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Book Review: The Boneless Mercies by April Genevieve Tucholke

December 4, 2018 by motifink

Frey, Ovie, Juniper, and Runa are the Boneless Mercies—girls hired to kill quickly, quietly, and mercifully. But Frey is weary of the death trade and, having been raised on the heroic sagas of her people, dreams of a bigger life. When she hears of an unstoppable monster ravaging a nearby town, Frey decides this is the Mercies’ one chance out. The fame and fortune of bringing down such a beast would ensure a new future for all the Mercies. In […]

Categories: Fantasy, Young Adult • Tags: April Genevieve Tucholke, between the devil and the deep blue sea, book review, fantasy, Farrar, Straus and Giroux (BYR), The Boneless Mercies

Book Review: The Wren Hunt by Mary Watson

November 7, 2018 by motifink

Every Christmas, Wren is chased through the woods near her isolated village by her family’s enemies—the Judges—and there’s nothing that she can do to stop it. Once her people, the Augurs, controlled a powerful magic. But now that power lies with the Judges, who are set on destroying her kind for good. In a desperate bid to save her family, Wren takes a dangerous undercover assignment—as an intern to an influential Judge named Cassa Harkness. Cassa has spent her life […]

Categories: Fantasy, Magic, Young Adult • Tags: Arc, Bloomsbury USA Children's, fantasy, romance, ya

Book Review: Kill the Queen (Crown of Shards #1) by Jennifer Estep

October 1, 2018 by motifink

In a realm where one’s magical power determines one’s worth, Lady Everleigh’s lack of obvious ability relegates her to the shadows of the royal court of Bellona, a kingdom steeped in gladiator tradition. Seventeenth in line for the throne, Evie is nothing more than a ceremonial fixture, overlooked and mostly forgotten. But dark forces are at work inside the palace. When her cousin Vasilia, the crown princess, assassinates her mother the queen and takes the throne by force, Evie is […]

Categories: Adult Ficiton, Fantasy, Harper Voyager • Tags: adult, Arc, book review, book tour, Crown of Shards #1, fantasy, Harper Voyager, Jennifer Estep, Kill the Queen

Book Review: A Blade So Black by L.L. McKinney

September 27, 2018 by motifink

The first time the Nightmares came, it nearly cost Alice her life. Now she’s trained to battle monstrous creatures in the dark dream realm known as Wonderland with magic weapons and hardcore fighting skills. Yet even warriors have a curfew. Life in real-world Atlanta isn’t always so simple, as Alice juggles an overprotective mom, a high-maintenance best friend, and a slipping GPA. Keeping the Nightmares at bay is turning into a full-time job. But when Alice’s handsome and mysterious mentor […]

Categories: Fantasy, NetGalley, NetGalley Review, Retellings, Young Adult • Tags: african american author, alice in wonderland, Arc, book review, fantasy, Imprint, NetGalley Review, retelling, young adult

The List© Fantasy Edition

August 9, 2018 by motifink

POC protagonist are on a rise but it isn’t exactly in the most original way. Almost all best selling books by a POC involves timeliness and a struggle within the Black community or Latin, Indian or Asian community. This is not to say that the books that are getting attention are not amazing and need (looking at THUG (tbr) ) because they are. It just takes the light off other stories that are important to tell. Like Caribbean mythologies or […]

Categories: Adult Ficiton, Fantasy, Young Adult • Tags: african american authors, fantasy, mythology, the list

Book Review: Salt by Hannah Moskowitz

May 24, 2018 by motifink

Even though their parents disappeared during a hunt three months ago, seventeen-year-old Indi and his siblings, Beleza, Oscar, and Zulu, continue to roam the Mediterranean on their sailboat and hunt down monsters–but Indi yearns for a more settled life for his family, and he hopes that his parents’ journal with its tantalizing hints of a treasure, will provide them all with the means of escape from their nomadic and dangerous life before it is too late.- Goodreads I thought this […]

Categories: Chronicle Books, Fantasy, NetGalley, NetGalley Review, Young Adult • Tags: Arc, book review, Chronicle Books, fantasy, Hannah Moskowitz, Salt, young adult

Book Review: The Fairies of Sadieville (Tufa #6) by Alex Bledsoe

May 17, 2018 by motifink

“This is real.” Three small words on a film canister found by graduate students Justin and Veronica, who discover a long-lost silent movie from more than a century ago. The startlingly realistic footage shows a young girl transforming into a winged being. Looking for proof behind this claim, they travel to the rural foothills of Tennessee to find Sadieville, where it had been filmed. Soon, their journey takes them to Needsville, whose residents are hesitant about their investigation, but Justin and […]

Categories: Adult Ficiton, Fantasy, NetGalley, NetGalley Review, Tor Teen • Tags: (Tufa #6), adult, Alex Bledsoe, Arc, book review, fanasty, faries, The Fairies of Sadieville, Tor Books

Book Review: Song of Blood & Stone by L. Penelope

May 1, 2018 by motifink

Orphaned and alone, Jasminda lives in a land where cold whispers of invasion and war linger on the wind. Jasminda herself is an outcast in her homeland of Elsira, where her gift of Earthsong is feared. When ruthless soldiers seek refuge in her isolated cabin, they bring with them a captive–an injured spy who threatens to steal her heart. Jack’s mission behind enemy lines to prove that the Mantle between Elsira and Lagamiri is about to fall nearly cost him […]

Categories: Fantasy, Magic, NetGalley, NetGalley Review, Romance, st. martin's press • Tags: african american author, book review, fantasy, L. Penelope, New Adult, romance, Song of Blood & Stone

Book Review: A Stolen Crown (Stolen Royals #2) by Kelsey Keating

April 4, 2018 by motifink

When Princess Cecily Degalt travels south to wed a prince she’s never met, she’s ushered into a strange new world alongside her best friend and bodyguard, Rory Castille. With an MIA fiancé, his handsome twin brother, and a kidnapping gone wrong, life in Myrzel isn’t quite what Cecily expected. Rory will do anything to keep Cecily from harm–but when Rory’s darkest secret comes between her and Cecily, the greatest danger to the princess might be Rory herself. Torn apart for […]

Categories: Fantasy, NetGalley, NetGalley Review, Young Adult • Tags: A Stolen Crown, book review, fantasy, Kelsey Keating, magic, romance, Stolen Royals #2, Swanifide Publishing, ya

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