This book is filed under: books that I procrastinated a really long time on. And I really have no excuse – I procrastinated on T Kingfisher’s Nettle and Bone for a while, only to discover that I really liked it, and then… didn’t pick up another book. Even though this book has a delightful title… Read More Book Review: A Wizard’s Guide to Defensive Baking by T Kingfisher
I can’t remember where I heard about this book but I’m always up for some fun Singlit so I actually made a trip to the library (instead of looking on Libby) to borrow this! The Formidable Miss Cassidy is a historical fantasy novel set in end-19th Century Singapore. Leda Cassidy has arrived in Singapore to… Read More Book Review: The Formidable Miss Cassidy by Meihan Boey
Kaikeyi has been on my TBR for ages but I’ve always put it off because I’ve not read the Ramayana and I wanted to read that first. But since I had a trip to India planned, I decided now was the time to read both books – and I did! For background, the Ramayana tells… Read More Book Review: Kaikeyi by Vaishnavi Patel
I’m back with a short review to tell you to buy Gwelf: Into the Hinterlands! If you remember, I really adored the original Gwelf: The Survival Guide for its detailed worldbuilding that made the pictures come to life. The only downside of the original book was that it was all world-building and no story. But… Read More Book Review: Gwelf – Into the Hinterlands by Larry MacDougall
I have seen the first book of the Emily Wilde series, Emily Wilde’s Encyclopedia of Fairies EVERYWHERE on the blogosphere and probably on bookstagram as well. And because I’ve always been interested in folklore and fairies, the book caught my eye. But also because I’m not generally a romance person, I’ve also procrastinated on reading… Read More Book Review: The Emily Wilde Books (Book #1 & #2) by Heather Fawcett
My heart. Oh my heart! I was intrigued by this book after learning about it from The Orangutan Librarian’s mini reviews since it was pitched as a post-Narnia type of book but I did not expect The Light Between Worlds to spend its whole time breaking my heart. We all know what happens in Narnia.… Read More Book Review: The Light Between Worlds by Laura E. Weymouth
And we are back with another book in the Chrestomanci series! Unlike the previous books, Mixed Magic isn’t one long standalone story, but rather consists of four stories set in the world of Chrestomanci, with three that revolve around the Chrestomanci – both the current one and Cat, the next Chrestomanci. Warlock at the Wheel,… Read More Book Review: Mixed Magics by Diana Wynn Jones
And at last, we come to the end of the Dark is Rising sequence. It’s pretty interesting to look back at the first book and see how Cooper infused the whole series with Arthurian and Welsh mythology, as well as to see the change in tone as the book matures and develops. The first few… Read More Book Review: Silver on the Tree by Susan Cooper
This is another book that has been on my TBR for a while, and since I saw a review of a T Kingfisher book recently, I decided to move it up the list! And what a fortunate coincidence it was, because Nettle & Bone stars Marra, who’s thirty, and I read this just after I… Read More Book Review: Nettle and Bone by T. Kingfisher
I can’t remember how this book got on the radar but I’m sure the combination of fantasy and books had a big part to do with it. And when I was browsing at the library recently, I came across book two in the series, which reminded me that I had never read book one! So… Read More Book Review: The Left-Handed Booksellers of London by Garth Nix