Tome Thursday: Mystic Passage

 

Hello everyone!

 

Once again, welcome back to the land of Teutonica.

 

I swear I need to get better at this, because I'd read this one towards the tail end of LAST year, and yet here we are, nearing the end of February, but I'd never put the review up on my blog until now.

 

Sigh.

 

There's so much going on all the time though that it's almost impossible to really make a full schedule and stick to it, at least at the moment, because I keep getting ARCs that twist through it all and make me reschedule EVERYTHING.

 

But anyway, we're going back into the magical world C L Carhart invented tonight, and boy oh BOY am I excited to do it.

 

Because, and I kid you not, we finally get to meet our main character. Well, main MALE character in any event, which funnily enough does NOT happen in book one of this series.

 

So strap on your witchy hats and make sure your intentions are good, because I can assure you, even they might not be able to help. Not in Mystic Passage.

 

Tome Thursday: The Stars are Dying

 

Hello everyone!

 

Are you ready for this?

 

Because I'm not sure you are. I know I certainly wasn't, and I willingly signed up for whatever was coming at me at the time.

 

See a while ago, I kept seeing these gorgeous book covers (and similar book art) all from the same author. Bookstagram was going HARD, y'all, and eventually I caved and had a look around the author's page to see what it was all about.

 

Turns out, she's writing a fantasy series that's literally like someone wrote it especially for me.

 

So I grabbed the books and read the first one, but unfortunately then ran out of time as I had other ARCs waiting for me to read and review them.

 

Then this one came about - I'd seen the promos on her Instagram, but randomly stumbled over an open call for eARC readers, and signed up on a whim. I honestly didn't think I'd get it, and would have been fine just waiting for the book to release, but guess what? I GOT THE ARC.

 

And with the book releasing in a few days, here's your glowing review for it. What's it called? The Stars are Dying.

 

Talkie Tuesday: The Next 365 Days

 

"Sometimes, the truth is complicated."

Hello everyone!

Urgh.

I kept putting this off as long as I possibly could, but when an April Fool's reminded me that there COULD be a part four, I figured I couldn't really keep away for much longer.

Then again I STILL haven't seen Episode IX so I'm really, really good at not watching things I don't want to.

This one was a so-so for me, because while I did in fact want to see the trainwreck, I knew it was going to be one and didn't think I needed it on a good weekend.

But I had some spare time this past weekend and decided, you know what? I can probably do this.

I barely could.

However I'm now all caught up which DOES say something about tenacity (or plain-ass pig-headedness) I suppose.

Because I survived The Next 365 Days. And I swear, these keep getting worse.

Tome Thursday: Court of Tricksters

 

Hello everyone!

 

No, despite the title of this blog post, this is not in fact a review of a Sarah J. Maas book, even if it sounds remarkably like it could be.

 

It's definitely all about the title of the book. The author has so much fame attached to her through her A Court of Thorns and Roses series, that it's difficult to really pull our minds away from the topic and cover something else.

 

But we're doing exactly that tonight!

 

See, I randomly ran into an ARC in one of the emails BookSirens sent me that I thought might be a book I'd love.

And I did enjoy it, up to a point.

There were some minor issues with it, but overall I'd say it at the very least hooked me so that I'm intrigued as to what comes next.

I shouldn't prattle anymore and instead just give you the review, right? We're talking Court of Tricksters tonight.

Tome Thursday: An Heir Comes to Rise

 

Hello everyone!

 

After pretty much a month or two of just ARCs and books from BookSirens, I come to you with something a little different tonight.

I totally wanted to read more of the series before I started the blog posts but alas!

I needed a book for tonight. This was it.

If you enjoy books like the ones written by Sarah J Maas (who, coincidentally, I still need to finish one series from) then I am pretty sure you're going to LOVE this one.

It has unique world-building, likeable characters, and a pretty spread out array of them to start with.

And the character numbers just keep on growing as time goes by, too.

There are currently four books in the series, with at least one or two more planned based on all that I've read and heard, so you have PLENTY of time to hop on the bandwagon and join the rest of us!

 

C.C Peñaranda came up with something pretty unique in An Heir Comes to Rise. Why don't you go ahead and keep on reading?

Tome Thursday: The Last Daughter

 

Hello everyone!

 

Back at it again with some more BookSirens ARC suggestions, because why wouldn't I be?

 

I think the site is one of the best sites out there for people to be able to read books prior to release or even after release without needing to spend so much money on an actual edition right off the bat, what if you don't like it?

 

This way, if you love the ARCs you're reading, you'll probably buy the book anyway and support the author like that!

 

Plus I mean ... Norse mythology.

 

Come ON we all love the Norse sagas, and with Santa Monica's God of War Ragnarok release almost right around the corner, this is getting a bit of an added boost if you ask me.

 

It's a great time to do anything Norse mythos related! 

So make sure to bring warm clothes, because it's going to get cold before it gets hot.

The Last Daughter by Alexis L. Menard is up.

Tome Thursday: The Belle of Eden

 

Hello everyone!

 

Hopefully you're all doing well in these rather difficult times, and that if nothing else you've found some books that have been able to help you pass the time, get by, etc.

 

Being the reader that I am, I've certainly had no issue finding what I wanted, though I will admit that sometimes the 'what I want' turns out to be 'am I actually sure this is what I want?'.

 

Tonight's book is an example of that, because while the premise sounded like something I would enjoy, the actual execution of the book I picked wasn't something that I was all that fond of, and I figure I should try and explain myself in this review if I possibly can.

 

Especially since I finished this one before my Booktober started.

 

I'm still playing catchup, yessir. But hey, it's one of the fun things about reading, am I right?

 

So without further ado, let's get right into it, as swashbuckling adventure and pirates lurk around the corner.

 

Sofia Ashford's Belle of Eden awaits.