I talk about mirrors in books a lot. And Lori’s books were where I found my first mirrors.
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Move over Percy, Annabeth, and Grover! You have competition for my favorite MG fantasy trio. Cassidy, Jacob, and Lara are all so vivid and curious and loyal and brave in the face of their fears. It’s hard not to love them.
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When Alice accepts an offer to train at Korea’s Star Academy, the home of the country’s biggest K-Pop stars, gets a little more than she bargained for. … I flew through this book.
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Battle of the Bands is a collection of interconnected short stories. And the point of intersection is — you guessed it — a high school Battle of the Bands.
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The obligatory first post: these never get easier…
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Seeing Jessie Mei Li as Alina Starkov in the Netflix adaptation of Shadow & Bone was hugely important to me. I had never seen a biracial (and Asian!) main character in mainstream fantasy before.
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Meet Xifeng. The woman who makes Kaz Brekker seem like a saint.
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Broken Web quickly became one of my most anticipated books of the year after reading Forest of Souls back in March
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Sirscha. I’ve never felt as seen as I do in her. I see myself in the battles she has with herself. And then I see myself in her face.
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I’ve spent two years trying to adequately describe The Bone Season (one of my favorite series.) I think I finally figured it out.
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Seafaring books are a low-key favorite of mine. I should read more of them. Cause pirates. And ship crews are the perfect set up to my favorite trope: found family.
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Who’s the last jaw-dropping author you read? Like, “don’t leave your mouth open cause flies will get in there” jaw-dropping?
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How many books have you read that take Greco-Roman mythology and run with it? A lot? Me too. They’re some of my favorite books, and I get so excited when I hear about books that explore other mythologies.
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I have a hard time adequately describing the plot of the books, and not because it is confusing or boring. It just exists on two different timelines and I could only see the full picture in the third book.
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How do you feel about protagonists with unconventional skills?
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How do you feel about young royals having power and responsibility they never quite wanted thrust upon them? That *almost* happens to Hesina, the Princess of Yan.
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Full disclosure: I bought this book because Schwab’s story is in it. I don’t go for vampire stories usually, so the idea of a collection of “vampire retellings” on its own wasn’t enough to sell me. That said, I am having so much fun…
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If you love epic fantasy, well crafted enemies-to-lovers adventure, found family, badass women and some wonderfully broody men, *read this book.*
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Was this book eerie as hell? Yup. Did it make me cringe and squirm? Yup. Was I unable to put it down after a certain point? You bet.
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Samantha Shannon is a wizard. A quiet, etymology-loving, sneaks-up-and-casts-a-spell-when-you-weren’t-looking kind of word wizard.
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