I shout about books I love an awful lot, but I thought here would be a great place to highlight some of my absolute favourites!
REVIEW | Lore | Alexandra Bracken
I was absolutely heartbroken when I didn’t get an ARC of this one (et tu Hachette) and so as soon as this one released I listened to the entire audiobook in one sitting whilst doing a particularly evil jigsaw. As long as it still counts as one sitting if I had to keep pausing it to pace in and out of the living room to yell about how stressed I was over this incredible Greek mythology based story.
Rating: 5 stars!
REVIEW | Cute Mutants Volume 2: Young, Gifted and Queer | SJ Whitby
I love these superqueeroes, and this is absolutely my favourite discovery of 2020. I adore this series and each book is better than the one before. I reviewed Cute Mutants Vol 1: Mutant Pride on the blog, here, and I’ve got a review of Cute Mutants Vol 3: The Demon Queer Saga coming out soon! These are an insta buy for me, and I recommend them highly.
Rating: 5 stars!
BLOG TOUR REVIEW | Cute Mutants Volume 1: Mutant Pride | SJ Whitby
There’s an outside chance that this might be my perfect book. Sapphics, mutants, a sentient bat and Pillow. If you like funny, nerdy prose and superqueero characters, this is your perfect book too. Not to mention look at that cover, all three volumes (two released and one upcoming) have covers as beautiful as the content.
Rating: 5 stars
REVIEW | The Once and Future Witches | Alix. E. Harrow
I had high expectations for this witchy, feminist book and Alix E. Harrow smashed every single one of them. This book is everything to me and I cannot stop thinking about it.
Rating: 5 stars
REVIEW | The Invisible Life of Addie Larue | V.E. Schwab
The Invisible Life of Addie Larue, release date October 6th 2020, is my first Schwab book and okay, okay. I’m hooked. Definitely need to read more of her books, but first it’s time to talk about this gorgeous book about life, legacy and the many reasons we do 👏 not 👏 make 👏 deals 👏 with 👏 devils 👏.
Rating: 5 stars!
The Bone Shard Daughter by Andrea Stewart (Blog Tour Review)
I honestly have been so hyped for this book for so long that I couldn’t believe it when I made it onto the blog tour! An established f/f relationship, bone magic, travelling islands and a magical creature with personality? Sign me the hell up. I can’t wait to get my physical copy of this book after release date, because I think this might be even better on the reread.
Rating: 4.5 stars
A Deadly Education by Naomi Novik (Review)
Honestly? I was predisposed to love this book. A magic school that’s out to kill students? A dark witch as a main character with untapped powers of death and destruction? Rivals to awkward not-quite-dating? It has all the things I’d pile into my dream book, written by one of my favourite authors and to top it all off the main character shares my name! This book was made for me.
Rating: 5 stars!
The First Sister by Linden A Lewis (Review)
I was recommended this book by a friend, as it had somehow completely missed my radar, and I’m so glad that they pointed it out to me because I adored this book. So much so that I finished my review copy and bought a hardback a few days later, because I know I’m going to want to hear the rest of First Sister and Lito’s adventures.
Rating: 4.5 stars!
REVIEW | Christopher Paolini | To Sleep in a Sea of Stars
An adult space epic from Christopher Paolini? It’s a must read, and I adored it. Sentient space ships, a xeno space suit and some seriously cool aliens.
Rating: 5 stars
REVIEW | Harrow the Ninth | Tamsyn Muir | The Locked Tomb Trilogy #2
It’s absolutely fair to say that Harrow the Ninth is probably my favourite book of all time. And that means that most of my thoughts about this book are incoherent screaming about how much I love it.
Rating: 5 stars
Harrow Lake by Kat Ellis (Blog Tour review!)
HARROW LAKE by Kat Ellis was on my radar the second I saw the amazing VHS tape arcs floating around, and then I read the premise and knew I had to get my hands on it.
REVIEW | Chosen Ones | Veronica Roth
A story about what happens after the Chosen One (or ones) defeat the big bad villain and are faced with the aftermath, the trauma and the fame.
Rating: 5 stars
REVIEW | Belle Révolte | Linsey Miller
Queer rep, aspec rep, magic and strong women? This book was made for me. It’s full of queer characters and revolution and I absolutely adored it.
Rating: 5 stars
REVIEW | Renegades | Marissa Meyer | Renegades #1
Mistaken identity, morally grey MCs and identity porn between villains, heroes and civilians who are… all the same people. This is a twisty sci-fi story and kicks off a series I love.
Rating: 4 stars
REVIEW | Gideon the Ninth | Tamsyn Muir | The Locked Tomb Trilogy #1
My favourite of favourite books! The book that ruins my life and soothes my anxiety in equal measures. It’s lesbian necromancer and lesbian himbo in space solving a murder mystery.
Rating: 5 stars
REVIEW | The Mercies | Kiran Millwood-Hargrave
A magical witchy read that I think about all the time! My first dip into historical fiction that, in hindsight started a love for the genre.
Rating: 4.5 stars
REVIEW | The Grace Year | Kim Liggett
A deeply feminist horror about wild girls becoming wild women and the magic and mysticism of growing up under the eyes of vicious men.
Rating: 5 stars
REVIEW | The Priory of the Orange Tree | Samantha Shannon
I picked this up based off a tweet describing it as 848 pages of dragons and sapphics, and it is so worth every page.
Rating: 5 stars
REVIEW | This Is How You Lose The Time War | Amal El-Mohtar and Max Gladstone
A novella so beautiful that I’ve read it four or five times already, and I own three copies! If you want to read hate letters turning to love letters between two time agents, this is for you.
Rating: 5 stars
REVIEW | Lost Boy | Christina Henry
A terrifying and heart-pounding Peter Pan retelling that had me marathon reading it just to find out what happened to Jamie and the rest of the Lost Boys.
Rating: 5 stars
