Category: brief reviews

Remaining Cybils 2017 Middle Grade Speculative Fiction Finalists

29 June 2018 / brief reviews / 0 Comments
Remaining Cybils 2017 Middle Grade Speculative Fiction Finalists

In this post, I’m sharing some brief thoughts on the Cybils 2017 middle grade speculative fiction finalists that I haven’t yet reviewed. I have already reviewed: The Dragon with a Chocolate Heart by Stephanie Burgis Spirit Hunters by Ellen Oh A Properly Unhaunted […]

Furyborn Didn’t Stand Out Like I Had Hoped [Review]

24 May 2018 / brief reviews / 0 Comments
Furyborn Didn’t Stand Out Like I Had Hoped [Review]

Furyborn by Claire Legrand Format/Source: ebook/Netgalley Series: Empirium #1 Published: 22 May 2018 Publisher: Sourcebooks Fire Length: 512 pages Genre: ★★★      I think everyone in the book blogging world who would want to read this already has. I need to […]

Why Labyrinth Lost Disappointed Me [Review]

12 April 2018 / brief reviews / 0 Comments
Why Labyrinth Lost Disappointed Me [Review]

Labyrinth Lost by Zoraida Córdova Nothing says Happy Birthday like summoning the spirits of your dead relatives. Alex is a bruja, the most powerful witch in a generation…and she hates magic. At her Deathday celebration, Alex performs a spell to rid […]

Leslye Walton’s Sophomore Release Doesn’t Disappoint [Review]

12 March 2018 / brief reviews / 0 Comments
Leslye Walton’s Sophomore Release Doesn’t Disappoint [Review]

The Price Guide to the Occult by Leslye Walton The Blackburn women are cursed. Ever since the extraordinary witch Rona Blackburn landed on Anathema Island centuries ago and was shunned by the eight “original” settlers, Blackburn witches have been doomed to […]

Talkin’ Bout Tolkien: The Influence of War + Exeter College

1 February 2018 / brief reviews / 0 Comments
Talkin’ Bout Tolkien: The Influence of War + Exeter College

War and the Works of J.R.R. Tolkien by Janet Brennan Croft Having participated in the First World War, and having seen two of his sons serve in the Second, Tolkien was concerned with many of the same themes that interested other […]