
Together We Burn
Dragon fighting, forbidden love, flamenco, and sabotage: ‘Together We Burn’ is an enthralling YA fantasy story of a dancer’s determination to save her home...
Speculative, Sci-Fi, and Fantasy Book Reviews
A collection of 11 posts
Dragon fighting, forbidden love, flamenco, and sabotage: ‘Together We Burn’ is an enthralling YA fantasy story of a dancer’s determination to save her home...
For a story about a man struggling to make a living as an artist and a woman cursed to be a swan except for when it snows, ‘Upon a Frosted Star’ is a book is determined to deliver its tale in the most boring, directionless manner possible...
Talasyn is fiery, unpolished, and determined to do everything possible to save her people. Alaric is aloof, sarcastic, and a deadly instrument of the Night Empire’s ambitions. They are exactly what the other needs, they just don’t know it yet...
Between grand balls, magical afflictions, and marriage-minded mothers, ‘Half a Soul’ is a love story between two people who have no interest in performative niceness. Featuring witty exchanges, honest vulnerability, mystery, and more...
How to squander a premise...
All too easily we can find ourselves treading that awful line between self-preservation and complicity...
Howl's Moving Castle meets Polish folklore in a stunning debut that will be your new favourite romantasy of 2024...
An utterly enchanting story of courage, rebellion, and dance...
A book poised to tell an enthralling tale of magic, romance, and the healing power of self-forgiveness, but fails to reach its potential...
A spellbinding story of those who desperately need fairy tales to be real...
A fantasy romance story brimming with so much potential, yet burdened by ineffective storytelling, excessive world-building, and an underdeveloped romance...