The Grace Year was a beautifully brutal book exploring generational trauma coupled with horrific misogyny and utter panic about female sexuality as if every single man was inspired by Frollo from The Hunchback of Notre Dame. In this book’s dystopian world, girls are second-class citizens forbidden from engaging in any number of acts – even […]
I really enjoyed this book – I listened to it on audio – and it was highly engaging and entertaining for a large part of the narrative. I thoroughly enjoy time loop stories, and I was delighted to see common elements explored in this novel such as the ‘no consequences’ day and several other elements […]
After the events of Timekeeper and Chainbreaker, I found Firestarter just… fine. I wasn’t particularly invested in the first half of the book. In fact, I can’t even really remember what happens, because the plot is basically ‘character gets kidnapped and now another character has to rescue them’ rinse and repeat as necessary. Except that […]
One Dark Window was hyped as a gothic fantasy with a unique magic system and while I can see why it’s being marketed as ‘gothic’ if I turn my head and squint (and no, this is NOT the fault of the writer, rather the marketers), the unique magic system had 2 parts, one of which […]
This was a really enjoyable story once I got past the incredibly slow first half. With a focus much more on characterisation and worldbuilding and far, far less on plot, with barely any action until halfway through, I was actually wondering what all the hype was about! That being said, once the game of cat […]
Chainbreaker is the second book in the Timekeeper trilogy by Tara Sim and as a second book, it does not suffer from middle book syndrome. I thoroughly enjoyed all aspects of this book, and I found it highly entertaining and engaging the entire way through with no sagging parts or filler. This series is no […]
Timekeeper by Tara Sim is an imaginative, original, alternate history steampunk set in London in the late 1800s, and it’s about time. Specifically, magical clocks that control time, and when they go out of whack, they affect the time around them as well. I can’t get over how much I loved this book. I was […]
There were many things I enjoyed about this book: I loved how in the first book, we saw Iris falling in love with Roman. In this book, Roman had his mind wiped, and we saw him falling back in love with Iris. I thought that was a very nice twist. I really enjoyed the action […]
Let me preface this by saying that if you can get over the staggeringly slow start, past the shockingly bad worldbuilding, and through the molasses of a character whose life is so bland and boring she makes Auren from the Plated Prisoner series almost look like she’s actually doing something with her life (besides wandering […]
So I kind of missed the hype on this book (as I so often do). It was published in 2020 and it has, as of March 2024, over a quarter of a million ratings on Goodreads, which means more than that many have read the book. I actually wasn’t even that interested in reading this […]
