by Michelle | Mar 21, 2023 | B Author, Book Review, Books Read in 2023, Review Copy
One for My Enemy by Olivie Blake is a stunning novel. Every aspect of it hit all the right notes for me. I want to reread it to experience the magic I felt while reading it the first time. Because it was a magical reading experience. The world felt a little brighter,...
by Michelle | Mar 20, 2023 | Book Review, Books Read in 2023, F Author, Review Copy
The Last Heir to Blackwood Library by Hester Fox is one of the best modern-day examples of Gothic fiction. The heroine’s name, Ivy Radcliffe, reeks of a Gothic story as it exudes innocence and privilege. Then it takes place on the Yorkshire moors because of...
by Michelle | Mar 9, 2023 | Book Review, Books Read in 2023, M Author, Review Copy
Arca by G. R. Macallister is the second book of The Five Queendoms. If Scorpica introduced us to the queendoms and the powers at play within each territory and set up the Drought of Girls, the sequel is what happens to the queendoms after the drought ends. There is...
by Michelle | Feb 27, 2023 | Book Review, Books Read in 2023, Review Copy, U Author
Don’t let the average rating on Goodreads fool you. Lies We Sing to the Sea by Sarah Underwood is a stunning story. It is not a retelling of The Odyssey, as these GR reviews would have you think, and there is nothing wrong with the fact that Ms. Underwood did...
by Michelle | Feb 23, 2023 | Book Review, Books Read in 2023, Review Copy, S Author
Sister, Maiden, Monster by Lucy A. Snyder is one of those stories that continues to haunt me. It was so dark and insane that I frequently had to stop reading to process what I had just read. Yet, as uncomfortable as it made me at times, I liked this creepy story about...
