Whenever I see another entry in Kristy Boyce’s “Gaming and Romance,” I don’t need to roll for initiative—I’m reading it. I have been hooked on this series since the very first one, Dungeons and Drama. So I was really excited to see what kind of new Dungeons and Dragons (D&D) romance Boyce had cooked up, as all of them effortlessly capture the unique charm of the game and the people […]
Whenever I want to read something light, fun, and quirky, I have a tendency to reach for an Ali Hazelwood novel. I enjoy her brand of humor and like reading her portrayal of women in typically male dominated fields. Check & Mate is no exception to these hallmarks of Hazelwood’s writing, as it features a young woman, 18- year-old Mallory Greenleaf, entering the professional chess world. “This is chess, […]
As someone who just participated in her first ever Dungeons and Dragons (D&D) game about two months ago, I was really excited to pick up Dungeons and Drama, which sounded like such a fun read. And thankfully, I was right, Dungeons and Drama is delightful—a fun and fast romp filled with likable characters and a cute romance between a theater kid named Riley and a D&D geek named Nathan. When […]
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 […]
Realm Breaker was my first time reading a book written by Victoria Aveyard. I have virtually sworn off young adult novels, with a few exceptions here and there, but was inspired to pick up this novel after seeing a marketing video touting the ragtag group of companions that strive to save the realm. Though I really liked the core ideas of Realm Breaker, the execution of these ideas was very […]