Category: Fantasy

Title: The Priory of the Orange Tree Author: Samantha Shannon Date Purchased: 10/14/2020 Price Paid: $2.11 Date Finished: 6/4/2022 Rating: 4/5 Over the past several years, the fantasy and science fiction genres have seen a glut of books that are part of a series. Trilogies, duologies, sagas, cycles…no matter what you want to call them it seems like authors can’t keep a story contained within […]

Title: Amongst Our Weapons Author: Ben Aaronovitch Date Purchased: 4/16/2022 Date Finished: 5/1/2022 Rating: 4/5 Waiting a month or more to write a review is…problematic. This was the first book I’ve purchased in a year and a half. Given how my habits were going prior to starting this project, that’s an achievement all on its own. I had recently finished the seventh and eighth books […]

Title: The City We Became Author: N.K. Jemisin Date Purchased: 9/1/2020 Price Paid: $4.23Date Finished: 4/15/2022Rating: 5/5 Before I dig too deeply into this review, I will warn the reader that there are going to be some spoilers. Nothing massive in the grand scheme of things, but there is one thing I absolutely NEED to talk about and I can’t do that without some spoilers. […]

Title: The Ten Thousand Doors of January Author: Alix E. Harrow Date Purchased: 8/09/2020 Price Paid: $4.23 Date Finished: 3/24/2022 Rating: 4/5 I have spent a lot of time lately thinking about how much life changed in 2020. That statement seems obvious as I write this in April of 2022, but I think we are yet to see all of the ripples that were caused […]

Title: Lies Sleeping & False Value Author: Ben Aaronovitch Date Finished: 2/1/2022 & 3/4/2022 Rating: 4/5 I’ve said this multiple times before, and I will continue to say it throughout this blog: the problem with reading a book series that is “active” is simply this: time. Even if you find an active series that is years old and start reading, you will eventually catch up […]

Title: Scourged Author: Kevin Hearne Date Purchased: 10/28/2019 Price Paid: $8.47 Date Finished: 10/5/2021 Rating: 3/5 I’ve said it before and I’m sure I’ll say it again before this project is done: the genres of books that I read tend to be trilogies, sagas, series, etc. It’s rarely a standalone novel. This can present some challenges for the reader, and Scourged falls prey to one […]