Date: September 30, 2025
The War of Two Queens by Jennifer L Armentrout
One of the things that George R R Martin did in Game of Thrones that I have rarely seen addressed by other writers – once you conquer a capital you then have to hold it. If you move on to conquer new places immediately then you leave a power vacuum that will be very attractive […]
Continue reading The War of Two Queens by Jennifer L ArmentroutThe Crown of Gilded Bones by Jennifer L Armentrout
So in From Blood and Ash it was theorized that one of Poppy’s parents was an Atlantian or part-Atlantian. In Kingdom of Flesh and Fire they figured out she was a diety. And in The Crown of Gilded Bones – she’s a God now? Like, is there anywhere else for her to go? I’m almost […]
Continue reading The Crown of Gilded Bones by Jennifer L ArmentroutKingdom of Flesh and Fire by Jeniffer L Armentrout
So…. not a lot happens in this book. And in spite of that I read the entire… 558 pages? In two days. The majority of the plot is about the journey to the Atlantian homeland. With the exception of one craven attack and one incident where an Ascended shows up looking for Poppy, that’s pretty […]
Continue reading Kingdom of Flesh and Fire by Jeniffer L ArmentroutFourth Wing by Rebecca Yarros
Violet Sorrengail is the third child of General Lilith Sorrengail, who leads the Basgiath War College in Navarre. General Sorrengail is a dragon rider, and is incredibly proud of her two older children who followed in her footsteps. So much so that she forces Violet to give her dreams of becoming a Scribe like her […]
Continue reading Fourth Wing by Rebecca YarrosFrom Blood and Ash by Jennifer L Armentrout
My very first reaction to this book was, I am not kidding, Hawke Flynn? Really? And her bodyguard Wardwell? Then Tawney Lyon appeared and I almost didn’t make it any further. (Aside, I am almost positive I once worked with a dancer named Tawney Lyon back when I was bar-tending in strip clubs.) But I […]
Continue reading From Blood and Ash by Jennifer L ArmentroutIntense Feelings by Nomi Palmer
The author describes this as a soap opera and after reading it I really do think that’s the most accurate interpretation of what it’s like to read this book. If you’ve ever watched a soap opera, you know how every single person is somehow involved or related to every other single person? There’s never anybody […]
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