This duology satisfies my fairytale craving. This duology feels as if it’s a love letter to fairytales. The author incorporates fairytales throughout both books in different ways. Sometimes it’s the mention of a character from a popular story we’ve all heard. Sometimes it’s simply the lessons fairytales teach us and the deeper meaning of each […]
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[Lisa’s Review]: The Dark Tide by Alicia Jasinska
Here’s the thing: every once in a while, there’s a book that seemingly has everything you could ever wish for, and has all the promise in the world and yet for whatever reason, you can’t connect to the story and the characters in the way you wanted to or thought you would. And unfortunately, this […]
[Elizabeth’s Review]: The Dark Tide by Alicia Jasinska
I like to think Alicia Jasinska read Beauty and the Beast and thought: let’s make our beast a QUEEN and let’s make it dark. And I was totally and completely about it. This book focuses on two POVs: Lina Kirk and Queen Eva and they each have something to prove. The dynamic between Lina and […]
[Skye’s Review]: Four Days of You and Me by Miranda Kenneally
Oh my goodness. This book was so freaking cute. I shouldn’t be surprised since Miranda Kenneally wrote it. I’ll admit, I was a bit nervous about how this story would be told. I thought we would only get to see the characters on one specific day each year, but that isn’t the case. Yes, the […]
[Skye’s Review]: Bone Crier’s Moon by Kathryn Purdie
I was super excited to read Bone Crier’s Moon. I love the premise: the Bone Criers are essentially sirens that ferry the dead. To be able to ferry the dead, a leuress (what the Bone Crier’s call themselves) must undergo a ritual where she finds her amouré, her soulmate, and kills him. By killing him, […]
[Skye’s Review]: It Sounded Better in my Head by Nina Kenwood
It’s hard to believe that this is Nina Kenwood’s debut novel. I was hooked from the very first page. It was difficult for me to put this book down. I only took a break once, and that was because I had class. Then, as soon as class ended, I immediately resumed devouring this book. It […]
[Diana’s Review]: Ruthless Gods by Emily Duncan
“Can you love someone and ask them to shatter themselves for you?” I… honestly don’t know what to say. Rest assured though, that whatever dark magic Emily Duncan had woven into writing Wicked Saints, it has become tenfold in this one. Ruthless Gods is everything dark, terrifying, and bloody but also ironically, impossibly sweet and […]
[Lisa’s Review]: There Will Come a Darkness by Katy Rose Pool
There Will Come a Darkness is a solid fantasy debut that follows multiple characters through a well-established world of magic, prophecies, deceit, and political intrigue. Katy Rose Pool did an excellent job with the world-building. I was intrigued from the moment the book showed up on our available review copies list, and my curiosity grew […]