This series has continued to impress and delight me, and things take a very serious turn in book 4. While there has always been good continuation between the books, particularly the character development, The Last Devil to Die really took this up a notch and manage to pull severely on our heartstrings in doing so.
This was very cool and very fun! It was also my first sci-fi book by Adrian Tchaikovsky, and boy oh boy, I am signing up for more.
This was an absolutely epic tale that had all the great vibes of an Arthurian legend retelling. I found the broad concept to be super unique - a land sustained on the belief of tales, but very specifically in that each tale is connected to a piece of land on the Isle, and if that tale was forgotten, so too would the land connected to it disappear.
There is something that has been so quietly enjoyable about this series. Book one, The Goblin Emperor, had really stuck with me – it was a narrative that I kept returning to again and again in my head. So I inevitably found myself reaching out for The Witness for the Dead to dive back into this world and soak up the atmosphere some more.
【 THE DAUGHTERS' WAR 】 book #0 (prequel) in the Blacktongue series ★★★★★ Genre: FantasyAudience: AdultAuthor: Christopher BuehlmanPublished: June 2024Publisher: Tor BooksPages: 416 (paperback) The audiobook production for this was fantastic, as with the first book, the perfect narrator was chosen and it really made Galva's character come alive. However, I didn't find myself quite as blown … Continue reading The Daughters’ War by Christopher Buehlman | book review
This was unexpectedly complex and amazing – questioning why more people aren't talking about it! I did the audiobook version of We Are the Dead so I'll start by saying the narration is awesome and I really enjoyed it. Just one narrator, but she manages to bring all the characters to life (and there are so many) in a way that made me forget I was listening to just one person tell me this story.
This is bizarrely brilliant. I listened to the audiobook and I'm very glad I did because while I don't know how all those names and places are spelled, I'm sure I would've had a canniption trying to pronounce them myself!
For me, Sangu Mandanna has become synonymous with peak cosy fantasy. I loved this every bit as much as I loved The Very Secret Society of Irregular Witches. Both are sweet, engaging stories that actually pack quite the unexpected punch when it comes to their character development.
I really should have put this down sooner. I'd been so excited going by the premise of this book – fae, assassins, a gauntlet challenge where the main character's mission is turned on its head?! Everything sounded so exciting.
This was what it said on the tin: a cute, fun, Golden Age cosy crime. Set in 1941 in London and surrounds, this follows two main characters who are unhappily lumped together to puzzle out a case. This was the perfect curl-up-on-the-couch-with-a-cuppa sort of book.
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