I’ve been hearing good things about Lonely Castle in the Mirror on Instagram and I’m so glad that I read it because it is amazing! Honestly, I was captivated from the first page! Lonely Castle in the Mirror is a touching fantasy about the power of community. Kokoro has been unable to go to school… Read More Book Review: Lonely Castle in the Mirror by Mizuki Tsujimura
Thanks to book blogging and bookstagram, my TBR list is at almost unmanageable levels right now. It’s so easy to just miss out on a few books, but thanks to Wyrd and Wonder, I realised that I had a Japanese fantasy waiting to be borrowed and read! The Beast Player contains the first two books… Read More Book Review: The Beast Player by Nahoko Uehashi
You may remember that I read The Gate of Sorrows and reread Brave Story recently and absolutely loved it. Well, a friend happened to own a copy of The Book of Heroes, the prequel to The Gate of Sorrows, and she lent it to me so I could decide if I was getting both books… Read More Book Review: The Book of Heroes by Miyuki Miyabe
This is a reread from the distant past, before I had Goodreads or even the first iteration of my blog. But I own a copy of Brave Story and have been planning to reread it for the past decade (I carried this 800-page brick to Japan and back after all). I just hadn’t gotten around… Read More Rereading: Brave Story by Miyuki Miyabe
Alternative post title: Oh wow I need to buy a copy of this + The Book of Heroes for myself because this is AMAZING I read Brave Stories years ago and really enjoyed it, but as is quite usual for me, never really bothered to check if Miyuki Miyabe wrote anything else. So imagine my… Read More Book Review: The Gate of Sorrows by Miyuki Miyabe