The Lady’s Guide to Petticoats and Piracy by Mackenzi Lee – Review
Julia Kitvaria Sarene
If you’re craving a historical seeing with a strong, flawed, growing female lead and beautifully complex friendships (and pirates!), this one’s absolutely worth your time.
HarperCollins
Vita Nostra by Marina and Sergey Dyachenko – Translated by Julia Meitov Hersey
L. A. Young
Readers who enjoyed The Night Circus by Erin Morgenstern and The Library at Mount Char by Scott Hawkins must read Vita Nostra—the first book in the Metamorphosis series. If not,…
The Graveyard Book by Neil Gaiman
Jessica Juby
Sometimes trips to the local charity shop can be a bust. There are however rare occasions where you’ll find a gem. For me, that gem was Neil Gaiman’s The Graveyard…
Sabriel, Lirael, and Abhorsen by Garth Nix – Series Review
Pippa
Five Great Charters knit the land. Together linked, hand in hand. One in the people who wear the Crown. Two in the folk who keep the Dead down. Three and…
Beren and Lúthien by J.R.R. Tolkien
A. M. Justice
J.R.R. Tolkien’s Beren and Lúthien contains echoes of Romeo and Juliet, Rapunzel, and the Orpheus and Persephone myths. In it, Lúthien—a demigod elf princess whom Tolkien refers to both as…
Old Kingdom Trilogy by Garth Nix
Overlord
Many of you may not have heard of this series. I picked it up by complete chance about five or six years ago when visiting a relative. I forgot the…