My spellcheck hates this protagonist’s name. In Nightshade and Oak by Molly O’Neill, the goddess known as Mallt has spent years helping the recently deceased humans of Britain pass on to the afterlife. However, her job has become more intense lately, what with the invasion of the Romans and Boudica’s resulting rebellion. Things get increasingly …
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Book Review | A Land So Wide
There are more spoilers in this review than I usually include, but I have many thoughts about this book and need to express them. In A Land So Wide by Erin A. Craig, Greer Mackenzie has grown up in the town of Mistaken, a settlement that is hemmed in by large warding stones, which keep …
Series Review | Elatsoe and Sheine Lende
For once, I read a duology without waiting months and months in between the books! In Darcie Little Badger’s books Elatsoe and Sheine Lende, we follow two members of the same family: Ellie and Shane, a granddaughter and grandmother. In the first book, Ellie is a high schooler living in an America quite like our …
Book Review | Greenteeth (ARC)
I received an advance reader’s copy (ARC) of Greenteeth by Molly O’Neill. Since this version is just a proof and not the final version, I won’t quote directly and will keep my comments general. Greenteeth by Molly O’Neill tells the story of Jenny Greenteeth, a lake-dwelling creature who lives near a small human town in …
Book Review | Our Divine Mischief
It's been a while since I read a historical fantasy, so here I am! In Our Divine Mischief by Hanna C. Howard, Áila LacInis wants to find out what her role will be in her small fishing village, and the way to do that is to journey to a nearby island to seek out the …
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