Well, everyone was right. This was great, and the marketing/art department at Avon should be shamed heavily for the way they did this book and this entire series dirty*. I imagine there are many, many readers who would enjoy this book, and presumably the rest of the series, if the covers weren’t a) heinously misrepresenting the contents of the story, and b) butt ugly and embarrassing. I was one of those readers! And then people whose tastes I trust kept pushing them on me until […]
Assassins, Princes, & Magical Cats Oh My
Prince and Assassin by Tavia Lark
Whisper is a Hound, an elite assassin controlled by blood magic. It’s the only life he’s known. And his latest mission comes with a reward he’s been waiting for. It’s an unusual mission though. Whisper is to infiltrate the court of Prince Julian Sandry, keep him alive until the signal comes, then kill the prince when the signal comes. Getting into the playboy prince’s good graces isn’t the hard part. But Whisper quickly finds that beneath the playboy façade, Julian is smart, warm, and caring, […]
Love, Destiny, and the Military Industrial Complex
Wicked Academia: Lost Stars by Jasmine Jenkins, Sophie Suliman
Okay, help, I’ve just read a damn good book on Kindle Unlimited and I think that might be a sign of the apocalypse? Hear me out! Essentially, Lost Stars takes place in a universe where a trio of gods fell apart after one went evil, another killed him for it, and the mother goddess prophesied three more children who were supposed to redeem and replace what they all broke. …but then that never happened. Until three total disaster teenagers ruin a national festival and save […]
The Limits of a Good Metaphor
King of Immortal Tithe by Ben Alderson
Listen: it’s fundamentally really tricky to pull off a romance when the premise for their connection is that this is the ONLY person who can physically touch you and not die. Our basics here are fairly simple: our ingenue protagonist is abducted in a kind of marriage trade to a fae prince whose touch drains people’s life force, causing instant death. Except it doesn’t work on our hero. Possibly because he’s already dying. And that creates an instant connection. But that premise only goes so far, right? […]
How to Bang Your Dragon (Without Necessarily Knowing Her Personally!)
Treasured by Poppy Woods
Listen: if you want to bang the dragon that sorta kinda grave-robbed your mother, go for it. Have fun! Dragons are sexy! But if you want to decide that the dragon that sorta kinda grave-robbed your mother is now the LOVE of your LIFE, you probably need to have a little more going for your relationship than that she’s: 1) hot And 2) here. Don’t get me wrong: the sex is good. Aside from a somewhat creepy start to the first sex scene, the sex […]
I demand book two this instant.
Emily Wilde’s Encyclopaedia of Faeries (Emily Wilde, #1) by Heather Fawcett
Kicking myself for not writing this review immediately after finishing this book. I was on such a book high and now it’s been two months, and my brain is useless. Because I really want to do this one justice! I want more people to read it and enjoy it like I did. Emily Wilde is a scholar, and her field of study is faeries. She is aiming to write the first comprehensive encylopaedia of faeries that has ever been published. On a scholarly research trip […]
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