Genre: Fantasy

Review: Little Thieves by Margaret Owen

Review: Little Thieves by Margaret Owen
Posted by Jessi (Geo) on March 24, 2023 | 0 Comments

Little thieves steal gold, and great ones steal kingdoms, but only one goes to the gallows. Holy WOW! This book took me completely by surprise! To be honest, this book wasn’t even on my radar until I saw that my bookstabestie Christy (@cbookaddiction) was reading it and enjoying it, so I took a second look at it. Before that, I didn’t plan on reading it at all. I had tried to read Merciful Crow a couple years back and couldn’t […]

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ARC Review: Silver in the Bone by Alexandra Bracken

ARC Review: Silver in the Bone by Alexandra Bracken
Posted by Jessi (Geo) on March 20, 2023 | 0 Comments

“Three magics to be feared: curses born of the wrath of gods, poisons that turn soil to ash, and that which leaves one dark of heart and silver in the bone.” I got this ARC at YALLfest last November, to my utter delight! It was one of my most anticipated 2023 releases, and one of the ARCs I wanted to get my hands on the most at the festival. To be honest though? I wasn’t sure how this one would […]

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Audiobook Review: The Last Tale of the Flower Bride by Roshani Chokshi

Audiobook Review: The Last Tale of the Flower Bride by Roshani Chokshi
Posted by Jessi (Geo) on March 6, 2023 | 0 Comments

This one took me by surprise! It’s enchanting, similar to the uncanny way of The Ten Thousand Doors of January and Strange the Dreamer (although I didn’t love it quite as much as those two). I think the vibe of this book was my favorite part! It’s very mysterious, and magical in that strange way that magical realism has, but without being nonsensical like most magical realism. It’s hard to talk about this without giving anything away – I went […]

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Mini Audio Reviews: Merciless Ones, Genesis Wars

Mini Audio Reviews: Merciless Ones, Genesis Wars
Posted by Jessi (Geo) on February 24, 2023 | 0 Comments

I am SO. SAD. that I didn’t love this one. I adored Gilded Ones, and the sequel was a highly anticipated release. However, it had a raging case of Second Book Syndrome and left me feeling extremely disappointed. I never really got into the story or the world like I did in the first book (and both of those aspects were fantastic in the first book) and felt pretty disconnected overall. It didn’t leave much of an impression on me. […]

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Mini Reviews: Blood Trials, Gallant, Forest of 1000 Lanterns

Mini Reviews: Blood Trials, Gallant, Forest of 1000 Lanterns
Posted by Jessi (Geo) on February 17, 2023 | 0 Comments

I had pretty mixed feelings about this book. Overall, I really enjoyed it. It had very strong Red Rising vibes, but was still totally unique in its own way. Fair warning: this book is heavy. It’s full of racism and misogyny and is quite brutal. I went back and forth between “yeah, this is awesome!!” to “ehh maybe it’s a little over the top” with both the brutality of the book and Kenna’s personality. I like dark and brutal, but there […]

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Audiobook Review: Emily Wilde’s Encyclopaedia of Faeries by Heather Fawcett

Audiobook Review: Emily Wilde’s Encyclopaedia of Faeries by Heather Fawcett
Posted by Jessi (Geo) on February 13, 2023 | 0 Comments

I absolutely did not expect to love this book as much as I did!! The hype for it is so well deserved! I went in with little to no expectations – I hadn’t heard much about this one, I just knew that it had quite high ratings and a “curmudgeonly professor.” I enjoyed Even the Darkest Stars, and liked the narrator based on the Audible sample, so I used a credit to get the audiobook. And I’m so glad I […]

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