Name: All Our Hidden Gifts
Rating: 4.12987012987013 (77 reviews)
ISBN: 9782732492667

Caroline O'Donoghue

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All Our Hidden Gifts

When her friend mysteriously vanishes after drawing an unsettling tarot card called The Housekeeper, Maeve uses her deep connection with the cards to search for clues the police cannot find.

Kira Del Caro

I don't really have much to say about this book. I found it very...underwhelming, it feel like there was progress in character development and story but it just ended in the same place as it started.

Maeve Chambers s’est toujours sentie médiocre et peine à trouver sa place au lycée. Un jour, pourtant, elle tombe sur un vieux jeu de tarot divinatoire et se révèle très douée pour faire parler les cartes. Ses lectures sont toujours d’une étonnante justesse et, soudain, tout le lycée s’intéresse à elle. Mais lors d’une séance avec son ancienne meilleure amie Lily, elle tire une carte inconnue – et terrifiante – et la rencontre tourne au psychodrame. Le lendemain, Lily disparaît sans laisser de trace. Rongée par la culpabilité, Maeve s’allie à deux autres élèves pour la retrouver : Roe, le frère de Lily, et Fiona, fascinée par la perspicacité de Maeve et persuadée que ses talents leur permettront de retrouver la jeune fille. La disparition de Lily est-elle vraiment liée à l’apparition de cette carte mystérieuse ? Maeve possède-t-elle réellement un don ou sa trop grande sensibilité lui joue-t-elle des tours ?

All our Hidden Gifts

Manon Lanzarotti

I liked that Maeve had flaws and keeps them all along the story, like a real 16 yo girl.
I wasn't expecting the book the end like that and I'm looking forward to reading the next book to learn more about Lily

Lily D

Maeve Chambers doesn't have much going for her. Not only does she feel like the sole idiot in a family of geniuses, she managed to drive away her best friend Lily a year ago. But when she finds a pack of dusty old tarot cards at school, and begins to give scarily accurate readings to the girls in her class, she realizes she's found her gift at last. Things are looking up - until she discovers a strange card in the deck that definitely shouldn't be there. And two days after she convinces her ex-best friend to have a reading, Lily disappears. Can Maeve, her new friend Fiona and Lily's brother Roe find her? And will Maeve's new gift be enough to bring Lily back, before she's gone for good?

Alizée Euphrosine

I had a great time reading this book. It's an easy and page-turner young adult story.

In this story, we follow Maeve, who found a tarot cards deck following a punishment at school and started to feel a pull towards it. After reading for her classmates, she finally understands that she has a gift. However, a strange card shows up, and some days later, her ex-best friend disappears.

In this book, you have two main plots. I'm never a fan of it as they sometimes never merge. So, I was afraid it would be the case here as they seem to be two entirely different plots. However, as you go through the story, they start to merge. However, one of the plots is complete at the end of the book, and the other one finishes as a cliffhanger, and I'm not okay with it as it's the most interesting for me.

The most annoying thing is that this mysterious card is present, as Maeve talks about it a lot, but you don't have any real research. She searched for it once or twice at the beginning and didn't find anything at all. However, at some point in the book, everyone around her knows about this card and what it represents. So it's a bit info-dumpy at this point in the book, which is frustrating as you could have all the information space out in the book.

The character of Maeve can sometimes be irritating as she spends her time thinking she is worthless. When others surround her, it's worse as she starts to victimize herself and feel jealousy until she imagines some future that will not happen.

The last thing is the relationship between Maeve and Roe. I wasn't fond that they finished by being a couple at the beginning as I was okay with just a friendship. But I started to like them together, so I'm now okay with it. I was just sceptic at some point as they argue for no reason or none that I understand. It feels like it was just to create some tension between them.

I'm now waiting for next year and the second book: The Gifts that Binds Us.

[The ARC of this book was provided by the publisher via NetGalley in exchange for an honest review.]

CN: queermisia, vomit, suicide attempt, hp references, use of the word ‘eskimo’

To be honest, I only requested “All Our Hidden Gifts” on NetGalley because I knew it would be translated into German and I was curious about the queer representation, so my expectations weren’t very high. But this book was actually really good! The plot was very interesting, I liked the way tarot cards were incorporated into the story, and the queer representation was surprisingly well done. “All Our Hidden Gifts” might even become one of my favorite fantasy books of the year. Now I can only hope the German translation won’t ruin the book…

Joanna Rosenwink 

I really enjoyed my buddy read of this book with Amy and Beth. In fact it was hard to stop at the end of each days section! 

If you’re looking for a YA thriller with tarot and witchy elements I’d definitely recommend picking this one up.

Lisa Beasley

I really did enjoy this more than I expected to and I actually found the supporting cast to be brilliant and very interesting. The main character however had me wincing sometimes as she was so self involved. Her ex best friend is missing and she ends up focusing on whether or not a boy (missing best friends brother) fancies her, it just irked me sometimes that her priorities seemed really off. It was good but not one I would reread. Also I was left confused by the end, is there going to be another book or not?

Good and I'm glad I read it but not one I would read again.

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