I received an advance reader’s copy (ARC) of Where Shadows Bloom by Catherine Bakewell. Since this version is just a proof and not the final version, I won’t quote directly and will keep my comments general. If nothing else, this book gave me the excuse to listen to the Hadestown soundtrack again. Not that I …
Tag: fantasy
Book Review | Ruthless Vows
I’m amused by the fact that, in the review of the first book of this duology, I said I was glad I could pick up the sequel immediately… and then proceeded to wait an entire year to actually read said sequel. Anyway, Ruthless Vows by Rebecca Ross picks up two weeks after the events at …
Book Review | The Way of Kings
I’m about fifteen years late to this, but I finally did it! I finally read The Way of Kings! My eldest brother can breathe a sigh of relief at long last (also, N, if you’re reading this, hi!). So in Brandon Sanderson’s first Stormlight Archive book, The Way of Kings, a young man named Kaladin …
Book Review | The River Has Roots (ARC)
I received a digital advance reader’s copy (ARC) of The River Has Roots by Amal El-Mohtar. Since this version is just a proof and not the final version, I won’t quote directly and will keep my comments general. In The River Has Roots, two sisters Esther and Ysabel live by a river that flows from …
Book Review | A Burning in the Bones (ARC)
I received a digital advance reader’s copy (ARC) of A Burning in the Bones by Scott Reintgen. Since this version is just a proof and not the final version, I won’t quote directly and will keep my comments general. A Burning in the Bones by Scott Reintgen closes the Waxways trilogy, following Ren Monroe as …
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