Justin Bowers
** This book was provided to me by NetGalley in exchange for a fair and honest review ** I’m always fascinated to pick up an author’s first novel. Of course, I applaud any individual who undertakes the huge undertaking of creating a world(s) and then nakedly sharing it with people who can,...
Justin Bowers
If you have been reading my reviews, you know that I absolutely love this series, and book three doesn’t disappoint. The Emily Wilde series isn’t my normal fare. Yes, it’s about the Fae, and yes, it does have some degree of mayhem and danger, but it falls dangerously close to historical...
Justin Bowers
Here’s the setting. A young daemon gets inhabited and taken over by his father and proceeds to go on a Duke Nukem-style bloodbath to help raise power for and spread the corruption of his father. His sole driving force was to just ambush and kill and kill and kill. Then the oddest of things...
Justin Bowers
Imagine a story of the inner workings of Parisian criminal guilds wrapped up in a loose homage to Les Misérables and Jungle Book. That is exactly what Ms. Grant has pulled off with The Court of Miracles. Our main character, Eponine (Nina for short), is a super-talented member of the Thieves...
Justin Bowers
** This book was provided to me by NetGalley in exchange for a fair and honest review ** It’s very hard to start in on a review of something as magical as The Ruthless Lady’s Guide to Wizardry because it just has so many facets and layers. At first glance we get the feeling that one Miss...
Justin Bowers
This is the story of Elsie Camden, a young woman who was born with the ability to unmake spells much like unraveling a sweater. Set in a semi-Victorian England, Spellbreaker tells the story of young Elsie and her search for stability in her life. Orphaned by her family, Elsie is rescued from...
Justin Bowers
I will start this review by saying that if you read only one book this entire year, please make it this one. Victoria Schwab is an absolute powerhouse author who has built some pretty damn incredible worlds in her novels. It is by the grace of the gods that she is amazingly prolific, so there...
Justin Bowers
This book was provided to me by NetGalley in return for a fair review So this one fell in my lap, and it sounded like a very interesting premise. I had no idea it was book 7 in a series, or I would not have requested it. I absolutely hate jumping into a series mid-stream, but I went ahead...