News & Review: The Hanged Man (Tarot Sequence 2) – I Got Blurbed On a Book Cover

So um. A thing happened several months ago. Well, okay, a bunch of things happened. And they're all interconnected and relevant to THE thing I want to talk about, so let's just go through them in chronological order. Imagine the countdown from Hamilton's "Ten Duel Commandments."   ☀️ Number one! ☀️ I got to read …

Review: Wicked Fox – Let’s Talk About What Cultural Representation Means

Release Date: June 29th, 2019 Publisher: G.P. Putnam's Sons Books for Young Readers Genre(s): YA Fantasy Subjects and Themes: Korean mythology, Family Rating: 7.0/10   It's super fitting that this post is going live during Chuseok weekend (which is totally not planned, by the way, just a happy coincidence). I'm gonna do something a little …

Review: Magic for Liars – Ivy Gamble is Not Magic and She Wants Everyone to Know

Title: Magic for Liars Author: Sarah Gailey Publisher: Tor Books Release Date: June 4th, 2019 Genre(s): Fantasy, Mystery Subjects and Themes: Siblings, Mental Health, LGBTQIAP+ (Secondary) Page Count: 336 (hardback) Rating: 5.0/10       Ivy Gamble was born without magic and never wanted it. Ivy Gamble is perfectly happy with her life – or …

Review + Giveaway (INTL): Gather the Fortunes – The Most Neil Gaiman Thing I Read Since I Last Read Neil Gaiman

Title: Gather the Fortunes (A Crescent City Novel Book 2) Author: Bryan Camp Publisher: John Joseph Adams/Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Release Date: May 21st, 2019 Genre(s): Urban Fantasy Subjects and Themes: Gods, Mythology Page Count: 384 (hardback) Rating: 8.0/10     Renaissance Raines has found her place among the psychopomps—the guides who lead the souls of …

Review: The Mortal Sleep – Stripped Me Open and Healed Me Anew (Why I’m BEGGING You to Read this Series)

Title: The Mortal Sleep (Hollow Folk 4) Author: Gregory Ashe Publisher: Independent Release Date: April 5th, 2019 Genre(s): Paranormal, Mystery, Romance Subjects and Themes: Mental Health, Abuse, LGBTQIAP+ Page Count: 491 Rating: ∞/10 Brief overview of Books 1-3: A gay psychic teenager named Vie Elliot moves into a small rural town in Wyoming and gets …

Review: The Last Sun – Fantasy Written to Perfection

Title: The Last Sun (The Tarot Sequence 1) Author: K.D. Edwards Publisher: Pyr Release Date: June 12th, 2018 Genre(s): Urban Fantasy Page Count: 367 (paperback) Goodreads Rating: 10/10       I've been sitting on this review for over a month, all the while rewriting and tweaking and coming to the realization that a written …

[Review] Imposter Syndrome – A Brilliant Combination of Action, Complex Characters, and Heartfelt Examination of Mental Health

Title: Imposter Syndrome (The Arcadia Project 3) Author: Mishell Baker Publisher: Saga Press Release Date: March 13th, 2018 Genre(s): Urban Fantasy Page Count: 481 pages Goodreads Rating: 9.0/10 (Champions of the Genre)       So this review started out as a normal review and then it morphed into a weird self-reflection/series appreciation/review monstrosity. Because …