Tag: YA Fantasy
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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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More Earthsea Goodness in Ursula K. Le Guin’s The Tombs of Atuan
Another day, another Earthsea tale! I have adjusted my post schedule for these novels to better align with the number of library books I have out (currently sitting at 28), and so that I can enjoy them over most of the summer rather than rushing through them all before the year’s end. The Tombs of…
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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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I Finally Read House of Roots and Ruin by Erin A. Craig
I loved the gothic dark fantasy world of Erin A. Craig’s House of Salt and Sorrows, and I cannot believe it has taken me over two years to pick up the second book in the Sisters of Salt series, House of Roots and Ruin. This YA fantasy feels so lush and haunting, and even as…
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Lady Trent Returns in Marie Brennan’s A Tropic of Serpents
A little late for my scholarly reading month, yet not quite befitting for the books I did read, The Tropic of Serpents by Marie Brennan is one of those books that I have been hesitant to post given its seemingly untethered relevance to both my scholarly reads and my spooky reads. I thoroughly enjoyed A…
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Suzanne Collins is Well and Truly Back With Sunrise on the Reaping
My reread of the The Hunger Games trilogy brought back so many great memories, not to mention a second look at a series that is incredibly well-written, compelling, and knows just how to drum up tension and fear. But when I read The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes, which I didn’t review for this blog,…
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Atmospheric Dark Fantasy in Rachel Gillig’s The Knight and The Moth
After the hype of One Dark Window and Two Twisted Crowns, I knew I needed to keep my eye out for more Rachel Gillig works. Fortunately, time has come for another astounding duology from her and The Knight and The Moth is as atmospheric, dark, and intriguing as promised. It is currently taking bookish social…
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The Conflicts are Burning Hot in Penn Cole’s Heat of the Everflame
Heat of the Everflame, the third in the Kindred’s Curse saga by Penn Cole, has internal and external conflicts at a boiling point, relationships bending and breaking while others firge stronger bonds and more intimate connections, and the answers are emerging from the woodwork as the series heads to its final chapter. With the size…