Category: Book Reviews

Seek the Traitor’s Son by Veronica Roth: The Queen of Dystopia Makes A Triumphant Return

💜🌍 Seek the Traitor’s Son 🌍💜 ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ ‘The human heart isn’t a drinking glass, with only so much room for love at any given time. That it’s more like the void of space, infinitely expanding and endlessly strange.’ Elegy Ahn is the youngest child of the Sword of Cedre, an epic warrior tasked with defending […]

The Fox and the Devil by Kiersten White: A Gothic Tale of Obsession and Revenge

😈🦊 The Fox and the Devil 🦊😈 ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ The thing I love most about humanity is their desire for beauty. That they create it for themselves and others, just to make life a little better.’  This follows a forensic detective’s obsession with a beautiful and alluring serial killer, who taunts her both with her crimes […]

The Raven Scholar by Antonia Hodgson: Imperial Intrigue, Murder Mysteries and Cutthroat Competitions

💜🐦‍⬛ The Raven Scholar 🐦‍⬛💜 ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ ‘Win the throne. Destroy an empire. Either way, it begins with murder.’ Every twenty-four years, a competition for a new ruler begins. The current emperor or empress must stand down when their successor becomes apparent. Now, as Bersun the Brusque’s celebrated reign draws to an end, the competitors assemble. […]

Graceless Heart by Isabel Ibanez: A Lush Romantic Fantasy Set in Renaissance Italy

💜🌙 Graceless Heart 🌙💜 ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ If there’s one thing I love, it’s a historical romantic fantasy. In the vein of Wild Reverence or The Infernal Devices, the genre combines my two loves – reading and history. Graceless Heart absolutely won me over with its world full of art, feuding families and (less historically accurate) magic. […]

Cry Voidbringer by Elaine Ho: A Jaded Warrior, A Paranoid Queen and An Ambitious Advisor Collide in this Epic Fantasy

🖤🌒 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 […]