Publisher: Titan BooksFormat: MOBIRelease Date: May 18th, 2021 Rating: 4/5 Stars Domek Myska is a lamplighter in Prague, but his job is more than ensuring the people of Prague have light to guide their way. In a world with pijavica, vampiric creatures stalking the streets, his job is to hunt them down and kill them,ContinueContinue reading “Book Review: The Lights of Prague – Nicole Jarvis”
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Book Review: Malice – Heather Walter
Publisher: Del Ray UKFormat: MOBIRelease Date: April 13th, 2021 Rating: 5/5 Stars This book deserves every single star, plus more. Heather Walter takes fairy tales and tweaks them, not so much they’re unrecognisable, but enough to separate them from the Disney versions we know and love. Malice is beautiful and dark and powerful, much likeContinueContinue reading “Book Review: Malice – Heather Walter”
The Lore of Prometheus Spotlight! [BBNYA 2020 Winner]
Blurb John Carver has three rules: Don’t drink in the daytime, don’t gamble when the luck has gone, and don’t talk to the dead people who come to visit.It has been almost five years since the incident in Kabul. Since the magic stirred within him and the stories began. Fleeing the army, running from theContinueContinue reading “The Lore of Prometheus Spotlight! [BBNYA 2020 Winner]”
Marrow Charm – Kristin Jacques [The Write Reads BBNYA Blog Tour]
Azure ‘Azzy’ Brimvine lives in a world decimated by magic, where humans have retreated underground from the overwhelming dangers of the surface. But Below is no safer than Above. Magic borne plagues continue to eat away at the remaining human cities, a sickness that doesn’t merely kill, but creates aberrations from the stricken: people twistedContinueContinue reading “Marrow Charm – Kristin Jacques [The Write Reads BBNYA Blog Tour]”
Lava Red Feather Blue – Molly Ringle
Publisher: Central Avenue PublishingFormat: MOBIRelease Date: 5th January, 2021 Rating: 4/5 Stars I want to note something here before getting into the review. I’m used to ARCs having poor formatting, but this was possibly one of the worst I’ve actually seen – it made reading it difficult, and I very nearly DNF’d this early on.ContinueContinue reading “Lava Red Feather Blue – Molly Ringle”
November 2020 Reading Wrap Up
January / February / March Part 1 / March Part 2 / April Part 1 / April Part 2/ May Part 1 / May Part 2 / June / July Part 1 / July Part 2 / August / September / October I am going to be honest – I very much forgot to do a November wrap up! Things have been hectic, to say the least. But here it is! And the nextContinueContinue reading “November 2020 Reading Wrap Up”
Divination Hollow Open Calls
Over on Divination Hollow, the website I run with my wonderful co-admin Ellen, we currently have two open calls running until 3rd January, 2021. As the above graphic indicates, we’re looking for articles, essays, reviews, and more, max 3K words. For both calls, we’re looking to run these features in February 2021, for Women inContinueContinue reading “Divination Hollow Open Calls”
The Sandman, Volume 2 – The Doll’s House
Volume 1 Review Morpheus must track down four dreams which have escaped into the real world. While Rose Walker searches for her brother, and finds more questions than answers along the way. The Doll’s House continues the story from The Sandman, and the second book adds even more detail to this already rich world, showingContinueContinue reading “The Sandman, Volume 2 – The Doll’s House”
The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue – V.E. Schwab [Book Review]
Addie LaRue is a young woman in rural France, who wants so much more than this provincial life. To escape the life laid out before her, she makes a deal with the devil, trading her soul for immortality, and the chance to have no obligations whatsoever. But where there’s a deal, there’s a price, andContinueContinue reading “The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue – V.E. Schwab [Book Review]”
Editing S.H. Cooper’s The Knight’s Daughter
For those unaware, The Knight’s Daughter is a YA Fantasy novel from S.H. Cooper, a writer who normally specialises in horror stories, especially ‘Wholesome Horror’. If you like Horror, definitely check out her other books – three short story collections and one novella – but whether or not you’re interested in her Horror, if you like theContinueContinue reading “Editing S.H. Cooper’s The Knight’s Daughter”
Unwrapping Words 