Book Review: Sunkissed Feathers and Severed Ties by Kellie Doherty

Summary: Misti Eildelmann is a Vagari—a race whose innate crafting ability is connected to the creatures of the world. She’s also a Moon Knight. Misti is fighting a banished one when he slips a pendant around her neck that saps her strength. The pendant is dangerous. Deadly even. It harnesses crafting in a way not … Continue reading Book Review: Sunkissed Feathers and Severed Ties by Kellie Doherty

Book Review: Legacy of Ghosts by Alicia Wanstall-Burke

Summary: Four years have passed since Lidan’s world was ripped apart, and time is running out to change her father’s mind about the succession before the bargain with her mother expires. Torn between what she wants and what she knows is right, she is faced with an impossible choice; will her brother live, or will … Continue reading Book Review: Legacy of Ghosts by Alicia Wanstall-Burke

Book Review: This Is How You Lose the Time War by Amal El-Mohtar and Max Gladstone

Summary:   Among the ashes of a dying world, an agent of the Commandant finds a letter. It reads: Burn before reading. And thus begins an unlikely correspondence between two rival agents hellbent on securing the best possible future for their warring factions. Now, what began as a taunt, a battlefield boast, grows into something … Continue reading Book Review: This Is How You Lose the Time War by Amal El-Mohtar and Max Gladstone

Book Review: Wayward Son by Rainbow Rowell

Summary: The story is supposed to be over. Simon Snow did everything he was supposed to do. He beat the villain. He won the war. He even fell in love. Now comes the good part, right? Now comes the happily ever after… So why can’t Simon Snow get off the couch? What he needs, according … Continue reading Book Review: Wayward Son by Rainbow Rowell

Mini-Reviews Featuring Werewolves, Vampires, and Gumiho–Oh My!

Well, my drafts folder is over crowded, so that means it's time for some mini-reviews! All of these books deserve full reviews for sure, but I am low on time and tired and in order to clear these off my plate, min-reviews it is. Better a short review than no review at all. Also, I've … Continue reading Mini-Reviews Featuring Werewolves, Vampires, and Gumiho–Oh My!

Book Review: The Ten Thousand Doors of January by Alix E. Harrow

Summary:   In a sprawling mansion filled with peculiar treasures, January Scaller is a curiosity herself. As the ward of the wealthy Mr. Locke, she feels little different from the artifacts that decorate the halls: carefully maintained, largely ignored, and utterly out of place. Then she finds a strange book. A book that carries the … Continue reading Book Review: The Ten Thousand Doors of January by Alix E. Harrow

Book Review: The Girl with No Face by M.H. Boroson

Summary: It’s the end of the Nineteenth Century. San Francisco’s cobblestone streets are haunted, but Chinatown has an unlikely protector in a young Daoist priestess named Li-lin. Using only her martial arts training, spiritual magic, a sword made from peachwood, and the walking, talking spirit of a human eye, Li-lin stands alone to defend her … Continue reading Book Review: The Girl with No Face by M.H. Boroson

Book Review: The Priory of the Orange Tree by Samantha Shannon

Summary: A world divided. A queendom without an heir. An ancient enemy awakens. The House of Berethnet has ruled Inys for a thousand years. Still unwed, Queen Sabran the Ninth must conceive a daughter to protect her realm from destruction—but assassins are getting closer to her door. Ead Duryan is an outsider at court. Though … Continue reading Book Review: The Priory of the Orange Tree by Samantha Shannon

Book Review: Clock’s Watch II – Daughters of the Black Moon by Michael Reyes

Summary: Clock the Chaos Mage. A stranger out of time, hidden in the folds of shadow. He is the guardian of Coney Island's supernatural borderlands, and the only thing standing between our reality and the demons that thirst to destroy it. Book II Clock's wardenship has been compromised. Angered by his refusal to join them … Continue reading Book Review: Clock’s Watch II – Daughters of the Black Moon by Michael Reyes

Book Review: Silver in the Wood by Emily Tesh

Summary:   There is a Wild Man who lives in the deep quiet of Greenhollow, and he listens to the wood. Tobias, tethered to the forest, does not dwell on his past life, but he lives a perfectly unremarkable existence with his cottage, his cat, and his dryads. When Greenhollow Hall acquires a handsome, intensely … Continue reading Book Review: Silver in the Wood by Emily Tesh