A Reviews / Recommended Reads#ownvoices / bride / fairy tale / fairy tale retelling / Fantasy / Historical Fantasy / Middle East / YA3 Comments
Dear Catherine Faris King: We should all know the story of Scheherazade, right? It’s the frame story of the Arabian Nights, and famous enough in its own right. Once there was a murderous king, who, after he finds his first wife to be unfaithful, marries dozens of women, murdering every ... more >
B- Reviews / Book Reviewsfairy tale retelling / Historical Fantasy / Russia2 Comments
At the edge of the Russian wilderness, winter lasts most of the year and the snowdrifts grow taller than houses. But Vasilisa doesn’t mind—she spends the winter nights huddled around the embers of a fire with her beloved siblings, listening to her nurse’s fairy tales. Above all, she loves the ... more >
B Reviews / Book Reviewsancient-greece / Fantasy / greek mythology / Historical / Historical Fantasy / strong heroineComments Off on REVIEW: Tamer of Horses by Amalia Carosella
Historical Fantasy More than two decades before the events of Helen of Sparta… Abandoned as a baby, Hippodamia would have died of exposure on the mountain had it not been for Centaurus. The king of the centaurs saved her, raised her as his own, and in exchange asks for only ... more >
B- Reviews / Book Reviewsancient-Egypt / Historical / Historical Fantasy / historical paranormal / mythologyComments Off on REVIEW: Warrior of the Nile (The Gods of Egypt Book 2) by Veronica Scott
Egypt, 1500 BC Lady Tiya is bound to the service of the goddess Nephthys, who plans to sacrifice Tiya’s body to protect Egypt from an ancient terror. She embarks to meet her grim fate alone but for the hardened warrior Khenet, who is fated to die at her side. Tiya’s ... more >
Book Reviews / Reading ListsAgent/Spies/Undercover / Historical Fantasy / journalists / Magic / Reading lists / romantic-suspense / Urban-Fantasy7 Comments
I haven’t done a reading list post in forever, so this one is going to be long! Seduction Game by Pamela Clare I’ve read a few novels in Clare’s I-Team romantic suspense series and enjoyed aspects of them, but I’m not a diehard fan. I was intrigued, though, when I ... more >
A- Reviews / Recommended ReadsHistorical Fantasy2 Comments
The bestselling author of the groundbreaking novels Under Heaven and River of Stars, Guy Gavriel Kay is back with a new book, set in a world inspired by the conflicts and dramas of Renaissance Europe. Against this tumultuous backdrop the lives of men and women unfold on the borderlands—where empires ... more >
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