The City We Became, N. K. Jemisin – Book Review

Hello Humans! N. K. Jemisin is one of those authors that doesn't feature a lot on my shelves - but hoo boy I've read a lot of her books. Every single one I've read to date I have loved - so I was excited to have the chance to read her new book The City We...

The Hundred Thousand Kingdoms, N. K. Jemisin – Book Review

Hello Humans! Welcome back to another book review. Those of you who watched my recent reading vlog may have seen this one coming - but it's finally time to review N. K. Jemisin's The Hundred Thousand Kingdoms. I picked this up after Gollanczfest last October (which feels aeons ago at this point) so it was about...

The Obelisk Gate, N. K. Jemisin – Book Review

Hello humans! Today I am reviewing the second book in N. K. Jemisin’s The Broken Earth trilogy, I thoroughly enjoyed the first book The Fifth Season and, unusually for me, actually managed to read the next book in a fairly timely manner afterwards. Since it was leaving too long of a gap between books that...

The Fifth Season, N. K. Jemisin – Book Review

Hello humans! Today I’m reviewing the first of a trilogy lent to me by a lovely friend who read my review of The Shadowed Sun and thought I might like to read these! The Fifth Season is a fresh take on a post-apocalyptic narrative, a complex and powerful book that I wasn’t expecting to like...

Want to Read Wednesday! The Shadowed Sun (Dreamblood, #2)

Happy Want to Read Wednesday everybody! Today we're featuring a sequel that I had forgotten for many years! I read the first book in the Dreamblood series, The Killing Moon, when I was eighteen, the same summer holiday that I read Daughter of Smoke and Bone. But a few weeks after I had returned the book to...