Tisannah is used to being the underdog. After signing her life to the Order to help save the slaves in Threll, she was double crossed by the very people she helped. In a desperate power grab, Nura ends up on top, Max ends up in a magical prison, and Tisannah ends up back in Threll, continuing to lead the rebellion while
Read MoreTisaanah has just won a major victory in Daughter of No Worlds (previously reviewed). With Reshaye’s power, she destroyed the corrupt leaders of Threll and freed the slaves. But there’s no time to revel in her victory in the second book in Carissa Broadbent’s The War of Lost Hearts series. In Children of Fallen Gods, Tisaanah is immediately thrown into a new
Read MoreTisaanah has been a slave for most of her life, but she has no intention of staying one. She’s worked hard and saved every coin that’s ever come her way. Finally, she has the 1,000 gold pieces that her owner named as her freedom price eight years ago. She intends to buy her freedom, travel to the Order, train until she
Read MoreRuby Tucker has problems. She just can’t seem to get her temper under control. But she’s been doing better lately, her probation is almost up, and she’s going to finally leave her rinky-dink town and head to Atlanta to start a band with her best friend, Tina. Then she finds an old ring and everything changes. Now she’s got an evil
Read MoreGet ready for an epic adventure that checks all the boxes. There’s a grieving woman who will rise to become king, there’s a determined young man that wants answers, there’s a scared young sorceress that will find the courage to save them all, oh and there’s a dragon, did I mention that? Sung-Il Kim’s amazing new fantasy book, Blood of the
Read MoreI must admit that I love horror, so I thought The Three-Body Problem was about hiding three bodies (naturally, right?). Wrong! The “three-body problem” is an actual physics problem that deals with the movements of three celestial bodies in relation to each other as they move through space. Their movements are very chaotic and impossible to predict. This is bad for
Read MoreBrian Herbert continues the story his father started almost 60 years ago with Princess of Dune (a Dune prequel), a collaboration between Herbert and Kevin J. Anderson. Princess of Dune reveals the backstory of Chani and Irulan, the two women who shape Paul Atreides and the galaxy’s destiny in the Dune series. [Note: While I am reviewing this novel independently and honestly,
Read MoreFor those who read my Red, White & Royal Blue film review, you know that romantic comedies were an important part of my life growing up. While that is most definitely true, romance novels are a newer revelation. I grew up reading a ton of fantasy and science-fiction novels, however reading a novel about two people falling in love seemed like
Read MoreFor most of his life, Alan Rickman kept diaries. After his untimely passing from pancreatic cancer in 2016, it was decided to edit and publish these journals to allow his fans to see a more intimate side of the beloved actor. With a foreword by his dear friend Emma Thompson and an afterword by his lifelong love and wife Rima Horton,
Read MoreAlina is in a precarious position. She has basically become the prisoner of the Apparat. Trapped deep underground, far from the sunlight she needs, Alina is unable to use her powers. She needs to find the third amplifier to defeat the Darkling, but first, she has to find a way out from under the mountain and from under the Apparat’s control.
Read MoreA small town in rural America surrounded by fields of sunflowers sounds like an idyllic place to live. But this small town holds a dark secret. Men live pretty good lives in Bishop but women don’t fare as well. The list of dead and missing women stretches back all the way to the founding of the town when the first traveler
Read MoreJoin Alina as she tries to defeat the Darkling and save Ravka in Leigh Bardugo’s Siege and Storm. This is Bardugo’s second Grishaverse novel in the Shadow and Bone Trilogy. [ Warning: My review of Siege and Storm contains spoilers to this book and its predecessor Shadow and Bone (read the review here)] Following Shadow and Bone, Alina continues to be
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