It pains me to admit this, but Witchshadow was my least favorite of all the books in The Witchlands series so far. Perhaps I was just too hyped for Iseult’s entry in the series and was simply cruising for disappointment. Whatever the case, I found Witchshadow to be a bit of an inconsistent and confusing mess with a lot of wasted opportunities. Though I did like the overall darker tone […]
As a really big fan of Arthurian legend, I’ve been loving that there are so many new retellings of the legend, like The Guinevere Deception and Half Sick of Shadows, releasing recently. I had to snap up Half Sick of Shadows, as soon as I read the synopsis. Half Sick of Shadows is a retelling of The Lady of Shalott and claims to be a bold, feminist retelling where the Lady […]
I was initially very intrigued by The Blacktongue Thief, with its wisecracking narrator thief and female warrior character who can summon a freaking battle raven. The story takes place in a world filled with goblins, giants, and is ruled by a a guild from the shadows. Where their reach starts and stops no one quite knows, all main character Kinch knows is that he owes them some serious debts, and […]
Among the Beasts and Briars is an interesting retelling of Sleeping Beauty that follows not a princess, but the royal gardener’s daughter named Cerys on a quest to save not only the people she loves, but also the entire kingdom from an ancient curse. Though the tale is very simplistic and adheres closely to the fairy tale tropes of pure maidens, enchanted princes, and talking animals, I really did enjoy […]
After reading Charlie N. Holmberg’s Spellmaker and Spellbreaker, I wanted to read another of the author’s works. After perusing more of her novels, I settled on Followed by Frost, which follows a teenaged girl named Smitha, who is cursed to be as “cold as her heart” due to her lack of care for anyone’s feelings but her own. Followed by Frost follows Smitha as she learns to deal with the […]