Category: Romantasy

The Assassin’s Blade by Sarah J Maas

The hardest thing about reading a popular (and LONG!) series when all your books come from the library is trying to get them in order. So my understanding is, that this book was written third but was intended to be read first. And I’m really glad I didn’t read it first because man, I hated […]

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Fourth 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 […]

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Throne of Glass by Sarah J Maas

The library hold list for anything Sarah J Mass is crazypants. Finally this book arrived – looking absolutely tortured. It’s very obviously a popular series. I guess I was just lucky that I actually got the first one in the series. I have all the sequels on hold, so hold your breath to find out […]

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The Emperor of Evening Stars by Laura Thalassa

It turns out that The Bargainers entire career on earth was about finding his prophesied human mate. He was obsessed with it. He spent over 150 years building up a business and a reputation just because he wanted to hang around on earth long enough to run into her. How did he ever find time […]

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Dark Harmony by Laura Thalassa

We now enter the next part of the Thief of Souls’ plan as all the sleeping warriors start waking up and attacking their kingdoms. In retrospect, it was probably a bad idea to inter them with their weapons. The quest to figure out WHY IS FATHER ALIVE takes them to a place that is leeched […]

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A Strange Hymn by Laura Thalassa

So book 2 picks up right away from book 1. Callie is traumatized by her wings. I won’t lie, I find it really weird that she doesn’t want wings. I want wings. She can give me her wings. I guess it’s because he’s 500 years old, but Des’ taste in band t-shirts always makes me […]

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The Queen of Nothing by Holly Black

I really enjoyed this series. Enemies-to-lovers is one of my favourite tropes and I so rarely see it done well. I think Black did an excellent job of portraying two people who resent, fear, and mistrust each other who are still irrevocably pulled into each others’ orbit. Their relationship is so fraught they are both […]

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The Wicked King by Holly Black

I DID NOT SEE THAT ENDING COMING HOLY SHIT!!! That’s it. That’s the post. OK, starting right with that curve-ball, I have trouble believing that Cardan isn’t banishing Jude in part because it will keep her safe. He saw what shape she was in when she returned from Queen Orlagh’s court. Jude is going to […]

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Rhapsodic by Laura Thalassa

I had seen this title recommended by BookTok as a series to check out if one likes their romantic fantasy a lot darker. I’ll be honest I wasn’t sure what that meant, so I figured I’d give this title a go. My eventual conclusion was that the only real difference is that the rape scenes […]

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A Reign of Rose by Kate Golden

The book opens with a memory of Arwen as a child following Halden and Ryder into her step-father’s shed. When Halden gets hurt Arwen heals him, the first time she ever uses her power. Ryder sneaks off and abandons them. It does kind of lay the groundwork for who Ryder turned out to be as […]

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