Author: Asha
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BEASTS AND BEAUTY: DANGEROUS TALES by Soman Chainani (BOOK REVIEW)
Content warnings: Traditional fairy tale grimness, including violence, death and murder, child abuse, forced marriage, and so on; racism and colourism. Nothing is graphically described. You ... -
THE LORD OF STARIEL by A. J. Lancaster (BOOK REVIEW)
The Lord of Stariel opens with our main character, Hetta Valstar, returning home to her family’s estate after a long absence, so that she can attend her ... -
SPELLSLINGER by Sebastien De Castell (BOOK REVIEW)
Spellslinger is a YA fantasy with a (gasp) male protagonist! Kellen, our main character, is a fairly ordinary teenage boy, whose magic is subpar, and not ... -
THE WINTER DUKE by Claire Eliza Bartlett (BOOK REVIEW)
When sixteen-year-old Ekata wakes up to find that her entire backstabbing royal family has been cursed into unconsciousness, she’s forced into the role of Grand Duke ... -
LORD OF SECRETS by Breanna Teintze (BOOK REVIEW)
Lord of Secrets manages to pull off a great adventure, some awesome worldbuilding, and some brilliant character work, all in a lighthearted romp that is exciting ... -
BRIGHTFALL by Jaime Lee Moyer (BOOK REVIEW)
When I first heard that there was going to be a magical Robin Hood story that picked up years after the heyday of the Merry Men, ... -
A DECEPTIVE ALLIANCE by Sydney Blackburn (BOOK REVIEW)
This book is so sweet. I’m always trying to fill a particular gap on my shelves: light-hearted, character-centric fantasy that just makes you smile. Oh, and ... -
DAUGHTER OF THE SUN by Effie Calvin (BOOK REVIEW)
Daughter of the Sun is the second book in the Tales of Inthya series, but it works perfectly as a standalone (though it did make me ... -
FALLIBLE JUSTICE by Laura Laakso (BOOK REVIEW)
Fallible Justice is, at its core, a detective novel. Yannia Wilde is a PI who must prove a man’s innocence before he is sentenced to death ... -
OUR BLOODY PEARL by D. N. Bryn (BOOK REVIEW)
Content warnings: Gore/blood/eating of human body parts (not overly graphic); some violence; coming to terms with new disability; recovery from trauma. When I first took a ...
