As the end of 2025 draws near (which feels crazy to say because where has this year gone 🤯), here is the obligatory wrap-up post! This is by far my favourite time on blogs, bookstagram and booktube, seeing everyone’s favourites. Of the 137 books I read this year (yikes), these were the cream of the […]
🖤🌒 Cry, Voidbringer 🌘🖤 ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ Hammer, a jaded warrior, was born into a country that uses conscription to wage its losing war against the oppressors. Khall is the queen ruling, thrust into leadership after the abrupt death of her father, and growing increasingly paranoid about assassinations and plots. Naias is her advisor, hell bent on […]
🪵🪷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 […]