The Chosen and the Beautiful

I read, and really enjoyed, Vo's novella The Empress of Salt and Fortune a few years ago. Since then, she's published a few full length novels and I have been meaning to pick them up. This wasn't the one I thought I'd read first, as I never really did get the Gatsby hype. But I found it at a used…

Legends & Lattes

Well, this exploded onto the literary scene last year and there was no chance I wasn’t going to read it. A cozy fantasy about a coffee shop with a sapphic (ish – I mean they both use she/her pronouns, but also aren’t technically human so, idk exactly what that means), and a blurb that talked…

The Palace of Illusions

I have a soft spot for retellings of mythology - any mythological origin and (mostly) any retelling genre/style. A few months ago, I posted a review of a retelling asking for recs for others and someone recommended this! I have looked back and cannot find which review it was that I got the recommendation on, and…

A Power Unbound

Alright, I started this *so fast* after the second book. This series has been bomb.com and I was also so hype for this final romance. I haven't been this excited to pick up a book/finish a series in awhile and goodness I forgot how much I love that feeling! A Power Unbound by Freya Marske "I would…

A Restless Truth

I started this series (with A Marvellous Light), very recently. And it was SO good. Five stars. So, I picked this second book up right away. A Restless Truth by Freya Marske “But if I have to create myself every day, with every choice I make, then I want to make the choices I won't regret when I…

A House with Good Bones

I’m getting really into Kingfisher’s writing, after loving Nettle & Bone last year and just recently really enjoying Thornhedge. I found this one at my local bookstore in the used section and decided, even though horror isn’t really my vibe, to go for it. Which turned out to be an extra good call as, when…

The Nsibidi Scripts Trilogy

My brother gave me the first book in this series last year as a Holiday gift, and I feel like getting started on it about a year later is really pretty good, for me! But for real, it was such a great surprise book choice because I have read, and loved, Binti (and Home and The Night Masquerade). So, of course,…

The Future King

I read, and *loved* The Other Merlin earlier this year. But then I had to wait *months* for my library to get a copy of this second book! UGH. And now, just when I thought this was going to be a duology, I have read it and realized it is, in fact, a trilogy...and the final book doesn't come…

Thornhedge

I read Nettle & Bone last year and loved it. I think it made my favorite books of 2022 list actually. And I have been meaning to read more from Kingfisher since then. There just isn't enough time for all the books I want to read! Though I will say, once I sat down with this one,…

A Marvellous Light

I've been waiting to read this one for awhile, because I *knew* I would love it. (Spoiler alert: I was right.) And I was so afraid that any cliffhangers (it's the firstin a planned trilogy) would be the death of me. (I was less right on this front, thank goodness, though it's not really an…