Format: ebookPublished: October 31st, 2023Age: Young AdultGenre: Historical Fantasy Rating: 5/5 Stars I really liked Together We Burn, so I went into this expecting to enjoy it. I wasn’t disappointed. What the River Knows came out last year, but it feels like there’s a trend shifting towards books set in Egypt, pre-1900, grappling with theContinueContinue reading “Book Review: What the River Knows by Isabel Ibañez”
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#5OnMyTBR: City Setting
#5OnMyTBR is a bookish meme hosted by E. @ Local Bee Hunter’s Nook and you can learn more about it here. It occurs every Monday when we post about 5 books on our TBR. I have to admit, this week’s #5OnMyTBR ended up a bit…London-centric! It wasn’t intentional, but for some reason the most easily identifiable ‘city’ books IContinueContinue reading “#5OnMyTBR: City Setting”
Book Review: A Radical Act of Free Magic by H. G. Parry
Format: PaperbackPublished: July 20th, 2021Age: Adult Genre: Historical Fantasy Rating: 5/5 Stars I was really excited to pick up the second book in The Shadow Histories duology, and it truly did not disappoint. Far from it, in fact. Like A Declaration of the Rights of Magicians, A Radical Act of Free Magic is a historicalContinueContinue reading “Book Review: A Radical Act of Free Magic by H. G. Parry”
Book Review: The Once and Future Witches by Alix E. Harrow
Format: ebookPublished: October 13th, 2020Age: AdultGenre: Historical FantasyGoodreads Rating: 3/5 Stars I really wanted to like this one. It was, after all, a Goodreads Choice Awards nominee, and seemed fairly well received when it was published. I really like historical fantasy, too, so was excited to check out Harrow’s The Once and Future Witches. Unfortunately,ContinueContinue reading “Book Review: The Once and Future Witches by Alix E. Harrow”
#5OnMyTBR: Title Starting With an ‘A’
#5OnMyTBR is a bookish meme hosted by E. @ Local Bee Hunter’s Nook and you can learn more about it here. It occurs every Monday when we post about 5 books on our TBR. I love the ‘starting with letter’ prompts for #5OnMyTBR – they’re easy to find, but very hard to narrow down! But these ones are definitelyContinueContinue reading “#5OnMyTBR: Title Starting With an ‘A’”
That Dreaded TBR #60
Yes, another instalment of That Dreaded TBR, and we are on number 60! We are currently up to December 2013, and slowly we’re getting this list down, a little at a time. Going through 5 books at a time means I have gone through 300 books during this series, and the last book I keptContinueContinue reading “That Dreaded TBR #60”
Book Review: The Valkyrie by Kate Heartfield
Format: ebookPublished: March 30th, 2023Age: AdultGenre: Historical FantasyGoodreads Rating: 5/5 Stars The Valkyrie is the story of Brynhild, Gudrun and Sigurd, a fantasy retelling from Norse mythology that reveals another side to the Valkyrie, princess, and hero. Going into this, I’m not overly familiar with Norse mythology and the sagas, so I can’t compare thisContinueContinue reading “Book Review: The Valkyrie by Kate Heartfield”
#5OnMyTBR: Picture
#5OnMyTBR is a bookish meme hosted by E. @ Local Bee Hunter’s Nook and you can learn more about it here. It occurs every Monday when we post about 5 books on our TBR. This was a really tricky one – turns out I don’t have many books at all that are about pictures (at least, not from aContinueContinue reading “#5OnMyTBR: Picture”
Top Ten Tuesday: Bookish Wishes
Top Ten Tuesday was created by The Broke and the Bookish in June of 2010 and was moved to That Artsy Reader Girl in January of 2018. It was born of a love of lists, a love of books, and a desire to bring bookish friends together. More and more my Bookish Wishes list has become theseContinueContinue reading “Top Ten Tuesday: Bookish Wishes”
Book Review: Scarlet by Genevieve Cogman
Publisher: TorFormat: ebookRelease Date: May 11, 2023Age: AdultGenre: Historical FantasyGoodreads Rating: 3/5 Stars I really like Historical Fantasy. I especially like it when it adds in vampires, and I admit I’m a little bit of a sucker (no pun attended) for stuff around the French Revolution. Throw in the fact this is a retelling andContinueContinue reading “Book Review: Scarlet by Genevieve Cogman”
Unwrapping Words 