Category: science fiction
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Ali Hazelwood’s Not In Love Takes A Different Approach
Riding off the high of Ali Hazelwood’s books The Love Hypothesis, Love on the Brain, and Love, Theoretically, I picked up Not in Love to see if it was up there with the rest of them. Safe to say it missed the mark for me. With a warning at the beginning to prove it wasn’t…
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My Review of Marissa Meyer’s The Lunar Chronicles
If you have been checking in with this blog over the last few months, then you will have seen I reread The Lunar Chronicles by Marissa Meyer. If you don’t know what that is, the Lunar Chronicles is a YA sci-fi fairytale retelling series spread across four books, blending elements of the traditional narrative structures…
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It All Comes Down To This In Marissa Meyer’s Winter
What a whirlwind end to a fantastic series! Marissa Meyer’s Lunar Chronicles comes to a stunning conclusion with Winter, a whopping 823 pages that is bound to have you immersed, excited, and eagerly anticipating the ever-changing action for Cinder, Scarlet, Wolf, Cress, Captain Thorne, Kai and Iko. Princess Winter is admired for her grace, kindness…
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Love, Theoretically By Ali Hazelwood Might Be My Favourite
Love, Theoretically shouldn’t have floored me as much as it did, but I was hanging onto every word Ali Hazelwood wrote in this wonderful romance novel of hers. There’s disability rep with our main character Elsie, not just as a character in a novel but in a romance novel at that, we return to the…
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My Review of Claudia Gray’s Firebird Trilogy
Claudia Gray’s Firebird trilogy is a YA sci-fi romance that will take you all over the world, jumping into multiverses and dropping you in places of rich detail, vivid world building, and budding romance. It is an immersive, fun, and creative series that I happily reread in 2024 and maybe I can convince you to…
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Alexandra Bracken’s The Darkest Minds Series Review
It has been a long time in the making doing my reread of The darkest Minds series by Alexandra Bracken, but I have finally completed it and had the time to ruminate on my feelings. Now, it is about time I get to posting my review of the trilogy. Note there is a fourth book…
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Love on the Brain – Another Banger by Ali Hazelwood
Love on the Brain, Ali Hazelwood’s second novel in her STEM romance series, is just as cute and funny as The Love Hypothesis. It takes a slightly different route with industry positions and company rivalry mudding the waters – not to mention past beef between our main characters – but the romance is just as…
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Marissa Meyer’s Cress Will Have Your Heart in Your Throat
Cress, Marissa Meyer’s third instalment in the Lunar Chronicles, is where the conflicts really heat up. Everything about this book carries high-stakes, making the interactions incredible, the action intense, and the characters raw and complex beyond the immediate issues at hand. It is exhilarating, immersive, and an absolute must-read. Cinder and Captain Thorne are fugitives…
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A Million Worlds With You by Claudia Gray – A Finale Out of This World
Concluding Claudia Gray’s The Firebird Trilogy is A Million Worlds With You, a novel that is action-packed, intriguing and multi-layered beyond expectations. It brings the imagination and creative settings of various worlds together and the possibilities within these worlds and the overarching action and romance plots of the trilogy to a gritty, engaging conclusion. To…