Review: Dragon Age Tevinter Nights – Burn, Thedas, Burn

Title: Dragon Age: Tevinter Nights Author(s): Patrick Weekes, Sylvia Fektekuty, John Epler, Lukas Kristjanson, Brianne Battye, Caitlin Sullivan Kelly, Courtney Woods, Ryan Cormier, Arone LaBray Publisher: Tor Books Genre(s): Epic Fantasy, Game-to-Novel Subject(s): Gods, LGBTQ+ Release Date: March 10th, 2020 Page Count: 496 (paperback) Rating: 8.0/10     The Dragon Age games are dark, heroic, …

Review: The Unspoken Name – A Saga of Badass Lesbian Orc and Wonder Bread Boy

Title: The Unspoken Name Author: A.K. Larkwood Publisher: Tor Books Genre(s): Epic Fantasy, Portal Fantasy Subject(s): Gods, Coming-of-Age, LGBTQ+ (main and secondary) Release Date: Feb 11th, 2020 Page Count: 464 (hardback) Rating: 6.0/10         What if you knew how and when you will die? Csorwe does. She will climb the mountain, enter …

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 …

Fantasy Books & Games for Mental Health Awareness Month (Why I Need More Mental Health Rep in Adult Fantasy)

  May is Wyrd & Wonder and mental health awareness month, so it only makes sense to celebrate the 31st by smooshing them together into one post. I meant to write this on Wednesday for Top 5 Wednesday, but I've been zonked out on allergy meds all week (one day the pharmaceuticals will develop a …

Top 5 Wednedsay – BFFs in Fantasy (plus musings about intimacy, societal expectations, and friendships in western vs eastern media)

The prompt for this week is actually BFFs in SFF, but since this is Wyrd and Wonder month, I figured I'd just stick to fantasy. Also, a special shout-out to Locke Lamora and Jean Tannen who totally would have made the list, but things were turning into a bit of a sausage fest so I …

Top 5 Wednesday – Characters That Embody the Hufflepuff House

Happy Wednesday! I know I said I'd be back to a semi-normal schedule last week, but I've been suffering from a case of "Oh god, my reviews and posts are flaming piles of garbage" and "WHAT ARE WORDS????" which has had the added benefit of wreaking havoc on my reading pace. Fun, fun times. But …

Top 5 Wednesday – Books at the Top of My TBR

“Top 5 Wednesday” is a weekly meme currently hosted on Goodreads by Sam of Thoughts on Tomes in which you list your top 5 for the week’s chosen topic. This week's topic is: Top of Your TBR. And...that's it. No fancy rewording for this one; it's what it says on the tin. (Though I did limit …

Top 5 WedTuesday – Disappointing Books of 2018 That I Still Appreciate

"Kathy. I think it's time for an intervention." "Uh, I have no idea what you're talking about. As usual." "'Top 5 WedTuesday'? Published one day before the next Top 5 Wednesday?" "Oh, get off my back. You make it sound like I do this every other week. This is literally the first--" "And speaking of …