Tag: book review
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The Pairing by Casey McQuiston
Contemporary Romance | 432 Pages | Anticipated publication date: August 6, 2024 The Pairing by Casey McQuiston is a beautiful, immersive novel about beginnings and endings and being willing to risk beginning again. I adored Theo and Kit’s story. I’m usually not a fan of second chance romance tropes but honestly, I didn’t read much…
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The Sins on Their Bones by Laura R. Samotin
Fantasy | 416 pages | First published: May 7, 2024 I received an Advanced Reader Copy of The Sins on Their Bones by Laura R. Samotin through a Goodreads giveaway. However, it has taken me awhile to sit down and compile my thoughts. I was so incredibly excited to receive this ARC, but I’m still…
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A Song for Arbonne by Guy Gavriel Kay
Fantasy | 511 pages | First published: February 1st, 1994 Not to be dramatic, but A Song for Arbonne might be one of my favourite standalone fantasy reads of all time. Yet I’m inclined to agree with Kay’s distaste for being shoehorned into a particular genre, because while this book contains traditional fantasy elements, I would say…
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Empire of Ivory by Naomi Novik
Fantasy | 404 pages | First published: September 25th, 2007 Empire of Ivory is the fourth book in the Temeraire series, an alternate reality in which dragons were the aerial force during the Napoleonic Wars. Ironically for our current state of the world, this installment follows a pandemic which has struck the dragons, rendering them incapable…
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The Lies of Locke Lamora by Scott Lynch
Fantasy | 530 pages | First published: February 1st, 2017 I absolutely loved this. Faint of heart be warned, it is rich with profanities, but with the series titled Gentleman Bastard…that should really be expected. The Lies of Locke Lamora introduces us to an incredibly loveable band of thieves – the aforementioned Gentlemen Bastards. Their…
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The Shadow of What Was Lost by James Islington
Fantasy | 736 pages | First published: May 9th, 2017 This was a reread from two years ago, and it was a strange experience with how much I couldn’t remember initially but then the familiarity as the plot progressed. My enjoyment of this first book in The Licanius Trilogy hasn’t faded from my first read.…
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An Echo of Things to Come by James Islington
Fantasy | 784 pages | First published: June 12th, 2018 Another reread and another rating unchanged! This one came back to me a bit faster than the first one, but I would definitely say it suffers from second-book syndrome. It felt like one large info-dump that also tried to tackle the intricacies of morality. Thankfully…
Anna Marie Carroll 