Hello Humans! I'm excited to be bringing you a review of another Novella - anyone else feel as though this format is on the rise? - and none other than Zen Cho's The Order of the Pure Moon Reflected in Water which was very firmly on my 'hope to read in 2020' list! Goodreads Summary: Zen... Continue Reading →
Circus? Female WOC as main character? Written by an author who is an award-winning Ghanaian-British filmmaker? Sign me up sign me up right now! Goodreads Summary: Fourteen-year-old Sante isn’t sure where she comes from, but she has a recurring dream of escaping a shipwreck in a sea chest as a baby with her lifelong companion, golden... Continue Reading →
When I read Dreams and Shadows I will confess I did very little research, so I had no idea there was actually a sequel. But here it is, published in 2014 Queen of the Dark things follows on from C. Robert Cargill's first book that I quite enjoyed, if I found it a bit odd.... Continue Reading →
Aloha! The sun is beginning to shine here in Oxford and so it feels entirely appropriate to review a book that has 'winter' in the name, of course! Wintersong was published back in February and fist came to my notice when I was looking through past inclusions in Fairyloot boxes. I managed to bag a... Continue Reading →
'What?' 'But' 'Wait' 'Huh?' 'How?' 'Why?' These are but some of the exclamations I uttered when reading this book. The Night Brother publishes on the first of June this year and based on it's quite...unusual cover I probably should have guessed I was in for something equally unusual. Goodreads Summary: Rich are the delights of... Continue Reading →
It's been a busy month here on chaininteraction hasn't it? Let's have a look at whether I lived up to my April TBR post's expectations? Reviews: Strange the Dreamer Willow Born Dreams and Shadows Illuminae Seraphina and Shadow Scale A Natural History of Dragons The Illusionists The Witchfinder's Sister The Bear and the Nightingale Red... Continue Reading →
I loved the first book in this series Gilded Cage so darned much the wait for the sequel Tarnished City is killing me. Seriously, book one left me on about 4000 different cliffhangers and I have to know what happens. If I can't get my hands on an ARC of this before the pub date in September I... Continue Reading →
I feel like the world at large is gradually moving back away from the unicorn trend towards mermaids. If this means more fantasy books set under the sea then I'm all for it. I don't believe I've ever read a book where the main character was a mermaid before, but I hope this isn't the... Continue Reading →
If I were to make a list of all the cringe-worthy young adult books I have read and at times enjoyed (though usually for the wrong reasons) Golden would definitely be up there. This is the first part to a series which presents itself as an alternative version of the Goldilocks story. Which sounds wonderful, we... Continue Reading →
More dragons please. A thunder of dragons and then another thunder of dragons and then at least ten more dragons. If you want to, you can read my review of the first book in this series here (but no obligation). Goodreads Summary: Three years after her fateful journeys through the forbidding mountains of Vystrana, Mrs. Camherst... Continue Reading →
Well this is the first time I've ever jumped into a series not in the second book...but in the fourth! But honestly I'm so pleased I gave this book a chance. My intense draconic obsession grows every day. But how did Legion compare to all the other books I've read about my scaly friends, and... Continue Reading →
I succumbed to the hype, and I'm so happy I did! Goodreads Summary: This is a world divided by blood – red or silver. The Reds are commoners, ruled by a Silver elite in possession of god-like superpowers. And to Mare Barrow, a seventeen-year-old Red girl from the poverty-stricken Stilts, it seems like nothing will... Continue Reading →
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