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  January Wrap Up: Part One 🟆🟆🟆  ❆  🟆🟆🟆 A Deadly Education by Naomi Novik I started out 2021 on a not so good note...  Sad day... 😔  I haven't picked up a Naomi Novik book yet but I've been dying to read one!  I maaaaaaay have picked the wrong one to start with...  This book has been getting all the hype and it sounded like it deserved it!  School setting, magical studies, strange creatures, school that tries to kill off it's students.  Many who enter don't come out alive.  dun dunnn DUNNNNNNN!!!  How's that for an amazing premise?!  But seriously?  I couldn't get past the awful, whiny, annoying, cocky, jerk of a main character.  I absolutely could not stand her. 😭😭😭  I thought I could just get through it but I couldn't.  Not only was there that.. but the pacing of the story was off and the writing was just mega clunky.  Meh.  What a way to start off my reading year!  Oh well.  This one was a DNF for me and I only got about halfway through.  I sti

⛄ ❅ 🔔   D e c e m b e r   W r a p   U p   🔔 ❅ ⛄ Part Two The Time Paradox by Eoin Colfer ⭐⭐⭐⭐ What with this being the sixth book in the series this review contains some major spoilers!   Be ye forewarned! Artemis Fowl is back after having been gone for three years from his family's lives.  After his last adventures take him away from home for these three years a lot has changed!  He now has twin brothers!  Unfortunately, we don't get to see a lot of them in this book, but I have a feeling they will be popping up a lot more in the next few books, which makes me excited.  All seems to be going well until Artemis's mother contracts a very rare illness that is life-threatening.  Now he must find the cure, and quickly, if he wants to save her in time.  The only problem?  Artemis made the mistake of, in his past, killing off the last lemur that has the antidote.  So, now what???  Well, obviously, time travel of course!  This book was such a fun time.  I always enjoy reading th