Race the Sands by Sarah Beth DurstFantasyHarper Voyage | April 21, 2020 About the Book: In this epic standalone fantasy, the acclaimed author of the Queens of Renthia series introduces an imaginative new world in which a pair of strong and determined women risk their lives battling injustice, corruption, and deadly enemies in their quest […]
Battle of the YA Queens | Chapter vs Chapter
My best buddy Angie came up with a brilliant blog post idea. Obviously, since she is brilliant! The two of us have played around with the idea of a Chapter Tag, where you pick a select number of books, read the first chapter and each of us decide which one sounds better. The whole idea […]
Review | The Shadow of What Was Lost by James Islington
The Shadow of What Was Lost by James IslingtonThe Licanius Trilogy #1Epic FantasyOrbit | May 9, 2017 About the Book: It has been twenty years since the end of the war. The dictatorial Augurs – once thought of almost as gods – were overthrown and wiped out during the conflict, their much-feared powers mysteriously failing […]
New Release Review | The Priory of the Orange Tree by Samantha Shannon
The Priory of the Orange Treeby Samantha ShannonEpic Fantasy Bloomsbury PublishingFebruary 26, 2019 About the Book: A world divided.A queendom without an heir.An ancient enemy awakens. The House of Berethnet has ruled Inys for a thousand years. Still unwed, Queen Sabran the Ninth must conceive a daughter to protect her realm from destruction—but assassins are getting […]
New Release Review | King of Scars by Leigh Bardugo
King of Scars by Leigh BardugoNikolai Duology #1YA FantasyImprint | January 29, 2019 About the Book: Nikolai Lantsov has always had a gift for the impossible. No one knows what he endured in his country’s bloody civil war—and he intends to keep it that way. Now, as enemies gather at his weakened borders, the young king […]
‘What Took Me So Long’ Review | The Lumatere Chronicles by Melina Marchetta
About Book One: Finnikin of the Rock and his guardian, Sir Topher, have not been home to their beloved Lumatere for ten years. Not since the dark days when the royal family was murdered and the kingdom put under a terrible curse. But then Finnikin is summoned to meet Evanjalin, a young woman with […]