fantasy
Strange the Dreamer: A Pleasant Surprise
I read Laini Taylor’s Daughter of Smoke and Bone series and didn’t love it. It had all the elements of a story I should love, but it never engaged me. Luckily for Strange the Dreamer, it had Gods, fai...
Furyborn Review
I was lucky and received an ARC of Furyborn from Netgalley in exchange for an honest review. I’m a little late on posting this, but here it goes. I’ve previously read Claire Legrand’...
Children of Blood and Bone Review
Children of Blood and Bone is a book as steeped with violence as the name suggests. Full of magic, gods, political conflict, mages, princesses and princes this West-African inspired fantasy story is g...
The Tangled Lands
Khaim, The Blue City, is the last remaining city in a crumbled empire that overly relied upon magic until it became toxic. It is run by a tyrant known as The Jolly Mayor and his devious right hand, th...
The Boneless Mercies
A dark and gorgeously drawn standalone YA fantasy about a band of mercenary girls in search of female glory. Won in a major six-house auction! Frey, Ovie, Juniper, and Runa are the Boneless Merci...
Crown of Thunder
Taj is headed west, but the consequences of leaving Kos behind confront him at every turn. Innocent civilians flee to refugee camps as Karima's dark magic continues to descend on the city. Taj must re...
Bruja Born
Three sisters. One spell. Countless dead. Lula Mortiz feels like an outsider. Her sister's newfound Encantrix powers have wounded her in ways that Lula's bruja healing powers can't fix, and she l...
A Court of Frost and Starlight
The Winter Solstice. In a week. I was still new enough to being High Lady that I had no idea what my formal role was to be. If we'd have a High Priestess do some odious ceremony, as lanthe had done th...
Muse of Nightmares
Sarai has lived and breathed nightmares since she was six years old. She believed she knew every horror, and was beyond surprise. She was wrong. In the wake of tragedy, neither Lazlo nor Sarai ...
The Hazel Wood Review
Writing a review for The Hazel Wood was very difficult. Unlike a lot of the books that I read this year this novel was very plot driven. For the sake of spoilers I won’t really go into that. Loo...
Waiting on Wednesday: High Voltage
Oh The Fever series, just when I thought you were dead and gone I find you in my life again. Title: High Voltage Series: The Fever Series Author: Karen Marie Monig Publisher: Delacorte Press Genre: Fa...
Waiting on Wednesday: Immortal Reign (Falling Kingdoms #6)
Here we go. Morgan Rhodes is wrapping up her Falling Kingdoms series. Basically it’s our favourite series about hot people, because everyone in this series is attractive. Seriously. You’re...
Six of Crows
Criminal prodigy Kaz Brekker has been offered wealth beyond his wildest dreams. But to claim it, he'll have to pull off a seemingly impossible heist: Break into the notorious Ice Court (a milita...
An Enchantment of Ravens
Isobel is a prodigy portrait artist with a dangerous set of clients: the sinister fair folk, immortal creatures who cannot bake bread, weave cloth, or put a pen to paper without crumbling to dust. The...
Waiting on Wednesday: Furyborn
This book doesn’t come out for a while, but I can’t stop thinking about it. Furyborn is the first book in Claire Legrand’s newest trilogy. Title: Furyborn Series: The Empirium Trilog...