It's got a fair amount of fantasy and buckets of 'sass'* so what did I think of Rebel of the Sands? *So long as we're aware that I don't mean 'sass' as in 'lazy character writing' or 'thinly veiled way of saying the equally cliché 'strong female character'' Goodreads Summary: She’s more gunpowder than girl—and the... Continue Reading →
It is a fact commonly known (to me) that the one thing that can improve any book or book series is in fact a Dragon. I think it's partly because they are just so fantastical that they instantly let you know the kind of world you are in and the level of magic and fantasy... 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 →
Greetings earthlings! Welcome to today's review of a new science fiction book from Solaris publishing. Solaris are the same Oxford based publishing company who brought us Scourge (which I reviewed earlier in the year) so I started this book without particularly high hopes and expecting to have to slog through in a similar manner. But... Continue Reading →
Have you ever started a book thinking 'gosh I hope this is incredibly confusing and leaves me not really sure where I am or what I'm doing?' I certainly haven't. But perhaps that's exactly what you're looking for in life. If so, read on and find out what I've managed to piece together after reading Gleam.... Continue Reading →
We need to talk about labelling books 'feminist' as a way of selling them. Seriously. CONTENT NOTE: Sexual Assault, Rape, Violence against women. Goodreads Summary: In the opulent palace of Ohaddin, women have one purpose - to obey. Some were brought here as girls, captured and enslaved; some as servants; some as wives. All of... Continue Reading →
Well I've been churned about and pulled every which way and now I'm not sure how to feel! Goodreads Summary: Shelter is about a spirited young woman escaping bombed-out Coventry in WWII to work as a lumberjill within a reclusive community in the Forest of Dean. She is nursing a secret and running from a... Continue Reading →
Definitely not what I was expecting, but I was pleasantly surprised by what I found (and with lots of owls!) Goodreads Summary: Joomia and Aula are Chosen. They will never be normal. They can never be free. On the last island on Erthe, Chosen Ones are destined to enter Ariadnis on the day they turn... Continue Reading →
Hello mortals and welcome to another Chain Interaction book review. Before we kick off with this review of Aliette De Bodard's The House of Binding Thorns I recommend heading back in time and reading my review of the first title in this series The House of Shattered Wings just to give you a feel for where I'm coming from.... Continue Reading →
I think reading this series from start to finish took me about a year. The biggest gap was between the first two (which I read in two days) and the last one which I read ten months later so I had that fun moment of trying to remember what on earth was going on and... Continue Reading →
I was so close to buying a copy of this brand new in Waterstones a few weekends ago and I'm thrilled that I resisted the temptation because two days later I realised I could get the ebook free from the library *tiny victory dance*. This concept drew me in (who wouldn't want to jump into books?) but... Continue Reading →
Good morning friends! Today we're looking at a witchy novel, a bit younger than the books I normally read. In audience that is. This book was actually first published in 1991 before I was even born, so it's quite interesting seeing how the story compares to similar books publishing now. Goodreads Summary: At first glance,... Continue Reading →
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