The Bright and Breaking Sea by Chloe Neill Kit can lead her ship and clever crew on her own, but with the fate of queen and country at stake, Kit and Rian must learn to trust each other, or else the Isles will fall.... Source: Netgalley via Berkley Books - Thank you so much!TL;DR: A... Continue Reading →
Thoughts : The Dragon of Ynys by Minerva Cerridwen
A bit of a movement in independent publishing has attempted to bring different, diverse voices to fiction. It's there in traditional publishing, to mixed success, but it's gone wild in the indie world from what I have seen. This is a good example of that, to mixed success. The Dragon of Ynys by Minerva Cerridwen... Continue Reading →
Thoughts: A Heart of Blood and Ashes by Milla Vane
So. This is not a book for everyone. Just going to open this post off with that. This is simultaneously a (at times) deeply drawn fantasy novel and a very graphic romance novel. Think Conan the Barbarian meets romance, in a setting with dinosaurs and more magic. And there were zombies at one point. It... Continue Reading →
Thoughts: Turning Darkness Into Light by Marie Brennan
My reading is restricted these days almost exclusively to my Kindle. So I'm not being too picky when it comes to things that look interesting - and are on sale. Turning Darkness Into Light by Marie Brennan is the start of a series that follows up the Natural History of Dragons series she completed a... Continue Reading →
Thoughts: Shades of Milk and Honey by Mary Robinette Kowal
This has been on my TBR for ages. I love Jane Austen - no surprise there, I think a great deal of bookish readers my age do, and I love magic so combine those two flavors and you have a winner. I unfortunately never managed to get my hands on a copy so while feeding... Continue Reading →
Thoughts: Gods of Jade and Shadow
Gods of Jade and Shadow by Silvia Moreno-Garcia Source: Library TL;DR: The hype is real on this one if you enjoy mythological or fairy tale style stories. I recommend it highly. Thoughts: It's going to be hard for me to not gush all over this book. I checked it out of the library to see... Continue Reading →
Weekly Wrap-Up! 11.21.2017
It was a slow reading (not so much for everything else) week last week, and it's only in the last few days I've gotten some actual reading in. So let's get right to it. The video for this post will be up late, but will be up! So as always it will be found by... Continue Reading →
BooktubeSFF Babbles / TFW : Top 5 Cover Art
Late as usual! I’m here to show you guys my Top 5 Cover Art choices for the Top 5 Wednesday and BooktubeSFF Babbles cross over post. There is a video on the Youtube channel of course, but all images and sites are available here as well! Same as any other time I do a Top... Continue Reading →
Tor Novella Line : Update
I'm caught up, so far, on the Tor.com's Novella Line. My thoughts on the overall quality are good! Everything, even if perhaps the writing style didn't work for me, has potential and has left me thinking or left me feeling satisfied with it. I'm only a few novellas in but so far I'm pleased! My... Continue Reading →
Favorite Genre Tag
This tag was created by Skye Pie On The Fly on Youtube, check her out! 1) Your favorite genre : I call it Speculative Fiction to be fancy, or simply SF/F 2) Favorite Books in the genre : UUNNNGGHH... I can't answer these types of questions. It's going to be a tie between Words of... Continue Reading →