Here we are…another year gone. I honestly don’t know where 2023 went. It moved so slowly while in retrospect feeling like it went so quickly. It’s quite bizarre if you ask me. As I sat down to work on this post, I realized that I somehow missed creating a post for 2022. I did list… Read More My Top Reads of 2023
I’m actually on time with the Mid-Year Freak Out Tag This year! (Last year I was late, and prior to that, I hadn’t done the tag for 3 years.) For those of you who haven’t read my previous freak out tags yet, here are my Mid-Year Freak Out Tag posts from 2018, 2019 and 2022!
In Nadezra, peace is as tenuous as a single thread. The ruthless House Indestor has been destroyed, but darkness still weaves through the city’s filthy back alleys and jewel-bright gardens, seen by those who know where to look.
Derossi Vargo has always known. He has sacrificed more than anyone imagines to carve himself a position of power among the nobility, hiding a will of steel behind a velvet smile. He’ll be damned if he lets anyone threaten what he’s built.
Grey Serrado knows all too well. Bent under the yoke of too many burdens, he fights to protect the city’s most vulnerable. Sooner or later, that fight will demand more than he can give…… Read More The Liar’s Knot by M.A. Carrick (Review)
Born into the troubled kingdom of Albermaine, Alwyn Scribe is raised as an outlaw. Quick of wit and deft with a blade, Alwyn is content with the freedom of the woods and the comradeship of his fellow thieves. But an act of betrayal sets him on a new path – one of blood and vengeance, which eventually leads him to a soldier’s life in the king’s army.
Fighting under the command of Lady Evadine Courlain, a noblewoman beset by visions of a demonic apocalypse, Alwyn must survive war and the deadly intrigues of the nobility if he hopes to claim his vengeance. But as dark forces, both human and arcane, gather to oppose Evadine’s rise, Alwyn faces a choice: can he be a warrior, or will he always be an outlaw?… Read More The Pariah by Anthony Ryan (Review)
Simith of Drifthorn is tired of war. After years of conflict between the Thistle court and the troll kingdom, even a pixie knight known for his bloodlust longs for peace. Hoping to secure a ceasefire, Simith arranges a meeting with the troll king—and is ambushed instead. Escape lies in the Jaded Grove, but the trees of the ancient Fae woodland aren’t what they seem, and in place of sanctuary, Simith tumbles through a doorway to another world.
Cutting through her neighbor’s sunflower farm in Skylark, Michigan, Jessa runs into a battle between creatures straight out of a fantasy novel. Only the blood is very real. When a lone fighter falls to his attackers, Jessa intervenes. She’s known too much death to stand idly by, but an act of kindness leads to consequences even a poet like her couldn’t imagine… Read More In the Jaded Grove by Anela Deen (Review)
So, it’s way past the halfway through 2022 point. But I haven’t done this tag in three years. Three years! So, I figured late was better than waiting another year, right? For those of you who never saw them or those of you who’d like to take a walk down memory lane, here are my… Read More Mid-Year Freak Out Tag 2022
As we were saying goodbye to 2021, one of the top thoughts in my mind was that. I needed to narrow down my top reads of the year list for 2021. …which was tougher this year than other years. If you’ve read my past posts like this one, you’ll see that I narrowed it down… Read More My Top 21 Reads of 2021
Fortune favors the bold. Magic favors the liars. Ren is a con artist who has come to the sparkling city of Nadežra with one goal: to trick her way into a noble house, securing her fortune and her sister’s future. But as she’s drawn into the elite world of House Traementis, she realizes her masquerade is just one of many surrounding her. And as nightmare magic begins to weave its way through the City of Dreams, the poisonous feuds of its aristocrats and the shadowy dangers of its impoverished underbelly become tangled…with Ren at their heart… Read More The Mask of Mirrors by M.A. Carrick (Review)
Title: Mask of Shadows Author: Linsey Miller Type: Fiction Genre: YA, Fantasy, LGBT Publisher: Sourcebooks Fire Published: August 29, 2017 A physical copy of this book was kindly provided by Raincoast Books, in exchange for an honest review. I Needed to Win. They Needed to Die. Sallot Leon is a thief, and a good one… Read More Mask of Shadows by Linsey Miller (ARC Review)
Happy Friday Junior, and Backlist Blast day! I’m so happy to see that so many of you have decided to join Backlist Blast, and in order to make your post for this meme more visible (and your blogs, Insta, or Twitter accounts too), I have decided to add a link-up form/widget to the bottom of… Read More Backlist Blast #9: Mask of Shadows by Linsey Miller