if all the stars were books, the galaxy would still be smaller than my TBR list
This is Esme and I's finalist in this year's SPFBO! I have historically bounced off a lot of Fletcher's work, not because it isn't well written or enjoyable, but because it is often super, super dark. I've been known to like some grimdark here and there but like... real dark, y'all. Esme got super excited... Continue Reading →
I'm just flying through these finalists!* Today I'm diving into my review for No More Levels - which surprised me a lot! LitRPG and I have a complicated relationship, and so I don't always go into them with the highest of expectations (not that they aren't written well or have their audience or anything, but... Continue Reading →
Time to jump into these finalists in this year's SPFBO! I'm starting with The Hallows, because I have read Tinsley's work and enjoyed it so I figured that it was a good starting point. I do enjoy the idea of a noir tale with battle nuns too, so here we go!The Hallow serum was once... Continue Reading →
Done done done! It is time for me to cut the rest of my batch and announce my second semifinalist! Let's begin! A Fallen Hero by Sara A. Noë Full Review This was definitely a unique take on ghost stories, to be sure. It reads a bit like an offshoot of the unwilling test subject... Continue Reading →
Getting pretty close to the bottom of this stack! Anaís Dí Sona has trained her entire life for one role—protector of the Kingdom of Dúndíor—but the darkness of her past and the suffocating grip of her royal father threaten to crack her will in a way no battle could match. When she’s given the task... Continue Reading →
Y'all, it is time for me to start cutting, unfortunately. Not my most favorite thing to do... so I'll finish that up with a Semifinalist. Let's get started: Cut #1 - Synworld Chronicles by Rai Bowen This one had a premise that sounded really interesting and I was hoping to fall right in but unfortunately,... Continue Reading →
Nearing the end of my pile of SPFBO books! Today I'm reviewing Taking Flight. To become an airship pilot, Sira must survive her final exam—and the pirates determined to kill her. Everyone assumed Sira was going to ace the practical exam. Top of her class at the Academy, she’s proven she can fly an airship.... Continue Reading →
Moving right along with my pile of books! Today I'm reviewing The Moonlight Lies! Fourteen-year-old Cassiopeia Brown has never belonged. Ridiculed, detested, and powerless, she’s an outcast even among her own kind — a goblin cursed with fiery red hair. So when the prophesied hero refuses to face the coming Moonfall — a magical cataclysm... Continue Reading →
Getting closer to the bottom of my reading pile for this year!! Today, I'm reviewing The Raven's Revenge by K. J. Wagner. A dead man tells a single tale. A drowned man tells none. A bloody civil war has left elves as the inferior race in the country of Curliffe. Hot-tempered elf Slate Raven takes... Continue Reading →
Moving along with my SPFBO books - it's time for the longest of my slushy pile! Fourteen-year-old Sid Sol knows nothing about his origins but believes himself destined for better things than living in an isolated cabin with a giant and a girl whose strange appearance causes the locals to shun them. His fellow orphan,... Continue Reading →
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