Rating: ★★★★☆ Genre: Cozy Mystery, Literature & Fiction Publisher: Touchstone Publication Date: March 6, 2018 Disclaimer: Thank you to Touchstone for an ARC copy of this. What follows are my honest, unbiased (and sometimes random?) thoughts. Remember that class you hated in high school? Well, this is a whole book full of it, written to […]
Rating: ★★★★★ Genre: Fantasy, Young Adult Publisher: Ink Smith Publishing Publication Date: July 22, 2016 The race of wolves have ruled the kingdom mercilessly for many thousands of years, walking all over the dogs and humans that live there, but is equality really worth fighting for, with everything that would be lost? When a dog […]
Rating: ★★★★★ Genre: Fantasy, Teens & Young Adults Publisher: Little, Brown Books for Young Readers Publication Date: January 2, 2018 Imagine a Grimm’s Fairy Tale with Dark Fae and changelings and lots of stabbing, death, secrets, and manipulation. The Cruel Prince is everything you could want in a dark fantasy with enough twists to keep […]
Rating: ★★★☆☆ Genre: Fantasy Publisher: Tor Publication Date: January 9, 2018 This is book three in the Wayward Children series. Click here for my review of Every Heart a Doorway. Click here for my review of Down Among the Sticks and Bones. Nothing in this book makes sense, in the best possible ways, as Rini […]
You know what they say: laughter is the best medicine. I’m actually not sure who they are or how they arrived at this conclusion. I mean, I’d definitely recommend you still go have the doctor check that rash, anyway. But just in case laughter does have some magical phoenix healing powers, here’s a list of […]
Rating: ★★★★☆ Genre: Fantasy Publisher: Tor Publication Date: June 13, 2017 This is book two in the Wayward Children series. Click here for my review of Every Heart a Doorway. The same Jack and Jill from the nursery rhyme, only older, darker, both female, and living in a world that threatens to destroy them. Jacqueline […]
Rating: ★★★★☆ Genre: Dark Fantasy, Romance Publisher: Wednesday Books Publication Date: February 6, 2018 This is book two in the Wintersong series. Click here for my review of Wintersong. So much more than the romance in the first book, Shadowsong weaves together lore, history, mystery, and powerful themes in a book that’s as dark as […]
Rating: ★★★★☆ Genre: Romance, Fantasy Publisher: St. Martin’s Griffin Publication Date: February 7, 2017 Historically and culturally relevant, Wintersong weaves a beautiful tale, rich with lore and darkness, about what it means to live, to love, and, eventually, to die. Elisabeth, a.k.a. Liesl, has grown up on stories of the Goblin King, to the point […]
Rating: ★★★★★ Genre: Fantasy Publisher: Tor Publication Date: April 5, 2016 This first installment of the Wayward Children (because yes, there’s more) basically consists of the fairy tales you know and love turned on their head, modernized, and made awesome. When Nancy originally went missing, her parents were frantic. What they didn’t expect was to […]
Rating: ★★★★★ Genre: Literature & Fiction Publisher: Atria Books Publication Date: October 31, 2017 Fredrik Backman delivers a heartbreaking work of fiction just in time for the holidays. Never mind that I read it way after the holidays. It’s not so much a holiday story, though, even though it takes place on Christmas Eve, but rather, […]