Meredith Tate

To save her kidnapped best friend and crush, Zadie must complete an enchanted deadly labyrinth riddled with illusions. Her only hope of survival depends on forming an alliance with the only person who knows the safe path through--a murderous boy she can't trust.

The Red Labyrinth

Julia Thompson 

I got this book in a Fae Crate awhile back and it sat on my TBR for waaaaay too long. I dragged it around everywhere but just never got to it. At last I finally started it and couldn't put it down. It was such a unique, quick, fun read. The story itself was different from the norm and had some twists in it that I did not see coming. The ending was just one big cliffhanging punch in the gut for me and I am so upset. 
In all this book took me just a few hours to finish, and was definitely worth the read.

danielle bush

I actually really liked this book!! When I first got in in my faecrate I wasn't interested in reading it at all.. and it sat on my shelves for like 8 months.. i was so wrong.. 
It kept me interested through the whole book, and had a pretty good twist. 
I'm hoping there will eventually be a sequel cause it left on what I think is a pretty big cliffhanger. And I will definitely read that if there is one..

Ashton Reed

4.5 stars

Oh, how pleasantly surprised I am about this book! Well, I guess “pleasant” isn’t quite the right word because I AM SHOOK. But we’ll get to all that in a bit ;)

First of all, I want to thank Netgalley, Flux from North Star Editions, and Meredith Tate for providing me with an arc for her novel! Though I am extremely late in posting this, I hope I can spread the novel around so it can get the attention it deserves.

Now for the fun stuff. I SO SO SO loved this book! I was immediately drawn in by the writing and the steady world-building. We see around the little town, then we learn of its prejudices, and then we see glimpses of our main character Zadie’s past. Needless to say, I was really impressed by Tate’s introduction of the setting and the characters. Tate feeds us just enough to make us slightly suspicious but not really... Well, I don’t know how else to describe it, but I will say this: at first, I was suspicious a certain event typically of YA was going to happen, but as the novel progressed, I completely forgot about it.

And then, as if we needed more awesomeness, Zadie has to flee inside a maze full of booby traps and scary things… like, what?! That’s freakin’ awesome if you ask me. And never once did I think, Aw man, this is kinda cheesy. Heck to the no. Ok, yeah, I loved the world, if you didn’t get that yet.

Character development is also something I want to note, because I really felt the characters’ pain and why they have the weaknesses they do, and I respected the way Zadie and Dex support each other.

And on that note, Zadie and Dex!! I’m not even going to put spoiler thingies on that because if you read the description and if you’ve read even one YA novel, then you know the endgame is Zadie and Dex, alright? Ok. Anyways, going into this, I thought there was going to be some insta-love, I’m not gonna lie. But there was a really nice progression into their feelings for each other. 

Of course, I could gush for a while longer, but as this brings me perfectly to my only (slight) complaint, I will stop the gushing. As much as I love Zadie and Dex, every once in a while I wish the good guy would get the girl… and, in this case, (view spoiler)[stay the good guy! (hide spoiler)] haha but for reals, nowadays it’s always the “bad boy” with a secretly golden heart who gets the girl. Classic Stelena or Delena dilemma, ya know?

Lastly, I have to address the cliffhanger CUZ OMG I’M DEAD AND NEED TO KNOW WHAT WILL HAPPENNN. You seriously won’t expect it at all, because you’re gonna read it. You’re going to, right? Yes, of course you will, because it’s sooooo good! AND THIS BETTER NOT BE A STAND-ALONE!

I’ll just stop this now haha. Au revoir!




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