This will be a difficult review to write because honestly, this story didn’t work for me. It has nothing to do with the author’s writing, which was excellent for the style, but everything to do with my expectations for the genre. I tend to be a rather picky when it comes to the fantasy genre. I require an extensive amount of world-building, including telling me the general geography and demographics of the world, and can handle maybe two or three […]
Billed as similar to Alice in Wonderland and Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy, Patrick Canning gives his readers a cheerful “Have fun!” before shoving us off a cliff into a bizarre world filled with magic, sock obsession, and some wicked humor. Canning’s unique writing style quickly built up this game of Cryptofauna in what should have been an ordinary world. We learn, much like the protagonist Jim, by trial and error as we stretch our imaginations to accommodate Canning’s clever […]
I placed this series on my TBR after seeing a positive review for the second book. I don’t care for reading books out of order so I picked up Monty’s…
I am participating in the 2019 Monthly Motif Challenge hosted over at GirlXOXO. January’s motif is an author that is new to me. I’m reading new authors all the time, but my husband recommended Brandon Sanderson. Sanderson’s Stormlight Archives series is one of his favorites and he enjoyed the start to Sanderson’s new YA series, Skyward.
I was lucky enough to win a copy of Aimie K. Runyan’s Girls on the Line from a Goodreads Giveaway. I am thrilled to say that I have found another favorite author in the historical fiction genre and I highly recommend reading this if you have an interest in the Hello Girls of WWI.