Elise Kova

It’s Important to Have the Occasional Existential Crisis About Trust. Probably.

A Trial of Sorcerers by Elise Kova

November 13, 2023 by Sarah 2 Comments

On it’s face, Trial of Sorcerers is basically just about what happens when you send the various elemental benders from Avatar: The Last Airbender through the Tri-Wizard Tournament. Which is fun! But actually a vehicle for a VERY different story. Because inside of the framing plot device, Trial of Sorcerers is fundamentally a story about trust. Our core is this: Years ago, a disastrous Carrie-style incident caused our heroine to lose control of her magic and kill someone. It was an accident. It was still manslaughter. […]

Darling it’s Better Down Where it’s Wetter, Take it From Me

A Duet With The Siren Duke by Elise Kova

November 4, 2023 by RevGirlUtena Leave a Comment

Victoria is in a terrible, shitty, no-good marriage. Her husband charmed her when she was very young and impressionable and persuaded her to move to an island in the middle of freaking nowhere and become his assistant lighthouse keeper. Also to cook and clean and obey his every little whim. Basically, he sucks. He sucks so bad that I have forgotten his name and I can’t be bothered to go look it up. One night, Victoria decided to run away. Except they are on an […]

A Duel With The Vampire Lord by Elise Kova – Married to Magic #3

A Duel With The Vampire Lord by Elise Kova

January 30, 2023 by RevGirlUtena 1 Comment

*Audiobook Review* Floriane is the Forge Maiden of Hunter’s Hamlet. She holds this revered position because only she and her mother know how to smith silver into weapons to fight the Vampire raids on their town that happen every Full Moon. The novel starts on the night of the Blood Moon when every 500 years, the Vampire Lord can come through the veil and attack Hunter’s Hamlet. Legend tells that when the Vampire Lord is killed that the vampire attacks will stop, so Florian’s brother […]

There may be more melodrama here than I have the patience with

March 13, 2018 by Malin Leave a Comment

Spoiler warning! This is book 2 in a series, and as such, the review will contain some spoilers for the plot of book 1. If you want to remain unspoiled, start at the beginning with Air Awakens. Left no choice after her trial and sentencing, Vhalla Yarl, former librarian apprentice is marching to war for the Solaris empire. She’s considered property of the empire and has to use her new and unfamiliar Windwalker powers to help the Emperor and his forces win their conquest of the rebellious […]

Librarian heroine with latent magical powers. Dark, broody sorcerer prince as the possible love interest. I can work with that.

March 13, 2018 by Malin Leave a Comment

3.5 stars Vhalla Yarl is a librarian apprentice living in the huge central library in the capital of the Solaris empire. The empire has been at war for ages, trying to conquer the lands in the north and through this conquest uniting the whole continent under one power. One evening, there’s a state of emergency declared, one of the princes has been injured, and all the librarians are needed to help research a possible cure. Remembering how the younger, charming prince, known colloquially as “The […]

Jen K on Soooooo GoodOh, I loved this trilogy. It’s funny, it’s one that I held off on reading after being burned by too many YA trilogies that start...
MsWas on “Those little bastards were hiding out there in the tall grass.”Very interesting! I read Huckleberry Finn a couple of times many many years ago. I'll be checking this one out too.
faintingviolet on Queer fantasy novella feat. shape-shifting, mammoths.Added to my to read list! My library has the audio of this and the first in the series.
Fiat.Luxury on A Quiet Book About Surviving AloneOh this sounds so interesting! Thanks for the review.
narfna on “fear is an anchor, but it’s also a bridge”The problem is that it was barely written at all. It was like a placeholder sex scene. I don't have it with me, but it...

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