Kill the King (Colomba Caselli, #3)by Sandrone Dazieri5* out of 5 **DISCLAIMER: I received a digital ARC of this novel from the publisher via Netgalley in exchange for an honest review** Well, it’s finally here: the finale of Sandrone Dazieri’s “Caselli and Torre” series. It’s been quite a ride since we first met these characters in Kill […]

The Climb: Tragic Ambitions on Everestby Anatoli Boukreev, G. Weston DeWalt5* out of 5 I remember working at BARNES & NOBLE and always seeing large stacks of John Krakauer’s INTO THIN AIR appear during the “school reading season”; it was a very popular book chosen to be read by American high school students. And why not? A […]

Into Thin Air: A Personal Account of the Mount Everest Disasterby Jon Krakauer (Goodreads Author)5* out of 5 The sad part is that I had seen this book so many times while a bookseller at BARNES & NOBLE, but had absolutely no idea it was about. I was not familiar with the 1996 Everest disaster — hell, […]

Ninth House (Alex Stern, #1)by Leigh Bardugo (Goodreads Author) 5* out of 5 My favourite book by Leigh Bardugo thus far. Hands down. No question. When I went into Ninth House, I knew almost nothing about it; all I knew was that it was dark academia-type book involving secret societies at Yale. I didn’t even know there were […]

Dark Age (Red Rising Saga, #5)  by Pierce Brown (Goodreads Author) 5* out of 5 nota bene: This review has been redacted for spoilers. The full, unedited review can be found on my Goodreads   The bodies are no longer stacked pretty high anymore; they’re nailed to trees and impaled in nice, neat lines. They’re losing their […]

Sky in the Deep  by Adrienne Young (Goodreads Author) 4 stars out of 5 **Thank you so much to Wednesday Books for providing me a digital ARC of this novel for the purpose of review** OND ELDR. Breathe Fire. VEGR YFIR FJOR. Honour Above Life.  I didn’t really know what to expect when I went into Sky in the Deep. […]

The Plastic Magician (The Paper Magician, #4)  by Charlie N. Holmberg (Goodreads Author) 4 stars out of 5 **Thank you to 47North for providing me a digital ARC of this novel via Netgalley for the purpose of review** I can’t really tell you the full circumstances of how I stumbled across Charlie N. Holmberg’s The Paper Magician — I […]

A Court of Frost and Starlight (A Court of Thorns and Roses, #3.1)  by Sarah J. Maas (Goodreads Author) Rating: 2 out of 5 stars You know, in many an anime there’s always the “beach episode”, where all the characters inevitably spend an entire episode wandering around a beach in their swimwear and, well, nothing really happens. […]

Obsidio (The Illuminae Files, #3)  by Amie Kaufman (Goodreads Author), Jay Kristoff (Goodreads Author) 5 stars out of 5 This review has been truncated due to the presence of spoilers. You can read the review in its entire, un-redacted format on Goodreads. AIDAN was the secret protagonist of this series and you cannot convince me otherwise. Well, guys, we […]

A Book of Spirits and Thieves (Spirits and Thieves, #1)  by Morgan Rhodes 3 stars out of 5 This hovers somewhere between a 2.75 and a 3, but I’m feeling generous and bumping it up in my rounding. What a disappointment. I really like Rhodes’ Falling Kingdoms series, and the promise of a spin-off tale set both in […]