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: Ishtar's Blade

 

Hello everyone!

 

So once again, I return with another pretty good suggestion from BookBub - remember the service I talk about on here from time to time?

 

BookBub is a free online community/portal/library where you sign up (it really is TOTALLY free) and then they send you book offers depending on your preferences, but the biggest draw is they find the least pricy ones, and a lot of free options as well.

Next to BookSirens, this is probably the one thing I use most frequently to find my next great read, and it's where tonight's book comes from, too.

See every once in a while I'll diverge from my usual paths of contemporary and historic to find something that's a little bit more fantastic, maybe.

And potentially a whole lot of fun!

It was how I ended up with this particular book, too.

Ishtar's Blade looked like it could be fun, and I'll admit part of the allure was also the beautiful cover, which I did also giggle a little over. But I digress.

Assassin's Creed: Odyssey (Booktober)

"In what forge but that of war can we otherwise hope to craft the dream?"

 

Autumn is a good time for wandering, for adventure ... and for a little history lesson. Assassin's Creed: Odyssey hit the markets as a highly-anticipated prequel to the game series, and eventually got an official novelization. While it may not be as diverse in plot as the game itself (there's NO way to smush it all in there!) it's still worth a read for the action, the heat of Ancient Greece, and because the eagle Ikaros is waiting.

You do NOT want to keep him waiting!

They call her misthios--mercenary--and she will take what she is owed.

Kassandra was raised by her parents to be fierce and uncaring, the ideal Spartan child, destined for greatness. But when a terrible tragedy leaves her stranded on the isle of Kephallonia, near Greece, she decides to find work as a mercenary, away from the constraints of Sparta. 

(from Goodreads)

xx

*image not mine

Sepulchre (Booktober)

Pride and Prejudice (Booktober)

Tempting Autumn (Booktober)

Harry Potter (Booktober)

The Hobbit (Booktober)

Tome Thursday: The Staff of Serapis

Hello everyone!

Time to continue on with what we started last week, although I only just realized that the finishing sequence of this trilogy will have to wait for JUST a little.

But before I get into that, let's head back into the world of mythos, shall we?

We're dealing with the Greeks and the Egyptians here, and if this sounds like something Blood & Treasure might have cooked up, or even straight out of history with the way Alexander the Great conquered Egypt and made it his personal province, well, you'd be right.

A lot of things you read in books have already happened throughout history, and NOTHING is weirder than actual history, let me tell you.

... There's actually nothing weirder than having huge gods run around with crocodile heads, but if people believed that and it kept them happy, I suppose we can't really argue against it, can we?

Last week, the boys got their adventure in the books.

This week it's girl time, since The Staff of Serapis is all about girl power.

Tome Thursday: The Son of Sobek

Hello everyone!

So every once in a while, as you know, I'll return to oldie but goldie books that I've either already read but never reviewed, or that I really, really enjoy and just HAVE to read again.

There are some authors that just have a grip on me like that.

And while I'm slowly packing and preparing for my vacation, I'm also gathering up books that I think I'll enjoy reading down on the beach, which is always an exciting prospect!

But for tonight's blog post, I decided on a short novella-ish type of book that was initially released as an audio recording and features some fan favourites from two different series that everyone has been DYING to see cross over.

Rick Riordan is kind of good at listening like that.

The Son of Sobek is the first in a short trilogy which features some characters that we know and love and mentions others, and of course there's always room for more where these guys are running around.

It's mythology, after all.

Tome Thursday: Cobweb Bride

Hello everyone!

Back with the first book review of the new year, and BOY do I have a kicker for you!

I mean, to be fair, I saved it because it sort of sounded like something I might potentially enjoy, and then some, but at the time when I took it from the Kobo free book offer, I stashed it away and didn't feel like reading it quite yet.

Then after over-indulging in Christmas books and all that other gooey stuff, I needed something else to clear my head.

Oh, and I have to load Drums of Autumn again. Why did I delete it off my ereader?

I don't know, Kobo; I truly don't know.

But I digress.

Tonight's blog post is about a book that's just ... it was SO GOOD. I couldn't put it down, even though I'd spent a lot of time translating, my eyes were smarting and the letters were dancing.

But Cobweb Bride refused to let me out of her web until I got to the final dot.

Tome Thursday: 9 From the Nine Worlds

Hello everyone!

I'm back with another Rick Riordan book review, because, well, I really enjoy reading his books.

Some people argue that he's beginning to repeat himself and that Percy Jackson was the best book series he pushed out, but I disagree.

I think the humour remains just the same, you just have to be willing to absorb and accept it!

And of course, you really need to be prepared for just about anything. So far as that goes, we've seen freak griffins, talking rivers, ships built out of fingernails, and of course there are the gods that keep popping up all over the place.

You'd think they'd have something better to do than bothering us mortals, but nope.

Especially if it means getting us into all sorts of trouble and mischief. Including waging war against other gods or, you know, accusing us of stealing some of their priceless artifacts.

9 From the Nine Worlds delivers just what you want, if you're open to receiving it.

Tome Thursday: Magnus Chase and the Gods of Asgard

Hello everyone!

After a long while I'm back with another Rick Riordan appreciation, er, blog post. The last one I posted was roughly in summer last year when I reviewed the first of his Trials of Apollo series (which reminds me that I should probably review his second one in that trilogy soon), but then I kind of fell off the Riordan map, even though I continued reading his books.

Namely, I was taken in by this Norse mythology series the author launched.

It's title is, as you can see on top of this blog post: Magnus Chase and the Gods of Asgard.

Sounds familiar?

You're right. There's another Chase running around Riordan's books, and her name is Annabeth, aka Wise Girl, aka Percy Jackson's girlfriend.

Magnus and Annabeth are cousins, and that DOES come into play in the books. Mostly though it just adds to the hilarity of all the situations these kids find themselves in, including but not limited to saving the world, often twice. Who's counting?

So below, you'll find a record-sharp recap of the entire trilogy. And all this while I'm reading Dan Brown's new novel, Origin!

Saturday Talkie Tuesday: Moana

"I am Moana."

Hello everyone!

So, alright, I have to admit that, usually, I don't let anything or anyone deter me from making a blog post, but this past Tuesday I was SO exhausted like someone had taken my body and used it for a punching bag, for some reason or another. 

Not to mention, my eyes also decided to take a sudden, unexpected break, and wouldn't even allow me to look into the screen for too long before they watered way too much.

So, unfortunately, I had to postpone my Tuesday blog post and switch it up with the Saturday snippet bit, because there was no way, at the time, for me to get even close to focusing properly on typing anything up that would make sense, one way or the other.

Which is why I'm typing this right meow.

See what I did there.

Anyway, before I digress any further, allow me to say that Disney has absolutely found its groove again with its newest cartoons, and Moana is no different!

Tome Thursday: Percy Jackson & the Olympians

Hello everyone!

It's back to the drawing board with books, although this week my reading section looks like someone blew a tornado through the shelves. I'm honestly reading a couple of books at the same time, jumping back and forth, and I'll be talking about a trilogy of them next week, but for the moment, it's all between Rick Riordan's Heroes of Olympus, a book about Titanic's last night, one about the mutineers of the Bounty, and I'm still slowly going through Conn Iggulden's Trinity. 

Yes, I should quite probably try and focus on one book at a time, but I've never been able to do that. I'm all over the place.

Speaking of Rick Riordan, however, I've recently reread his series as I wait for the publication of his new book concerning Norse gods (which will probably be as awesome as the rest of them), and I was reminded just why I prefer the Olympians one more than the Heroes.