girls of paper and fire: book review

Title: Girls of Paper and Fire Author: Natasha Ngan Genre: Young Adult, Fantasy, LGBTQIA+ Publisher: Hachette Australia Pages: 383 Buy: Book Depository (affiliate), Booktopia Synopsis: Each year, eight beautiful girls are chosen as Paper Girls to serve the king. It's the highest honor they could hope for...and the most cruel. But this year, there's a …

wundersmith: book review

Title: Wundersmith: The Calling of Morrigan Crow (Nevermoor #2) Author: Jessica Townsend Genre: Middle Grade, Fantasy Publisher: Hachette Australia Pages: 467 Buy: Book Depository (affiliate), Booktopia (signed copies available for a limited time!) Synopsis: (Possible spoilers for book 1) Wunder is gathering in Nevermoor ... Morrigan Crow may have defeated her deadly curse, passed the dangerous …

wildcard: book review

Title: Wildcard (Warcross #2) Author: Marie Lu Genre: Young Adult, Fantasy, Sci-Fi Publisher: Penguin Teen Australia Pages: 343 Buy: Book Depository (affiliate), Booktopia Synopsis: (SPOILERS FOR WARCROSS) Emika Chen barely made it out of the Warcross Championships alive. Now that she knows the truth behind Hideo's new NeuroLink algorithm, she can no longer trust the one …

writing update

Guess who hasn't been writing even though she told herself at the end of June that July would be a "writing month"??? This girl right here. I don't even know why I'm attempting to do an update when there's really not a lot to update you on, let's be honest. When I last posted an …

city of brass: book review

Title: The City of Brass Author: S.A Chakraborty Genre: Adult, High Fantasy Publisher: Harper Voyager Australia Pages: 544 Buy:Book Depository (affiliate), Booktopia Synopsis:  Nahri has never believed in magic. Certainly, she has power; on the streets of 18th century Cairo, she’s a con woman of unsurpassed talent. But she knows better than anyone that the trade she …

circe: book review

Title: Circe Author: Madeline Miller Genre: Fantasy, Adult Fiction, Retelling, Greek Mythology Publisher: Bloomsbury Australia Pages: 335 Buy: Book Depository (Affiliate), Booktopia Synopsis: 'When I was born, the name for what I was did not exist.' Circe is the daughter of Helios, the sun god, and Perse, a beautiful naiad. Yet from the moment of her birth, …

now we rise: book tag

Children of Blood and Bone by Tomi Adeyemi is now out in the world (and a NYT BESTSELLER WHATTTTT)! I'm sure you've all heard of the book by now, and some of you have probably even read it! But in case you have no idea what this book is, here's a summary. Zélie Adebola remembers …

scythe: book review

Title: Scythe Author: Neal Schusterman Genre: Young Adult, Dystopian, Fantasy Publisher: Walker Books Australia Pages: 448 Buy:Book Depository (affiliate), Booktopia Synopsis: In a world where disease, war and crime have been eliminated, the only way to die is to be randomly killed ("gleaned") by professional scythes. Citra and Rowan are teenagers who have been selected …

the hazel wood: book review

Title: The Hazel Wood Author: Melissa Albert Genre: Fantasy, Young Adult Publisher: Penguin Pages: 359 Buy: Book Depository (Affiliate), Booktopia Synopsis:  Seventeen-year-old Alice and her mother have spent most of Alice's life on the road, always a step ahead of the strange bad luck biting at their heels. But when Alice's grandmother, the reclusive author of …

oldest unread TBR books

Ah, yes, the dreaded TBR pile. I admire those who have self-control and only have a small TBR pile, or those who buy books and read them immediately before they go and buy more. I wish that was me, but alas, it most definitely is not. I started collecting books around four years ago so …