Spycraft! Politics! Intrigue! Angst! Magic! What more can one ask from a sequel? The Faithless Hawk returns readers to Margaret Owen’s rich and inventive Sabor from The Merciful Crow with a rush of flame and a shove headfirst into a…
Book Review: Set Fire to the Gods by Sara Raasch, Kristen Simmons
Set Fire To The Gods by Sara Raasch and Kristen Simmons is a YA Fantasy novel set in an alternate universe where gods walk the Earth and rule warring domains, sending their people to fight and die in their names.…
Book Review: Shielded by KayLynn Flanders
Shielded by KayLynn Flanders is the story of the warrior princess of a kingdom at war who, be it magic or determination, must find within herself what it takes to save it. Jennesara, the princess of Hálendi, doesn’t want to…
Book Review: The Damned by Renée Ahdieh
Good news for those that didn’t enjoy The Beautiful: The Damned is very different, and, depending on your perspective, a hell of a lot better. With everything that was done right in The Beautiful, the opposite was done in The…
Book Review: Girl, Serpent, Thorn by Melissa Bashardoust
In Bashardoust’s wildly imaginative sophomore novel, lushly drenched in Persian folklore, the question of what exactly makes a monster is revisited by a girl who may or may not be a monster herself. Soraya is a princess, sister to the…
Book Review: The Princess Will Save You by Sarah Henning
The Princess Will Save You by Sarah Henning is a well-written, if basic, retelling of The Princess Bride. When Princess Amarande’s childhood friend and stable boy, Luca, is stolen away from her palace by a ragtag team of land pirates…
Audiobook Review: Goddess in the Machine by Lora Beth Johnson
Andra Watts wakes up from cryogenic sleep in a room that’s too dirty, a location that’s too unfamiliar, and a time that’s 900 years too late. In this new world, technology is magic, everyone she’d known is dead, and the…
