Iron Widow by Xiran Jay Zhao | Blog Tour Review

Thank you to Caffeine Book Tours for including me in the blog tour for Iron Widow and Penguin Canada for sending me a copy of the book to review. content warnings: feet binding, misogyny/sexism, war, gore, murder, alcoholism, suicide ideation, mentions of rape If anyone has asked me about my most anticipated books of 2021, …

Son of the Storm by Suyi Davies Okungbowa | Review

Thank you to Orbit for sending me a copy of Son of the Storm to review. Content warnings: violence, murder, miscarriage, colourism, misogyny Danso is a scholar in Bassa, a very smart one at that. He gets by in class without really trying, but he's not interested really, he wants to know what lies beyond …

Get To Know The Fantasy Reader Tag

Hello everyone, it's time for a tag!!! Thank you to the lovely Leisha for tagging me in the Get to know the Fantasy Reader Tag. In recent years I had a bit of a fraught time with Fantasy books, however in 2020 I really fell back into reading fantasy. I read a lot more chunky …

Jade City by Fonda Lee | Review

Jade City has been on my TBR for a long time. I think I first became aware of it from CW's review, which made me so interested in reading. This book was such a hyped up book for me and I was scared to read it... but did I love it as much as I …

Vicious Spirits by Kat Cho | Review

Thank you to Penguin Random House International for gifting me a copy of Vicious Spirits to review! Content warnings: Age gap, violence, grief and discussions of death Vicious Spirits was one of my most anticipated reads of the year as I absolutely LOVED Wicked Fox last year, it was one of my favourite fantasies of …

The Once and Future Witches by Alix E. Harrow | Review

Thank you to Orion for gifting me a copy of The Once and Future Witches for review. Content warnings: death, sexism/misogyny, racism I haven't read The Ten Thousand Doors of January yet, though I have heard amazing things from so many people. So when this book poopped through my door I was definitely intrigued to …

Star Daughter by Shveta Thakrar | Review

Thank you to the lovely folks at Harper360YA for gifting me a copy of Star Daughter to review! Did I get hyped about this book from the cover alone like everyone else? Yes, I absolutely did and it was one of my most anticipated releases. But the cover isn't the only beautiful part of this …

Backlist Fantasy Books I Need to Read

We all have books on our backlist that we keep wanting to read but never have the time. I've been in a bit of a fantasy binge this summer so pulled out some books from my shelf that I want to read when I have space between ARCs and new releases. I keep these books …

Girl Serpent Thorn by Melissa Bashardoust | Review

Thank you to Hodderscape for sending me a copy of Girl Serpent Thorn for review. Content warnings: violence, death, battle Four words: Persian inspired sapphic fantasy. This was enough to get me super interested in this book. I'd heard good things about Bashardoust's previous novel, Girls Made of Snow and Glass, so I immediately added …

The Poppy War by R. F. Kuang | Review

I have been meaning to read The Poppy War for a long time. It was one of those books which was in my immediate TBR stack but kept getting pushed back for other books. But I have FINALLY read it, and I'm so glad I did. Check out my reading vlog to see the vast …