The Red Winter by Cameron Sullivan has got me howling; it’s so good. The book’s synopsis had me at monster slayer, but then give that monster slayer immortality and a demon that lives in his head? Hi, hello. I’m your girl, and this book is right up my alley. There’s horror. There’s a mystery. And…
I suffered an intense movie hangover after watching Emerald Fennell’s “Wuthering Heights,” so I needed to read something on the lighter side. Luckily for me, T. Kingfisher’s latest novella, Nine Goblins, has been waiting patiently on my TBR. So I decided to see what shenanigans a group of goblins got up to while I mended…
Stephanie Garber has written two young adult fantasy series that have enchanted me in the past, so there was no doubt I would pick up her first adult fantasy, Alchemy of Secrets. Garber’s fantastical fairytale dust is coating this story, but this time, the golden sparkles are shifting a familiar urban setting into a new…
If you’ve been unable to recover from that gut-punch of an ending to Holly Black’s Book of Night, then I anticipate you picked up the sequel, Thief of Night, as soon as humanly possible in September. Apparently, I like suffering and prolonged my misery to just now, and let me tell you, Black wanted you…
Sherlock, but she's a crotchety elderly woman dragging around a himbo Watson? Sign me up. That is the premise of The Last Vigilant by Mark A. Latham. A debut book and the first in a trilogy, The Last Vigilant is a mystery fantasy that harkens back to the golden age of sword and sorcery. Calling…
Continue reading ➞ The Last Vigilant – Sword And Sherlockery
The Formidable Miss Cassidy by Meihan Boey is the breath of fresh air that I so desperately needed. It’s a fun, supernatural mystery that is full of heart and many delightful surprises. So please join me and accompany Miss Cassidy as she travels across the world to educate a young woman and solve a generational…
Continue reading ➞ The Formidable Miss Cassidy – An Education In Love
I recently finished a big sci-fi book and was looking for something short and sweet to help me come back down from the stars. While Uncommon Charm by Emily Bergslien and Kat Weaver is certainly short, its sweetness is contained in a friendship growing quietly in the backdrop of a sinister family secret that is…
Many people refer to the second book in a series as the sophomore slump. Bridge books tend to be extremely hard to write, as authors tend to know the start and the end of their stories but not how to connect the two. As such, it constantly impresses me that Robert Jackson Bennett’s middle novels…
Continue reading ➞ A Drop Of Corruption – Embrace The Shroud
The Scarlet Throne, by debut author Amy Leow, is the first book in the The False Goddess series. It unapologetically combines a pretty immoral and traumatized protagonist with some pervasive unreliable narration to create a tale that is both captivating and atmospherically depressing. If you are looking for good vibes, look elsewhere; if you are…
I am not sure how we got here, but I find myself in the unenviable position of reviewing a book I simply did not enjoy at all. Today I am taking a look at the third and final entry in The Empire of the Wolf series, The Trials of Empire (by Richard Swan). I have…
