I was at the YALSA (Young Adult Library Services Association)conference in November and was NOT one of the pucky people to obtain a pre-release copy of Huntress there although I heard the author speak and lusted after on. Like that's the idea of romance we should be perpetuating. The romance in this book was just as unbelievable as Twilight: I feel drawn to you for some reason (who knows what the reason is), but I don't know why, but I can't help it and oooooh look we kiss and now we LOVE EACH OTHER! DEEPLY!.right. I'm not opposed to LGBT literature, but I want it to be good. I would guess that the reason so many people are saying this is a wonderful book is because of the LGBT themes in it. I ended up skimming this book, just reading the sections of dialogue, and I'm glad I made that choice. Also, I'm not sure why, but I felt like this book was written like it was published in the 1990's (I can't think of a better way to describe it.) It's slow, there are pages and pages of description/telling, and something about the wording just seemed off to me. Seriously, there were POV changes mid-sentence. There were so many point of view changes that I got dizzy. I cannot comprehend why this book has so many high ratings. The exciting adventure prequel to Malinda Lo's highly acclaimed novel Ash is overflowing with lush Chinese influences and details inspired by the I Ching, and is filled with action and romance. But the Kingdom needs only one huntress to save it, and what it takes could tear Kaede and Taisin apart forever. As members of their party succumb to unearthly attacks and fairy tricks, the two come to rely on each other and even begin to fall in love. And yet the two girls' destinies are drawn together during the mission.

Taisin is a sage, thrumming with magic, and Kaede is of the earth, without a speck of the otherworldly. To solve the crisis, the oracle stones are cast, and Kaede and Taisin, two seventeen-year-old girls, are picked to go on a dangerous and unheard-of journey to Tanlili, the city of the Fairy Queen.

The people's survival hangs in the balance.

Worse yet, strange and hostile creatures have begun to appear. The sun hasn't shone in years, and crops are failing. Nature is out of balance in the human world.

Huntress by Malinda Lo