Brandon Sanderson wrote a PIRATE book, and I am here for it! In Tress of the Emerald Sea, the first of Brandon Sanderson’s “Secret Projects” (because he, like Hamilton, apparently writes like he’s running out of time), Tress has lived a quiet, simple life on an island known colloquially as The Rock (not Dwayne Johnson, …
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Book Review | The Adventures of Amina Al-Sirafi
Pirates? Magic? Say no more; I'm in! The Adventures of Amina Al-Sirafi by Shannon Chakraborty joins the titular character after she’s been retired from piracy for ten years to raise her daughter. But one day a woman arrives with a request Amina can’t say no to: if she recovers this woman’s granddaughter—the child of one …
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Book Review | In Deeper Waters (ARC)
I received an advance reader’s copy (ARC) of In Deeper Waters by F. T. Lukens. Since this version is just a proof and not the final version, I won’t quote directly and will keep my comments general. In Deeper Waters begins with Prince Tal setting off on his coming-of-age tour around the world, though he …
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, …
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