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The Lost Story By: Meg Shaffer
Inspired by C.S. Lewis’s Chronicles of Narnia, two boys who society would never expect to be friends get ‘lost’ in the woods together. After being miraculously found, no one knows how they survived, why they came back or where they were while they were missing. I was excited to read another Meg Shaffer book after…
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Ninth House By: Leigh Bardugo
Welcome to New Haven – a place riddled with grays (ghosts) and magic galore. Instead of frat houses, we have magic houses. Instead of basements filled with beer pong, we have tombs and rituals. (Just kidding, beer pong is there too.) Alex is scooped out of her dejecting life and given the oppurtunity to join…
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Throne of Glass By: Sarah J. Maas
A wronged assassin is given a chance to free herself from a death camp, but she stumbles on way more than a simple competition. My biggest question is where is the throne in Throne of Glass? To give you a quick background of where I am at with this viral author, Sarah J. Maas. I…
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Babel, or the Necessity of Violence: An Arcane History of the Oxford Translators’ Revolution By: R.F. Kuang
Babel is a wanna-be intellectual’s dream and an actual intellectual’s nightmare. I fall into the former, so I loved it. Set in England’s victorian days the reader follows Robin Swift, a translator student in Oxford, as he grapples with the realities of the world. This story has layers. The author flexes her knowledge, education and…
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THE HOBBIT, OR THERE AND BACK AGAIN BY: J.R.R. TOLKIEN
What can you even say about a classic like this? This is my third time around reading this… Surprised I didn’t previously leave a review. I ran out of books to read, so had to browse my shelf to look for a good reread to pass the time. DANG – it did not disappoint. We…
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DARLING GIRL: A NOVEL OF PETER PAN BY LIZ MICHALSKI
I normally let myself digest a little before fully diving in to a review, but here I am… less than an hour later sitting down to write this up. First let’s get this out of the way… Peter Pan was never a book I cared much about. It didn’t really capture my attention. The only…
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THISTLEFOOT BY GENNAROSE NETHERCOTT
This is one of those books that I really wanted to like. I purchased it knowing that this book would be exciting, I was almost cocky about it. I loved the cover, I loved the premise of the book, and I love Baba Yaga. So, of course I went into this book with high hopes. …
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