Tag: childrens fantasy
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Reflecting on my Reading Habits
2025 has been a whirlwind of a year, with many reading goals and habits in mind and most of them implemented, but whether or not they were successful remains to be seen. So, as we are arriving at the yer’s end, I figured now would be the best time to reflect on what reading goals…
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Danger Looms in The Farthest Shore by Ursula K. Le Guin
The Earthsea Cycle continues with The Farthest Shore, the third instalment in the phenomenal fantasy series by Ursula K. Le Guin. I am writing this before starting, deciding to shake it up a bit and do a bit of an anticipatory look at the next novel. With such a premise as this, I have so…
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Back to the Basics with Ursula K. Le Guin’s A Wizard of Earthsea
I am going to be honest here and say I have not read The Books of Earthsea by Ursula K. Le Guin. Any of them. I had heard of them, of course, but it is only now in my mid-twenties that I possess a copy of them. This copy has already shocked and surprised me…
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The Beastly Beauties in William Ritter’s Beastly Bones
Back again with another Jackaby book by William Ritter, this one is the second in the series and oh boy did I have fun reading it. Beastly Bones not only had some great plot trajectory and entertaining prose, but the character development, relationship developments and the fact this book wasn’t focused on either of the…
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Strange the Dreamer – Beautiful but I have DNFed it
I have seen Strange the Dreamer by Laini Taylor mentioned many times across all bookish social media platforms and I can see why it’s so popular. The world is incredible rich and lush and beautiful, however, I have read 180 pages and I have no interest in continuing this book. Why is that? Let me…
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A Wizard’s Guide to Defensive Baking – What A Fun Story
A Wizard’s Guide to Defensive Baking by T. Kingfisher is such a cute, easy and cosy autumnal read perfect for young readers and old. Mona is a young witch whose magic is all about bread, her familiar is a sourdough starter that cannot die and she magics gingerbread men to dance (and serve as guardians…