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Vortex by Julie Cross

Posted October 15, 2019 in Reviews // 4 Comments

It’s been a couple years since I read Tempest, but the story pulled me in again so quickly. I have never felt overwhelmed by all the information she gives about the mechanics of time travel, and I never feel like the romance really takes over the story. Also? This is what should be a New Adult book – a book where the story revolves around a protagonist who is out of high school, but newly into college or embarking on a career. It feels so perfectly what I want New Adult to be. … But that’s an aside. Now that I have […]

Snow Like Ashes by Sara Raasch

Posted October 9, 2019 in Reviews // 2 Comments

Snow Like Ashes was… exhausting. This book gets a 3.93 star rating on Goodreads, which is very good for a book that people do not talk about ceaselessly and have intense fandoms for. There was a lot of promise here, but I cannot in good conscience agree with the masses that this is an almost 4-star book. I’ll start with the good: the worldbuilding was really cool. If not for the worldbuilding, I would have DNF’d this novel early on. In Snow Like Ashes, Sara Raasch has built an interesting, magical world. The closest comparison I can come to this […]

The Fifth Season by N.K. Jemisin

Posted October 4, 2019 in Reviews // 0 Comments

I expected a lot from The Fifth Season. Not so much from this book, but from anything written by N.K. Jeminsin. I have heard a lot about this author and the depth of her worlds. I wanted a deep fantasy tale with characters that tempt you into their stories. I wanted a book that teased me never to put it down. The Fifth Season met my expectations. There is some discourse about the actual genre of The Fifth Season. I’m going against the grain to say this feels more like science fiction than fantasy to me. First of all, it’s dystopia, which fits […]

The Eyes of the Dragon by Stephen King

Posted September 29, 2019 in Reviews // 0 Comments

The Eyes of the Dragon feels like a story that belongs in the ancient histories of Midworld. That is to say… if you’ve read the Dark Tower series, King’s voice is familiar here. He uses terms like “baronies” which I’ve never heard in other fantasy novels. There is a Roland (our Roland Deschain’s namesake in his own world, perhaps? Or a coincidence?) and there is a wicked court magician named “Flagg”. And, of course, we know Flagg from The Stand and the Dark Tower series. Of course, this is a different world and a different time, but there’s always that […]

Timeless Tales of Beatrix Potter by Beatrix Potter

Posted September 28, 2019 in Reviews // 2 Comments

So nobody really talks about it anymore, and I don’t know any friends who have read these tales to their children, but Beatrix Potter is such a classic. These short tidbits, written over a hundred years ago, are so familiar today. It was such strange nostalgia going back not just to childhood favorites, but to stories I remember having read to me, and the memory of illustrated collections we used to have. I’m going to try something a bit different here, because this is a collection of very short children’s stories. So, rather than try to summarize the collection as […]