The title of Susan Dennard’s A Darkness Strange and Lovely essentially sums up my literary experience of this enriching sequel. While I read her first book, Something Strange and Deadly, and thoroughly enjoyed it, I knew at the end that there was much to be explored and I found myself waiting on tenterhooks for Part … Continue reading
Wow. Laini Taylor has really raised the bar for writing series with her follow up to the original show stopper, Daughter of Smoke and Bone. It was sincerely one of the best sequels I’ve ever read. I was stunned with Daughter of Smoke and Bone, when Taylor blew the hinges off the dynamic world she’d set … Continue reading
The world of Dreamdark: Blackbringer by Laini Taylor was such a vibrant telling of faerie lore that I wished I’d stumbled across it when I was younger, and truly believed that if I looked hard enough I would catch traces of their world tucked away within our own. It’s not to say that I didn’t … Continue reading
Once upon a time… this book completely surprised me in the most wonderful way. It wasn’t that I wasn’t expecting it to be good, I was, it’s just that it totally surpassed my expectations. Laini Taylor crafts a seductive Prague, full of back alleyways, vexing ex-boyfriends, occult coffee shops and an honest and tough main … Continue reading
Shadow of Night starts off where A Discovery of Witches left us. Matthew, an ancient vampire and Diana, a witch brimming with untapped power and promise, land in a tangled heap in Matthew’s lodge in Elizabethan Oxford. They’ve traveled back in time to give Diana a chance to learn how to control her burgeoning magic. … Continue reading
After a short break reading other books and spending time in distant literary lands, I’m back in the world of shadowhunters with the 5th installment in Cassandra Clare’s City of Lost Souls. I’ve voraciously devoured Clare’s 7 books over the last 6 months, but I unfortunately just discovered that the next one isn’t due out … Continue reading
