Showing posts with label series. Show all posts
Showing posts with label series. Show all posts

Wednesday, December 21, 2022

Two Recent Reads #3: The Midnight Library & Owl and the Electric Samurai

Today I will be writing two short reviews for two of my most recent reads!
The long anticipated The Midnight Library and the fantasy, vampire book Owl and the Electric Samurai (The Adventures of Owl #3).


Let's dive right in.

Friday, November 25, 2022

Two Recent Reads #2: Amalina and the Secrets of the Wailing Castle & The Circle

 Today I will be writing two short reviews for two of my most recent reads!

The audiobook copy of fantasy book Amalina and the Secrets of the Wailing Castle, and dystopian book-to-movie The Circle.



Let's dive right in.

Wednesday, November 2, 2022

Two Recent Reads #1: Wild Swans & Owl and the City of Angels

Today I will be writing two short reviews for two of my most recent reads!
The nonfiction, autobiography book Wild Swans and the fantasy, vampire book Owl and the City of Angels (The Adventures of Owl #2).


Let's dive right in.

Wednesday, October 12, 2022

Written by Blood series: Cane's Detour & Daniel's Darkness and Conviction

   

I'm currently reading a very fun, but longer series and since it contains some novellas as well, I decided to bundle up the reviews for the prequel and the first book.

Let's dive in!

Wednesday, September 28, 2022

Review: House of Sky and Breath (Crescent City #2)

Author: Sarah J. Maas
Started reading: July 31st 2022
Finished the book: September 21st 2022
Pages: 805
Genres: Fantasy, Romance
Published: February 15th 2022
Source: Bought the book
Goodreads score: 4.52
My score:
Synopsis
Bryce Quinlan and Hunt Athalar are trying to get back to normal―they may have saved Crescent City, but with so much upheaval in their lives lately, they mostly want a chance to relax. Slow down. Figure out what the future holds.

The Asteri have kept their word so far, leaving Bryce and Hunt alone. But with the rebels chipping away at the Asteri’s power, the threat the rulers pose is growing. As Bryce, Hunt, and their friends get pulled into the rebels’ plans, the choice becomes clear: stay silent while others are oppressed, or fight for what’s right. And they’ve never been very good at staying silent.

In this sexy, action-packed sequel to the #1 bestseller House of Earth and Blood, Sarah J. Maas weaves a captivating story of a world about to explode―and the people who will do anything to save it.

Wednesday, September 21, 2022

Review: Owl and the Japanese Circus (The Adventures of Owl #1)

Author: Kristi Charish
Started reading: August 16th 2022
Finished the book: September 17th 2022
Pages: 416 / 14h 55m
Genres: Fantasy, Vampires
Published: January 13th 2015
Source: Audible
Goodreads score: 3.63
My score:
Synopsis
Ex-archaeology grad student turned international antiquities thief, Alix—better known now as Owl—has one rule. No supernatural jobs. Ever. Until she crosses paths with Mr. Kurosawa, a red dragon who owns and runs the Japanese Circus Casino in Las Vegas. He insists Owl retrieve an artifact stolen three thousand years ago, and makes her an offer she can’t refuse: he’ll get rid of a pack of vampires that want her dead. A dragon is about the only entity on the planet that can deliver on Owl’s vampire problem – and let’s face it, dragons are known to eat the odd thief.

Owl retraces the steps of Mr. Kurosawa’s ancient thief from Japan to Bali with the help of her best friend, Nadya, and an attractive mercenary. As it turns out though, finding the scroll is the least of her worries. When she figures out one of Mr. Kurosawa’s trusted advisors is orchestrating a plan to use a weapon powerful enough to wipe out a city, things go to hell in a hand basket fast…and Owl has to pick sides.

Monday, August 8, 2022

Review: House of Earth and Blood (Crescent City #1)

Author: Sarah J. Maas
Started reading: July 19th 2022
Finished the book: July 26th 2022
Pages: 803
Genres: Fantasy, Romance
Published: March 3rd 2020
Source: Bought the book
Goodreads score: 4.48
My score:
Synopsis
Bryce Quinlan had the perfect life—working hard all day and partying all night—until a demon murdered her closest friends, leaving her bereft, wounded, and alone. When the accused is behind bars but the crimes start up again, Bryce finds herself at the heart of the investigation. She’ll do whatever it takes to avenge their deaths.

Hunt Athalar is a notorious Fallen angel, now enslaved to the Archangels he once attempted to overthrow. His brutal skills and incredible strength have been set to one purpose—to assassinate his boss’s enemies, no questions asked. But with a demon wreaking havoc in the city, he’s offered an irresistible deal: help Bryce find the murderer, and his freedom will be within reach.

As Bryce and Hunt dig deep into Crescent City’s underbelly, they discover a dark power that threatens everything and everyone they hold dear, and they find, in each other, a blazing passion—one that could set them both free, if they’d only let it.

Thursday, August 4, 2022

Review: Mightier Than the Sword #1

Author: Drew Callander& Alana Harrison
Started reading: July 7th 2022
Finished the book: July 18th 2022
Pages: 320
Genres: Middle Grade, Fantasy
Published: July 10th 2018
Source: Physical copy from the author
Goodreads score: 4.44
My score:
Synopsis
Wildly funny and inventive, this interactive book pulls you, the reader, into the action. Yes, YOU!
You wake up in the fictional land of Astorya, where stories from our world come to life. You're a real human being (we assume), and in this fictional world, that makes you a superhero. Armed with your trusty pencil you have the power to create: what you write, draw, or scribble in the book becomes part of the story!
Only you can rescue Prince S. from the evil Queen Rulette. Aided by the Couriers--a French stoat with dangerous dance moves, a giant dung beetle, a fire ninja, a Pegasus-centaur-cowgirl and a super-intelligent femalien chameleon--you must write, draw, and puzzle your way through a hilarious adventure that is unique to every reader! And most importantly, you must prove that the pencil is mightier than the sword.

Wednesday, July 27, 2022

Review: Tonight You’re Dead (Sandhamn Murders #4)

Author: Viveca Sten
Started reading: July 10th 2022
Finished the book: July 16th 2022
Pages: 411
Genres: Crime, Fiction, Mystery
Published: November 14th 2017
Source: Ebook
Goodreads score: 4.08
My score:
Synopsis
Soon to be divorced, attorney Nora Linde is finding her way as a single mother, and even falling in love again, when she’s asked by her childhood friend Detective Thomas Andreasson to help in a disturbing investigation. Marcus Nielsen, a university student, has apparently committed suicide, but it’s what he’s left behind that’s so suspicious and damning: his research into the Coastal Rangers, an elite military group where, in 1976, a young cadet died under questionable circumstances, a sadistic sergeant went free, and a case went cold.

When two of Nielsen’s contacts are also found dead—and diaries of their tortuous training turn up missing—Thomas and Nora are certain that whatever happened three decades ago is unforgivable. And for someone who wants to keep those secrets buried—unforgettable. Now they must fight against time to expose a cover-up that hasn’t yet claimed its last victim.



Friday, July 22, 2022

Review: Welcome to Ferry Lane Market (Ferry Lane Market #1)

Author: Nicola May
Started reading: June 9th 2022
Finished the book: July 8th 2022
Pages: 384 / 8:53:00
Genres: Romance, Fiction
Published: July 22nd 2021
Source: Storytel Audiobook
Goodreads score: 4.11
My score:
Synopsis
Although thirty-three year old Kara Moon loves her hometown of Hartmouth in Cornwall, she has always wondered if she should have followed her dream of leaving to study floristry. But she couldn't bring herself to leave her emotionally delicate single father, and has worked on Ferry Lane Market's flower stall ever since leaving school.

When her good-for-nothing boyfriend cheats on her and steals her life savings, she finally dumps him and rents out her spare room as an Airbnb. Gossip flies around the town as Kara welcomes a series of foreign guests to her flat overlooking the estuary.

Then an anonymous postcard arrives, along with a plane ticket to New York. And there begins the first of three trips of a lifetime, during which she will learn important lessons about herself, her life and what she wants from it - and perhaps find love along the way.

Saturday, July 16, 2022

Review: Fallen (Will Trent #5)

Author: Karin Slaughter
Started reading: June 27th 2022
Finished the book: June 30th 2022
Pages: 432
Genres: Mystery, Thriller, Crime
Published: October 16th 2012
Source: Bought the book
Goodreads score: 4.21
My score:
Synopsis
There's no police training stronger than a cop's instinct. Faith Mitchell's mother isn't answering her phone. Her front door is open. There's a bloodstain above the knob. Her infant daughter is hidden in a shed behind the house. All that the Georgia Bureau of Investigations taught Faith Mitchell goes out the window when she charges into her mother's house, gun drawn. She sees a man dead in the laundry room. She sees a hostage situation in the bedroom. What she doesn't see is her mother. . . .

""You know what we're here for. Hand it over, and we'll let her go.""

When the hostage situation turns deadly, Faith is left with too many questions, not enough answers. To find her mother, she'll need the help of her partner, Will Trent, and they'll both need the help of trauma doctor Sara Linton. But Faith isn't just a cop anymore--she's a witness. She's also a suspect.

Monday, June 27, 2022

Review: Kingdom of Ash (Throne of Glass #7)

Author: Sarah J. Maas
Started reading: June 5th 2022
Finished the book: June 14th 2022
Pages: 992
Genres: Fantasy
Published: October 8th 2019
Source: Bought the book
Goodreads score: 4.61
My score:
Synopsis
Aelin has risked everything to save her people-but at a tremendous cost. Locked within an iron coffin by the Queen of the Fae, Aelin must draw upon her fiery will as she endures months of torture. Aware that yielding to Maeve will doom those she loves keeps her from breaking, though her resolve begins to unravel with each passing day…
With Aelin captured, Aedion and Lysandra remain the last line of defense to protect Terrasen from utter destruction. Yet they soon realize that the many allies they've gathered to battle Erawan's hordes might not be enough to save them. Scattered across the continent and racing against time, Chaol, Manon, and Dorian are forced to forge their own paths to meet their fates. Hanging in the balance is any hope of salvation-and a better world.
And across the sea, his companions unwavering beside him, Rowan hunts to find his captured wife and queen-before she is lost to him forever.

Monday, June 20, 2022

Review: Rose Petal Graves (The Lost Clan #1)

Author: Olivia Wildenstein
Started reading: May 23rd 2022
Finished the book: June 8th 2022
Pages: 368
Genres: YA, Fantasy
Published: March 29th 2017
Source: Netgalley
Goodreads score: 3.75
My score:
Synopsis
I wasn't the type of girl who believed in fairytales, much less tales about faeries, but that changed the day the fae walked into my life.

Staying away from my lakeside hometown was the plan, but Mom died suddenly. Dad said she suffered a stroke after she dug up one of the ancient Native American graves in our backyard. Creepy, I know. Creepier still, there was no corpse inside the old coffin, only fresh rose petals. As we made preparations for her burial, unnervingly odd and beautiful newcomers poured into my small town. A coroner with emerald eyes and black hair, much too young for the job. An arrogant blond socialite, who lived to get under my skin. And a tattooed Native man, who wasn’t supposed to be alive. By dying, my mother had inadvertently revived an age-old feud between the fae and the tribe that hunted them. A feud that was about to tear my world apart.

Thursday, June 9, 2022

Review: The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes (The Hunger Games #0)

Author:
Suzanne Collins
Started reading: May 4th 2022
Finished the book: May 26th 2022
Pages: 541
Genres: YA, Dystopian
Published: May 19th 2020
Source: Bookbox
Goodreads score: 3.82
My score:
Synopsis
It is the morning of the reaping that will kick off the tenth annual Hunger Games. In the Capital, eighteen-year-old Coriolanus Snow is preparing for his one shot at glory as a mentor in the Games. The once-mighty house of Snow has fallen on hard times, its fate hanging on the slender chance that Coriolanus will be able to outcharm, outwit, and outmaneuver his fellow students to mentor the winning tribute.

The odds are against him. He's been given the humiliating assignment of mentoring the female tribute from District 12, the lowest of the low. Their fates are now completely intertwined -- every choice Coriolanus makes could lead to favor or failure, triumph or ruin. Inside the arena, it will be a fight to the death. Outside the arena, Coriolanus starts to feel for his doomed tribute... and must weigh his need to follow the rules against his desire to survive no matter what it takes.

Tuesday, June 7, 2022

Review: Guiltless (Sandhamn Murders #3)

Author:
Viveca Sten
Started reading: May 23rd 2022
Finished the book: May 24th 2022
Pages: 370
Genres: Crime, Fiction, Mystery
Published: May 23rd 2017
Source: eBook
Goodreads score: 4.10
My score:
Synopsis
The tiny Swedish island of Sandhamn has always been a haven for lawyer Nora Linde. With trouble brewing in her marriage, she finds its comforts more welcome than ever, even in the depths of winter. That is, until her two young sons trip across a severed arm in the woods.

The boys’ gruesome discovery will once again connect Nora with her childhood friend Thomas Andreasson, now a local police detective. When the limb is identified as belonging to a twenty-year-old woman who disappeared without a trace months earlier, what had been a missing persons case takes on a whole new urgency.

Nora and Thomas delve deeply into the woman’s final hours, each of them wrestling not only with the case but with the private demons it awakens in them. As they do, they’ll find themselves drawn into the history of Sandhamn and the tensions that have been simmering just below the surface for more than a hundred years.

Sunday, May 29, 2022

Review: A ​Court of Silver Flames (A Court of Thorns and Roses #4)

Author:
Sarah J. Maas
Started reading: May 14th 2022
Finished the book: May 21st 2022
Pages: 757
Genres: Fantasy, Romance, New Adult
Published: February 16th 2021
Source: Bought the book
Goodreads score: 4.40
My score:
Synopsis
Nesta Archeron has always been prickly-proud, swift to anger, and slow to forgive. And ever since being forced into the Cauldron and becoming High Fae against her will, she's struggled to find a place for herself within the strange, deadly world she inhabits. Worse, she can't seem to move past the horrors of the war with Hybern and all she lost in it.
The one person who ignites her temper more than any other is Cassian, the battle-scarred warrior whose position in Rhysand and Feyre's Night Court keeps him constantly in Nesta's orbit. But her temper isn't the only thing Cassian ignites. The fire between them is undeniable, and only burns hotter as they are forced into close quarters with each other.
Meanwhile, the treacherous human queens who returned to the Continent during the last war have forged a dangerous new alliance, threatening the fragile peace that has settled over the realms. And the key to halting them might very well rely on Cassian and Nesta facing their haunting pasts.

Thursday, May 19, 2022

Review: The God Queen (Rebirth Saga #1)

Author: M.L. Tishner
Started reading: May 2nd 2022
Finished the book: May 12th 2022
Pages: 432
Genres: Science Fiction
Published: October 22nd 2019
Source: Physical copy from the author
Goodreads score: 4.00
My score:
Synopsis
In a backwater Earth town, Rei Ettowa dreams of traveling across the stars to destroy Infiernen - the knight who murdered her brother.
When Rei discovers she is the reincarnation of the prophesied God Queen, she relishes her newfound ability to channel lightning for revenge. Unfortunately, blazing through a battlefield clashes with the Federation’s plan for Rei and the others like her. All the gods are to be trained as diplomatic figureheads to sway voters, not agents of war. Infiernen must remain untouched.
Unable to let go of her brother’s murder, Rei finds Infiernen. But instead of killing him, Rei discovers a secret the Federation has been keeping from her about her brother.
Now Rei is mad as hell. Her enemies must pay. But who are they? And what else is the Federation hiding from her?

Monday, May 2, 2022

Review: Of Tainted Heart (The Quatrefoil Chronicles #2)

Author: Olivia Wildenstein & Katie Hayoz
Started reading: March 27th 2022
Finished the book: April 26th 2022
Pages: 430 / 13:24:00
Genres: YA, Fantasy
Published: July 29th 2021
Source: Audible
Goodreads score: 4.48
My score:
Synopsis
SLATE
Somehow, we survived. It was supposed to be over. No more curses. No more magic. Just a calm, little life in Brume. For the first time ever, I’m ready for calm. So. Damn. Ready. Just so happens that the girl I love doesn’t like to leave things unfinished. Fine. So our little crew will assemble the Quatrefoil and bring magic back to the world. We’ve already faced death. This can’t be worse.
Or can it?

CADENCE I could have let things be. Maybe I should have let things be. My crew is alive. Slate is by my side. And life is returning to normal. Except the university is a giant pile of rubble. Papa is still stuck in a wheelchair. And a girl is dead. If magic can change all that, I want to try one last time to bring it back.
Hopefully, I won’t regret it.

Friday, April 22, 2022

Review: Tower of Dawn (Throne of Glass #6)

Author: Sarah J. Maas
Started reading: March 31st 2022
Finished the book: April 16th 2022
Pages: 660
Genres: Fantasy
Published: September 5th 2017
Source: Bought the book
Goodreads score: 4.29
My score:
Synopsis
Chaol Westfall has always defined himself by his unwavering loyalty, his strength, and his position as the Captain of the Guard. But all of that has changed since the glass castle shattered, since his men were slaughtered, since the King of Adarlan spared him from a killing blow, but left his body broken.
His only shot at recovery lies with the legendary healers of the Torre Cesme in Antica-the stronghold of the southern continent's mighty empire. And with war looming over Dorian and Aelin back home, their survival might lie with Chaol and Nesryn convincing its rulers to ally with them.

But what they discover in Antica will change them both-and be more vital to saving Erilea than they could have imagined.

Monday, March 28, 2022

Review: Iron Gold (Red Rising Saga #4)

Author:
Pierce Brown
Started reading: January 17th 2022
Finished the book: March 27th 2022
Pages: 601
Genres: Science Fiction, Fantasy
Published: January 16th 2018
Source: Bought the book
Goodreads score: 4.22
My score:
Synopsis
A decade ago, Darrow was the hero of the revolution he believed would break the chains of the Society. But the Rising has shattered everything: Instead of peace and freedom, it has brought endless war. Now he must risk everything he has fought for on one last desperate mission. Darrow still believes he can save everyone, but can he save himself?

And throughout the worlds, other destinies entwine with Darrow’s to change his fate forever:
A young Red girl flees tragedy in her refugee camp and achieves for herself a new life she could never have imagined.
An ex-soldier broken by grief is forced to steal the most valuable thing in the galaxy—or pay with his life.
And Lysander au Lune, the heir in exile to the sovereign, wanders the stars with his mentor, Cassius, haunted by the loss of the world that Darrow transformed, and dreaming of what will rise from its ashes.