Pure Perfection: The Dark Tide by Alicia Jasinska
The Dark Tide is perfect in every way.
That’s it. That’s the review.
Genre: Secondary World Fantasy
Outshining the Sun: Raybearer by Jordan Ifueko
Okay. Okay. You know how they tell you, don’t judge a book by its cover? ABSOLUTELY JUDGE THIS BOOK BY ITS COVER. I know, I know, how can that be fair??? Is not that cover an absolute masterpiece??? It is, my friends, it is. So what book could live up to it? This one. Hell […]
There is beauty in truth: The Dragon’s Legacy by Deborah A. Wolf
phoenix art credit Sujono Sujono 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. Wolf has created an entirely new world that, while lacking the true otherness of, say, one of […]
The currents beneath the sea, plus dragons: Phoenix Extravagant by Yoon Ha Lee
Thank you to NetGalley and the publisher for the ARC! Wow. I finished this book just a few minutes ago, and I’m reeling. In the best way! But I’m not at all sure how to describe what I just experienced. First off, Phoenix Extravagant took me completely by surprise; it was not the book I […]
Blood and Water: The Impossible Contract by K. A. Doore
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, […]
Vampires, Pocket-watches, and Magical Baked Goods; The Burial Club by Parker Foye
The second in the Love Has Claws series, Burial Club is set in the same world as Nine Years of Silver, but slightly earlier in the timeline, in a different place and with different characters. None of this disappointed me, since Nine perfectly encapsulated Briar and Quinn’s story; a direct sequel, or any other continuation […]
Fighting the Future, For the Future: The Heart of the Circle by Keren Landsman
I received this book for free from the publisher via NetGalley in exchange for an honest review. This does not affect my opinion of the book or the content of my review. I closed this book just a few seconds ago as I type this, and my head is pounding about as hard as my […]
Must-Have Monday #5!
Tomorrow sees the release of three books I’ve been incredibly excited about for a long time! I could have sworn this book contained LGBT+ themes when the premise first crossed my screen, but whether I hallucinated them or they’ve been removed, this still looks like an incredibly interesting story. I haven’t read a lot of […]
The Road So Far: The First Half of 2019 in Books
In 2016, I managed to read 300 books. I’m pretty damn proud of that. But getting my first job – part-time that became full-time – plus various health issues and actually attempting to have some kind of social life – all slowed me down a lot. This year has been especially sucky in terms of […]
Books On My Summer 2019 TBR
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 […]