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Book: Unseelie
Author: Ivelisse Housman
Book Series: Standalone
Rating: 4.5/5
Diversity: Autistic Coded MC with speech impediment and is a twin
Recommended For...: young adult readers, fantasy, high fantasy, fae, autistic characters, twin characters, speech impediment characters
Publication Date: January 3, 2023
Genre: YA Fantasy
Age Relevance: 12+ (violence, death, child killing, gore, romance, cursing, abelsim)
Explanation of Above: There is some knife violence, some physical violence, and death and child killings are mentioned. Abelism is mentioned vaguely in a few places of the text. There is some slight blood gore. There is some slight romance but nothing more than light kisses. There is very slight cursing, I believe only a handful of instances in the book.
Publisher: Inkyard Press
Pages: 432
Synopsis: Iselia “Seelie” Graygrove looks just like her twin, Isolde… but as an autistic changeling trying to navigate her unpredictable magic, Seelie finds it more difficult to fit in with the humans around her. When Seelie and Isolde are caught up in a heist gone wrong and make some unexpected allies, they find themselves unraveling a larger mystery that has its roots in the history of humans and fae alike.
Both sisters soon discover that the secrets of the faeries may be more valuable than any pile of gold and jewels. But can Seelie harness her magic in time to protect her sister, and herself?
Review: I thought this book was pretty well done. The book involves fae and a lot of fun high fantasy elements, but with amazing magic that is very well developed and described. I liked the world building as well and I thought the character development was great. The book had great commentary on abelism with autistic people, especially in how a lot of people imply they would want a dead child with autism than one with. There are some passages about loving children as they come despite what they bring with them or what occurs to them, which I think is something a lot of would-be parents and even current parents need to think upon. The book is also very “chosen one”-like and would be perfect for those seeking that trope, especially ones that ring true to early 00s chosen one stories.
The only issues I had with the book is that in the beginning it had a very Book 2 type of feel to it and it was a little difficult to get into.
Verdict: It was great! Highly recommend.
Book: Unseelie
Author: Ivelisse Housman
Book Series: Standalone
Rating: 4.5/5
Diversity: Autistic Coded MC with speech impediment and is a twin
Recommended For...: young adult readers, fantasy, high fantasy, fae, autistic characters, twin characters, speech impediment characters
Publication Date: January 3, 2023
Genre: YA Fantasy
Age Relevance: 12+ (violence, death, child killing, gore, romance, cursing, abelsim)
Explanation of Above: There is some knife violence, some physical violence, and death and child killings are mentioned. Abelism is mentioned vaguely in a few places of the text. There is some slight blood gore. There is some slight romance but nothing more than light kisses. There is very slight cursing, I believe only a handful of instances in the book.
Publisher: Inkyard Press
Pages: 432
Synopsis: Iselia “Seelie” Graygrove looks just like her twin, Isolde… but as an autistic changeling trying to navigate her unpredictable magic, Seelie finds it more difficult to fit in with the humans around her. When Seelie and Isolde are caught up in a heist gone wrong and make some unexpected allies, they find themselves unraveling a larger mystery that has its roots in the history of humans and fae alike.
Both sisters soon discover that the secrets of the faeries may be more valuable than any pile of gold and jewels. But can Seelie harness her magic in time to protect her sister, and herself?
Review: I thought this book was pretty well done. The book involves fae and a lot of fun high fantasy elements, but with amazing magic that is very well developed and described. I liked the world building as well and I thought the character development was great. The book had great commentary on abelism with autistic people, especially in how a lot of people imply they would want a dead child with autism than one with. There are some passages about loving children as they come despite what they bring with them or what occurs to them, which I think is something a lot of would-be parents and even current parents need to think upon. The book is also very “chosen one”-like and would be perfect for those seeking that trope, especially ones that ring true to early 00s chosen one stories.
The only issues I had with the book is that in the beginning it had a very Book 2 type of feel to it and it was a little difficult to get into.
Verdict: It was great! Highly recommend.