Despite being someone who grew up happily reading Meg Cabot’s Mediator and The Princess Diaries series, I realized I hadn’t read any of her books for adults. I stumbled across The Magic We Made,a romantic novel involving witches on NetGalley, and decided there was no time like the present. Like all of Cabot’s books, The Magic We Made has her distinctive blend of humor, quirkiness, and relatability. The novel […]
After the massive cliffhanger of Iron Flame, I was anxious to get my hands on the next entry of the Empyrean series, Onyx Storm. Though the ending of Iron Flame showed main characters, female lead Violet Sorrengail and male lead, Xaden Riorson dealing with the knowledge that the worst case scenario had happened, Onyx Storm grounds this all to a halt in favor of filler and a slow descent towards […]
I have a lot going on in my life right now and I needed a light and fluffy read, especially after my frustrations with Iron Flame, and A Lady’s Guide to Fortune-Hunting is exactly that—and fun, too. I was hooked from the very first page, enjoying this Austen-esque work with a more modern lens, and which unfolds at a comfortable pace. Main character Kitty Dashwood, er, Talbot, is the […]
I picked up Iron Flame on day one and struggled to put the book down. The pacing in Iron Flame is absolutely brutal, to the point that it’s almost stressful, as every time I had to stop reading and do In Real Life Things, I was inevitably ending on an intense cliffhanger where someone’s life or the fate of the world was at stake. So it’s no surprise that I […]
Emily Wilde’s Encyclopaedia of Faeries is a delightful, quirky, and utterly enchanting cozy fantasy. This epistolary novel follows the titular Emily Wilde, as she journeys to the remote and wintery town of Hrafnsvik in attempts to complete her life’s research to document all types of faeries, including the elusive and dangerous high faeries. Along the way, she has to confront not only the fair folk, but also the villagers of […]