I haven’t finished reading any books since my last review, y’all. I’ve been slacking on the whole “actually reading” part this month. But! There are quite a few books that I’ve read and not reviewed, so I’m gonna talk about Three Dark Crowns and One Dark Throne here today, in yet another Mini Review Monday!…
In The Tethered Mage’s Raverran Empire, magic is scarce and those born with power are strictly controlled — taken as children and conscripted into the Falcon Army. Zaira has lived her life on the streets to avoid this fate, hiding her mage-mark and thieving to survive. But hers is a rare and dangerous magic, one that…
So April has been kind of a whirlwind! I feel like I say that every month, but it’s always true! Chris and I have been packing, packing, packing, and in every other spare moment I’ve been trying to read. As you can see, it wasn’t my most productive reading month. I didn’t read for almost…
I’m gonna be real with you guys – I haven’t had the energy to read anything other than audiobooks recently. I’ve just been exhausted, between work and reality. So, I’m gonna do some mini-reviews today for things I’ve enjoyed but haven’t reviewed! Wintersong by S. Jae-Jones I listened to this on audio, and this book…
When Tea accidentally resurrects her brother from the dead, she learns she is different from the other witches in her family. Her gift for necromancy means that she’s a bone witch, a title that makes her feared and ostracized by her community. But Tea finds solace and guidance with an older, wiser bone witch, who takes Tea…
Things We Lost in the Fire is an arresting collection of short stories, reminiscent of Shirley Jackson and Julio Cortazar, by an exciting new international talent. Macabre, disturbing and exhilarating, Things We Lost in the Fire is a collection of twelve short stories that use fear and horror to explore multiple dimensions of life in…
Piecing Me Together is a timely and powerful story about a teen girl striving for success in a world that too often seems like it’s trying to break her. Jade believes she must get out of her poor neighborhood if she’s ever going to succeed. Her mother tells her to take advantage of every opportunity…
In Golden Lily, Sydney Sage is an Alchemist, one of a group of humans who dabble in magic and serve to bridge the worlds of humans and vampires. They protect vampire secrets—and human lives. Sydney would love to go to college, but instead, she’s been sent into hiding at a posh boarding school in Palm…
In The Girl from Everywhere, Nix has spent her entire life aboard her father’s ship, sailing across the centuries, across the world, across myth and imagination. As long as her father has a map for it, he can sail to any time, any place, real or imagined: nineteenth-century China, the land from One Thousand and One…
In Bloodlines, Sydney’s blood is special. That’s because she’s an alchemist – one of a group of humans who dabble in magic and serve to bridge the worlds of humans and vampires. They protect vampire secrets – and human lives. But the last encounter Sydney had with vampires got her in deep trouble with the…
Anna is looking forward to her senior year in Atlanta, where she has a great job, a loyal best friend, and a crush on the verge of becoming more. Which is why she is less than thrilled about being shipped off to boarding school in Paris–until she meets Étienne St. Clair. Smart, charming, beautiful, Étienne…
According to The Nice and Accurate Prophecies of Agnes Nutter in Good Omens, Witch (the world’s only completely accurate book of prophecies, written in 1655, before she exploded), the world will end on a Saturday. Next Saturday, in fact. Just before dinner. So the armies of Good and Evil are amassing, Atlantis is rising, frogs…
Fate and fortune. Power and passion. What does it take to be the queen of a kingdom when you’re only seventeen? Find out in The Star-Touched Queen. Maya is cursed. With a horoscope that promises a marriage of death and destruction, she has earned only the scorn and fear of her father’s kingdom. Content to…
I received a copy of Den of Wolves as an eARC from the publisher, Roc, and Netgalley in exchange for an honest review. Feather bright and feather fine, None shall harm this child of mine… Healer Blackthorn knows all too well the rules of her bond to the fey: seek no vengeance, help any who ask, do only…
Katsa has been able to kill a man with her bare hands since she was eight—she’s a Graceling, one of the rare people in her land born with an extreme skill. As niece of the king, she should be able to live a life of privilege, but Graced as she is with killing, she is…