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Check out more reviews @ Perspective of a Writer...To keep the family safe, 13 year old Min’s mother insists that none of them use any fox-magic, such as Charm or shape-shifting. They must appear human at all times. Min feels hemmed in and resents the endless chores, the cousins who crowd her, and the aunties who judge her. She would like nothing more than to escape Jinju, her neglected, dust-ridden, and impoverished planet. When word arrives that Jun is suspected of leaving his post to go in s
I really enjoyed this one. RTC! <3 Blog | Instagram | Twitter | Tumblr | Youtube | TwitchThis was the May pick for the Dragons and Tea Book Club! 🐉☕
congrats Yoon Ha Lee you are the first writer I’ve seen to seamlessly weave nonbinary characters into everyday life in SFF
DNF'D at page 105. I really wanted to love it ..I just couldn't!
A Thousand Dangerous Worlds Min is just your regular teenaged fox spirit, living with her family on the dusty backwater world of Jinju.Oh, sure, like all fox spirits, she can change shape into whatever she wants: human, fox, even a dining table. And, yes, she has the power to Charm -- to manipulate human emotions and make people see things that aren’t there. But that’s not very exciting when you’re stuck on the family farm, sleeping every night in a crowded common room with your snoring cousins,...
2.5 starsWell, this didn’t go as expected. Dragon Pearl was my most anticipated Rick Riordan Presents book because it's a space opera with Korean mythology elements. However, I didn't enjoy this as much as I wanted to. I was hesitant to round my rating to 3 stars because I feel I didn't quite like it at that level, but 2 stars was too low of a rating for it.The main problem I had with this book is that it's bland. It's not exciting or mind-blowing, and I feel mostly neutral towards it. It's actu...
I read this specifically because it was penned by Yoon Ha Lee. I'm a completionist that way.BUT, I'll be honest, I am not particularly fond of most YA. It tends to be cookie-cutter plots and characters that feel like dough. It's fine if you like fat and sweet things that aren't that good for you but still make you feel warm and fuzzy afterward. And sometimes not even that... sometimes there is just the gnawing guilt and the shame.Not here, though! I really enjoyed it. Yoon Ha Lee proves he can w...
The lasting prejudice against us annoyed me. Other supernaturals, like dragons and goblins and shamans, could wield their magic openly, and were even praised for it. Dragons used their weather magic for agriculture and the time-consuming work of terraforming planets. Goblins, with their invisibility caps, could act as secret agents; their ability to summon food with their magical wands came in handy, too. Shamans were essential for communicating with the ancestors and spirits, of course. We f
wowamazingwonderfuli love iti want a sequel pls
let's go let's go gumihosDRAGON PEARL is a sumptuous space opera sci-fi influenced by Korean mythology, and it's just so nice to see a Korean-American author take on a genre which traditionally has been white-dominated and create a world wherein all the characters and worldbuilding are Korean-coded. James Kirk? I don't know him. It goes to show how accessible diversity can be in all genres and age brackets of literature. DRAGON PEARL is a middle grade, but the world is rich and textured, and the...
This was a cute story, but not a complex one. I expected humor and brooding and epic space battles like the Hexarchate books but with less sex and no cursing. Instead it feels like he tried to write like someone else, so it felt stilted.CONTENT WARNING: (view spoiler)[ discussion of prejudice, death of a friend/family member. (hide spoiler)]Things to love:-The magic. It's fun to see myths in space. I liked the dragons, goblins, fox people, tiger people and so on. -The world. The ideas that put
Dragon Pearl is Middle Grade Science Fiction at its BEST!!!This rollicking Space Opera follows 13-year old, Min, on her quest to find her older brother, Jun.When an special investigator shows up at Min's family home, accusing her older brother, Jun, of deserting the Space Forces, Min knows it has to be a mistake. Jun and Min had always dreamed of joining the Forces and going on grand adventures together. Now that he is a part of that world, Min knows he would never disgrace their family by deser...
I really wanted to like it. What I got instead was annoyance and irritation. And I’m not happy about that.It’s a pretty fast-paced story of a quest of a teenage shapeshifting fox girl Min who leaves a backward poor world in a union of spacefaring yet magical civilizations (think foxes, goblins, tigers, shamans, ghosts) to find her missing space cadet brother Jun as well as a very powerful McGuffin relic, the titular Dragon Pearl. Min has Charm - the ability to influence minds, as well as a perfe...
2.5 stars “Seems to me, Min, you make your own luck.” I entered this book with so many expectations -why do I keep doing this to myself?- and, oh so hype, the premise seemed really cool and, well, it didn't help up.I kept falling asleep every time I read more than a couple of pages. I'm not even kidding, it was Every. Single. Time. I think I ended reading it more asleep than awake at the end.It's probably just the fact that I had so many expectations, one of them being that the story was gon
The "Rick Riordan presents" imprint focuses on writers of different cultural backgrounds doing for their traditions what Riordan did for the Greek myths. In this one Yoon Ha Lee explores his Korean traditions with a space opera setting (The Thousand Worlds) that includes dragons, goblins, tiger and fox spirits and ghosts and starships that rely on things like good fortune and gi flows.Kim Min is a 13-year old fox spirit living on a poor badly-terraformed colony world with her family. Fox spirits...
The cover of this book is sooooo cute!This was a really good middle-grade book!! Happy Reading! Mel 🖤🐶🐺🐾
This is the May pick for the Dragons & Tea Book Club hosted by Melanie and me!The Dates & Breakdown:May 13th — Page 1 – 64 (Ch. 1 – 7)May 14th — Page 65 – 124 (Ch. 8 – 14)May 15th — Page 125 – 183 (Ch. 15 – 22)May 16th — Page 184 – 242 (Ch. 23 – 28)May 17th — Page 243 – End (Ch. 29 – 38)Blog | Instagram | Twitter | YouTube
This is one of the best things I've ever read.Dragon Pearl is a Korean-inspired space opera following a teenage fox spirit, set in a queer-inclusive universe. I can't believe I almost didn't read it just because it was middle grade; if I hadn't loved Ninefox Gambit so much, I would have never picked it up, and that would have been such a mistake on my part. It is middle grade, that's the target audience, but Dragon Pearl is the kind of book that can be enjoyed by people of all ages.I had almost
BOOK #8 READ FOR BELIEVATHON ROUND 2.representation: own voices Korean rep, non-binary side character, brief mention of a poly relationship (m/m/m). [trigger warnings are listed at the bottom of this review and may contain spoilers]★★★I sooooo wanted to love this one, but for some reason I just didn't :( I do recommend it though and I can see why people love it!trigger warnings: loss of loved ones, violence, suicide.
3 stars I’ve already recommended this to one of my library kids, so it goes to show that just because you don’t love a book it doesn’t mean you can’t recommend it to others.I’m a cover lover and read this for purely shallow reasons. I listened to the audiobook and found myself not always wanting to listen or tuning out. But conceptually, this book is great. A shapeshifting fox girl who travels through space to save her brother, that’s a great unique plot kids will love.Follow me on ♥ Facebook ♥