DNF Reviews: Tarnished are the Stars & The Good Luck Girls – Why does YA Hate Me? (I’m Open to Suggestions)

Here's a fun stat for you: I DNFed 5 books in the past month and a half, and four of them were YA SFF. And I'm pretty sure they're at least 60% responsible for the reading slump I'm currently in. Conclusion? 1) Recent YA SFF is just missing a lot of the stuff I crave. …

Blog Tour Spotlight + Giveaway (US): Tarnished are the Stars | Feat. Character Art

Tours, tours, tours! I forgot that I signed up for so many of them. I'm still on a semi-hiatus right now, but there are majorly exciting news coming in the next couple of weeks, and I CANNOT WAIT to tell you all about it. I'll just say...if you're a fan of a certain fantasy series …

Blog Tour Review: We Rule the Night – Came for Girl Friendships, Stayed for Girl Friendships

Title: We Rule the Night Author: Claire Eliza Bartlett Publisher: Little, Brown Books for Young Readers Release Date: April 2nd, 2019 Genre(s): YA Fantasy, Steampunk Subjects and Themes: Female Friendships, Feminism, History-Inspired Page Count: 400 (hardback) Rating: N/A Seventeen-year-old Revna is a factory worker, manufacturing war machines for the Union of the North. When she’s …

Review: A Labyrinth of Scions and Sorcery – AncestryDNA: Three Musketeers Edition

Hey, everyone! Sorry for being rather absent for the last week and a half. I've been super busy preparing for a neuroscience conference and it's been kind of a mentally taxing endeavour. But I'll be back on Monday to catch up on posts and comments! Meanwhile, enjoy this slightly overdue review!   Title: A Labyrinth …

Review: The Gutter Prayer – A Dark, Imaginative Debut

Title: The Gutter Prayer (The Black Iron Legacy 1) Author: Gareth Hanrahan Publisher: Orbit Release Date: January 17th, 2018 Genre(s): Epic Fantasy, Steampunk Subjects and Themes: Deities Page Count: 544 Rating: 8.0/10     The city of Guerdon stands eternal. A refuge from the war that rages beyond its borders. But in the ancient tunnels …

Top 5 Wednesday – My Favourite Types of Covers

"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 "favourite covers" but it felt a little too general, and then I saw that Acqua from Acquadimore Books did a post on the …