Heirs of Bone and Sea by Kay Adams
I think I listened to the audio book to Heirs of Bone and Sea because it was a part of the “what’s making me happy this week” segment on the Pop Culture Happy Hour podcast. This was my first dual narrator audio book in a while. I liked it well enough. The world building is pretty light but the main story of a princess and a queen on the run was fun. Evhen, queen of Vodaerd and Princess Kalei of Marama are brought together when […]
Well Played by Jen DeLuca
CBR Square- Smash I liked Well Met, and Well Played is the next book in the series by Jen DeLuca set in a small Maryland town called Willow Creek that has it’s own Renaissance Festival. We even see the wedding of the first couple, at the Festival but not in costume, Simon and Emily. Emily and Stacey, the main character in this book, are wenches at the Faire. Stacey is cosplaying at being happy in her life, she feels stuck in the town and stuck […]
The Lightning Thief by Rick Riordan
CBR Square- Horses I read Percy Jackson & The Olympians book 1- The Lightning Thief at the same time my son and I watched the series on Disney + and we really liked them both. He’s not done with the book but he has other books he’s reading first so that’s fine. There are a few differences between the two but the basic plot of the tv series and the book are the same. It’s fun to see the “shocking betrayal” through your kid’s eyes […]
Icarus by K. Ancrum
CBR Bingo square- Dun Dun I got Icarus by K. Ancrum from a list of retellings of Greek mythology, and it made me do something I never do anymore, I skipped ahead a few chapters to make sure nothing happened to Icarus, who is a child. Yes, he’s a kid in high school, but I needed to make sure he was okay. He is almost a legal adult, but it still freaked me out that he was in the situation he found himself in. Icarus […]
Starter Villain by John Scalzi
I read Starter Villain after my hold came up in the library. That’s always fun, it’s like winning a small lottery, especially if the book has many holds. I liked this; I try not to read other people’s reviews of the same books I read before writing the review, but I did read one for this where the reviewer didn’t like the end and felt like it made the entire thing feel unreal. Which I can understand, but I did not feel that way. There […]
Iron Widow by Xiran Jay Zhao
This review contains some mild spoilers which I think are given away in the book jacket. Iron Widow is a YA story set in a future city of Chinese inspired Huaxia where men and women pilot mecha type suits to protect the population from aliens around the Great Wall. The suits are called Chrysalises, and the pilot, a man, teams up with a woman in the back in a merging of energy and minds that usually result in the woman’s death. This is how the […]
