Tag: historical fantasy

TTT – Love Freebie

Tomorrow is Valentine’s Day, so today’s topic is a love freebie. However, I’ve never really been one to celebrate Valentine’s Day. Instead, I always try to get together with one of my single friends and celebrate what we have always called “Galentine’s Day.” It’s a time when we […]

Dark Heir By C.S. Pacat

Dark Heir Thank you to YA Books Central and Quill Tree Books for sending me an ARC of this book in exchange for an honest review. You can find my YA Books Central review here. “The dark is never truly gone; it only waits for the world to […]

State Of The ARC #29

I finished June with 25 ARCs left to be read.  I know that I said I was planning to seriously work on making progress on my ARCs this month, but the universe basically laughed in my face. Mom had a fall, and it involved a stay in the […]

TTT – Books With One-Word Titles

This week’s prompt was submitted by Angela @ Reading Frenzy Book Blog, and it’s books with one-word titles. It’s finally starting to look like we’re moving on from the “A ____ of ____ and ____” book title trend, and while I don’t think we’re going to have a […]

Out Of The Mirror, Darkness By Garth Nix

Out of the Mirror, Darkness CONTENT WARNING: mention of addiction, allusion to abortion, allusion to homophobia A cynical “fixer” for a silent-film studio must confront the shadows behind the bright lights in this noir-tinged short story by New York Times bestselling author Garth Nix. It’s business as usual […]

Dark Rise

Dark Rise CONTENT WARNING: murder, death of a parent, grief, blood, violence, racism, torture, gore, trauma The ancient world of magic is no more. Its heroes are dead, its halls are ruins, and its great battles between Light and Dark are forgotten. Only the Stewards remember, and they […]