I’ve been seeing a lot of recommendations for “soft heroes” recently, which are supposed to be the opposite of the “alpha male” trope. I decided to delve into what a soft hero actually is, and give some recommendations! Soft heroes, to me, are heroes who make me want to squish them with affection. They’re usually genuinely…
June is Pride Month, which means that us queer folk are supposed to gather together, which has not been the case at all this year on Twitter. Frankly, it’s been a shitshow, so I thought I’d do some aesthetics of queer books that I’ve loved in the last year! Timekeeper by Tara Sim I had…
Rumor Mora fears two things in 27 Hours: hellhounds too strong for him to kill, and failure. Jude Welton has two dreams: for humans to stop killing monsters, and for his strange abilities to vanish. But in no reality should a boy raised to love monsters fall for a boy raised to kill them. Nyx…
I was tagged by Naz to do this long as hell, Rapid Fire book tag, so you can blame him for whatever you read here. Or me. Or both. Mostly me, though. eBooks or physical books? I’m a little torn here, because I do probably 60% of my reading in eBook form, with another 30% in…
My buddy Austine over at NovelKnight had a brilliant idea to challenge us all to beat our backlist, and this happened to overlap with a goal that I had to read the books I actually own. I have a full shelf of books that I own, but haven’t read, and that ends this year! Quite…
“Two races of vampires walk our world. One, the Moroi, are alive and wield elemental magical. The other, the Strigoi, are undead and evil—feeding on the innocent to survive. Rose Hathaway—a half-vampire with poor impulse control—is training to be a bodyguard for a Moroi princess. Learning to decapitate and stake is hard enough, but Rose’s…
“I’m so glad I live in a world where there are Octobers.” – Anne of Green Gables Everyone’s favorite redhead, the spunky Anne Shirley, begins her adventures at Green Gables, a farm outside Avonlea, Prince Edward Island. When the freckled girl realizes that the elderly Cuthberts wanted to adopt a boy instead, she begins to try…
The Sacred Hunt Duology HUNTER’S OATH When the covenant was made with the Hunter God, it ensured that the Hunter Lords, their land, and their people would prosper. But in payment, once a year the Sacred Hunt must be called, in which the God’s prey would be one of the Lords or his huntbrother. This was…
Shannon Hale has been one of my favorite authors since the first time I read Princess Academy. I fell in love with the feminism and honesty that pervaded her fantasy world, so when I saw a new book by her at my library in middle school, I had to pick it up. That book was Forest Born, the…