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The Grace Year by Kim Liggett

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karlyerin's review against another edition

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dark tense medium-paced

Plot- or character-driven? A mix
Strong character development? Yes
Loveable characters? It's complicated
Diverse cast of characters? No
Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.0

luckydory's review against another edition

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adventurous challenging dark mysterious reflective tense medium-paced

4.5

Could not put this one down! A strange mix of lord of the flies and feminist hunger games.

modernmegan's review against another edition

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3.0

This strong plot told a haunting dystopian story. I was sold to it by being told it was like “the hunger games” meets “the handmaids tale”. I think this story tells more of a “lord of the flies”. When the girls get to the location where they’ll spend the next year they begin to go crazy and cause chaos. It was creepy.
I was bothered that we never actually got any magic- especially because that’s how the Grace year was magic. I would’ve loved to see Tierney fight back with superpowers.
A lot of the time I would roll my eyes because of how on the nose the author was with the differences between men and women- we get it- feminism= good. Make authority= bad. We get it.
If this book was written about 7 years ago we’d have been given a happy ending with Ryker & Tierney. I think leaving the ending (Tierney’s fate) ambiguous was both annoying but sensible. It leaves you feeling jilted- just like the Grace year girls.

sofiasara's review against another edition

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adventurous dark emotional medium-paced

Plot- or character-driven? Character
Strong character development? Yes
Loveable characters? Yes
Diverse cast of characters? No
Flaws of characters a main focus? No

4.5

camaramma's review against another edition

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mysterious fast-paced

Plot- or character-driven? A mix
Strong character development? Yes

3.5

Really enjoyed this book and read it in one day!

orchidf0xx's review against another edition

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5.0

Never has a book left me with such breathlessness throughout my reading. I though the plot was interesting enough to add to my TBR. What I hadn't expected was that The Grace Year would make it's way to not only my favorite book of the year, but one of my favorite books of all time.

I can honestly say there were so many moments, so many twists and turns that I hadn't expected, that hadn't even occurred to me. Perhaps they never occurred to me because for once I wasn't trying to guess the ending, I was truly and fully immersed in this story. I could feel the hurt, the betrayal, the fear, the love, the friendship, the hope with every word that I read.

Kim Liggett is a new author for me but after reading The Grace Year, I'm intrigued, I want to devour more of her words, her stories, the emotions she can express in each sentence that reach through the pages and touch you. Wow. I'm still trying to process everything that I feel from The Grace Year. I didn't know my life was missing this book. But it was.