The Poppy War by R. F. Kuang Asian Military Fantasy 530 pages Published May 2018 Have you ever read a book that is so good you don’t know what to say about it? It’s taken me almost two weeks to even attempt this review because I just don’t know what to write. The Poppy War … Continue reading
Library Loot Wednesday
I picked up seven books this week, in two visits. On my first visit I got All I Want For Halloween, Confessions of the Fox, and Ten Years in the Tub: a decade soaking in great books. (A smutty romance, historical fiction about a transgender thief, and a book about books.) Ten Years in the … Continue reading
TTT – Books by My Favorite Authors that I Still Haven’t Read
Top Ten Tuesday is hosted by That Artsy Reader Girl, and this week’s topic is “Books by My Favorite Authors that I Still Haven’t Read.” This is actually a little difficult for me; I’ve either read absolutely everything from authors I like, or I’ve stopped being interested in that author, or I’ve read one or … Continue reading
Book Review: Snow Like Ashes
Snow Like Ashes by Sara Raasch YA Fantasy 422 pages Published 2014 The world-building in this book is fascinating. At first, it seems like yet another YA novel about displaced royals trying to win back their kingdom, but this royal is in much more dire straits than most. Meira is a refugee living on the … Continue reading
Book Review: The Shape of Water
The Shape of Water by Daniel Kraus and Guillermo del Toro Magical Realism 314 pages Published 2018 Alright, so, with as much as I enjoy twists on mermaid stories, this was kind of inevitable, right? I’d heard a lot about the movie, but hadn’t yet seen it, so I figured I’d read the novelization. What … Continue reading
Book Review: Guardian Angels & Other Monsters
Guardian Angels & Other Monsters by Daniel H. Wilson Sci-fi short stories 280 pages Published 2018 So I obviously didn’t read the description of this book closely enough, because it wasn’t until I hit “One For Sorrow – A Clockwork Dynasty Story” that I realized this was the same author that wrote Clockwork Dynasty, a … Continue reading