Review: An Ember in the Ashes, by Sabaa Tahir

October 24, 2016.Reading time 5 minutes.

This book was such a page turner!

I’ll admit, after I read the blurb, I was expecting something completely different from what this book delivered, and I couldn’t be happier about being wrong!

Review: This Savage Song, by Victoria Schwab

October 9, 2016.Reading time 4 minutes.

After reading + loving the Darker Shade of Magic series by Victoria Schwab, I was so excited to start This Savage Song!

Review: Six of Crows & Crooked Kingdom, by Leigh Bardugo [spoiler free]

October 2, 2016.Reading time 10 minutes.

Any reader worth their salt knows: when there’s a map at the beginning of a book, you’re in it for the long haul.

Between these two books, there are three maps.

Review: The Chronicles of Dan Lee O’Brien, by David Jordan

September 4, 2016.Reading time 3 minutes.

Book: The Chronicles of Dan Lee O’Brien Author: David Jordan Pages: 252 Genre: Fantasy, Mythology, Fiction Published: 2016, Paragon Publishing Rating: ★★★1/2 These stories put Irish mythology into a modern context by following the adventures of anti-hero, Dan Lee O’Brien, a pipe smoking, trench coat wearing, bike riding magician and investigator of the supernatural. An older, more laid […]

Review: The Young Elites, by Marie Lu

August 28, 2016.Reading time 6 minutes.

I went into this book with little to no expectations; I’d seen a flux of artsy photos of its cover (probably in anticipation of the third book in the series being released in October) as well as some pretty jaw-dropping fan art, and I read some reviews, which were mostly mixed between love and hate for the series. After reading it, I found myself, unfortunately, on the disappointed side of things.

Review: A Gathering of Magic, by V.E. Schwab

August 21, 2016.Reading time 6 minutes.

You know how everyone says that the sequel is always worse than the original? Yeah. Those people haven’t met Victoria Schwab, and they most certainly haven’t read A Gathering of Shadows.

Review: The Wolf Wilder, by Katherine Rundell

July 31, 2016.Reading time 9 minutes.

Let me start this review off by saying that I realize I’m not the target audience for this book – trust me, I know; I borrowed it from my library and had to venture into the junior section (semi-self-consciously) to pluck it off the shelf…

Review: A Darker Shade of Magic, by V.E. Schwab

July 27, 2016.Reading time 8 minutes.

Bookish Soundtracks (A Book Hangover Remedy)

July 20, 2016.Reading time 12 minutes.

So I don’t know about you, but fantasy books seem to give me the worst kind of book-hangover imaginable. Not knowing what to do with myself, I usually drown my fiction-induced emotions out with music. Because that’s healthy??

Review: Lady Midnight, by Cassandra Clare

July 17, 2016.Reading time 9 minutes.

I have a very vivid memory, from years ago, when I made my parents drive me to the bookstore the day City of Glass came out. As I walked out of the store, two girls a few years older than me sat at a small table eating cinnabons (the cinnabon store was appropriately placed next to the bookstore), and they spotted me holding the book fast against my chest, and then they smiled, as one said “she’s here for the same reason we are”