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Ogres are bigger than you. Ogres are stronger than you. Ogres rule the world.
It’s …
An all-too plausible take on the future of economic disparity. The last few pages really made this one for me.
The Actual Star takes readers on a journey over two millennia and six continents —telling …
This one gave me Cloud Atlas vibes.
It's set across three timelines: ancient Maya, contemporary, and 1000 years in the future - I enjoyed the future segments and worldbuilding the most.
I feel like one needs to have a solid grounding in latine culture to get the most out of this.
Agna had looked forward to her overseas assignment for the last four years. It was …
The Healers' Road isn't my usual type of book (although you might think differently if you witnessed the T. Kingfisher bibliography pour through my timeline), but I enjoyed it very much.
It's very much a book about interpersonal relationships, decorated in a vaguely fantastic setting, and the author wonderfully illustrated concepts like how uncommunicated assumptions can poison your interactions with someone, or how hiding things we're afraid of or embarrassed by often lead to us suffering more.
I'm looking forward to the second part, although I think I'll need to cleanse my palate with something faster-paced first.
From the moment Sunny Nwazue discovered she had magic flowing in her blood, she sought …
Everything I love about the series, with a more epic scope than earlier installments
On the distant world of Erna, four people--Priest, Adept, Sorcerer, and Apprentice--are drawn together to …
I tried to get into it, and it felt like all the pieces were there, but it just turned into a long slog for me 🤷
I’m embarrassed, still, by how long it took me to notice. Everything was right there …
I loved the sense of creeping doom as I unraveled each drip of exposition.
At first I couldn't see how this and Upright Women Wanted could possibly be from the same author, but eventually similar themes around trust, betrayal, and self-loathing/-punishment emerged.
Halla is a housekeeper who has suddenly inherited her great-uncle's estate... and, unfortunately, his relatives. …
Ms. Kingfisher must be trolling us at this point, but somehow I find that I can't complain
Stephen's god died on the longest day of the year…
Three years later, Stephen is …
The romance to adventure ratio is somewhat higher than I prefer, but the writing sparkles and the intrigue intrigues
Pull three people out of prison--a disgraced paladin, a convicted forger, and a heartless assassin. …
A paladin, an assassin, a forger, and a scholar ride out of town. It’s not …
An introduction to a new and refreshing fantasy world populated with complex characters. I feel like we've only scratched the surface so far, and I'm eager for more.