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 […]
I was excited for House of Dragons the moment I learned about it. Odd, because I am not always a fan of young adult fantasy. While there is a classification of fantasy romance, the story is not very focused on this aspect. The main character, Kerrigan, is growing up in the House of Dragons. When […]
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 just want to preface this review by saying I do not normally read Graphic Novels and so I don’t have a lot of background to judge them. I am however, a huge fan of Maggie Steifvater and love her writing. Swamp Thing: Twin Branches is an origin story and tells the tale of twins […]
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 […]
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 […]
‘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 […]