Just reading books and having opinions…
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Review: ‘The Crimson Crown’ by Heather Walter
Thank you to NetGalley and Del Rey for the e-ARC! Synopsis: Essentially a villain origin story for the Evil Queen from Snow White (and she’s queer!). It’s set in a world where the magic of witches has been outlawed and the witches themselves have gone into hiding. Ayleth, our future Evil Queen, has lost her…
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Review: ‘Helga’ by Catherine Yu
Thank you to NetGalley and Page Street Publishing for this e-ARC! Helga puts a twist on the tale of Frankenstein by having Frankenstein’s monster be a teenage girl. She goes out partying and gets into teenage high jinks all while dealing with her creator’s never ending disappointment. I will leave it up to other readers…
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Review: ‘Oath of Fire’ by K. Arsenault Rivera
Thank you to NetGalley and Grand Central Publishing for the e-ARC of this book! Pub date is 8/13/2024. Once I finished reading this books, I checked out the ratings from the various sites like Goodreads and Storygraph and I was shocked. The average rating across the sites is hovering around a 3.4 which I do…
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Review: ‘Mistress of Lies’ by K. M. Enright
TW: Gore, violence, lots of blood I received this book as an e-ARC from Orbit so thank you to them. I went into ‘Mistress of Lies’ incredibly excited by the premise involving blood magic, morally gray characters and the hunt for a serial killer. And boy was I disappointed. We do have an absolute banger…
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Review: ‘The 23rd Hero’ by Rebecca Anne Nguyen
TW: sexual assault, animal death, parental emotional abuse /Thank you so much to NetGalley and Castle Bridge Media for this e-ARC! Synopsis: In a future Earth on the brink of environmental collapse, a mysterious company called the Program has successfully invented time travel. They use this technology to choose ‘Heros’ to go back in time…
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