A Deadly Education: Magic School Gone Dark
Author Naomi Novak Series The Scholomance #1 Genre Young Adult, Fantasy, Magic Published September 29th 2020 Description Lesson One of the Scholomance: Learning has never been this deadly. A Deadly Education is set at Scholomance, a school for the magically gifted where failure means certain death (for real) — until one girl, El, begins to […]
Viking Fantasy Tale: Sky In The Deep
Sky In The Deep by Adrienne Young Can two warring tribes put aside their mutual hatred, differences, and unite in order to defeat greater enemy? Sky In The Deep by Adrienne Young explores the most important human categories like: hatred, survival, family, betrayal, love; while at the same time giving us thrilling fantasy. STORY Seventeen-year-old […]
Steel, Blood, & Fire: When Fantasy Meets Dark
Steel, Blood, & Fire by Allan Batchelder One of my favorite genres to read is definitely fantasy. When you devote yourself to a certain genre, it is no wonder that, at one point, you will start to notice how some figures, tropes, and even plots repeat in many fantasy books. As I started to read […]
Heartless: Alice in Wonderland Retelling
Heartless is a retelling of Alice in Wonderland by Marissa Meyer, the author of popular Lunar Chronicles series. Retellings have always been somewhat troublesome. There are certain expectations from readers which have to be surpassed in order for a retelling to work. It also has to be quite original, and focused on surprising character. If […]
And I Darken: Fierce Femininity
And I Darken by Kiersten White And I Darken is a dark, gritty and compelling novel, set in Transylvania at the height of the Ottoman Empire. Dealing with alternate history, it is more political than your typical YA fantasy, but that is also what makes this novel attractively original. STORY One thing that immediately intrigues […]
Six of Crows: Mischievous Heroes
I was waiting to read this book since it got published. After reading the Grisha trilogy which I loved (reviews of Shadow and Bone, Siege and Storm), I had a lot of expectations for Six of Crows, but I’ve approached it carefully and I didn’t allow my expectations to spoil the reading. In case that […]
Uprooted: Fantasy and Folklore
The first thing that intrigued me about this book was the fact that it is a standalone fantasy book. I must confess, today you don’t see fantasy stand alones that much. It is more often that, if you choose to read a fantasy book, it’s probably going to be a part of series. Sometimes that […]
The Assassin’s Blade: New Heroine
Oh, this book. So many emotions about this book. STORIES Okay, let’s start from the beginning. The Assassin’s Blade is divided into 5 different (short) stories: The Assassin and The Pirate Lord, The Assassin and The Healer, The Assassin and The Desert, The Assassin and The Underworld, The Assassin and The Empire. Every one of […]
The Soul Thief: Angelic Paranormal
INTRO 16 year old Riley finds out that she is not an ordinary girl, but an Angel of Death, or to be more specific, a Halfling – half human, half Angel. She is immersed into this paranormal world of Angels, Vampires, Witches and many more supernatural beings, while being hunted by someone who wishes to […]
Siege And Storm: The Grisha Sequel
After I finished the first book of Grisha trilogy, Shadow and Bone (See the Review), I was eager enough to start reading the second book of the installment – Siege and Storm. Since my expectations were high, the book did deliver as well as it didn’t. STORY After Alina manages to escape from Darkling, she […]
Shadow And Bone: Thrilling New Fantasy
Shadow and Bone is a first book in the Grisha trilogy and it falls right under the young adult fantasy category. When you open the book, you immediately get enchanted by a wonderful map, a “must” when it comes to the fantasy books. We follow a story from the point of view of Alina, young […]