🖤🌒 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 […]
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🪵🪷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 […]
♦️⏳ 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 […]
⚔️📜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 […]
Fallen City by Adrienne Young: A Lush Greco-Roman Inspired Fantasy
🏛️🪙Fallen City🪙 🏛️ ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ The atmosphere is rich and luscious throughout. Temples, togas, gods and priestesses – everything you’d expect from a Greco-Roman inspired fantasy. Maris Casperia is a Magistrate’s daughter. Her fate has been written for her since the day she was born, destined to inherit her mother’s seat and serve in the Consul’s […]