Happy Chinese New Year (or Lunar New Year)! This is my favourite time of the year – I have such fond childhood memories of celebrating it with my family. Fun fact – I also used to do lion dancing as a teenager, so every New Year was always so festive and full of fun! For […]
As an avid lover of Asian fantasy, Jade Fire Gold sounds like everything I would love in a book – soul-stealing abilities, a Dragon Prince, and an Asian fantasy setting. So how did it hold up? As my first book of 2021, I really wanted to love this and persisted even though I put the […]
I say this every year, but I can’t believe it’s that time of the year again where we choose our favourite reads of the year (check out Jenna’s favourite books of 2021)! This was the year where I picked up many highly anticipated high fantasy reads on my TBR, and even gave ones that I […]
Ahhh I loved The Heart Principle so much! This is definitely my favourite of the series so far. Anna and Quan are the sweetest couple ever, despite having so many things in their way, like Anna being in a relationship with another guy! Reading some of Anna’s thoughts regarding people pleasing, masking real self in […]
After reading and loving A Curse So Dark and Lonely, I was excited for a brand new fantasy series by Brigid Kemmerer. Even though it references a deadly plague spreading through the kingdom, and the cure distributed on the black market – something that eerily reflects the current environment we live in of COVID19. There’s just […]
I haven’t read the Captive Prince series, but I know a lot of fans are excited about this new series, so I was keen to give Dark Rise a shot due to its popularity. Dark vs light, ancient warriors, and old lords reincarnated into new people. Dark Rise is a classic YA fantasy that deals with all these […]
I’ve just finished this beast of a book last night and I’m still fuming. HOW COULD YOU JAY KRISTOFF? But if that isn’t the reaction from reading any of the books he’s written, then it wouldn’t be right, would it? So let’s dig into Empire of the Vampire – a book that has been hyped up […]
A historical Chinese fantasy focusing on political warfare and intrigue, She Who Became The Sun was one of my most highly anticipated books of the year. Especially given it’s comparison to The Poppy War, which also happens to be one of my all time favourite books. So what is the book about? There are two distinct parts […]
After the disappointment that was Blood & Honey, where did we go wrong with this series? I truly had higher expectations for this one, given how long, draggy and unnecessary many of the plot points where in Blood & Honey. Except for the last few chapters and the epilogue, Gods & Monsters was a mess […]