Top Ten Tuesday: Books On My Fall 2021 To-Read List
Top Ten Tuesday is a series hosted on That Artsy Reader Girl! This week, we’re looking ahead to a season of books I hope I’ll finish (feel free to poke me until I do)… 1. Within These Wicked Walls by Lauren Blackwood If you’ve read my incoherent babbling about Jane Eyre, you know I have … Continue reading “Top Ten Tuesday: Books On My Fall 2021 To-Read List”
“Changeless” a Deliciously Fun, If Moderately Pointless, Sequel
Quite possibly the only work of steampunk I’ve ever read, Gail Carriger’s 2009 paranormal-of-manners, Soulless, is very near to my heart. Coupling its charming nineteenth century sensibilities with an engrossing secret society plot, it reaps the benefits of many categories––romance, alternate history, paranormal, mystery––and skirts their distinctions with aplomb. To the best of my admittedly … Continue reading ““Changeless” a Deliciously Fun, If Moderately Pointless, Sequel”
What I Read in August
Hello, and welcome back to the blog! Before I dive into my August reads, I wanted to mention that, with the start of school approaching, I’ll be cutting back my posting to once a week. Tuesdays will be my day moving forward, though I hope a stray Friday post will find its way here every … Continue reading “What I Read in August”
“The Betrayed” A Messy Yet Lovable Conclusion
This review contains a major spoiler for the ending of the first book in this duology, The Betrothed. Like, in the first paragraph. Following 2020’s The Betrothed (reviewed here), Kiera Cass’ latest could’ve gone almost anywhere. In a move generally unbefitting her fluffy love story brand (though not entirely––need I remind you all of The … Continue reading ““The Betrayed” A Messy Yet Lovable Conclusion”
Top Ten Tuesday: Books I Wish I Could Read Again For the First Time
Top Ten Tuesday is a series hosted on That Artsy Reader Girl! This week, we’re beating on, boats against the current, borne back ceaselessly into the past… 1. Dark Star by Bethany Frenette For whatever reason, superhero fiction in the YA realm (unless it’s from an existing property or a wildly popular author) tends to … Continue reading “Top Ten Tuesday: Books I Wish I Could Read Again For the First Time”
Let’s Talk Bookish: What Is One Book Everyone Must Read?
Let’s Talk Bookish is a weekly discussion series hosted by Rukki @ Eternity Books and Dani @ Literary Lion. This week’s topic was suggested by Mikaela @ Mikaela Reads! Reader, you knew this was coming. What can a humble soul like mine do with the opportunity to tell you to read any book of my … Continue reading “Let’s Talk Bookish: What Is One Book Everyone Must Read?”
How “The Wicked King” Attacked Me, Personally
Despite my love of thorny, enemies-to-lovers couples and court intrigue, I was not one of The Cruel Prince‘s immediate devotees. I found Holly Black’s worldbuilding, with its notes taken from classical sources and thoughtful approach to the mortals-in-Faerie problem, rich and intriguing, but ultimately not to the scale that would let me believe in the … Continue reading “How “The Wicked King” Attacked Me, Personally”
“Spinning Silver” is a Fairy Tale of the Highest Caliber
Naomi Novik’s Uprooted is a wonder of a fairy tale: it has a stirring Beauty-and-the-Beast love story, a rich and varied use of the dark forest motif, and an almost domestic focus on the ordinary in the lives of her characters, showing us their families and their chores and their fireplaces. This framework must have … Continue reading ““Spinning Silver” is a Fairy Tale of the Highest Caliber”
A Universe of Adventure in “A Thousand Pieces of You”
Of four alternate universes––one with bananas new developments in tech, one where things are barely stepping out of the industrial revolution, one with a slight turn in physics research, and one where most of the Earth has been submerged by rising sea levels––what do they have in common? Give or take a few family members, … Continue reading “A Universe of Adventure in “A Thousand Pieces of You””
Let’s Talk Bookish: What is your posting type?
Let’s Talk Bookish is a weekly discussion series hosted by Rukki @ Eternity Books and Dani @ Literary Lion. This week’s topic was suggested by Nicole @ Thoughts Stained With Ink! This week’s topic gives me a unique opportunity to take you behind the scenes of my humble blog, and give you a glimpse at … Continue reading “Let’s Talk Bookish: What is your posting type?”
What I Read in July
Welcome back to the blog! I’m pleased to say your local blogger devoured quite the stack this month, owing to the abundance of free time that comes with summer break, and some wonderfully readable sci-fi and fantasy picks. Once I cleared a couple flops, I had a reading month of nearly uninterrupted delight, and I … Continue reading “What I Read in July”
Enthralling Politics and Shaky Magic in “Ice Like Fire”
This review contains major spoilers for the first volume in the trilogy, Snow Like Ashes! Read at your own risk. On the heels of 2014’s Snow Like Ashes, Ice Like Fire, its sequel, follows a tattered country trying to rebuild itself, a Queen chafing against the restrictions of her new crown, and the unleashing of … Continue reading “Enthralling Politics and Shaky Magic in “Ice Like Fire””
