Don’t Call the Wolf by Aleksandra Ross is a Polish-inspired YA fantasy debut with a fairy tale feel. CONTENT WARNING: gore, suicide When the Golden Dragon descended on the forest of Kamiena, a horde of monsters followed in its wake. Ren, the forest’s young queen, is slowly losing […]
This week’s topic is an open ended prompt, listing reasons why I love … something bookish. I chose to list reasons I love fantasy, which is a genre I just really started to get into in the last year. 1. It’s a total escape to a world where […]
Here’s the rules: Faeries have been known to stand back and observe. This week’s prompt is: What secondary character is your favorite, or even outshined the main character? While I loved Vasya, the main character in the Winternight Trilogy by Katherine Arden, Solovey definitely stole my heart. He […]
Ninth House by Leigh Bardugo absolutely blew my mind in the best way possible. TRIGGER WARNING: surgery, sexual assault, substance use, vomit, consumption of feces Galaxy “Alex” Stern is the most unlikely member of Yale’s freshman class. Raised in the Los Angeles hinterlands by a hippie mom, Alex […]
This week’s topic is the last 10 books I abandoned, and the idea came from Claire @ Book Lovers Pizza. When I abandon a book, it’s either because I’ve started reading it and just didn’t finish, or decided to take it off my TBR for some reason. So […]
Here’s the rules: Faeries have been known to make mortals dance until they die. So, the prompt this week is: What is a book that made you forget the world around you existed? The faeries have definitely visited my reading list, because I’ve come across quite a few […]
The original topic for today is supposed to be ten things I’d have at a bookish party, but I decided to go in a different direction since I’m not generally a huge fan of parties. Instead, I’m choosing to write about ten books on my TBR for the […]
April was a rough month. I’ve noticed that bookish people are falling into one of two categories in how we’re coping with stress — those who can’t focus on reading, and those who are reading excessively. I’m in the second category, but I have an agreement with a […]
The Gilded Ones Author: Namina Forna Genre: YA Fantasy Publication Date: February 9, 2021 Publisher: Delacorte Series: Deathless #1 Thank you to NetGalley for providing me with the opportunity to review this ARC. All opinions are my own and provided voluntarily. CONTENT WARNING: discrimination, torture, reference to sexual […]
I got an ARC of The Court of Miracles by Kester Grant from NetGalley. TRIGGER WARNING: sex trafficking, addiction, mention of plague Les Misérables meets Six of Crows in this page-turning adventure as a young thief finds herself going head to head with leaders of Paris’s criminal underground in the […]
Leah's Books 