Miss Iceland by Auður Ava Ólafsdóttir | Book Review

✨ Happy Icelandic National Day! 🇮🇸 Iceland in the 1960s. Hekla is a budding female novelist who was born in the remote district of Dalir. After packing her few belongings, including James Joyces's Ulysses and a Remington typewriter, she heads for Reykjavik with a manuscript buried in her bags. There, she intends to become a writer. Sharing…

The London Restoration by Rachel McMillan | Book Review

London, Fall 1945. Architectural historian Diana Somerville's experience as a codebreaker at Bletchley Park and her knowledge of London's churches intersect in MI6's pursuit of a Russian agent named Eternity. Diana wants nothing more than to begin again with her husband Brent after their separation during the war, but her signing of the Official Secrets…

Fable by Adrienne Young | Book Review

For seventeen-year-old Fable, the daughter of the most powerful trader in the Narrows, the sea is the only home she has ever known. It’s been four years since the night she watched her mother drown during an unforgiving storm. The next day her father abandoned her on a legendary island filled with thieves and little…

MINI REVIEWS: Unbirthday | Bear Necessity | In Five Years

Hi friends! I thought I'd start a new series on this blog: mini reviews! I don't write full-on reviews for each book I read (although I'd like to), but for some of them, I'd still like to share my thoughts in a more detailed way than in a monthly wrap-up. Each mini-review post will include…

Bridgerton: Volume 1 by Julia Quinn | Series Review

It's a beautiful sunny Sunday afternoon as I write this, I've just watched the Oscar-nominated short documentary film "A Concerto is a Conversion" starring Bridgerton composer Kris Bowers, I've retreated to Netflix to rewatch Bridgerton itself yet again...so obviously, I must also write a review of the whirlwind week in which I ran through a…

The Queen of Nothing by Holly Black | Book Review

Power is much easier to acquire than it is to hold onto. Jude learned this lesson when she released her control over the wicked king, Cardan, in exchange for immeasurable power. Now as the exiled mortal Queen of Faerie, Jude is powerless and left reeling from Cardan’s betrayal. She bides her time determined to reclaim…

The Wicked King by Holly Black | Book Review

After the jaw-dropping revelation that Oak is the heir to Faerie, Jude must keep her brother safe. To do so, she has bound the wicked king, Cardan, to her, and made herself the power behind the throne. Navigating the constantly shifting political alliances of Faerie would be difficult enough if Cardan were easy to control.…

The Cruel Prince by Holly Black | Book Review

Jude was seven when her parents were murdered and she and her two sisters were stolen away to live in the treacherous High Court of Faerie. Ten years later, Jude wants nothing more than to belong there, despite her mortality. But many of the fey despise humans. Especially Prince Cardan, the youngest and wickedest son…

Ruin and Rising by Leigh Bardugo | Book Review

The capital has fallen. The Darkling rules Ravka from his shadow throne. Now the nation's fate rests with a broken Sun Summoner, a disgraced tracker, and the shattered remnants of a once-great magical army. Deep in an ancient network of tunnels and caverns, a weakened Alina must submit to the dubious protection of the Apparat…

Siege and Storm by Leigh Bardugo | Book Review

Hunted across the True Sea, haunted by the lives she took on the Fold, Alina must try to make a life with Mal in an unfamiliar land, all while keeping her identity as the Sun Summoner a secret. But she can’t outrun her past or her destiny for long. The Darkling has emerged from the…