ARC Review | The City of Dusk

Title: The City of Dusk Author: Tara Sim Publisher: Orbit Published: 22 March 2022 Pages: 576 ★★★★ My goodness, this was a roller coaster of a ride in such a good way! The book opens with a really creepy scene of a boy piling bodies one on top of each other and from then on …

Book Review | Neon Gods

Title: Neon Gods Author: Katee Robert Publisher: Sourcebooks Casablanca Published: 1 June 2021 Pages: 384 ★★★ Okay, so I'm going to try to write all of this as magnanimous as possible. I'm going to start off with what I thought was good before going to what I didn't like. Greek gods as high society people …

Book Review | The Gilded Ones

Title: The Gilded Ones Author: Namina Forna Publisher: Delacorte Published: 8 October 2020 Pages: 432 Trigger Warnings: blood, violence, torture, misogyny, rape; there is talk of purity in the book that is reference to religious purity and purity culture in America for those of you who have been harmed by the church please take head. …

Book Review | The Rise of Kyoshi

Goodreads Title: The Rise of Kyoshi Author: F.C. Yee Publisher: Amulet Books Published: 16 July 2019 Pages: 442 ★★★★★ Gah! I absolutely LOVE Kyoshi! And Rangi! And I will hold back as much as my gushing as possible...actually, that's a lie, I probably won't! Okay, so on to the actual story, I guess. After Avatar …

Book Review | The Shadow of Kyoshi

Title: The Shadow of Kyoshi Author: F.C. Yee Publisher: Amulet Books Published: 21 July 2020 ★★★★★ How does Yee make me fall more in love with both Kyoshi and Rangi? It's a mystery but these two characters have my heart forever. Also, if I could ask the gods, spirits, the Avatar themselves to find someone …

ARC Book Review | Tools of a Thief

Title: Tools of a Thief Author: D. Hale Rambo Publisher: Fiercewood Press Published: 25 May 2021 Pages: 170 ★★★ I received an ARC ebook copy from Books Forward in exchange for an honest reivew. I'm not even sure where to start on this. I read this in one sitting not out of interest really but …

ARC Book Review | The Dead and the Dark

Goodreads Title: The Dead and the Dark Author: Courtney Gould Publisher: Wednesday Books Published: 3 August 2021 Pages: 352 ★★★★★ Content Warnings: Homophobia, hate crime, death, murder, child death, biphobia I received an eARC via NetGalley in exchange for an honest review. Wow! I am blown away by how this all came together. The Dead …

Book Review | The Long Way to a Small, Angry Planet

Goodreads Title: The Long Way to a Small, Angry Planet Author: Becky Chambers Publisher: Harper Voyager Published: 5 July 2016 Pages: 443 ★★★★★ Oh! My! Goodness! I had not really heard about this book but kept seeing it on people's 2020 year end reviews. The library I work at recently acquired it, so I over …

Book Review | House of Earth and Blood

Title: House of Earth and Blood Author: Sarah J. Maas Publisher: Bloomsbury Published: 3 March 2020 Pages: 803 ★★★ Goodreads | Amazon | Bookshop Gosh, Sarah J. Maas blows me away again with the amazing story and world she has created. Bryce Quinlan is a half-fae, half-human who works at an antiquities shop, trying to …

Book Reviews | The Midnight Library

Title: The Midnight Library Author: Matt Haig Publisher: Viking Published: 29 Sept. 2020 ★★★ I was a bit disappointed with this book. The concept sounds amazing! 'Between life and death, there is a library , and within that library, the shelves go on forever. Every book provides a chance to try another life you could …