🪵🪷A Dark and Drowning Tide🪷🪵 ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ Allison Saft’s books are always solid reads and A Dark and Drowning Tide was no different. Folklorist Lorelei Kaskel is about to set out on a mission to find the fabled source of all magic – the Ursprung. If she completes the mission successfully, she will be bestowed with […]
⚔️🐈⬛The Isle in The Silver Sea 🐈⬛⚔️ ⭐️⭐️⭐️ If I had a nickel for every time I read a tale about a knight and a scribe being incarnated in every lifetime… I’d have two nickels. Which isn’t a lot, but it’s weird it happened twice (The Everlasting and the Isle in the Silver Sea). The […]
Happy Maxton Hall Season 2 Release Day! 🥍💌 This show consumed me when it first came out, and ever since I’ve been counting down the days until the English translation came out! Many thanks to Mona Kasten @monakasten for writing James Beaufort and to Rachel Ward @racheltranslates for bringing this story to a wider, international […]
♦️⏳ Red City ⏳♦️ ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ The Godfather meets Lev Grossman’s The Magicians in Marie Lu’s incredibly adult debut fantasy, flavoured with dark academia. In Angel City, a reimagined version of Los Angeles, two crime syndicates – Grand Central and Lumines – war for power and control of the illicit substance, sand. Sand enhances an alchemists […]
Happy Halloween 🎃 In honour of spooky season, here are some of my favourite recommendations. A truly eclectic mix of genres, from horror to fantasy. Books featured are: 🕯️One Dark Window by Rachel Gillig @rmgillig – a deliciously dark gothic fantasy featuring a world full of enchanted cards, haunted houses, dangerous romance and deadly stakes. […]
⚔️📜The Everlasting 📜⚔️ ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ A lady knight and a bespectacled scholar. When a historical scholar unearths an ancient book about the legend of Sir Una Everlasting, whose sainthood built a nation, he steps into a time loop that spans millennia. (Think Joan of Arc meets Arthurian knights). Owen Mallory has been fascinated by Una by […]