This week's #waitingonwednesday book is Girls of Paper and Fire by Natasha Ngan! I'm fortunate to have already read it (check out my review here), but I'm still so, so excited for this beautiful masterpiece of a book to be released into the world. It comes out in a little less than 2 weeks: November 6, 2018, and there are some cool preorder prizes!
More reasons to add it to your tbr list:
- #ownvoices Asian-inspired fantasy
- features a f/f ship
- which is rare enough in YA, much less fantasy, much less ASIAN-inspired fantasy!
- beautiful, lyrical writing
- look at that cover and tell me you don't love it. I dare you
Here's the summary:
Each year, eight beautiful girls are chosen as Paper Girls to serve the king. It's the highest honor they could hope for...and the most cruel.But this year, there's a ninth girl. And instead of paper, she's made of fire.
In this lush fantasy, Lei is a member of the Paper caste, the lowest and most oppressed class in Ikhara. She lives in a remote village with her father, where the decade-old trauma of watching her mother snatched by royal guards still haunts her. Now, the guards are back, and this time it's Lei they're after--the girl whose golden eyes have piqued the king's interest.
Over weeks of training in the opulent but stifling palace, Lei and eight other girls learn the skills and charm that befit being a king's consort. But Lei isn't content to watch her fate consume her. Instead, she does the unthinkable--she falls in love. Her forbidden romance becomes enmeshed with an explosive plot that threatens the very foundation of Ikhara, and Lei, still the wide-eyed country girl at heart, must decide just how far she's willing to go for justice and revenge.
TW: violence and sexual abuse
About the Author: Natasha Ngan is part young-adult author, part yoga-teacher, part habitual nap-taker. She grew up between Malaysia and the UK, speaking Chinese with her mother mainly as a way to talk about people without them understanding. She studied Geography at the University of Cambridge and later worked as a fashion blogger, social media consultant and freelance writer.
Natasha recently moved to Paris, where she likes to imagine she drifts stylishly from brasserie to brasserie, notepad in one hand and wineglass in the other. In reality, she mostly spends her time lost on the metro and offending locals with her French.
Ooo I'm reading this soon so I'm happy to hear that the writing is beautiful!
ReplyDeleteyes! it's so lush, I fell in love with it from the very first chapter
Deleteohhh I have been hearing a lot about this! Good to know that you like the writing :)
ReplyDeleteyesss it's such an amazing book!!
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