Naomi Novik is known for her rich stories with subtle magics and deep lore. She plays with themes and characters building them slowly over time. This is harder to accomplish in a shorter book but she still does a fantastic job building characters and the world they live in The Summer War, a stand alone […]
Novik had created some worlds I’ve really enjoyed. I was excited to get her anthology of short stories. Most of these have been previously published throughout the years, but I hadn’t read any of them previously so I was intrigued. Like most anthologies of short stories, some I really enjoyed and others are just so […]
I enjoy the Scholomance series with our point of view from El. It’s surprising since this has been a young adult setting in a high school of horrors. But that’s ok; El is more horrible. lol The thing is she’s not, no matter that she has huge ability. I would definitely start at the […]
I love this author and I’m enjoying the Scholomance series. I’ve always loved this author but I’m not usually a fan of young adult and this is a high school setting. We do get some of the pettiness and cliques. The Last Graduate is the second book and thank goodness I just saw this week […]
This is an author who is a favorite of mine and I love magic, so it seemed a great choice for me to read. I do sometimes not like young adult, and this is a high school, so there is a bit of that feeling. But the school terms are life and death, so the […]
I have enjoyed all my listens to this author’s work. I’m more than halfway through the Temeraire series. Uprooted is one of my all-time favorite audiobooks. So I was very excited for Spinning Silver. It did not disappoint. Russian fairy tales set in a historic fantasy world are not pleasant places for women. They have […]
I don’t think of myself as liking fantasy very much but Jessica from Rabid Reads had a high opinion of this and we seem to like some of the same things, so I read it. There are limited humor and romance so why did I like it? The characters and world-building detail […]