Add on Goodreads ***Thank you to Netgalley for providing this ARC in exchange for an honest review.*** “Rebellion didn’t come with instructions.” The Emperor is Dead. Long live the Emperor. Lin Sukai finally sits on the throne she won at so much cost, but her struggles are only just beginning. Her people don’t trust her. [...]
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Book Review: “Count Your Lucky Stars” by Alexandria Bellefleur (ARC)
Add on Goodreads ***Thank you to Netgalley for providing this ARC in exchange for an honest review.*** “I don’t know how to be anything but all in when it comes to you.” Margot Cooper doesn’t do relationships. She tried and it blew up in her face, so she’ll stick with casual hookups, thank you very [...]
Book Review: “The Atlas Six” by Olivie Blake
Add on Goodreads “The problem with knowledge is its inexhaustible craving. The more of it you have, the less you feel you know.” The Alexandrian Society, caretakers of lost knowledge from the greatest civilizations of antiquity, are the foremost secret society of magical academicians in the world. Those who earn a place among the Alexandrians [...]
Book Review: “We Play Ourselves” by Jen Silverman
Add on Goodreads “Nobody is ever gonna be as happy as you are about the good things that happen, but everybody is gonna show up to watch when the shit goes down.” Not too long ago, Cass was a promising young playwright in New York, hailed as "a fierce new voice" and "queer, feminist, and [...]
Book Review: “A Dark and Hollow Star” by Ashley Shuttleworth
Add on Goodreads “Heroes went through so much hardship. Heroes were the stuff of tragedies.” The “ironborn” half-fae outcast of her royal fae family.A tempestuous Fury, exiled to earth from the Immortal Realm and hellbent on revenge. A dutiful fae prince, determined to earn his place on the throne. The prince’s brooding guardian, burdened with [...]
Book Review: “Honey Girl” by Morgan Rogers (ARC)
Add on Goodreads ***Thank you to Netgalley for providing this ARC in exchange for an honest review.*** “Have you ever stared up at the sky and wondered where it was you saw yourself, all those years ago? Which star it was you followed here?” With her newly completed PhD in astronomy in hand, twenty-eight-year-old Grace [...]
Book Review: “The Bone Shard Daughter” by Andrea Stewart
Add on Goodreads “I would drink a thousand lies just to see your face again.” In an empire controlled by bone shard magic, Lin, the former heir to the emperor will fight to reclaim her magic and her place on the throne. The emperor's reign has lasted for decades, his mastery of bone shard magic [...]
Book Review: “Black Sun” by Rebecca Roanhorse
Add on Goodreads “There was magic in the world, pure and simple, things she didn't understand. Best get used to it.” In the holy city of Tova, the winter solstice is usually a time for celebration and renewal, but this year it coincides with a solar eclipse, a rare celestial event proscribed by the Sun [...]
Book Review: “Catherine House” by Elisabeth Thomas
Add on Goodreads “You are in the house and the house is in the woods. You are in the house and the house is in you.” Catherine House is a school of higher learning like no other. Hidden deep in the woods of rural Pennsylvania, this crucible of reformist liberal arts study with its experimental [...]
Book Review: “The Year of the Witching” by Alexis Henderson
Add on Goodreads “Good people don't bow their heads and bite their tongues while other good people suffer. Good people are not complicit.” In the lands of Bethel, where the Prophet’s word is law, Immanuelle Moore’s very existence is blasphemy. Her mother’s union with an outsider of a different race cast her once-proud family into [...]
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