Weekly Reading Check-In: 06/09/21

Happy Wednesday everyone!  Time for another weekly check-in using WWW Wednesday, a meme hosted by Taking on a World of Words. Want to participate?  Simply answer the three questions below and tag the host site!  Book covers link to Goodreads. What are you currently reading?What did you recently finish reading?What do you think you’ll read next?...

Review: BEFORE THEY ARE HANGED by Joe Abercrombie

Publisher: Orbit BooksPage Count: 543Release Date: March 15th, 2007Series: THE FIRST LAW, Book 2Rating: 4.5/5 Stars - Really Liked It! With darkness rising in the south, Logen, Jezal, and Ferro travel with the First Magus Bayaz to retrieve a powerful magical weapon that could be the key to defeating it. But while they battle against...

Review: FOR THE WOLF by Hannah Whitten

Publisher: Orbit BooksPage Count: 429Release Date: 06/01/21Series: WILDERWOOD, Book 1Rating: 4/5 Stars - Really Liked It The First Daughter is for the throne. The Second Daughter is for the Wolf. That was the pact Valleydan made centuries ago with the magical Wilderwood. Any second daughter born to the royal family must be sent to the...

Weekly Reading Check-In: 06/02/21

Happy Wednesday everyone!  Time for another weekly check-in using WWW Wednesday, a meme hosted by Taking on a World of Words. Want to participate?  Simply answer the three questions below and tag the host site!  Book covers link to Goodreads. What are you currently reading?What did you recently finish reading?What do you think you’ll read next?...

Monthly Wrap-Up: May 2021

First off, big shout out to Lisa, Jorie and imyril for running another fabulous Wyrd and Wonder event! I had a lot of fun writing some fantasy inspired posts (links below), and having just a little extra reason to read some fantasy (not that I ever need a reason). I made good progress this month,...

Weekly Reading Check-In: 05/26/21

Happy Wednesday everyone!  Time for another weekly check-in using WWW Wednesday, a meme hosted by Taking on a World of Words. Want to participate?  Simply answer the three questions below and tag the host site!  Book covers link to Goodreads. What are you currently reading?What did you recently finish reading?What do you think you’ll read next?...

Favorite Self-Published Fantasy – Wyrd and Wonder

I can't let Wyrd and Wonder go by without a shout-out to my favorite self-published fantasy books! The reading community has become more and more accepting of the fact that there are some absolute GEMS that aren't traditionally published, and I've made it my goal for the last year or two to try and read...

Review: GOODBYE TO THE SUN by Jonathan Nevair

Publisher: Shadow Spark PublishingPage Count: 290Release Date: May 18th, 2021Series: WIND TIDE, Book 1Rating: 2.75/5 Stars - Just Short of Liking It Ambassador Keen Draden is on a simple diplomatic pit stop; show up, shake some hands, move on. But before he even touches down on the planet of Kol 2, he finds himself kidnapped...

Review: THE BLACKTONGUE THIEF by Christopher Buehlman

Publisher: Tor BooksPage Count: 413Release Date: May 25th, 2021Series: BLACKTONGUE, Book 1Rating: 3/5 Stars - Liked it When Kinch's band of thieves tries to rob a lone woman on the roads, it becomes very apparent they've messed with the wrong target. The woman is Galva, a veteran of the Goblin Wars and a deadly fighter....

Review: THE THIEF WHO WASN’T THERE by Michael McClung

Publisher: Self-PublishedPage Count: 247Release Date: June 5th, 2015Series: AMRA THETYS, Book 4Rating: 4.5/5 - Really Liked It! Warning: Possible light spoilers ahead for earlier books in the series. You can find reviews for those books here: THE THIEF WHO PULLED ON TROUBLE'S BRAIDS, THE THIEF WHO SPAT IN LUCK'S GOOD EYE, THE THIEF WHO KNOCKED...