This was fun and more or less everything I expected it to be. I've been wanting to read this series for such a long time and finally managed to get my hands on it in the form of an audiobook.
Air Awakens by Elise Kova | book review
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Of Monsters and Mainframes by Barbara Truelove | book review
There is nothing more delightful than when an absurd-sounding plot is pulled off magnificently.
Gwen & Art Are Not in Love by Lex Croucher | book review
This was absolutely magnificent and has to be one of my favourite reads of the year so far. I wasn't 100% sure what to expect going into this because I thought I'd heard some good and some meh things, but I can confirm that this is all the good things.
When the Moon Hits Your Eye by John Scalzi | book review
This was as wonderful as it was bizarre. It reads like a collection of short stories, capturing a variety of people's reactions to the moon suddenly turning into 'cheese'. I loved how creative this concept was, and how well Scalzi has managed to pull off the entire thing.
A Fate Inked in Blood by Danielle L. Jensen | book review
This was so much fun! I feel like, before reading, I'd heard so many mixed reviews and went into it with reasonably low expectations. But I thoroughly enjoyed this story.
The Familiar by Leigh Bardugo | DNF book review
I'm devastated to be DNFing a Leigh Bardugo book. But wowweeeee - this was very boring.
The Mists of Avalon by Marion Zimmer Bradley | book review
I'm in two minds about how I feel about this book. On the one hand, I'm impressed by the scale of the story and by some of the best character development I've ever read. On the other hand, knowing the history and serious allegations against the author has seriously tainted my reading experience. That, and the fact that by the fourth book (as this is a bind up of books 1-4), I found things edged toward tedious.
Onyx Storm by Rebecca Yarros | book review
This was so much better than book two - what a relief!
The Spells We Cast by Jason June | book review
I wanted to love this more than I did, but I just felt that this was ultimately a bit 'meh'. It's a very fun (and funny) concept, bringing together some classic fantasy tropes with cowboy vibes, and the queerness is delightfully through the roof.
Blood of the Old Kings by Sung-Il Kim | book review
This was super fun! Even better than expected, and I'm really blown away by the fact that this is translated, it reads as if it were originally written in English. So hats off to the translation work for a start!
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