Hey
today's video is one that I'm very
pumped for
"Stain" by A.G. Howard!!!
After Lyra, a princess incapable of speech or sound is cast out of her kingdom of
daylight by her wicked aunt a witch
saves her life steals her memories and
raises her in an enchanted forest
disguised as a boy known only as stain
meanwhile in Lyra's rival Kingdom the
Prince of thorns and night is dying and
the only way for him to break his curse
is to Wed the princess of daylight for
she is his true equal as Lyra finds her
way back to her identity an imposter
princess prepares to steal her betrothed
Prince and her crown to win back her
Kingdom save the prince and make peace
with the land of night Lyra must be loud
enough to be heard without a voice and
strong enough to pass a series of tests
ultimately proving she's everything a
traditional princess is not
so if you're watching this video you're probably thinking "uhhhh Camryn I don't think that book is out yet"
and it's not
and this is not an ARC copy
I was at this bookstore that I go to sometimes
I'm not gonna say where cuz I don't want them to get in trouble
but I saw this book on the shelf
and I was like
"oh my gosh that's not supposed to be out yet!"
I actually found it back before Christmas!
So I see it and I grabbed it and when I go to check out
the computer malfunctions and I'm like:
"crap I've been caught, the computer knows it's not supposed to be out yet!"
and the guy was like "hmm that's weird I've never seen this happen"
so he takes me over to
another checkout place and he's going to
check me out in the whole time my heart
is going
~heartbeat sounds~
because I was so sure I'd been caught
because I was just gonna play
dumb if they said it wasn't supposed to
be out yet but I did manage to get it
and I read it all in a day
and it's not a small book
the cover is gorgeous it's
very similar to her other books
Her "Splintered" series which is "Alice in
Wonderland" inspired
and "Roseblood" which is "Phantom of the Opera" inspired
but what sets Stain apart is that it is not a retelling
of any fairy tale that I recognize
and from what I've read on the Internet I
don't think it's a retelling of anything
in particular
it's also purple which you may have noticed is my favorite color
AG Howard is an author that I adore
that is why I had my eye on this book
and why when I saw it I knew it wasn't supposed to be out yet
which is why I got it
and this might actually be my favorite book of hers yet
it's also a standalone
and I adore that
because I don't like series sometimes
sometimes I just want to read something and be done with it
so like I said this isn't a
fairy tale retelling but it does have
some elements of  some
"Princess and the Pea"
passing all of these tests
although there's not a pea test
P-E-A or P-E-E
it also has some elements of Cinderella
wicked stepmother, her dad's dead, her mom died when she was a kid
so there are elements of some fairy
tales but you see that in any-
I mean fairy tales share elements all the time
um
but I did really like this book
there's so much that you don't realize is gonna be in this book
it's one of those books that you read
the summary and you're like
"How is that this long? It shouldn't be."
but it was fantastic there were so many twists so many turns
there's just this huge cast of characters
there's gremlins and imps
and just so many people
there's her stepsisters some of whom are horrible, and one of whom is sort of not horrible, but also horrible
there's her stepmother who is horrible
obviously
and it's so weird because you get so far into the book before she even gets cast out
which is the first thing that's mentioned in the summary
there's so much going on and there's more than one point of view but it never becomes overwhelming
it's very well-written so you're never like "wait a minute what did I just read?"
except there are a couple of times where you're supposed to think that way
Overall I really, really loved this book I'm so glad that I found it
although I'm a little sad that now
that I have it I can't pre-order it
because there are some good pre-order
goodies if you still haven't ordered yours
I'll link that down below
it was on my list of top most anticipated books of 2019 that I posted on my blog a couple weeks ago
I think it was also on my "most
anticipated books of January" to be
specific because I do one for each
month
um
it's such a good book I highly
recommend it even if you've never read
AG Howard stuff before I think you'll
really like this and like I said it's
very very fairytale inspired but it's
not a fairy tale retelling it's not a
retelling of a specific story, it's not a
retelling of anything that you will recognize
although it has a lot of fairy tale elements in it
it has a lot of magic, it has witches, it has evil stepmothers, all that fun stuff
the romance in it
You know me, usually I don't like romance
The romance is not overly done at all
it's a nice subplot but the main story is still
about Lyra and reclaiming her Kingdom
and the romance all just fits very
nicely but it doesn't ever take over the
book
like all of Ag Howard's works
although I would say I think there is
less romance in Stain than in her
Alice in Wonderland retelling
I still haven't read her Phantom of the Opera retelling
even though it's been out for like two
years now
unfortunately she doesn't have her next book announced yet so I have to wait
and wait and wait and wait
so once again I do highly highly recommend this book to everyone
if you follow this channels you theoretically like fantasy
because that is 99% of what
I talk about
so you should check this book out
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