It rained all day when I started this book. Luckily, it wasn’t a highstorm. In Words of Radiance by Brandon Sanderson, we continue the Stormlight Archive series with Kaladin now elevated to the head guard of Lord Dalinar and his family. It’s a better life, but he struggles with learning to control his new magical …
Tag: adult fiction
Book Review | Alchemy and a Cup of Tea
Alchemy and a Cup of Tea by Rebecca Thorne finds Kianthe and Reyna settling into their new life as a married couple, one as the most powerful elemental mage of the land and the other the ruler of the Queendom. It’s a lot of responsibility, though the two women are sure they can weather it—that …
Book Review | Eat the Ones You Love
As you might have guessed from the title, this one is weird. In Eat the Ones You Love by Sarah Maria Griffin, Michelle “Shell” Pine is at loose ends after breaking up with her longtime boyfriend, moving back in with her parents, and getting laid off. She manages to get a job at a local …
Book Review | Katabasis (ARC)
I read this, quite literally, for the hell of it. (I received an advance reader’s copy (ARC) of Katabasis by R. F. Kuang. Since this version is just a proof and not the final version, I won’t quote directly and will keep my comments general.) Katabasis by R. F. Kuang follows Alice Law, a Cambridge …
Book Review | Bochica (ARC)
I received an advance reader’s copy (ARC) of Bochica by Carolina Flórez-Cerchiaro. Since this version is just a proof and not the final version, I won’t quote directly and will keep my comments general. In Bochica by Carolina Flórez-Cerchiaro, Antonia spent her formative years in La Casona, a grand house in Columbia built by her …