A Kingdom of Flesh and Fire is the second book in the Blood and Ash series. We pick up right where we left off in From Blood and Ash. Poppy didn’t have any idea who her former guard really was and why she is so important to his plans. Now those plans have changed a […]
These reads were all audiobooks. Three were library books, the rest I purchased A little bit of a switch up for Faith. Dystopian world in the future, genetically modified woman, alien bug technology and a mercenary army looking in her junkyard for a lost ship and […]
Oh how I enjoyed this story! One main point of view is Elsie, who works for a stone mason and artist, Ogden. He has been kind to her and it is a good position. She was abandoned by her family at the age of 5 and put into a workhouse. She got her position with […]
Magic Dark and Strange is a new urban fantasy set in England sometime during the industrial revolution. This is a world where there seemed to be a few different kinds of magic people can do but it always comes at a cost. Catherine grew up with her family in the country but was sent to […]
Every once and awhile something in the Middle Grade genre will sound good and I’ll give it a try. It isn’t a genre I regularly read but there are some gems to be found in. Story Magic is the tale of a 12-year-old girl who lost her parents and has lived with her brother for […]
Poppy is the Maiden, it has been known for almost as long as she can remember that she will become one of the Ascended. She has been treated as holy and only a few are even allowed to see her face or speak with her. She is an icon more than a person, separated from […]
I have never read a book by Seanan McGuire, but I have read a lot of books by her other pen name, Mira Grant. I wasn’t sure going into this book what to expect. I’ve read some authors with multiple pen names that have a different style with each pen name and with Grant, she’s […]
The Library of the Unwritten was a struggle initially to get into the world and characters in this Hell’s Library series. This can happen with the first book in a new series. I did become attached to the characters and enjoy their adventures. The Archive of the Forgotten was a different style of story with […]
These reads were all audiobooks. Two of them were library books, the rest I purchased I went a little down a rabbit hole for a little while with this series and devoured quite a few books. All of the stories are new pairings between humans and […]
‘All skate, change directions.’ ‘Just Say No.’ ‘Gag me with a spoon.’ If you know what these sayings mean, or better yet, if you’ve actually heard them used not-ironically, I invite you to flash back to the eighties by reading My Best Friend’s Exorcism by Grady Hendrix. This is a nostalgia-filled horror novel, which sounds […]