Books, More Books And Random Rantings!

This is the age of storm and murder. After the old gods warred and drove themselves to extinction, the cataclysm of their fall shattered the land of Vigrio. Now, power-hungry jarls carve out petty kingdoms, and monsters stalk the shadow-haunted woods and mountains. A world where the bones of the dead gods still hold great power, promising fame and fortune for those brave – or desperate – enough…

“Death is come to take you home, death of blood and thorn and bone…” Tilde has always heard the whispers of the kithwood, the voices of her ancestors speaking through the mysterious forest of her homeland. But now both the kithwood and her kingdom are in danger. For Tilde is the only surviving heir of a conquered land. To unite the people and finally stop the bloodshed, she marries the aging…

Hello, hello! For this weeks TTT I’ve had to try and narrow down the prompt, so I’ve decided to focus on authors who have been on my radar for a while now, instead of featuring newer debuts or releases. I have been better with picking up new-to-me authors and, with the odd exception, I’ve enjoyed the ones I have got around to reading. But I still have a verrrry long list on both my kindle and…

Edie is done with crime . Eight years in prison changes a person. Particularly when you’re only there because your partner, your best friend, your all-but-sister, sold you down the river. Even getting Edie out on early parole doesn’t earn Angel any forgiveness. That’s why Edie knows they’ll turn down Angel’s offer of a job. One last, big score. A chance to take down the man who put them away:…

Fantasy with friends is run by Briana and Krysta and Pages Unbound, and seeing as I’ve been looking at including more ‘discussion’ style posts on my blog, I thought this would be a great place to start! This week’s topic was a long one, so I’m putting it here for you all to see – Are you a Brandon Sanderson fan? Some readers online have called his books the “fast food of fantasy?” Do you think…

First Lines Fridays is a weekly feature for book lovers hosted by Wandering Words. What if instead of judging a book by its cover, its author or its prestige, we judged it by its opening lines? Pick a book off your shelf (it could be your current read or on your TBR) and open to the first page. Copy the first few lines, but don’t give anything else about the book away just yet – you need to…

Hello, hello! Seeing as we’re over halfway through the year, I figured I would spotlight my top reads of the year so far by month. According to storygraph I’ve only rated 4 books 5 stars this year, which is crazy when were 6 months in, so while the below might not all be 5 star reads, they’re still books that I loved. Despite me trying to read more out of my usual genres, they below are all…

Garrodigh was once a four-headed dragon, among the most powerful in Kardoša. After an unfortunate incident, he now has three heads, one stump, and a daily whirlwind of internal bickering. Centerhead wants to rain death upon all humanity, Bottomhead is like a feral cat, and Upperhead is under the delicate delusion that he is, in fact, human.  When a nearby battle goes awry, Garrodigh sneaks into…

Emory might be a student at the prestigious Aldryn College for Lunar Magics, but her healing abilities have always been mediocre at best—until a treacherous night in the Dovermere sea caves leaves a group of her classmates dead and her as the only survivor. Now Emory is plagued by strange, impossible powers that no healer should possess. Powers that would ruin her life if the wrong person were…

Time for this weeks ‘Fantasy with friends’ and today’s topic is all about magic systems – What are some of your favorite magical systems in fantasy? Do you like magic to be explained in detail or to be a bit vague? Do you think magic should have a “cost” or not? When it comes to the vagueness of magic systems, I used to be pretty strict. I preferred ‘hard’ magic I guess, the kind with rigid…

First Lines Fridays is a weekly feature for book lovers hosted by Wandering Words. What if instead of judging a book by its cover, its author or its prestige, we judged it by its opening lines? Pick a book off your shelf (it could be your current read or on your TBR) and open to the first page. Copy the first few lines, but don’t give anything else about the book away just yet – you need to…

When the Signal – a mysterious transmission pulsing from the edge of the solar system – arrives, the world changes overnight. Planes are grounded, satellites fail, humanity holds its breath. And Alex realises there’s no one he’d rather be with at the potential apocalypse than Ana. Because when they were six years old, Ana and Alex were abducted by aliens. Or at least, that’s what they told the…