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Book Review: The Raven’s Tale by Cat Winters

April 18, 2019 by motifink

Seventeen-year-old Edgar Poe counts down the days until he can escape his foster family—the wealthy Allans of Richmond, Virginia. He hungers for his upcoming life as a student at the prestigious new university, almost as much as he longs to marry his beloved Elmira Royster. However, on the brink of his departure, all his plans go awry when a macabre Muse named Lenore appears to him. Muses are frightful creatures that lead Artists down a path of ruin and disgrace, […]

Categories: Fantasy, NetGalley, NetGalley Review, Pretty Covers, Young Adult • Tags: Arc, book review, Cat Winters, edgar allen poe, NetGalley, pretty cover, The Raven's Tale

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March 21, 2019 by motifink

The Anakim dwell in the desolate forests and mountains beyond the black river, the land under the Northern Sky. Their ancient ways are forged in Unthank silver and carved in the grey stone of their heartland, their lives measured out in the turning of centuries, not years. By contrast, the Sutherners live in the moment, their vitality much more immediate and ephemeral than their Anakim neighbors. Fragile is the peace that has existed between these very different races – and […]

Categories: Adult Ficiton, Fantasy, NetGalley, NetGalley Review • Tags: Adult Fiction, Arc, book review, fantasy, Leo Carew, NetGalley, The Wolf, Under the Northern Sky

Cover Reveal: Whispers of Shadow & Flame by L. Penelope

February 21, 2019 by motifink

IT.IS.HERE! Finally. The cover reveal for Whispers of Shadow & Flame. If you don’t know what I am taking about Whispers of Shadow & Flame is the second book to Song of Blood & Stone, which is the first book to the Earthsinger Chronicles and also named one of Time’s magazine top 10 fantasy books in 2018. If you didn’t read the first book, check out my review for it here. Also after you finished the first book, read the 1.5 […]

Categories: Fantasy, Pretty Covers, Young Adult • Tags: black author, Book Contest, cover reveal, fantasy, L. Penelope, Song of Blood & Stone, Whispers of Shadow & Flame

Year of The Asian Reading Challenge

January 21, 2019 by motifink

This year I am participating in the Year of the Asian Reading Challenge. Its a great way, at least for me, to read different styles of writing. I have a tendency of getting stuck in a specific genre to writing style and then wonder why I didn’t hit those amazing books and got stuck with more 2 stars (and below) than 3s and ups. So anyway I saw this challenge on twitter but then couldn’t find the post. I then […]

Categories: Adult Ficiton, Fantasy, Pretty Covers, reading challenge, Retellings, Romance, Young Adult • Tags: 2019, reading challenge, Year of the Asian

Book Review: White Stag by Kara Barbieri

January 16, 2019 by motifink

As the last child in a family of daughters, seventeen-year-old Janneke was raised to be the male heir. While her sisters were becoming wives and mothers, she was taught to hunt, track, and fight. On the day her village was burned to the ground, Janneke—as the only survivor—was taken captive by the malicious Lydian and eventually sent to work for his nephew Soren. Janneke’s survival in the court of merciless monsters has come at the cost of her connection to […]

Categories: Fantasy, NetGalley, NetGalley Review, Young Adult • Tags: Arc, book review, fantasy, Kara Barbieri, Permafrost, White Stag, young adult

Book Review: War of the Wilted (Garden of Thorns, #2) by Amber Mitchell

January 11, 2019 by motifink

Rose will not rest until the Gardener is dead. But there are bigger battles to fight, and Rayce—leader of the rebellion and the only man Rose has ever loved—believes their best chance at winning the war is to join forces with her sworn enemy. Saving innocent people is more important than her quest for revenge. But their new ally can’t be trusted—and he knows her darkest secret. One betrayal could leave the war and Rayce’s life hanging in the balance, […]

Categories: Fantasy, NetGalley, NetGalley Review, Pretty Covers, Young Adult • Tags: Amber Mitchell, Arc, book review, fantasy, Garden of Thorns, romance, War of the Wilted, ya

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Book Review: Small Spaces by Katherine Arden

December 26, 2018 by motifink

After suffering a tragic loss, eleven-year-old Ollie only finds solace in books. So when she happens upon a crazed woman at the river threatening to throw a book into the water, Ollie doesn’t think–she just acts, stealing the book and running away. As she begins to read the slender volume, Ollie discovers a chilling story about a girl named Beth, the two brothers who both loved her, and a peculiar deal made with “the smiling man,” a sinister specter who […]

Categories: Children, children's, Fantasy, Horror • Tags: book review, children book, fantasy, G.P. Putnam's Sons Books for Young Readers, horror, Katherine Arden, middle school readers, Small Spaces

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Book Review: Nyxia Unleashed by Scott Reintgen

December 19, 2018 by motifink

Emmett Atwater thought Babel’s game sounded easy. Get points. Get paid. Go home. But it didn’t take long for him to learn that Babel’s competition was full of broken promises, none darker or more damaging than the last one. Now Emmett and the rest of the Genesis survivors must rally and forge their own path through a new world. Their mission from Babel is simple: extract nyxia, the most valuable material in the universe, and play nice with the indigenous […]

Categories: Fantasy, NetGalley, NetGalley Review, science fiction, Young Adult • Tags: Arc, book review, fantasy, NetGalley, Nyxia Unleashed, science fiction, Scott Reintgen, space, The Nyxia Triad #2, ya

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Graphic Novel Review Sleepless, Vol. 1 by by Sarah Vaughn

December 14, 2018 by motifink

Lady “Poppy” Pyppenia is guarded by the Sleepless Knight Cyrenic, but becomes endangered when an assassin threatens her life in the new king’s reign. As Poppy and Cyrenic try to discover who wants her dead, they must navigate the dangerous waters of life at court, and of their growing feelings for one another. – Goodreads I have been eyeing this book since its release and last week I finally got the opportunity to read it. I was pulled in by […]

Categories: Fantasy • Tags: Alissa Sallah (Colorist), book review, Deron Bennett (Letterer), fantasy, graphic novel, Leila del Duca (Artist), review

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Category Archives: Fantasy

Book Review: The Raven’s Tale by Cat Winters

Cover Reveal: Whispers of Shadow & Flame by L. Penelope

Year of The Asian Reading Challenge

Book Review: White Stag by Kara Barbieri

Book Review: War of the Wilted (Garden of Thorns, #2) by Amber Mitchell

Book Review: Small Spaces by Katherine Arden

Book Review: Nyxia Unleashed by Scott Reintgen

Graphic Novel Review Sleepless, Vol. 1 by by Sarah Vaughn