Tag: historical fantasy
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Chain of Iron – Spare My Heart Cassandra Clare
Chain of Iron is my favourite of The Last Hours trilogy. I don’t know what it is, but there is something about this book that makes my heart sing, sob, and feel like it has been ripped out of my chest and ridden over by a hackney cab. Continuing on from the whirlwind action of…
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Chain of Gold – The Best of Cassandra Clare
I reread Chain of Gold by Cassandra Clare yesterday for the first time and I am finding it hard to place it in my preference list for the Shadowhunter Chronicles. I kept thinking throughout the read that it is one of my favourites, that I love it as much as Clockwork Prince and Clockwork Princess…
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The Cosy Fantasy Continues in Emily Wilde’s Map of the Otherlands
Dipping back into the adorable light fantasy romance world of Heather Fawcett’s Emily Wilde’s Encyclopaedia of Faeries, this time with the sequel Emily Wilde’s Map of the Otherlands. This time the drama is escalating, the tension is rising, and Emily and Wendall are at the centre of not only an iconic mystery, but a discovery…
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Ruthless Vows by Rebecca Ross – The Finale I Devoured (But Was I Satisfied?)
I wasn’t sure if I would pick up Ruthless Vows by Rebecca Ross, not because I thought it would be bad, but because I wasn’t sure if the magical realism and historical fiction aspects of the novel would gel with me. I loved elements of Divine Rivals, but I felt something was hiding from view…
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Emily Wilde’s Encyclopaedia of Faeries is a Delightful Cosy Fantasy For All
Emily Wilde’s Encyclopaedia of Faeries by Heather Fawcett has been popular book for light academia lovers, fairycore fans, and whimsical romance readers over the last two years. I have finally joined the party, and I can attest to the wonderful world building and delightful dialogue within these pages. It is a historical fiction fantasy set…
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Claudia Gray’s Ten Thousand Skies Above You – A Perfect Balance of Romance and Sci-fi
Ten Thousand Skies Above You, the second instalment in Claudia Gray’s Firebird Trilogy, kicks right into the action with higher stakes and more emotional turmoil than before. The tension is sky-high and the uncertainties of the worlds and how things work makes reading this novel a truly gripping, heart-stopping experience. Ever since Marguerite used the…
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My Infernal Devices Trilogy Review (It’s The Best YA Trilogy Ever)
A much beloved trilogy on bookstagram and booktok, The Infernal Devices by Cassandra Clare is a popular must-read. Unlike newer “popular must-reads”, this trilogy had its initial run over a decade ago, making it a historic historical fantasy and a classic on the YA fantasy shelf. Clockwork Angel, Clockwork Prince, and Clockwork Princess make up…
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Clockwork Princess Always Brings Tears To My Eyes
What a whirlwind. What a stunning, heartbreaking, emotive, brilliant novel. Cassandra Clare’s Clockwork Princess exceeds my expectations of a trilogy final and firmly establishes itself on my favourite books of all time shelf. Very few make it up there, but Clockwork Princess has been up there since the beginning, my first read, and every reread…
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My All Souls Trilogy Review
Possibly my favourite historical fiction fantasy series ever, the All Souls Trilogy had me hooked from A Discovery of Witches and refused to let me go until I closed the back cover of The Book of Life. Deborah Harkness has created a magnificent. richly detailed, layered story world with incredible characters and conflicts that feel…