Tag: Fantasy

Review: Girls Made of Snow and Glass by Melissa Bashardoust

Posted May 9, 2020 by Charlotte in Reviews / 0 Comments
Review: Girls Made of Snow and Glass by Melissa Bashardoust

I received this book for free from Netgalley in exchange for an honest review. This does not affect my opinion of the book or the content of my review.Girls Made of Snow and Glass by Melissa Bashardoust Published by Hodder & Stoughton on April 14, 2020 Genres: Fantasy, Fiction, Retelling, Young Adult Pages: 384 Format: E-Arc Source: Netgalley Buy on Amazon Goodreads ONLY ONE CAN BE QUEEN ‘A feminist fantasy fairy tale not to be missed’ BookPage Sixteen-year-old Mina is motherless, her magician father is vicious, and her silent heart has never beat with love for anyone. In fact, it has never beat at all, for her father cut it out and replaced it with one of glass. When she moves to Whitespring Castle, Mina forms a plan: win the king’s heart with her beauty, become queen, and finally know love. The only catch is that she’ll have to become a stepmother. Fifteen-year-old Lynet looks just like her late mother, and one day she discovers why: a magician created her out of snow in the dead queen’s image. Lynet would […]

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Review: Chosen Ones by Veronica Roth

Posted April 21, 2020 by Charlotte in Reviews / 0 Comments
Review: Chosen Ones by Veronica Roth

I received this book for free from in exchange for an honest review. This does not affect my opinion of the book or the content of my review.Chosen Ones by Veronica Roth Series: The Chosen Ones #1 Published by Hodder & Stoughton on April 7, 2020 Genres: Dystopia, Fantasy, Fiction, Young Adult Pages: 400 Buy on Amazon Goodreads Fifteen years ago, five ordinary teenagers were singled out by a prophecy to take down an impossibly powerful entity wreaking havoc across North America. He was known as the Dark One, and his weapon of choice – catastrophic events known as Drains – leveled cities and claimed thousands of lives. The Chosen Ones, as the teens were known, gave everything they had to defeat him. After the Dark One fell, the world went back to normal . . . for everyone but them. After all, what do you do when you’re the most famous people on Earth, your only education was in magical destruction, and your purpose in life is now fulfilled? Of all the five, Sloane has had the hardest time […]

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Review: To Kill a Kingdom by Alexandra Christo

Posted April 15, 2020 by Charlotte in Reviews / 0 Comments
Review: To Kill a Kingdom by Alexandra Christo

To Kill a Kingdom by Alexandra Christo Published by Hot Key Books on March 6, 2018 Genres: Fairytale, Fantasy, Fiction, Retelling, Young Adult Pages: 358 Format: E-Arc, Paperback Source: Netgalley, Own Copy Buy on Amazon Goodreads I have a heart for every year I’ve been alive. There are seventeen hidden in the sand of my bedroom. Every so often, I claw through the shingle just to check they’re still there. Buried deep and bloody. Princess Lira is siren royalty and revered across the sea until she is cursed into humanity by the ruthless Sea Queen. Now Lira must deliver the heart of the infamous siren killer or remain a human forever. Prince Elian is heir to the most powerful kingdom in the world and captain to a deadly crew of siren hunters. When he rescues a drowning woman from the ocean, she promises to help him destroy sirenkind for good. But he has no way of knowing whether he can trust her … I may have been a little slow on the uptake to read To Kill a Kingdom. But […]

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Review: The Beautiful by Renée Ahdieh

Posted March 24, 2020 by Charlotte in Reviews / 0 Comments
Review: The Beautiful by Renée Ahdieh

I received this book for free from Netgalley in exchange for an honest review. This does not affect my opinion of the book or the content of my review.The Beautiful by Renée Ahdieh Series: The Beautiful #1 Published by Hodder & Stoughton on October 8, 2019 Genres: Fantasy, Fiction, Historical, Young Adult Pages: 432 Format: E-Arc Source: Netgalley Buy on Amazon Goodreads New York Times bestselling author Renée Ahdieh returns with a sumptuous, sultry and romantic new series set in 19th century New Orleans where vampires hide in plain sight. In 1872, New Orleans is a city ruled by the dead. But to seventeen-year-old Celine Rousseau, New Orleans provides her a refuge after she’s forced to flee her life as a dressmaker in Paris. Taken in by the sisters of the Ursuline convent along with six other girls, Celine quickly becomes enamored with the vibrant city from the music to the food to the soirées and—especially—to the danger. She soon becomes embroiled in the city’s glitzy underworld, known as Le Cour des Lions, after catching the eye of the group’s […]

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Review: The Midnight Lie by Marie Rutkoski

Posted March 2, 2020 by Charlotte in Reviews / 0 Comments
Review: The Midnight Lie by Marie Rutkoski

I received this book for free from Netgalley in exchange for an honest review. This does not affect my opinion of the book or the content of my review.The Midnight Lie by Marie Rutkoski Series: The Midnight Lie #1 Published by Hodder & Stoughton on March 3, 2020 Genres: Fantasy, Fiction, Young Adult Pages: 368 Format: E-Arc Source: Netgalley Buy on Amazon Goodreads Where Nirrim lives, crime abounds, a harsh tribunal rules, and society’s pleasures are reserved for the High Kith. Life in the Ward is grim and punishing. People of her low status are forbidden from sampling sweets or wearing colors. You either follow the rules, or pay a tithe and suffer the consequences. Nirrim keeps her head down and a dangerous secret close to her chest. But then she encounters Sid, a rakish traveler from far away who whispers rumors that the High Caste possesses magic. Sid tempts Nirrim to seek that magic for herself. But to do that, Nirrim must surrender her old life. She must place her trust in this sly stranger who asks, above all, […]

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