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 […]

Bitten by Jordan Stephenie Gray: The Return of 2010s Paranormal Love Triangles?

💜🐺Bitten 🐺💜 ⭐️⭐️⭐️ Bitten follows Vanessa Hart, a human girl whose life is thrown into turmoil when her best friend is murdered at a beach party. In the chaos, Vanessa is Bitten, and is taken to an ancient castle which houses the North American werewolf court. There, she narrowly escapes instant execution by the unusual […]