Tag: Reading List

Book Review: Emily Wilde’s Encyclopedia of Faeries

Title: Emily Wilde’s Encyclopedia of FaeriesAuthor: Heather FawcettPublication Date: 2023Publishing House: DEL REY I have heard about this book for a while and finally decided to pick it up. This book I did end up buying new and I’ve already got the second one ordered. This was a book I finished in a day. Synopsis: A

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Book Review: Vengeance of the Pirate Queen

Title: Vengeance of the Pirate QueenAuthor: Tricia LevensellerPublication Date: 2023Publishing House: Feiwel & Friends This is the third book in the Daughter of the Pirate King series but it is also more of a standalone than the first two books. This is a book that I picked up from the library. Synopsis: Pirates of the Caribbean

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Series Review: The Dark Elf Trilogy

This is a series that I read when I was younger but I have this habit of reading things that suit the energy I need at the time and for whatever reason this one suited me recently. These books are chronologically in story time the first three books in the Legend of Drizzt series. Synopsis:

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Series Review: Daughter of the Pirate King

Titles: Daughter of the Pirate King; Daughter of the Siren QueenAuthor: Tricia LevensellerPublication Dates: 2018 and 2018 This is a YA series that I stumbled across based off of internet recommendations. I found the first book at the library and was hooked. Daughter of the Pirate King Synopsis: Sent on a mission to retrieve an

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Book Review: Murtagh

Title: MurtaghAuthor: Christopher PaoliniPublication Date: 2023Publishing House: Alfred A. Knopf I grew up reading the Eragon books or the Inheritance Cycle. The last book in the original portion of the series was published in 2011. Returning after so many years is a bit like a bittersweet homecoming. The world is no longer safe for the Dragon

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Book Review: The Stardust Thief

Title: The Stardust ThiefAuthor: Chelsea AbdullahPublication Date: 2022Publishing House: Orbit I am SO behind on my book reviews! This was a Book of the Month book that I didn’t select but later got from the library. Synopsis: Loulie al-Nazari is the Midnight Merchant: a criminal who, with the help of her jinn bodyguard, hunts and

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Book Review: The Cartographers

Title: The CartographersAuthor: Peng ShepherdPublication Date: 2022Publishing House: William Morrow This book is one that caught my eye at random at the library and it had me hooked. Support your local library and read what makes you happy. Synopsis: What is the purpose of a map? Nell Young’s whole life and greatest passion is cartography.

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Book Review: Tress of the Emerald Sea

Title: Tress of the Emerald SeaAuthor: Brandon SandersonPublication Date: 2023Publishing House: Dragonsteel Entertainment If you have been following this blog for a while you know that I fell in love with the Mistborn series by Brandon Sanderson. When I heard that he was publishing some standalone novels in The Cosmere, this is the shared universe

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Book Review: Spells for Forgetting

Title: Spells for ForgettingAuthor: Adrienne YoungPublication Date: 2022Publishing House: Delacorte Press I got this book from Book of the Month as an additional book for my birthday. I read it in a cabin on a rainy spring weekend. My setting was not required but it did add something extra. Synopsis: A deeply atmospheric story about ancestral

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Book Review: The Secret History

Title: The Secret HistoryAuthor: Donna TarttPublication Date: 1992Publishing House: Vintage Contemporaries I’ve read this book before but it has been a while. It hadn’t been on my list of things to reread until recently when I went down a rabbit hole about the dark academia aesthetic. I do have a copy of this book but

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