Queen B’s Decree: This story focuses mostly on Deaf of Hard of Hearing boy, Ludik. He’s an orphan after the mountain “ran away” and destroyed his village. On his way to fight the mountain as a young boy, he’s saved and adopted by Heimee, a whisky distiller. Heimee was my favorite character. He was snarky […]
Queen B’s Decree: I felt like this one flew by in a rush, I couldn’t stop reading. Saoirse is the “useless” eldest daughter of the king and queen, a witch without light magic, relegated to working at a bakery in town. Long story short, she meets up with Vane, a darkwing—a being she had been […]
Queen B’s Decree: Whisper of Weapons was an interesting concept. Teenagers create their own weapons of which they use to call upon or “cast” an animal. Kind of like a familiar, but they have to learn to fight together to be the best…in case of war. There are a lot of points-of-view here, so it […]
Queen B’s Decree: A decade or so back, I read and was obsessed with a YA series called The Selection Series. A Game of Veils is basically a bit like that…except with murder? So OF COURSE I read it in one day. Aurelia is the second-born daughter of a distant kingdom, traveling to Dariu with […]
Queen B’s Decree: The Dark Mountain is the second in the Rise of Penumbra series, but follows new characters that we haven’t met yet. We get to meet Kadmiel, the general of the dark lord, Hosheh’s, army. So in book one we meet a fallen star who hasn’t turned dark, and in this one we get […]
Queen B’s Decree: The Seas Between Us gave me so much anxiety. A siren and her human victim; how will they get their HEA???? Merrow is a mermaid and has to convince a specific human to fall in love with her within a week, then allow himself to die, for their clan’s magic to be […]
Queen B’s Decree: This book was a delight, I couldn’t put it down. It’s got the mystery of an Agatha Christie novel, the snark that I can’t resist, and just enough fantasy world building to make it interesting. You can’t help but love Dee. He’s the narrator for our story so you get the full […]
Queen B’s Decree: This book…was really, really good. Well-fleshed world building that doesn’t overwhelm you, with an Irish folklore feel, you feel immersed from page one. The prose flows from the page so lyrically, it’s almost like I’m hearing a verbal tale, passed down through generations. But what really shines is the characters. Everyone is […]
Queen B’s Decree: There is a rift that separates our current world and the Fae land and they are kept very separate. But after the rift opened, some humans were blessed with a bit of magic, including Avery. Avery has the skill of healing, but she’s becoming ill herself, so she’s brought to the Fae […]
Queen B’s Decree: Holy tortured angst, Batman. When we left Ari and Eva, they had just escaped from the Bellators and had rejoined with the resistance and we finally had hope they could be together, away from the Commonwealth where their love was forbidden. Instead, they both mostly just pine for the other…until they finally […]