With some cautiously reserved excitement, I preordered The Golden Enclaves, the final entry in The Scholomance Trilogy. The predecessor to this final installment, The Last Graduate, ended with a massive cliffhanger, leaving the fate of the male lead, Orion Lake, looking very bleak—so I was pretty invested in finding out what befell him and how protagonist Galadriel “El” Higgins reacted. I never would have guessed the sequence of events that […]
Full disclosure, I bought Shadows of the Master as a gift for my niece and couldn’t resist reading it. My nine year old niece mainly sticks to reading classic children’s novels like The Babysitter’s Club, and while that is all well and good, I couldn’t resist trying to get her into fantasy novels. So when I was pursuing the catalog of books during an Usborne party I had been invited […]
Ten Thousand Stitches is my first time reading a novel by Olivia Atwater, but it certainly won’t be my last. I didn’t read this novel’s predecessor in the author’s Regency Fairy Tale series, and thankfully, this did not lessen my enjoyment of Ten Thousand Stitches at all, which can be read as a standalone. I was happily surprised at what a charming, eclectic read this novel is, which is anything […]
The Two Princesses of Bamarre was one of my favorite books growing up and when I saw Emily @ Monsterlady’s Diary rereading it, I was inspired to read it as well. I was worried that The Two Princesses of Bamarre might not be as great as little Kate remembered the novel, but I needn’t have worried–even for an adult reader, The Two Princesses of Bamarre is a delightful and magical […]
The House of Always picks up right where its predecessor, The Memory of Souls left off. Unfortunately, I found that the title of the novel was a bit too fitting as I found this latest entry in A Chorus of Dragons to be eternal. The House of Always displays the worst usage of the author’s nontraditional storytelling methods and perspective jumping, with characters taking turns using telepathy to show the […]