3.5 Stars. For at least the last couple of years, I kept hearing about this book called Sabriel. It popped up on lists of what to read to fill the Harry Potter shaped hole in your heart, bookish podcasts, Cannonball Read, and in conversations with various friends and family. This cult favorite was clearly something I needed to pick up and I’m glad I did. Sabriel is born into a family of magical necromancers living in the Old Kingdom, but gets shipped off to boarding […]
4,100 pages of perpetual youth.
I read these books last month, but wanted to save them to celebrate my Cannonball. When I was a teenager, I thought I read a lot. But I don’t think I ever read 40 books in a year before. Last year, reading mostly historical biographies, I only made it to 29 (my goal was 12, though). So I didn’t expect to really be able to make it this year. So I’m pleasantly surprised that I was able to make it in approximately six months. So, […]
This is war. Chaos. Chance. Death.
I cannot emphasize enough how much I am loving the Red Rising series. I’m pre-grieving my reading and finishing of the next and final book. But, I’m also so addicted that as soon as the library checks it out to me, I’m going to devour it. This is dystopian fiction at its finest: fully fleshed out, incredibly exciting, completely believable, deeply poetic. The protagonist, Darrow has my heart. He’s driven, he’s thoughtful, he’s pure but emotional, and he’s young and beautiful. The villains of the […]
An interesting letdown
This book has quite literally been at the top of my TBR list for two and a half years. I gobbled up The Rook at the very end of 2013 and proceeded to fall madly in love with Myfanwy Thomas and the secret magical world of The Checquy (basically England’s bureau of magical law enforcement). I always knew whatever direction the sequel took, it would have to be pretty different from The Rook. You can only have your main character lose her memory once. Stiletto […]
A Slave, A Reluctant Soldier and an Empire: How They’ll Change the Whole Game
Rating: 5/5 Summary: Elias is the best soldier in Blackcliff, he’s also their most reluctant. He hates what they carved him into and wishes desperately for freedom. Laia loses everything one night during a Martial raid of her house. Her grandparents are killed and her brother captured. She is scared and has no one. She turns to the underground Resistance in hopes they will help her free her brother. In order to get them to help her, she agrees to become a slave to the […]
Mermaids the Eat People & are Kind of Bitchy
Rating: 3/5 Summary: When three beautiful girls come to the small town of Capri, Gemma and her sister are suspicious. The girls are eerily beautiful and are completely pretentious. They don’t speak to anyone, but they want to speak to Gemma. Gemma is a swimmer and she goes out for nightly swims in the bay by her house. One night, the girls entrance her to join them and her life is never the same. This book had a lot of potential. It wasn’t bad per […]