I was drawn to picking up Fear the Flames because I am a simple woman, I always want to read anything with dragons in it. And the premise seemed pretty interesting, a lost heir/princess trying to take back her five dragons from her evil king of a father with the help of a bloodthirsty commander of another nation. What’s not to like? Well it turns out for me, mostly everything, […]
I came across Potions, Poisons, and Policies on Booktok, and thought this novel, focusing on a magical school turned upside down by a love potion, sounded fun. When I came across the book a second and third time, I was naturally intrigued by the idea of academic rivals, who are the only ones unaffected by the affliction of a schoolwide love potion, and reluctantly team up to find an antidote. […]
Rebel Witch is the anticipated follow up to Heartless Hunter, a romantasy involving the forbidden feelings between a witch named Rune and a witch Hunter named Gideon. Though I’ve come to view enemies to lovers as a romantic trope that is almost impossible to flawlessly pull off, I really enjoyed Heartless Hunter and watching the cat and mouse relationship between Gideon and Rune unfold. Unfortunately, Rebel Witch didn’t manage to […]
Being a lifelong Nessie enthusiast, when I saw Under Loch and Key, a romance novel where the main male character is under a curse that turns him into the Loch Ness Monster at night, I knew I had to pick it up. Unfortunately, even with the very original premise, the execution of Under Loch and Key just didn’t work for me. Perhaps it was my high expectations that mainly left […]
After reading The Shepherd King duology, with its utterly unique world-building and magic systems, I was really excited to see what Rachel Gillig would write next. The Knight and the Moth is my favorite of author Rachel Gillig’s books, improving upon the already magic formula of her other novels, One Dark Window and Two Twisted Crowns. “Omens were my life—I’d read those signs thousands of times.” The Knight and the Moth […]