💜🐦‍⬛ 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 🌙💜 ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ 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 🌘🖤 ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ 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 […]

♦️⏳ 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 […]