is a monster created from an act of violence. However he wants nothing more than to be human.  The two halves of the city have lived in more or less peace since a truce, but this truce is starting to fall apart, when monsters get sick of being treated like servants. Kate and August soon find themselves on the run while trying to figure out what is happening and who is behind the attacks that threaten the truce.  When I heard people talking about this book one of the main points was that there was no romance. This is true. August and Kate seem set up for the classic hate-to-love relationship in YA, but they just never quite make it ther...

Holy moly, I absolutely loved this book! It has been a while since I have sped through a book in this way, completely engrossed in the story and not once felling bored or impatient for the plot to pick up.   But let’s start at the beginning. This book is a fantasy set in London in multiple universes. There’s Grey London, where magic doesn’t really exist, Red London where magic thrives, White London where magic is power and black London which succumbed to magic and is now closed off. These Londons used to be connected by doors, but they have now been sealed off and only very few people can travel between the worlds. Kell is one such person and he is the main protagonist of this book. He works for the King and Queen of Red London delivering messages to the rulers of the other two living Londons. He has a bad habit of collecting trinkets, which is strictly forbidden, and one day he accidentally brings something very dangerous from one world to another, and now he must fig...