YA Fantasy Book Review: Namesake
Sequel to Fable Type of Fantasy: High Synopsis (minor spoilers for Fable) With the Marigold free of her father, Fable and the rest of the crew were set to start over. That freedom is short-lived…
YA Fantasy Book Review: Fable
1st Book in the Fable Duology Type of Fantasy: High Synopsis For seventeen-year-old Fable, the daughter of the most powerful trader in the Narrows, the sea is the only home…
YA Fantasy Book Review: A Curse So Dark and Lonely
1st Book in the Cursebreakers Trilogy Type of Fantasy: Fairy Tale Retelling Synopsis Cursed to repeat the autumn of his eighteenth year, Prince Rhen of Emberfall thought he could be…
YA Fantasy Book Review: Graceling
1st Book in the Graceling Realm Trilogy Type of Fantasy: Medieval Synopsis Katsa has been able to kill a man with her bare hands since she was eight--she's a Graceling,…
YA Fantasy Book Review: A Phoenix First Must Burn
A Collection of Fantasy and Sci-Fi Short Stories Synopsis Sixteen tales that explore the Black experience through fantasy, science fiction, and magic. Bestselling, award-winning, and talented fresh voices weave together…
YA Fantasy Book Review: The Storyteller’s Daughter
Type of Fantasy: Fairy Tale Retelling Synopsis For as long as anyone can remember, every child in Westfallen has been born with a Gift, and these Gifts defined them. Then…
YA Fantasy Book Review: Spin the Dawn
1st Book of the Blood of Stars Duology Type of Fantasy: Fairy Tale Retelling Synopsis Maia Tamarin dreams of becoming the greatest tailor in the land, but as a girl,…
My 5-Star Fantasy and Sci-Fi Reads of 2020
2020 might have been a difficult, rough year in many ways, but it was a great year for reading--at least for me. I know many others struggled to gather the…
Finale Book Review
*The third and final book in the Caraval series Synopsis (spoiler alert for the 1st two books) It's been two months since the Fates were freed from a deck of…
Legendary Book Review
*Sequel to Caraval Synopsis (mild spoilers for Caraval): After being swept up in the magical world of Caraval, Donatella Dragna has finally escaped her father and saved her sister, Scarlett, from…