Category: fantasy
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Book Review: The Wicked King by Holly Black
This series is quickly becoming one of my favourite young adult fantasies. It has such an enjoyable plot full of political machinations and plot twists and the characters have grown on me to an incredible degree. In The Cruel Prince, I felt like Black set up a promising series start and in The Wicked King,…
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Book Review: The Library at Mount Char by Scott Hawkins
I feel like nothing could have prepared me for the ride that was The Library at Mount Char. The synopsis, while accurate, fails to capture the pure insanity and weirdness that is in this book, and I feel like I’m still reeling from the whole experience. Touted as a fantasy, to me, The Library at…
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Book Review: Thornhedge by T. Kingfifisher
Thornhedge was both exactly what it said it would be, and not at all what I expected. It’s pitched as a dark twist on a classic fairy tale, and it was definitely that, but in many ways, it also broke the main moulds of a typical fairy tale in achingly real ways. It’s been weeks…
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Book Review: Fathomfolk by Eliza Chan
I received Fathomfolk through my Illumicrate subscription, and while I knew nothing about it when it arrived, it was one of the most original premises I’ve read all year. Set in a society that is part-human, part various magical sea folk, much of the setting and the characters felt entirely new to me, albeit with…
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Book Review: Emily Wilde’s Encyclopedia of Faeries by Heater Fawcett
I’ve seen so many people fall in love with Emily Wilde’s Encyclopedia of Faeries by Heather Fawcett that it’s been on my TBR since it was released. Once it came into my library on audiobook, I knew within the first five minutes that I was going to love this book too.
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Book Review: Painted Devils by Margaret Owen
The Little Thieves series is such a fantastic young adult fantasy that I don’t think gets enough hype. The world is wonderfully unique, the characters are witty and original, and Owen’s storytelling is top-notch in every respect. I devoured the first book and namesake of this series a couple of months ago and felt like…
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Book Review: Trial of the Sun Queen by Nisha J. Tuli
This is my third novel by Nisha J. Tuli and at this point, I’m pretty confident that I’ll like anything she writes. I’ve been hearing about this series for over a year now and I wish I had started it sooner. Trial of the Sun Queen was an excellent start to a fantasy romance with…
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Book Review: The Cruel Prince by Holly Black
If you’ve been around the fantasy community for a while, the Folk of the Air series is one of the most heavily recommended in the young adult genre. The Cruel Prince came around after adolescence for me, so I didn’t read it when it first became popular, but when I saw it at my library…
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Book Review: Heartless Sky by Caroline Peckham and Susanne Valenti
The Zodiac Academy is one of the wildest series I’ve ever read for a handful of reasons. It’s dramatic in an almost soap-opera style way, the characters are equal parts loveable and outrageous, it’s spicier than any book series I’ve ever read, and the world and plot are so intricate and so well developed that…
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Book Review: Little Thieves by Margaret Owen
Little Thieves was an excellent, original-feeling fairytale retelling based on the story of “The Goose Girl”. I wasn’t in any way familiar with that original tale, but I loved everything about the version that Margaret Owen crafted. In Little Thieves, the main character and mostly anti-hero Vanya is an imposter parading as a princess while…
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