The List
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"The fantasy book of the year."-Eoin Colfer, bestselling author of Artemis Fowl A 2018 Notable Children's Books Selection! You are The Wordsmith now. Are you ready for the challenge? The city of Ark is the last safe place on Earth. To make sure humans are able to survive, everyone in Ark must speak List, a language of only 500 words. Everyone that is, except Letta. As apprentice to the Wordsmith, Letta can read all the words that have ever existed. Forbidden words like freedom, music, and even pineapple tell her about a world she's never known. One day her master disappears and the leaders of Ark tell Letta she is the new Wordsmith and must shorten List to fewer and fewer words. Then Letta meets a teenage boy who somehow knows all the words that have been banned. Letta's faced with a dangerous choice: sit idly by and watch language slowly slip away or follow a stranger on a path to freedom...or banishment.
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2 primary booksThe List is a 2-book series with 2 primary works first released in 2013 with contributions by Patricia Forde, Haleigh Lovell, and Chloe Slate.
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Oh, my goodness was this book CUTE. Super SWEET. Super FUNNY. Super SEXY.
I honestly don't have a whole lot to say about this one. I LOVED it...simple as that. Simon was a smokin' hot piece of geek meat who had a heart of gold. I loved the way he was with his sister and honestly, would have loved to see more interaction between them. As well as between his sister and Cassie.
Cassie was a great heroine. Smart and sweet. And I loved her relationship with her sisters as well. When these two were not melting the pages on my tablet they were making me laugh my butt off. This was simply just a really well written...well paced...humourous...low angst read.
Now, this did lose half a star for the less than great epilogue. That's just personal preference. I like marriage and babies. That said, we are most likely getting a book featuring one of Cassie's sisters (seemed that way) so I am sure we will see more of this couple in that (fingers crossed).
