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Cold magic, revolution, and love

Cold Magic by Kate Elliott

Cold Fire by Kate Elliott

Cold Steel by Kate Elliott

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This review is for emmalita.  I haven’t been writing reviews in months due to life reasons but I wanted to share with her how awesome I found this trilogy.  Instead of writing her a bunch of texts, I decided it was time to write a review.  Emmalita introduced me to Kate Elliott with The Keeper’s Six.  Earlier this year I devoured Elliott’s’ The Witch Roads and it got me wanting to explore her back catalog so I got the audiobook version of Cold Magic, book one […]

Faeries, vampires, and a human troublemaker

Quicksilver by Callie Hart

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Quicksilver by Callie Hart introduces us to human thief Saeris. She mainly robs from the rich to survive her hellish kingdom, ruled by an evil magic queen. She had a past dalliance with the hot but insufferable schemer named Carrion. He will never let her hear the end of it. She’s living day to day until captured by the royal guard in a desperate attempt to save her baby brother. She assumes she’ll be executed, but in a world-shattering turn of events, she discovers she […]

Cozy magic and found families

Can't Spell Treason Without Tea by Rebecca Thorne

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I chose Rebecca Thorne’s Can’t Spell Treason Without Tea as the January fantasy book club selection for The Ripped Bodice LA. I love tea, cozy magic stories, and sapphic romances. Palace guard Reyna and royal mage Kianthe run away to open a tea shop in the town of Tawny. Reyna’s queen is quite horrible and would never let them be together. Through flashbacks, we learn how they met unexpectedly at a royal function. They had nighttime rendezvous for a while, but yearn to move in […]

“This is a man’s first, last, and greatest fear: a world that exists empty of him.”

Lady Macbeth: A Novel by Ava Reid

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I have to admit I’m torn about this book. The first couple of chapters, I wasn’t really a fan, then I started really enjoying it. Now having finished and letting it all sink in, I’m back to poking large holes in it. Lady Macbeth (claims) to tell the feminist reimagining of Shakespeare’s Macbeth, told from the perspective of the aforementioned Lady Macbeth. Only instead of the forty-something woman named Gruoch pushing Macbeth towards power for herself as well as him, we have Roscille, the seventeen […]

“Death is boring. Life is much more fun. Things happen in life all the time. Unexpected things.” (Quintuple Bingo)

Nevermoor: The Trials of Morrigan Crow by Jessica Townsend

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4.5 stars Nowhere Bingo 25: A middle-grade book CBR17 Bingo: N (a book starting with the letter N) Morrigan Crow is a cursed child, born on Eventide (think New Year’s Eve, but unlucky) and as such, is due to die at midnight on her 11th birthday. She keeps being blamed for everything bad that happens in her surroundings and spends a lot of time writing apology notes. However, before she can meet her doom, a mysterious stranger called Jupiter North appears and takes her away, […]

Arts and crafts as magic

The Moorwitch by Jessica Khoury

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Bingo Square: Free Space, replacing Borrow – and board complete with two final bingos (2nd column & last row) This novel was an Amazon First read for October, and the author was scheduled for a talk with Beth Revis at a local bookstore so it seemed like the perfect choice. The talk was earlier this week, and it was such a great discussion. I hadn’t actually picked up on this when I read it but Khoury did say this novel was inspired by/a nod to […]



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