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Secondary headline: “Carry On” by Rainbow Rowell on steroids.

I love this book so much, I can’t even. I need to lie down slowly and breathe because I think I’m having a heart attack from how amazing this book is.

It is the most unique take on ordinary-person-comes-to-fantasy-world I’ve ever encountered. It’s the tale of the sidekick, the one who gets left behind, the one in the shadow of the protagonist. It’s about learning how to live with coming in second. But it’s also so much more than that.

Elliot’s character arc is so realistic and genuine you barely notice it happening until you reach the end and realize he’s a completely different person, who’s matured and become comfortable with himself and the world.

A beautiful coming of age story that highlights the realism of discovering romance and understanding what it is to be in a relationship.

This book’s profound understanding of love is staggering. And it’s the queer YA book the world has been waiting for.

Not to mention that it is laugh out loud hilarious, frustrating, gorgeous, heart-wrenching, witty, and subversive. It’s fast pace propels you through the book at lightning speed to the point where you’ve finished and left wondering “Wait, it’s over?” And then fall down crying because you have to leave Elliot and the Borderlands behind.

There needs to be a sequel immediately. Also an alternate version of the same events told entirely from Luke’s perspective. If I don’t get more from this delightful, hilarious, beautiful world I am going to go into a coma.

This might be one of the best books I’ve ever read in my life. MY LIFE.


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In Other Lands Sarah Rees Brennan Carolyn Nowak Books Reviews

I had seen this book around, but never thought to read this book until I was recommended this book by a friend. I've been burned on mermaid books, so I wasn't keen on reading a book on mermaids...I obviously didn't read the blurb either. But when I was told that this book actually didn't have much to do with mermaids, the main character is full of snark, and is bisexual? Well, I was on board!

This book is full of adventure and heart and the reason I have had the worst book hangover in a while. This a fantasy standalone, but manages to cover so much. I haven't been able to pick up and finish another book after reading In Other Lands because this book is just everything. It's hilarious and fun, but also knows when to tug at your heartstrings. It's a story of friends, of growing up, and finding love where you least expect it.

And boy, when I say this is a slow burn romance, it is quite possibly the slowest burn I have ever read.

This story is told in five parts. Elliot Schafer is the narrator of this story and we meet him at the age of thirteen and stay with him through age seventeen. Elliot is a snarky teenager, as teenagers are. In Elliot's case, it seems more like a defense mechanism. He has always been on his own. He gets bullied in school, his mother left when he was a child, and his father is never really around. The thing about Elliot is that he's really smart and doesn't take what people throw at him. He marches onward doing what he wants.

When his teacher dropped him off in the middle of a field and left him to a stranger, it was a sketchy start. This stranger promised to take him to a magical land, while his teacher loaded his classmates off into a van and left him with said stranger. Thankfully, nothing terribly insidious happened and Elliot was indeed brought over the border into a magical land. The people on the other side of Elliot's world (our modern day society) were filled with elves and dwarves and even other humans. There are many kids, for they are training to be soldiers to keep the peace between the borders or training to be councilors who write the treaties that keep the peace.

Elliot immediately falls in love with an Elf, Serene-Heart-in-the-Chaos-of-Battle, also known as Serene. He has a truce with a good-looking boy named Luke Sunborn, who Elliot thinks to be unpleasant. It's an odd trio, but they hang out, even if they are not all friends.

There's just so much to love about this story and the characters. The elves are, well, the opposite of humans. Elves view females as the dominant gender in society and this then creates some interesting situations in which Serene will say something that is obvious to her, and you can't help but to think that it does make sense.

This is a coming-of-age story, and also a story about finding your family. A family may not be related to you by blood to be yours, and I really liked how this story showed us that. Elliot had his father who he saw during the summer when he was back from school in the magical land, but his father was never really present. He still longed for the wife who left, and never truly looked after the son who stayed.

For kids so young, more than half the teenagers at the border train as soldiers and go out on assignments. There is a surprisingly amount of death in this book and the costs of war. There are also more lighthearted moments to balance out the dark. The school play is a fun and interesting piece in this book and I dearly love the fact that these characters sudden take part in a theatrical production that sounds like a magical land twist of a well-known Shakespearean play.

One of my favorite parts of this story is Elliot identifying himself as bisexual. And when he tells others, they are accepting and life just moves on as it normal does. Another favorite part of this story is how diligently we see Elliot learning the language of all the magical beings in the Borderlands. He never assumes that they will speak his language and takes the time to learn to speak and write, and be respectful of their language and customs as possible. I love that.

I dearly love this book and all the characters. There's so much depth to the characters and so much time is covered in this book that it really makes you feel like you've grown up with them too. I highly, HIGHLY recommend In Other Lands because more people definitely need to read this fantastic book.
It was a struggle to get past the beginning of the story. It's poorly written and tells way more than it shows. In my opinion, that would forgivable since the style is funny in it's own way. However, the main character is so unlikeable from the first introduction that I actively had to fight to get further into the story, what little of it there is so far. If I hadn't paid for this book I would have quit reading almost immediately.

If you like reading about an insecure, rude boy who's main trait is "being smart" (i.e. insulting people around him who like to work out/are conventionally attractive) then you'll enjoy this book way more than I did.
Elliot does not get along well with others. He is usually honest to the point of rudeness. When he gets invited to a magical land, he finds it is not at all what one might expect from a magical land and he is not shy with his opinions.

I loved this book. I have not ever read a book where I laughed out loud so frequently. And it is the best sort of humor- it is all humor from the characters and how they interact with their world, rather than tired jokes that wear thin. The book was a delight and kept me wondering where it was going. There is an episodic quality to it- which makes sense as I learned later that it was originally written as an online serial. But the central character of Elliot Schaffer is original and compelling and ridiculously lovable in his search for someone that truly loves him, and an end to war (mostly in that order but not necessarily). I did not expect the LGBT elements- though seeing as Holly Black was promoting it I should not have been surprised, as she frequently includes LGBT characters. But this is probably the most fun I have had reading a fantasy story in a long time.
Secondary headline “Carry On” by Rainbow Rowell on steroids.

I love this book so much, I can’t even. I need to lie down slowly and breathe because I think I’m having a heart attack from how amazing this book is.

It is the most unique take on ordinary-person-comes-to-fantasy-world I’ve ever encountered. It’s the tale of the sidekick, the one who gets left behind, the one in the shadow of the protagonist. It’s about learning how to live with coming in second. But it’s also so much more than that.

Elliot’s character arc is so realistic and genuine you barely notice it happening until you reach the end and realize he’s a completely different person, who’s matured and become comfortable with himself and the world.

A beautiful coming of age story that highlights the realism of discovering romance and understanding what it is to be in a relationship.

This book’s profound understanding of love is staggering. And it’s the queer YA book the world has been waiting for.

Not to mention that it is laugh out loud hilarious, frustrating, gorgeous, heart-wrenching, witty, and subversive. It’s fast pace propels you through the book at lightning speed to the point where you’ve finished and left wondering “Wait, it’s over?” And then fall down crying because you have to leave Elliot and the Borderlands behind.

There needs to be a sequel immediately. Also an alternate version of the same events told entirely from Luke’s perspective. If I don’t get more from this delightful, hilarious, beautiful world I am going to go into a coma.

This might be one of the best books I’ve ever read in my life. MY LIFE.