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Tag: magic

The Priory of the Orange Tree by Samantha Shannon

I held off reading this for ages because it’s a weighty book and I wasn’t too fond of Shannon’s The … More

dragons, I love it, LESBIANS, magic, Samantha Shannon, strong women, sword fighting, The priory of the orange tree

Heart of Thorns (Bree Barton)

This is one that I picked up because I liked the spine. That was my only reasoning. It was a … More

Heart of thorns, magic, trope-a-thon!, YA Fantasy

The Language of Thorns: Midnight Tales and Dangerous Magic (Leigh Bardugo)

First off – the title is awesome. Second off – I seem to be on some sort of fantasy world … More

fairytales, Fantasy, Grishaverse, leigh bardugo, magic, short stories, the language of thorns

These rebel waves (Sarah Raasch)

I’ve been seeing Fairyloot subscription boxes every month on Instagram, and I decided that as August’s theme was pirates, I … More

fairyloot August, magic, pirates, these rebel waves, YA

The Bear and the Nightingale (Katherine Arden) (Winternight #1)

As a lover of fairytale/folklore/mythological retellings, I picked this up in the kindle sale ages ago, and then got distracted … More

book blogger, folklore, magic, The Bear and the Nightingale, winter, winternight trilogy

Red Sister (Book of the Ancestor #1) (Mark Lawrence)

I have waited three days to write the review for this, to try and give some perspective on why I … More

assassins, book review, Fantasy, magic, mark lawrence, Politics, red sister, sisterhood

Ash (Malinda Lo)

I’ve now been on holiday three days, and visited two states, two bookshops, bought book socks and reluctantly had to … More

book review, Cinderella, f/f, fairytale re-telling, magic, middle grade

The Ocean at the End of the Land (Neil Gaiman)

I wish I had discovered the Ocean at the End of the Lane in late childhood, early adolescence, rather than just … More

book review, books, bookshelf, childhood, dark, Fantasy, magic, neil gaiman, Reading, short stories, the ocean at the end of the lane

Review: Howl’s Moving Castle

When we were kids, my older sister loved anime, and I’ll be honest I wasn’t much of a fan. But … More

book, book review, book to film, bookshelf, Diana Wynne Jones, Fantasy, fiction, film vs book, Howls Moving Castle, magic, opinion, Reading, Review, world

Review: La Belle Sauvage (Book of Dust Volume 1)

Twenty years in the waiting, and Philip Pullman has started a new trilogy set “not before, or after, but alongside” … More

book, book review, books, bookshelf, Fantasy, fiction, learning, library, magic, opinion, Reading, Review, world

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