Genre: Epic Fantasy

10 Heroines Who Choose to Challenge

Posted 8th March 2021 by Sia in Crescent Classics, Let's Dig In: Thoughts, Analysis, Essays, Lists, Recommendations / 2 Comments

In honour of International Women’s Day, 10 incredible heroines!

10 Laugh-Out-Loud Reads

Posted 23rd February 2021 by Sia in Top Ten Tuesdays / 0 Comments

10 books that made me laugh out loud (for real!)

Books I Want to Read Again

Posted 1st December 2020 by Sia in Top Ten Tuesdays / 0 Comments

10 books I’d love to reread!

A Map to Tomorrow: Master of Poisons by Andrea Hairston

Posted 13th September 2020 by Sia in Fantasy Reviews, Queer Lit, Reading Challenges, Reviews / 0 Comments

“Impossible is a word for yesterday, not tomorrow.”

Must-Have Monday #16!

Posted 24th August 2020 by Sia in Must-Have Mondays / 0 Comments

Queer dragon riders, epic poetry made modern, and saving the world are only a few of the things to look forward to this week!

Your Gender Binary Is Imaginary; Non-Binary Characters in Fantasy (+ Bonus SciFi)

Posted 29th June 2020 by Sia in Lists, Queer Lit, Recommendations / 2 Comments

More and more, we’re having an easier time finding cis queer characters in Fantasy – not an easy time; there’s still not enough of them, and publishers often don’t advertise the fact that a book is queer. But there’s more than there used to be, and the number’s steadily increasing. It’s much harder to find […]

There is beauty in truth: The Dragon’s Legacy by Deborah A. Wolf

Posted 14th May 2020 by Sia in Blogathons, Crescent Classics, Fantasy Reviews, Reviews / 2 Comments

For my first Wyrd and Wonder review, I wanted to talk about one of my favourite books in all the world. The problem is that I have no idea how to describe it.

Blood and Water: The Impossible Contract by K. A. Doore

Posted 10th November 2019 by Sia in Fantasy Reviews, Queer Lit, Reviews / 0 Comments

The Impossible Contract is the second book in Doore’s Chronicles of Ghadid trilogy, a series following a family of assassins in a desert world where water is not only currency, but magic. Contract reads perfectly well as a standalone, but you’re missing out if you skip over book one, The Perfect Assassin, with its homoromantic-asexual, […]

Books On My Summer 2019 TBR

Posted 26th June 2019 by Sia in Top Ten Tuesdays / 0 Comments

Top Ten Tuesday was created by The Broke and the Bookish and is now hosted by Jana at That Artsy Reader Girl. Check out upcoming Top Ten themes on Jana’s blog! While my TBR includes a few new releases, I need to spend most of my time catching up with books I haven’t had time to sit down and […]