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May 5, 2023

JOINT REVIEW: When the Angels Left the Old Country by Sacha Lamb

SiriusB Reviews / Book Reviews / DNF ReviewsAngel / demons / folklore / immigrants / Judaism / LGBTQIAP+ / YA fantasy15 Comments

A queer immigrant fairytale about individual purpose, the fluid nature of identity, and the power of love to change and endure. Uriel the angel and Little Ash (short for Ashmedai) are the only two supernatural creatures in their shtetl (which is so tiny, it doesn’t have a name other than ... more >

January 31, 2023

REVIEW: The Stolen Heir by Holly Black

JanineBook Reviews / C+ Reviewschangeling / Fae / journey / prince / prisoners / quest / YA fantasyNo Comments

Dear Holly Black, Over the summer I caught up with your Cruel Prince trilogy (I know, I know, I live under a boulder) and enjoyed each book more than the last. When I saw that The Stolen Heir, Oak and Suren’s story, was coming out this month, I got excited ... more >

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January 13, 2023

Janine’s Best of 2022

JanineA Reviews / A- Reviews / B+ Reviews / Reading Lists / Recommended Reads / Top Ten ListsContemporary romance / immigrants / LGBTQIAP+ / Literary fiction / m/f romance / PNR / POC / Retelling / Science Fiction / UF / Urban-Fantasy / YA fantasy / YA historical22 Comments

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2022 was a challenging year for me when it came to reading. The DNFs were frequent but at least I got through my reading list faster because of them, and yay, ended up with a full ten books to include here. In order of how much I liked them, here ... more >

January 2, 2023

What Janine is Reading: 2022 YA Fantasies

JanineB+ Reviews / Book Reviews / C- Reviews / D Reviews / DNF Reviews#ownvoices / Arctic / death / families / journey / moral ambiguity / poison / Reading lists / shipboard / spy / survival / Time-Travel / YA fantasy / Young-Adult5 Comments

Only a Monster by Vanessa Len This YA fantasy novel, Vanessa Len’s debut, was recommended highly by two people I trust, so I stuck with it even though it had a slow and seemingly pedestrian beginning. When Joan, a British East Asian girl, is little, her grandmother tells her that ... more >

December 5, 2022

JOINT REVIEW: Moira’s Pen by Megan Whalen Turner

JanineB Reviews / Book Reviewsambassador / disability / earrings / gods / joint review / king / Mediterranean setting / myth / princess / queen / spies / thief / YA fantasy3 Comments

Janine: Megan Whalen Turner completed her Queen’s Thief series two years ago, and the essays, stories and vignettes in Moira’s Pen, a new collection of set in the same world and featuring some of the same characters, are a bit like the big crumbs and smears of ganache left on ... more >

October 7, 2022

JOINT DISCUSSION (WITH SPOILERS): The Golden Enclaves by Naomi Novik

JennieBook Reviews / Recommended ReadsChina / contemporary fantasy / Dark / Dubai / fiction with strong romantic elements / friendship / India / joint review / journey / LGBTQIAP+ / London / plot twists / POC / Portugal / Recommended Reads / reframing / spoilers / Wales / YA fantasy49 Comments

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In our second post on The Golden Enclaves (you can find the spoiler free part one here), book three in Naomi Novik’s Scholomance trilogy, we discuss spoilers from start to finish, so if you’re spoiler-wary, avoid this discussion or come back after you’ve read the book (if you’re not, please ... more >

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