The Undercutting of Rosie and Adam tries very hard to make its demi-god main character, Rosie, likeable and relatable, but it falls woefully short with its six foot five beauty. Though Rosie is supposed to be every bit as fiery as her red hair and eyes, I just found her to be rather flat. I wanted to like her, I really did, but the biggest conflict in her life can […]
Behooved is a grown horse girl’s dream come true in novel form. The story follows Bianca Lilliana as she journeys to a neighboring country to wed their heir to the throne, Aric. This marriage will secure an alliance between their two nations. Bianca and Aric immediately get off on the wrong foot, which soon magically becomes a hoof—at least in Aric’s case—when an assassination attempt gone wrong turns Bianca’s new […]
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, […]
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 […]
Full transparency, I almost DNF-ed Two Twisted Crowns. Despite immediately picking up the book after finishing its predecessor in the duology, One Dark Window, I just couldn’t seem to get invested. The entire opening features main character Elspeth trapped inside of her own body in a dark pool of her own consciousness. Her consciousness is also home to The Nightmare, but he now has complete control over her body after […]