I’m going to be honest, I’m not sure what I was thinking when I requested Tailored Realities. There are two wolves inside of me: The one that hates short stories and the one that loves Brandon Sanderson and wants to read all of his work. The second wolf came out on top, so I requested the ARC. Was Tailored Realities enjoyable with Brandon’s signature world-building and magic systems? Yes. Did […]
With word of the latest Stormlight Archive book coming out, it would’ve been a great time to start rereading that series, but instead, I decided to reread Mistborn. With some novels that I reread, I am dismayed to find that I don’t like the novel quite as much as the first time that I had read it. Happily, that was not the case at all with Mistborn, even though I […]
I’ve been in a massive reading slump this year. Even books I’ve been anticipating or written by some of my favorite authors are difficult for me to finish. When my boyfriend told me that Yumi and the Nightmare Painter was inspired by one of my favorite video games of all time, Final Fantasy X, I decided to give it a try—I was immediately invested and read the entire book in […]
Cytonic is the follow-up to Skyward and Starsight, and like its predecessors, Cytonic follows pilot Spensa on a new journey. Unfortunately, this new adventure very much felt like filler for both the series and for Spensa, and I found myself really having to push to finish the novel. Even though Cytonic was very on brand for the series, featuring a lot of the same humor, a new group of ragtag […]
I am so glad that I pushed through Skyward in order to get to its follow up, Starsight. Starsight feels much more like a Sanderson novel to me, complete with amazing world, er, galaxy building. I was completely surprised and thrown by the direction Starsight went in, but boy, was I glad it did. The only reason I didn’t give this book five stars was because there were a mere […]