The book opens with a dedication to the readers who have agonized over the abrupt ending of What the River Knows, and I think more authors should respect a reader's plight because darn right this is dedicated to me! As it should be! About time someone noticed! You can’t just leave me hanging like that with a final twist that stabs you in the gut! That’s right—this week, we’re talking all about the epic conclusion to the historical fantasy mystery, Where the Library Hides. Careful, though; ...
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WOMS: Emily Wilde’s Map of the Otherlands
If all books about the fae were more like Emily Wilde's adventures, I might read more stories about them. Emily and Bambleby are back in this second installment, Emily Wilde's Map of the Otherlands, of Heather Fawcett's series reminiscent of Marie Brennan's Lady Trent series, just with excursions to discover and research the fae in their natural habitats, not dragons. Perhaps that is what I love most about this series, though I'm sure I already shared the same sentiments in my previous ...
WOMS: The Wolf and the Woodsman
This week’s book that’s on my shelf is Ava Reid’s The Wolf and the Woodsman, a novel suggested to me by a fellow writer friend when I asked for good examples of fantasy romance, or as it is quickly becoming, romantasy. It’s a good thing, then, I’m entitled to my own opinion, one which I’ll share now, because I’m not certain I would classify this as that. Then again, perhaps my tastes are too regulated and not varied; maybe I haven’t sampled enough of the different flavours of romantasy to ...
WOMS: Nocturne
Remember how a few weeks back, my husband took me to Barnes & Noble at my behest to get out of the cramped hospital room I'd been trapped in for about a week? And remember how I fondly caressed the cover of Emily Wilde's Encyclopaedia of Faeries? There was another book. That book was none other than Alyssa Wees's Nocturne. It had one of those employee recommendation labels beneath it, describing it as The Phantom of the Opera meets "The Beauty and the Beast." Of course I wanted ...
WOMS: Emily Wilde’s Encyclopaedia of Faeries
For the past six book reviews I've shared, it's been all about the Nine Kingdoms series. This week, I'm changing things up. I don't know if I needed a break from the series or not, but when my husband took me to get out of the hospital room I had been stuck in for almost a week, caring for my parents, we ended up at Barnes & Noble. If I'm honest, I hadn't been to a Barnes & Noble in a while. You probably can tell by the photos I share of the books I'm reading, there's usually, if not ...
