Book Review: Fledgling

Book Review: Fledgling

Fledgling by Octavia Butler. This could be your typical girl-wakes-up-hurt-with amnesia story, except for one significant difference: this girl is a vampire. Imagine waking up alone, injured, with strange cravings, and not only having no recollection of who you are or...
Book Review: Nevernight

Book Review: Nevernight

Nevernight (The Nevernight Chronicle #1) by Jay Kristoff. Girl’s family is killed. Girl narrowly escapes with her life. Girl ends up on the streets. Girl wants revenge, and is taken in by an old assassin and trained as his new protege in preparation for going to...
Series Review: The Star-Touched Queen

Series Review: The Star-Touched Queen

The Star-Touched Queen The Star-Touched Queen (#1) A Crown of Wishes (#2) By Roshani Chokshi.   Book 1 follows the story of Maya, who has been cursed since birth with a horoscope that predicts a marriage of death and destruction. Shunned by the entire kingdom,...
Book Review: The Bear and the Nightingale

Book Review: The Bear and the Nightingale

The Bear and the Nightingale (The Bear and the Nightingale #1) by Katherine Arden. Vasilisa, the youngest of 5 siblings, grows up in the Russian hinterlands with a special connection to the wild. She loves her nurse’s stories of the different spirits of house...
Book Review: All Our Wrong Todays

Book Review: All Our Wrong Todays

All Our Wrong Todays by Elan Mastai. Tom lives a aimless, drifting life in 2016. Except it’s not our 2016, it’s the 2016 that would exist if humans had discovered unlimited clean energy decades ago. In other words: the sci-fi future we’ve dreamed of...