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Review: All the Hidden Paths by Foz Meadows

Dec 5, 2023 | 1 comment

Rating: 5 stars Buy Link: Amazon | iBooks | Amazon UK Length: Novel All the Hidden Paths is the direct sequel to A Strange and Stubborn Endurance, the first book in the Tithenai series, and these books must be read in order. The complex political structure and...

FILED UNDER: 5 stars, Fantasy, Sue's Reviews
TAGGED: arranged marriage, established couple, Foz Meadows, past sexual abuse, Tithenai series, Tor Books

Review: A Power Unbound by Freya Marske

Nov 7, 2023 | 2 comments

Rating: 5 stars Buy Links: Amazon | iBooks | Amazon UK Length: Novel After losing his twin sister and his own magic, Jack Alston, Lord Hawthorn, has removed himself as much as possible from the magical world. However, with the looming threat to all magic...

FILED UNDER: 5 stars, Historical, Jay's Reviews, Paranormal
TAGGED: enemies to lovers, Freya Marske, magic, The Last Binding series, Tor Books

Review: He Who Drowned the World by Shelley Parker-Chan

Aug 24, 2023 | 0 comments

Rating: 5 stars Buy Link: Amazon | iBooks | Amazon UK Length: Novel Zhu Chongba has become Zhu Yuanzhang. Now possessing the mandate of heaven, she intends to not just win a war and claim a title. No, she intends to claim the world. Zhu Yuanzhang will become...

FILED UNDER: 5 stars, Elizabeth's reviews, Fantasy, Historical
TAGGED: BIPOC, military, Radiant Emperor series, rape, sex worker, Shelly Parker-Chan, Tor Books, torture

Review: The First Bright Thing by J.R. Dawson

Jun 13, 2023 | 0 comments

Rating: 3.5 stars Buy Link: Amazon | iBooks | Amazon UK Length: Novel The end of the first world war brought with it many things, among them … magic. No one knows the reason, no one knows how it happened, but people across the world were granted the ability to...

FILED UNDER: 3.5 stars, Elizabeth's reviews, Fantasy
TAGGED: circus, domestic abuse, emotional abuse, horror, J.R. Dawson, Jewish, magic, PTSD, time travel, Tor Books, WWI

Review: The Warden by Daniel M. Ford

Apr 18, 2023 | 3 comments

Rating: 4.5 stars Buy Link: Amazon | iBooks | Amazon UK Length: Novel For Aelis, having magic, money, connections, skill, and power entitled her to a prestigious position in one of the largest cities in the empire. After all, she’s one of a very few female...

FILED UNDER: 4.5 stars, Elizabeth's reviews, Fantasy
TAGGED: bisexual, Daniel M. Ford, magic, necromancer, The Warden series, Tor Books

Review: In the Lives of Puppets by T.J. Klune

Feb 28, 2023 | 4 comments

Rating: 5 stars Buy Link: Amazon | iBooks | Amazon UK Length: Novel Victor has never known anything but the protective forest where he lives with his father, Gio, and two robots, Rambo and Nurse Ratched. His home is a happy one and with his family he is...

FILED UNDER: 5 stars, Fairy Tale, Fantasy, Sue's Reviews
TAGGED: asexual, kidnapping, T.J. Klune, Tor Books

Review: Ocean’s Echo by Everina Maxwell

Jan 5, 2023 | 2 comments

Rating: 4.75 stars Buy Links: Amazon | iBooks | Amazon UK Length: Novel Tennalhin Halkana has always pushed the boundaries, laying on his charm when needed, or just barreling through when that fails. He also has destructive tendencies that he turns mostly on...

FILED UNDER: 4.75 stars, Futuristic/Science Fiction, Jay's Reviews
TAGGED: Everina Maxwell, military, opposites attract, psychic, Tor Books, Winter's Orbit series

Review: A Restless Truth by Freya Marske

Nov 1, 2022 | 1 comment

Rating: 4.5 stars Buy Links: Amazon | iBooks | Amazon UK Length: Novel Maud Blyth is aboard the R.M.S. Lyric, traveling from New York to England. She is posing as a companion to an elderly woman making the trans-Atlantic voyage. In reality, Mrs. Navenby is a...