When I say these books took me by storm, I am not over exaggerating. I’d seen on Bookstagram a while back, a few people talking about The City of Brass. Book one in The Daevabad Trilogy by S.A. Chakraborty. Having already read and loved her newest novel, The Adventures of Amina al-Sirafi I knew I …
I bought The Wolf Den by Elodie Harper last year. I couldn’t even tell you when. All I knew at the time, was that it was about women in ancient Pompeii who worked at a brothel, and that the title drew me in. As we’ve established many times before, I do love wolves. At the …
Many books I go to read, feature main characters typically in their mid to late twenties. Maybe an oddball 30 year old sprinkled throughout. But I don’t think I’ve ever read a story where the main character is a 40 year old. Now, this may be due to the high volume of Paranormal Romances I …
Have you ever watched a movie trailer, and have no idea what the movie is about but you’re still intrigued? That was me the first time I saw a trailer for The Banshees of Inisherin. It looked like it could be a drama. The music played like a horror almost. Yet, some of the dialogue …
They say if you ask an avid reader what their favorite book is, they won’t be able to give you an answer. How can we choose? There are so many great books. New ones coming out on the regular. To ask us to choose one out of the many is like asking which of our …
When a passionate young man is falsely accused of a crime and thrown into prison, you have the makings of an Alexandre Dumas novel. Now, this was only the second Dumas novel I have ever read, so the before mentioned statement was a most likely an exaggeration. That being said I was slightly surprised to …
