Tag: book review
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Rock Paper Scissors – Chilling, Enticing and Utterly Brilliant
Alice Feeney is a mastermind when it comes to compelling storylines and Rock Paper Scissors has it all – multiple unreliable narrators, a dark and remote setting, multiple mediums of storytelling and a gripping plot that sinks its teeth into you and makes you stay until the end. I loved everything about this structure and…
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Lavender House – A Queer Historical Murder Mystery To Fall In Love With
How could I resist Lavender House by Lev AC Rosen after hearing it was a historical fiction murder mystery where the main character is a gay man in the 1950s who gets employed by the wife of a soap dynasty businesswoman to investigate the death of said businesswoman? Not only is it LGBTQ representation, but…
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My Dark Naturalism Dream – One Dark Window
I seem to have found the trustworthy side of TikTok when it comes to recommendations because One Dark Window by Rachel Gillig is another popular TikTok book that I wasn’t expecting to love as much as I do. I’ve grown to take all recommendations with a grain of salt and given that romantasy has become…
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The Cutest Novella – A Pressing Engagement
What a sweet little novella to divulge into an aspect of the series that definitely couldn’t have anything larger attached to it. A Pressing Engagement by Anna Lee Huber is the novella set after A Study of Death which ties up some of the more relevant plot points from its predecessor. I’m not being sarcastic…
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City of Fallen Angels is a Wild Ride
There are things I absolutely love about this books and then there’s Jace. References and relationships that made my heart flutter and then there’s Jace. Killer plot devices and action sequences. And then there’s Jace. Let me start by saying it’s not as serious of a hate as I’m painting it out to be. Jace…
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The No-Show is The Best Rom-Com I’ve Read This Year
I’m not a rom-com fanatic, nor do I really read a lot of contemporary fiction, so picking this up was a surprise in itself. Imagine my face when I come to discover that not only is The No-Show an incredible book but it is the leading reason why I’m dipping in contemporary fiction one toe…
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The Finale I Couldn’t Finish
They say every story has a beginning, a middle, an almost-ending and the true ending. It sucks that I couldn’t even get through the middle to see how this magical world’s almost-ending or true ending panned out. Stephanie Garber’s Finale comes with a lot of threads to tie together and balls to juggle but unfortunately…
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Evil Knows No Bounds in Murder at Queen’s Landing
This one is my favourite so far and that was made abundantly clear with my recent reread. Andrea Penrose’s Wrexford and Sloane series just continues to grow and improve with each release. Murder at Queen’s Landing is no exception but she sure is exceptional! With the introduction of more characters into the tight-knit circle the…
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Kristin Cashore’s Fire – The Perfect High Fantasy, Rainy Day Read
There’s a keen sense of nostalgia I get with reading this series and I only first read it a year ago. Kristin Cashore’s Graceling Realm series continues with this immaculate tale, Fire. It truly felt like I was drifting into this read without any reservations or hiccups – within the first few pages, it was…