Book Review: The Ruby Circle by Richelle Mead

Book Review: The Ruby Circle by Richelle Mead

SUMMARY Sydney and Adrian search for a kidnapped Jill but are sidetracked by various obstacles. Someone’s out to get revenge on Sydney while Adrian tries to limit his magic use. WORLDBUILDING What can I say about Richelle Mead’s Vampire Academy world that I haven’t said before? I’m taken with it. Smitten. If a fake world […]

Book Review: Ice Study by Maria V Snyder

Book Review: Ice Study by Maria V Snyder

Ice Study is a recently expanded re-write of the previous Ice Study and serves as a prequel of sorts to Shadow Study. In it, Yelena and Valek must overcome a powerful magician set on reclaiming an artefact known as the Ice Moon, which has the ability to destroy all magic in the world, and even […]

Review: Power Study by Maria V Snyder

Review: Power Study by Maria V Snyder

A fun little look at mostly Janco’s point of view as they are recruited by a Sitian magician to help hunt down a powerful blood weapon being abused by a green Sitian rookie. I’ll be honest, Janco got on my nerves a bit. I like Ari’s calm stoicness. Janco never knows when to shut up […]

Book Review: Fire Study by Maria V Snyder

Book Review: Fire Study by Maria V Snyder

SUMMARY Everyone wants to kill Yelena, and she’s hunted some kind of fire demon from hell whilst trying to bring peace to both Sitia and Ixia and finding her true calling as a Soulfinder. WORLDBUILDING I’m not sure what more there is to say of worldbuilding that spans the entire series, but I can say […]

ARC Book Review: The Winner’s Crime by Marie Rutkoski

ARC Book Review: The Winner’s Crime by Marie Rutkoski

DNF at 25% SUMMARY Poor tragic Kestral has tied herself into a marriage with someone she doesn’t love to save someone she does. WORLDBUILDING Like, whatever. Fuck your fake version of slavery. CHARACTER Fuck Kestral, too. At 25%, which is where I put this book down once and for all nearly in tears, she casually […]

Book Review: Magic Study by Maria V Snyder

Book Review: Magic Study by Maria V Snyder

SUMMARY Yelena has arrived in Sitia and is immediately swept into family politics, magician politics, and a serial killer plot as she reconnects with her parents, learns to control her magic, and tries to keep the peace between the factions bristling for war. WORLDBUILDING I love Snyder’s world, although I did miss the order and […]

Review: Assassin Study by Maria V Snyder

Review: Assassin Study by Maria V Snyder

A short review for a short story found at http://www.mariavsnyder.com/assassinstudy.php Yelena has left Ixia to return home to her long-lost family and learn to control her magic, but someone’s taken her execution order and is determined to follow it through. Can Valek, master assassin, save the love of his life without revealing himself? I quite […]

Book Review: The Assassin’s Blade by Sarah J Maas

Book Review: The Assassin’s Blade by Sarah J Maas

DNF after 2 novellas Managed to read The Assassin and the Pirate Lord. Lord, it was atrocious. I WANT to love this series. Everyone raves about the sequels. I really, really want to love it. There is nothing I like better than a kick-ass girl in a fantasy novel. But there’s some things I can’t […]

Book Review: Captive by Aimee Carter

Book Review: Captive by Aimee Carter

Spoilers for Book 1: Pawn SUMMARY Kitty Doe decided to continue her disguise as Lila Hart, niece to the Prime Minister of the dystpian United States of America. That is, until she was caught snooping and promptly sent Elsewhere – the nightmare otherworld where un-citizens and the elderly are sent. Kitty discovers Elsewhere is more […]