Review: The Wicked King by Holly black

Goodreads 5/5 sparkling stars *Spoilers for Cruel Prince* Summary Wicked King picks up shortly after the end of Cruel Prince, with Cardan as King of Faerie, bound to Jude Duarte for exactly one year and a day. Acting as the King's seneschal as the power behind the throne, Jude struggles with Faerie politics and Cardan's …

Review: Of Fire and Starts by Audrey Coulthurst

Goodreads 4/5 fiery stars for a f/f fantasy novel with a forbidden romance. "...I knew that given the chance to do everything over again, I would willingly make the same mistakes twenty times over.”  Of Fire and Stars is one of those books that gets better as you keep reading, in my opinion. Of course, I …

Review: The Savior’s Champion by Jenna Moreci

3/5 stars for a book I had high expectations for, perhaps too high. The Savior's Champion can be described as a Spartacus: Blood and Sand meets The Maze Runner. There's a lot of blood, tits, swearing and wine as well as a cliché cardboard 'heroic' main character and barely any worldbuilding for the first half …

Why I write ownvoices

I read to escape, to explore different worlds, and to become someone else. I write for the same reasons, but also because I don't see myself in books. Growing up autistic and developing social anxiety and depression, books were my best friends, and often my only friends. I loved reading about magic, different worlds, possible …

Plastic Wings by C.T. Callahan – ebook review

5/5 stars ☆☆☆☆☆ Goodreads "Caring about people is a double-edged sword." Plastic Wings is not your basic YA dystopian where the MC falls in love with an angel. I'm not even sure if you can call the beings that are killing humans angels - that's just what the MC Evie calls them; dark angels. They …

2018 TBR

It's 2018 and last year I read about 20 books, so I figured I would share with you which books I plan on reading this year! These are the books I am currently reading and still have to finish reading: The Passion of Cleopatra(Ramses the Damned, #2) Rice, Anne Plastic Wings (The Evie Weiss Chronicles #1) …

[TW ableism] the healing and curing trope in fiction: problematic and harmful

A recent E-ARC I got to read through Netgalley inspired me to write a post about the healing/curing trope in fiction. When you hear the world 'healing' you may immediately think of diseases like cancer, diabetes, arthritis etc. Some of these are chronic, and all of them can be quite serious. We're still looking for …

Update and Currently Reading

What I'm up to: If you follow me on Twitter, you may have seen that I'm trying to participate in NaNoWriMo this year. If you don't know what that is, here's their faq The problem is, I'm still very busy with University. My BA, Classics, takes up a lot of time. I have an essay …

Crooked Kingdom – book review

Goodreads 5/5 blazing stars 'No mourners.' 'No funerals.' I can't believe this is it. The duology has ended, I have read both books. The ending? In my opinion, it was the right ending. It was sad, but there were positive things as well. Saying goodbye to Inej, Nina, Kaz, Jesper, Wylan and Matthias was NOT …

Sunshine Blogger Award

I was nominated by the Quirky Lady Bookworm fot The Sunshine Blogger Award :)You should check out her blog here: https://thequirkyladybookworm.wordpress.com/What is your all time favorite children’s book? Definitely Percy Jackson. I loved reading about that demigod so much! Also, Greek mythology ;)You have the opportunity to have dinner with three authors–living or dead. Who do you …