The Gilded Ones
Deka prays for her blood to run pure. If it flows red at the cutting ceremony, she can take her place as a woman, and will be able to wear a mask, hiding her face from the gaze of men. If it flows gold, she…
A Sky Beyond the Storm
A Sky Before the Storm is the final book in the Ember Quartet and therefore this review may contain spoilers for the previous books. If you haven’t started this series, please check out my review of An Ember in the Ashes instead. You are broken….
The Mask Falling
Disclosure: I received a copy of this book free of charge for review purposes only. Receipt of a book does not guarantee a review or endorsement. My reviews are my honest opinion and are not biased for the purpose of personal gain. Want your heart…
Legendborn
The day Bree gets accepted into an early college placement at UNC, is the day her mother dies. The last words they spoke were of anger. Unable to deal with her dad’s grief on top of her own, Bree goes ahead with the placement. Once…
The Dark Archive
Let me introduce you to the Invisible Library. Thousands of worlds exist in a delicate balance between chaos and order, their links to the library kept alive by books unique to each world. To secure those links, librarians such as Irene must steal the books…
Cold war dragons and leaky wellies… a weekly check-in
I finished the Popsugar Reading Challenge this week! Just one left on ATY and I’m freeee! Which is a silly thing to say because I choose to do these challenges, but it’s been a year. I’m looking forward to catching up with some of my…
Ninth House
Alex Stern does not belong at Yale. When she awakes as the sole survivor of a multiple homicide, presumed a drug deal gone wrong, she is given an unlikely offer. Come to Yale, join the House of Lethe and oversee the rituals of the other…
Prequels and Whatnot: Midnight Sun and The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes
So yeah, I read both the Twilight rehash and the prequel to The Hunger Games, with varying success. I was never a massive Twilight fan but when I first read the books they were fun diversions, read at an age where Edward’s posessiveness didn’t grate…
The Court of Miracles
The Court of Miracles is a criminal underground, a place where those who don’t belong in polite Parisian society can be accepted and find protection. Thieves, prostitutes, assassins, smugglers, mercenaries, gamblers, beggars, drug addicts and forgerers, they all have their guild and a lord or…
Black Sun
Today he would become a god. His mother had told him so. The opening line may seem like something any mother would tell her son, but in the case of Serapio, his mother truly believes he will become the Crow God reborn. She blinds him,…
Legendborn
The day Bree gets accepted into an early college placement at UNC, is the day her mother dies. The last words they spoke were of anger. Unable to deal with her dad’s grief on top of her own, Bree goes ahead with the placement. Once…
Ninth House
Alex Stern does not belong at Yale. When she awakes as the sole survivor of a multiple homicide, presumed a drug deal gone wrong, she is given an unlikely offer. Come to Yale, join the House of Lethe and oversee the rituals of the other…
A Beautifully Foolish Endeavor
Just let me dust off this blog thing, I have a review for you! One of my anticipated reads released during lockdown was the follow-up to An Absolutely Remarkable Thing. If you read that, of course will will be dying to know what happened to…