“Wolves were everywhere”— The Gilded Wolves [REVIEW]

Author: Roshani Chokshi Genre: Young adult; fantasy Rating: 4/5 When you are who they expect you to be, they never look too closely. The Gilded Wolves is a tale of found family and crime set in an alternate Paris during the Belle Epoche. It has drawn (mostly favourable) comparisons to a certain well-known YA heist fantasy …

2018 Book Challenge Update: Part 1

Hi guys! At the start of the year I set my reading goal to 30 books, 5 more than last year’s goal and 3 more than I actually managed to read last year. I thought it was about time I shared some of what I’ve read. A Long Way to a Small Angry Plant | …

[REVIEW] Wardens of Archos by Sarina Langer (Relics of Ar’Zac 2)

Author: Sarina Langer Genre: Young adult; fantasy Rating: 4/5 Release date: October 16th, 2017 || Pre-order and add it on Goodreads I was provided a free ARC of Wardens of Archos by the author in exchange for an honest review. It is a rare sequel which manages to not only match the quality and intensity of …

“You shall be an empress with the moon for your throne” – The Star-Touched Queen [REVIEW]

Author: Roshani Chokshi Genre: Young adult; fantasy Rating: 3.5/5 I wanted a love thick with time, as inscrutable as if a lathe had carved it from night and as familiar as the marrow in my bones. The Star-Touched Queen is the story of Mayavati, whose grim horoscope has condemned her to a life as an …

Book Challenge 2017 – Update 3

So, I realised I've been reading a lot but I haven't done a reading challenge update in months. Oops! GOALS: Read 20 books Read from unfamiliar genres Read a book written by authors from at least ten different countries Turkey (1) India (1) Australia (1) U.S.A. (5) U.K. (1) Canada (1) Jamaica (1) Pakistan (1)  BOOKS I’VE …

“You have ink in your blood.” – Ink and Bone Review

Author: Rachel Caine Series: The Great Library (Book 1) Genre: Young adult; fantasy; steampunk; alternate history Rating: 4.5/5   Books and men left the same traces where they burned. For every book lover who is also a history lover, for every historian with an addiction to book, Ink and Bone is a pipe dream come …

“Fate had no hold over us” – Sparks Fly Review

Author: Kadian Thomas Series: A Light in the Dark (Book 1) Genre: Young adult; fantasy Rating: 3/5 Release date: June 21st, 2017 (Pre-order your copy from Amazon here) Goodreads | Barnes and Noble | Kobo | Smashwords I was provided a free ARC of Sparks Fly by the author in exchange for an honest review. “Destiny…tells me …

“The night was screams, and the smell of gunpowder” – Rebel of the Sands Review

Author: Alwyn Hamilton Genre: Fantasy Rating: 3/5 “Tell me that’s how you want your story to go and we’ll write it straight across the sand.” Rebel in the Sands is a young adult fantasy by debut author Alwyn Hamilton, a globe-trotting Canadian who can list Cambridge graduate amongst her credentials. It follows Amani, a young girl stuck …

NaNoWriMo -Day 12 *25,000*

So it's day 12 of NaNoWriMo (the end of in my time zone), and my momentum has really slowed since my last update. I managed to hit my targets on 5th - 8th but the news which came out of America on the 9th threw me a lot more than I was expecting. I also had …

NaNoWriMo Update – Day 5

Hello, hello! I hope you're all having a wonderful and productive day! We're already five days into NaNoWriMo 2016 and, to be quite frank, I'm already exhausted. In the lead up to NaNo this year, I was feeling a bit uncertain about my story. It's something I first came up with almost two years ago …