At one of my last visits to Barnes and Noble, I peeped a copy of Blood Over Bright Haven, which had an employee notecard under it proclaiming that it was perfect for fans of Fullmetal Alchemist. Well, as someone who watched both the original anime and the Brotherhood version, I was intrigued. So, I added Blood Over Bright Haven to my TBR and finally got around to reading it lately. […]
When I first heard about A Fate Inked in Blood, I was really excited by the idea of it—shield maidens, people with the drops of blood from Norse Gods granting them supernatural abilities, ancient prophecies, warring Viking nations, and a forbidden romance. What’s not to like? Well, turns out, quite a lot for me. “You are a child of the gods, girl. You are one of the Unfated, which […]
I have not read another novel by Naomi Novik, since Uprooted, but when I read the synopsis for A Deadly Education, I knew I had to read this novel and preordered it. A Deadly Education is packed with so much greatness. I loved the heroine, Galadriel “El” Higgins, from the very first page. I also was enraptured by El’s humorous narration, the world building, the magic system, the social dynamics, […]
I was not even sad that the Winternight Trilogy came to end, because The Winter of the Witch was perfectly true to the series and the characters that I came to love so much. On the rare occurrence when I was not entirely thrilled by something that happened in the book, it was still absolutely in character and true to the overall themes of the novel. Katherine Arden is true writing […]
I’ve read The Girl in the Tower twice, and each time, I’ve been so thoroughly engrossed that I read the novel in one sitting. The novels of the Winternight Trilogy are truly unlike any I have ever read. Though a series about magic as main character Vasilisa Petronova knows it disappearing from her world of medieval Rus, The Girl in the Tower—like its predecessor The Bear in the Nightingale—is still […]