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get you into romantasy! Romantasy is kind of a hit and miss genre. What with its rising popularity on BookTok and similar platforms, it’s a genre ruled by trends more than anything else. With any genre, you will find good books and you will find bad books. But with romantasy, the bad ones gain far…
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BOOK- Everything, Everything AUTHOR- Nicola Yoon GENRE- contemporary, romance RATING – 4.5/5 I don’t really read contemporary romance. I’m more of a romantic fantasy kinda girl to be honest. But I used to. So when I saw Everything, Everything shoved onto an overcrowded shelf in a second hand bookstore in Sedbeurgh, I knew that I…
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My dear and (hopefully) devoted audience. I’m back! Sorry for the longish break, but I was too busy reading books to remember I was also supposed to be writing about them. You’ll be glad to know that I am writing yet another review. My life is so exciting. BOOK- Sherwood AUTHOR- Meagan Spooner GENRE- Romance,…
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BOOKS- Captain of Fates and King of Beasts AUTHORS- Katherine Webber and Catherine Doyle GENRE- Romance, Fantasy RATING- 3.5/5 I have to admit, I didn’t have the highest expectations for these Twin Crowns spin offs. In my experience, novels like these are never as good as the original- and I’m sure many of you will…
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get you into fantasy! I was recently asked by someone I know for book recommendations after saying I liked reading fantasy. This person hadn’t really read any fantasy novels before, and I just went completely blank. I’m not the kind of person who can spring recommendations off the top of their head. So I thought,…
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This post contains spoilers. Do not read on if you haven’t read the book. You have been warned… BOOK- Sparking Fire out of Fate AUTHOR- Brigid Kemmerer GENRE- Romance, Fantasy SERIES- Forging Silver into Stars #3 (A Curse so Dark and Lonely spin off) RATING- 5/5 *A quick note on acronyms: ACSDAL- A Curse so…
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Warning! This post contains spoilers for the previous books, Falling Kingdoms and Rebel Spring BOOK- Gathering Darkness AUTHOR- Morgan Rhodes SERIES- Falling Kingdoms #3 RATING- 3/5 Gathering Darkness by Morgan Rhodes is the third novel in the young adult fantasy series Falling Kingdoms. In my opinion, Gathering Darkness is where the Falling Kingdoms series begins…
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Warning! This post contains spoilers for the previous book, Falling Kingdoms. BOOK- Rebel Spring AUTHOR- Morgan Rhodes SERIES- Falling Kingdoms #2 RATING- 3/5 Magnus, Cleo, Jonas and Lucia are back for the exciting second novel in the Falling Kingdoms series by Morgan Rhodes. The return to Mytica sees rebels, immortals and royals locked in a…
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BOOK- Falling Kingdoms AUTHOR- Morgan Rhodes SERIES- Falling Kingdoms #1 RATING- 4/5 My friends are, by now, used to my sudden and excited text messages about whatever book I’m currently reading. Frankly, I’m sure they could not care less about my latest reading challenge or that the newest book in a series still isn’t in…
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SERIES- The Inheritance Cycle AUTHOR- Christopher Paolini RATING- 5/5 Just last night I closed the fourth and final of the original The Inheritance Cycle novels: Inheritance. With over eight hundred pages to read, it was a daunting task, even for a re-read, – when, for me at least, skipping is inevitable. Watching Eragon and Saphira…
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