More mini reviews from books I’ve enjoyed to varying degrees over the last few weeks. Continue reading
Tag: fantasy
Review | Kingdom of the Wicked by Kerri Maniscalco
Title: Kingdom of the Wicked
Author: Kerri Maniscalco
Rating: ★★★☆☆
Publisher: JIMMY Patterson
Release Date: October 27, 2020
“Fear made monsters of men.” Continue reading
Review | A Deadly Education by Naomi Novik
Title: A Deadly Education (The Scholomance#1)
Author: Naomi Novik
Rating: ★★☆☆☆
Publisher: Del Rey Books
Release Date: September 29, 2020
“She says it’s too easy to call people evil instead of their choices and that lets people justify making evil choices. Because they convince themselves that it’s okay because they’re still good people overall inside their own heads. And yes, fine. But I think that after a certain number of evil choices, it’s reasonable shorthand to decide that someone’s an evil person who oughtn’t have the chance to make any more choices. And the more power someone has, the less slack they ought to be given.” Continue reading
Updated Review | A Song Below Water by Bethany C. Morrow
Title: A Song Below Water (A Song Below Water #1)
Author: Bethany C. Morrow
Rating: ★★★☆☆ (3.5 Stars)
Publisher: Tor Teen
Release Date: June 2, 2020
“I’m not a monster because I live in a world that gives me impossible choices.”
Review | The Heart of Betrayal by Mary E. Pearson
Title: The Heart of Betrayal (The Remnant Chronicles #2)
Author: Mary E. Pearson
Rating: ★★★★☆
Publisher: Henry Holt and Co
Release Date: July 7, 2015
“Gather close, my brothers and sisters. Listen well, for there is one true history and one true future. Once upon a time, long long ago, seven stars were flung from the sky. One to shake the mountains, one to churn the seas, one to choke the air, and four to test the hearts of men.”
Review | The Secret of a Heart Note by Stacey Lee
Title: The Secret of a Heart Note
Author: Stacey Lee
Rating: ★★★★☆
Publisher: Katherine Tegen Books
Release Date: December 27, 2016
“If we are the magicians. love is the magic…”
Review | House of Earth and Blood by Sarah J. Maas
Title: House of Earth and Blood (Crescent City #1)
Author: Sarah J. Maas
Rating: ★★★★★
Publisher: Bloomsbury
Release Date: March 3, 2020
“Through love, all is possible.”
First Lines Fridays #92
First Lines Fridays is a weekly feature for book lovers hosted by Wandering Words. What if instead of judging a book by its cover, its author or its prestige, we judged it by its opening lines?
- Pick a book off your shelf (it could be your current read or on your TBR) and open to the first page
- Copy the first few lines, but don’t give anything else about the book away just yet – you need to hook the reader first
- Finally… reveal the book!
Review | Children of Virtue and Vengeance by Tomi Adeyemi
Title: Children of Virtue and Vengeance (Legacy of Orïsha #2)
Author: Tomi Adeyemi
Rating: ★★★☆☆
Publisher: Henry Holt and Co. (BYR)
Release Date: December 3, 2019
“We’re the children of the gods.” I lift my chin. “If someone’s running away, it’s not going to be us.”
First Lines Fridays #86
First Lines Fridays is a weekly feature for book lovers hosted by Wandering Words. What if instead of judging a book by its cover, its author or its prestige, we judged it by its opening lines?
- Pick a book off your shelf (it could be your current read or on your TBR) and open to the first page
- Copy the first few lines, but don’t give anything else about the book away just yet – you need to hook the reader first
- Finally… reveal the book!
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