The Dragon Has Some Complaints, by John Wiswell, is a premise that is absolutely packed with clever ideas and promising concepts. Our main character is a once four, now three, headed hydra-esk dragon named Garrodigh, the Great Terror. I am assuming he takes inspiration from King Ghidorah, of Godzilla fame, from the name and design,…
Continue reading ➞ The Dragon Has Some Complaints – Hydralarious And Hydrafelt
Kate Elliot has dazzled me in the past with her Alexander the Great-inspired space opera – The Sun Chronicles, and her fantasy novellas. I’ve always had too much on my plate to dive into her Crown of Stars series, but I may be changing my mind about that. The Witch Roads duology, by Kate Elliott,…
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…
My high school reading list and I did not get along. There were very few books I enjoyed reading at that age, and the one I remember loving the most was Wuthering Heights by Emily Brontë. And honestly, that tracks even to this day because I do love a dramatic, gloomy, and depressing affair with…
Roshani Chokshi reminds us that a heart’s a heavy burden in her newest standalone, The Swan’s Daughter. This magical, funny, and thoughtful fairy tale explores all the ways love can be a boon or your doom. Prince Arris wants to fall in love without his heart getting cut out. Unfortunately, his untimely death is practically…
Stepping out of my comfort zone this week and decided to check out a promising new romantasy book that caught my eye. The Trident And The Pearl, by Sarah K.L. Wilson, is essentially a slow-burning romance about the leader of a nation falling in love with Poseidon. I always felt the god of the seas…
Continue reading ➞ The Trident And The Pearl – Rock The Boat
Thrum by Meg Smitherman was an interesting reading experience for me because I loved the big reveal at the end of the story, but I don’t like how we got there. I was very intrigued by a horror romance set in space, and despite Smitherman delivering one hell of an ending, the novella was a…
In Other Lands, by Sarah Rees Brennan, is a conundrum of a book. It is a standalone fantasy with a number of traditional tropes and elements I can’t usually stand. It’s a portal fantasy, YA, a coming-of-age story with a love triangle, and has an unlikable protagonist, among other things. In the dedication, Brennan seems…
Continue reading ➞ In Other Lands – Young, Dumb, And Full Of Adventure
Water Moon, by Samantha Sotto Yambao, is not the kind of book I would normally pick up. I’m all for plots that revolve around choices and people having to reflect on whether they made the correct ones. But a story that centered on the romantic journey of two strangers as they wade through a world…
I’ve started the past three years with one of Heather Fawcett’s Emily Wilde books, and I always look forward to my yearly meet-up with the fae. The new year arrived, and shortly after, book three in the series followed. Emily Wilde's Compendium of Lost Tales is a beautiful culmination of all of Emily’s previous adventures.…
Continue reading ➞ Emily Wilde’s Compendium of Lost Tales – A Boon
