Category: Book Reviews

The Isle in The Silver Sea by Tasha Suri: Yearning Sapphic Lady Knights Incarnated

⚔️🐈‍⬛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 by Marie Lu: Rival Crime Syndicates Vy for Control of Alchemy in Gritty Adult Fantasy

♦️⏳ 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 by Alix E Harrow: An Epic Tale of a Historical Scholar and A Mythical Saint

⚔️📜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 […]