I finally did it! I finally read the Night Circus! I’m only, what, eight years late to the party? In Erin Morgenstern’s debut novel, Celia and Marco are trained separately to participate in a mysterious contest against each other, set in the strange but glamorous Le Cirque de Reves, a traveling circus that operates at …
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Book Review | The Fowl Twins (ARC)
I received an advance reader’s copy (ARC) of The Fowl Twins by Eoin Colfer. Since this version is just a proof and not the final version, I won’t quote directly and will keep my comments general. Several years after the events of the Artemis Fowl series, Artemis’ younger twin brothers Myles and Beckett have their …
Book Review | Magic for Liars (ARC)
I received an advance reader’s copy (ARC) of Magic for Liars by Sarah Gailey. Since this version is just a proof and not the final version, I won’t quote directly and will keep my comments general. In Magic for Liars, Ivy is a private investigator, but with a familial secret she tries not to think …
Book Review | The Ruin of Kings
I wanted—and tried—to like this book, I swear. It received such a big marketing push in the months leading up to its release, I was excited to read it. Unfortunately, the blurbs and the buzz deceived me. The Ruin of Kings (more like Ruin My Month) by Jenn Lyons tells the story of Kihrin, a …
Book Review | Circe
Circe by Madeline Miller is her second novel, and is in a similar vein to her first book, The Song of Achilles, though quite different in plot and tone. Circe retells certain myths from the nymph Circe’s point of view, featuring various figures from ancient stories we know well. The plot traces the events of …
Book Review | A Conjuring of Light
Signs of a fantastic series: When you finish, you sit in a daze, unable to focus on anything else but what you just read for at least half an hour.You recommend it to anyone remotely interested in that genre (or, sometimes, not even then. You might recommend it to complete strangers on the street. I …
Book Review | A Gathering of Shadows
Me finishing A Gathering of Shadows by V. E. Schwab: A One Act Play *Enter ME, moving to sit in a chair, reading the book*Silence, save for the soft sound of the final page turning over to reveal nothing more than an Acknowledgments pageME: ...ME: *shrieks and dives across the room for the third book, …
