The Everlasting by Alix E. Harrow
First off, I can say that I have really enjoyed Harrow’s other book I have read, The Once and Future Witches and her short story which takes on themes shown in this book too, The Six Deaths of the Saint. The main reason why I gave this 4 stars though is that the first part of this book was slow. I was not really following what was going on and then once things started to click and we get some of the reveals. I do […]
A Trade of Blood (Shadow of the Leviathan, #3) by Robert Jackson Bennett
Robert Jackson Bennett is on a mission to document the entirety of his own made-up world by creating unsettling, weird, fantastical murders that letting him explore it, and I am here for it. This time we’re exploring the complicated and fraught world of agriculture and how it intersects with capitalism, Romeo and Juliet-style. Also, FUNGUUSSSSS. ALSO! I had assumed that this would only be a trilogy, because his other three series are trilogies, but THERE WILL BE MORE! Maybe a lot more! (More than five, […]
The October Girl: Book One by Matthew Dow Smith
I first heard of The October Girl at an event at my local indie bookstore. They were booktalking recent and soon-to-be published books and this was one of them. I enjoy reading a graphic novel from time to time and the plot seemed interesting too. Autumn Ackerman is about to graduate high school and isn’t sure what she wants to do with her life. With little money, she and her mom working hard, college doesn’t feel like an option. But things change when her imaginary […]
The City of Brass by S.A. Chakraborty
Bingo Square: One (first book of the Daevabad trilogy) This was my third time reading this novel (book club picked it), and I swear I enjoy this series more every time I read it (I haven’t actually reread the other two yet). This was one of those series I kept seeing and then hesitating to start because I think we have all been burned by fantasy trilogies not maintaining their quality but then decided to read once the whole trilogy was available and burned through […]
Dragon Haven by Robin Hobb
The Knight and the Moth by Rachel Gillig
CBR18 BINGO: You (for Dragon Haven because I’ve been working my way through Realm of the Elderlings as part of a book club for the past 1.5 years) and Sheep (for The Knight and the Moth related to being led/conformity) Dragon Haven I’ve had an unusual reaction to the first two books in the Rain Wild Chronicles. For both of them, I’ve enjoyed the actual process of reading the book, but I’ve also rarely felt the urge to pick them up between sittings and have often […]
Adversary to the Villain by Hannah Nicole Maehrer
Cbr18bingo And (4th book in the Villain series) Bingo #1 Adversary to the Villain is the fourth book in Hannah Nicole Maehrer’s Villain series, with a fifth and final volume to follow next year. I read the first three volumes last summer and liked them very much. I had intended to do a re-read before jumping into book 4 but I never got around to it and I have some regrets about that. Perhaps if I had reread at least volume three I would have […]
