Author: Tracy Deonn Rating: ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ Shortly after she is accepted to the Early College programme at UNC Chapel Hill, Bree’s mother dies in a car crash. Fast forward three months, and Bree is starting the programme at UNC while still coping with the death of her mother when she starts to notice strange things around... Continue Reading →
Estates: An Intimate History
Author: Lynsey Hanley Rating: ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ This book traces the history of council housing in the UK, which is housing owned by the local authority and usually rented to low-income people for a fraction of the price of market rent. Most council housing was built after World Wars I and II in an attempt to clear... Continue Reading →
Powerless: The Hunger Games, but romantasy … and bad
Author: Lauren Roberts Rating: ⭐️⭐️ Have you ever thought, what would The Hunger Games be like if it was romantasy and also if everything significant or interesting was stripped away? Well, if that sounds appealing, I give you: Powerless. Powerless follows our teenage heroine, Paedyn, a girl with no supernatural powers living in a kingdom... Continue Reading →
Kleptopia: A story worthy of an HBO series
Author: Tom Burgis Rating: ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ This book was written by an investigative journalist and tells an intricate and far-reaching story about corruption, criminals, dirty money and how they’re linked into power structures throughout the world. The author traces the struggles of a banker trying to hold is employer to account for their efforts to help... Continue Reading →
The God and the Gumiho: K-Drama – Fantasy crossover at its finest
Author: Sophie Kim Rating: ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️✨ In the fictional 1990s city of New Sinsi, South Korea, our main character Hani, a gumiho who can shift into a nine-tailed fox, works in a café that caters specifically to supernatural creatures who live alongside humans (though secretly). She’s over a thousand years old and uniquely powerful due to... Continue Reading →
The Book of Azrael: When is the story going to start?
Author: Amber V. Nicole Rating: DNF I went into this book with high expectations as it is often recommended on social media as an underrated romantasy book featuring some of my favorite tropes including enemies-to-lovers as well as a plot that promised action and an immersive world. As a lover of romantasy especially ones that... Continue Reading →
Throne of the Fallen: A lot of smut, everywhere, all the time
Author: Kerri Maniscalco Rating: ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ Throne of the Fallen forms the first book in a sister series of standalones to Kingdom of the Wicked. This book follows Prince Envy, one of the seven princes of Hell, whose court has been deteriorating for the past few years. He needs a certain object to restore it, and... Continue Reading →
Trespassers on the Roof of the World
Author: Peter Hopkirk Rating: ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ This is a book about various people who tried to reach Tibet, largely in the late 1800s to early-mid 1900s. Tibet is a famously isolated country. There was a lot of intrigue surrounding it as well as a lot of fascination, especially in the West with the mythical aura around... Continue Reading →
The Fake Mate: A Fun Time
Author: Lana Ferguson Rating: ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ I honestly wasn’t expecting much from this book as it seems like the author might have written it after picking a handful of tropes out of a hat, but, whether or not that was the origin of this story, I actually had a fun time with this. This book is... Continue Reading →
Crooked Kingdom: An incredible conclusion
Author: Leigh Bardugo Rating: ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ This is the second book in the Six of Crows duology. This takes place in Leigh Bardugo’s Grishaverse, which is this fantasy world where some people, Grisha, have magic-like powers, and there are all sorts of political struggles relating to them. This duology takes place after the Shadow and Bone... Continue Reading →
