You gUYS THIS BOOK,I should probably stop rating and reviewing books right after I read them, but when they're this good I can't help it.If you loved the first book, you're going to love this one. The writing is still absolutely gorgeous, the characters are well rounded AND THAT WORLD AND THAT MAGIC SYSTEM, PERFECTION. I'm afraid if i let myself rant about it I'll start gushing spoilers, but considering I read an ARC and the book's not out yet, that wouldn't be fair.All I have to saw is you guys...

4.5 ~ Baaaaah all my feels are all over the place. I carrrrre. I care about these people so much. I want them to be happy but there's so much hardness and darkness will it ever be possible?Also, that side story about the King and his Assassin who fall in love had me in pieces. I NEED A WHOLE TRILOGY ABOUT THOSE BOYS.

WHAT. A. STORY.Traci Chee does it again with her clever writing, multifaceted characters, and heart-aching storyline(s). The Speaker starts from where The Reader leaves off, but everything is much more intense: Sefia’s feelings towards her family’s past; Archer’s lust for blood after being surrounded by violence for so long; and the politics that they become embroiled in. Chee is so talented in writing multiple storylines that all come together in the end. While I found myself more interested in...

Update: Oct 7, 2017My ARC has arrived! Thank you Penguin Random House!-Full Review on my blog: http://wp.me/p6917X-X1Oct 19, 2017This book was everything. Exceptionally well-written with a story which will live on through the readers.

March 2020 update: This book is still as magical and amazing and I'm in love. Now I'm scared to continue with The Storyteller though, IT'S GOING TO WRECK ME!!!!!First read, May 2018:Holy shit.HOLY SHIT.THIS BOOK MADE ME QUESTION MY OWN DAMN NAME!!!!!I loved The Reader but The Speaker blew me away. The way it's woven in with events that happen in the first book, answering some questions but raising EVEN MORE QUESTIONS. It's also much darker, a lot more fast paced and all around BETTER. Every even...

Honestly, this book is too smart for a dummy like me to fully appreciate. I’m blown away.

Folks, another five glittering stars for this superb and gloriously designed series by Traci Chee!!!After reading "The Reader" I was hooked from the first page on, and wanted to learn more about Sefia and Archer...Well, the characters have more deep and contour…Also, the story unravels faster and a much richer complexity…Now I'm very much looking forwards to the next installment!!!"Sea of Ink and Gold" is a fantasy series which displays dystopian features, science fiction, and on top is decorate...

An enthralling sequel to THE READER. Sefia and Archer are on the run and fall in with a band of kids just like Archer: forced killers with a score to settle. As the group embarks on a quest of retribution, Archer's in danger of losing himself to his own dark impulses. The writing is mouth-watering, the world endlessly inventive, the emotion real. Sefia and Archer's romance picks up steam, and there is, of course, more of my favorite, Captain Reed. I love everything about this series, and I think...

tfw a book/series is full of people and events that are all interrelated but you don't see the casuality and connections linearly and so you're just like omg wtf with every new twist and discovery and then you lie there wondering what kind of genius it takes to make all of that worksorry I'm incoherent but I loved this book.Sefia and Archer are probably my ultimate OTP of recent YA. *cries*p.s. there are multiple queer supporting characters/couples, including a trans girl, and I am happy that th...

It's not fair how amazing the writing is!

Trust Traci Chee. If you are young, she will show you what it's like to have power. If you are old, she will remind you of what it was like to have adventure. She will fold you up in her world and make you gape at life and flinch at violence and not so much believe in magic as point out that the proof is all around you. I cannot wait to read the next one.

The girl is back. The boy is back. The book is back. The magic is back. *I have to add that these two books in this series are freaking gorgeous in person and have the deckle edges. I love to pet them =) Argo flipped him onto his back, straddled his chest, and raised a hand to strike. In that moment, the nameless boy understood: This was the end. He was going to die.He would cease to breathe. Cease to be. Cease to hurt. It would be easy. But he didn't want to die. And knowing that, knowing he

If you loved THE READER, you won't be disappointed with the next installment of the SEA OF INK AND GOLD trilogy. I was delighted to return to the land of Kelanna with Sefia and Archer and experience all their new adventures. Archer's character arc in particular was so fascinating, and I loved the way Sefia grew more confident in her abilities and goals. There are some familiar characters who return in this book, as well as some new (and now favorite) ones as well. And the MAGIC! The magic is so

i was lucky enough to read an early draft of this and it. blew. me. away. you guys are going to LOVE THIS!

just as amazing as the first!!! this is a really incredible series that i would absolutely mention in the same breath as six of crows in terms of great, genre-saving ya

TRACI HOW.

Thanks to the publisher for providing an ARC in exchange for an honest review, This doesn't in any way influence my opinion on it. The lush and complexly beautiful world introduced in The Reader was an absolute delight to get back into with The Speaker. Traci Chee became one of my favorite authors with her debut book and she has amazed me once more. The Speaker is just as good if not better than The Reader. The Speaker begins with Sefia and Archer still on the run from The Guard, she has been

Things that made me happy about The Speaker:*The merry band of brotherhood - Peter Pan vibes for days, these lost boys (and girls) are rescued and then left with no direction, so Archer gives them a direction, and a purpose, and compassion. He gives them a reason to keep going and to move on from what happened. It's not always happy, nor is it easy, but I loved the bonds they all formed with each other. ALL THE FEELS.*The normalization of boys feeling emotions - society pretends boys can't and s...

This trilogy is so fantastic, I highly recommend them to all lovers of YA fantasy! I know they're not very well renowned, so I'll avoid spoilers, but there are so many feels!If you loved The Reader, you won't be disappointed in this next installment! Sefia and Archer are back in the magical land of Kelanna, along with plenty of new characters for you to fall in love with and give your soul to. I won't describe them (even if I did I wouldn't be able do do them justice), but they are all unique an...

“Wanting the world to be a better place than it is? That doesn’t make you weak. That makes you the kind of person this world needs.” CW’s: Violence, Death/Murder, Trauma, Suicide(Attempts), Self-HarmActual Rating: 4.75 StarsYes hello I would like to report that I’m shocked by how much better this was than the first book. Like how??? The Reader was a pretty decent book, but my main issues when I read it was with how little I could connect to any of the characters and how it didn’t seem to leav