Tag Archives: fantasy
Dreadful by Caitlin Rozakis. Not in the least.
Read November 2025 Recommended for fans of Kingfisher ★ ★ ★ 1/2 “He woke up with no eyebrows and no idea how he’d gotten into such a position. It wasn’t just that he couldn’t remember why … Continue reading
The Nightjar by Deborah Hewitt
Read January 2025 Meh ★ ★ I wanted to like it. (Interesting that we say that, right, as if are trying to convince ourselves and the dear reader that we gave a book a chance). It was … Continue reading
This Kingdom Will Not Kill Me by Ilona Andrews
Unfinished October 2025 Recommended for fans of portal fantasies not rated I grew up on portal fantasies. It was a tremendously popular trope for 1970s and 1980s fantasies, from the junior reader The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe and The Phantom Tollbooth, … Continue reading
The Spellshop by Sarah Beth Durst
Read August 2025 Recommended for fans of cozy ★ ★ ★ ★ If there was ever a title to appeal to 15 year-old carol, this was it. A talking plant, a hidden library, mer-horses, and an abandoned cottage? What’s not … Continue reading
Kings of the Wyld by Nicholas Eames
Read July 2025 Recommended for fantasy fans ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ Would I have enjoyed this when I was fifteen? I don’t know, but I really, really wouldn’t have gotten a lot of the recurring motif of aging. Perfect … Continue reading
How to Become the Dark Lord and Die Trying by Django Wexler
Read April 2025 Recommended for fans of irreverent fantasy ★ ★ ★ ★ You know that book you keep seeing and think you are never going to try? That was HtBtDLaDT. In fact, I shelved it under ‘possibly-unlikely.’ Nothing … Continue reading
Crooked Kingdom by Leigh Bardugo
Read March 2025 Recommended for fans of fantasy ★ ★ ★ 1/2 There’s a reason I talk so much about Speed (besides the obvious, Keanu Reeves, natch). It’s because I remember it as one of the first movies I … Continue reading
Owlflight by Mercedes Lackey & Larry Dixon
Read March 2025 Recommended for fans of fantasy ★ ★ ★ 1/2 Fresh off a re-read of Anne Bishop’s The Others series, I realized I was enjoying that environmental cataclysm world-building, along with the uneasy coexistence plot-line. Sounds complicated, I … Continue reading
Deeplight by Frances Hardinge
Read January 2025 Recommended for fans of YA ★ ★ 1/2 Enjoyable. Lyrical writing in the vein of Valente and Kingfisher. I’ve been wanting to return to Hardinge for some time, and I thought this could work with the island … Continue reading
A Drop of Corruption by Robert Jackson Bennett
Read December 2024 Recommended for fans of Bennett ★ ★ ★ 1/2 The first book in this series, The Tainted Cup, was a favorite in 2024, so to say that I was looking forward to this book was an … Continue reading
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