Book Review: Soulstar, by C. L. Polk

This is the last novel in the Kingston Cycle, and I had to wait a little bit for the audiobook to become available, but it was worth the wait. You can see my reviews of Witchmark and Stormsong as well. There will be possible spoilers for the first two books at least, in the review …

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Book Review: Cemetery Boys, by Aiden Thomas

I promised a full review of this book... a few months ago when I read it with all the other Lodestar YA novels. I've been procrastinating on the delivery, but I still love the book just as much as when I first read it! The Synopsis Yadriel has summoned a ghost, and now he can’t …

Book Review: The Galaxy and the Ground Within, by Becky Chambers

I've owned this book for a while but despite absolutely loving Becky Chambers' every book I've read so far, I was not starting it. I think because it's the last in the Wayfarers series, which made me really sad. I could honestly read 20 more books in this universe, I dream of a sitcom set …

Book review: The Wife in the Attic, by Rose Lerner

I'd had this book recommended to me a few times as a great historical sapphic romance. I had been keeping an eye on it, and by total chance I won the author's Halloween giveaway. Given a choice of ebook or audio, I of course took the audiobook - and binged it over one weekend! So …

A little chat: 2021 achievements / Goals for 2022

I have been thinking over the last couple weeks on how to set up my "bullet" journal (it's lined so it's not really a bujo but I use it similarly) and so it has allowed me to reflect on what I achieved and what I want to do next year in a lot more detail, …

A little life update (or, why the blog has been so quiet)

Hi everyone! I just wanted to say a few words about why the blog's been so quiet lately. I did not want to go on an official hiatus, as I kept really wanting and meaning to write and post reviews, but for those of you who don't follow me on twitter - I've been struggling …

Small reviews: Lodestar Award for Best YA

Part 3 of the hugo series, after novellas and short stories: the Lodestar's not technically a Hugo but the ballot is the same. As an aside, I've decided I'm not going to review the Novels because I've not read about half of them. Harrow the Ninth requires me to reread Gideon because I forgot the …

Small reviews: Hugo nominated short stories

So as I explained in my post on the Hugo nominated novellas, I've signed up for the Worldcon supporter membership, which gives you access to the "voter packet", in which most authors and publishers kindly provide their nominated works for you to review! Not free, but a very cheap price for the year's favourites. So …

Review: No Man of Woman Born, by Ana Mardoll

This book was part of my OcTBRChallenge reading list, for one very shameful reason: I got the ARC for it like 2 years ago, before I even HAD a blog, when I was still using tumblr and basically only had the vaguest idea of how NetGalley worked. I downloaded it and then... completely forgot about …

Review: A Dowry of Blood, by S.T. Gibson

I requested this book as an ARC back when this blog was fairly new - and I was fairly new to Netgalley... so I then did not download it in time, it got archived, and I couldn't access it anymore. But the concept - brides of Dracula, but make it queer(er), kept intriguing me, so …