So What’s It About? In the first book of the Kencyrath, Jame, a young woman missing her memories, struggles out of the haunted wastes into Tai-tastigon, the old, corrupt, rich and god-infested city between the mountains and the lost lands of the Kencyrath. Jame’s struggle to regain her strength, her memories, and the resources to… Continue reading

A few highlights from my reading experience: -The popular quote from this book is “Shove down weakness and strength will rise.” So PTSD = weakness and the cure is suppression…Okay. Also this is first told to Auren when she’s a young girl being sex trafficked and is apparently not fighting hard enough to get out… Continue reading

This is definitely the “best” of the series for me, mostly because Auren isn’t with her intolerable love interest. She learns how to be on her own for the first time and makes some friends of her own. In addition, Malina gets character growth that feels somewhat believable. Both women have decent emotional moments that… Continue reading

So What’s It About? A powerful feminist fairy tale of four women each cursed by the same abusive man. Gripping and essential, it will captivate readers of Jennifer Saint’s Ariadne, Heather Walter’s Malice and Menna van Praag’s The Sisters Grimm. Four women. Four enchantments. One man. But he is no handsome prince, and this is… Continue reading

So What’s It About? Seven students are avoiding going to school, hiding in their darkened bedrooms, unable to face their family and friends, until the moment they discover a portal into another world that offers temporary escape from their stressful lives. Passing through a glowing mirror, they gather in a magnificent castle which becomes their… Continue reading

So What’s It About? As Rune Saint John grapples with the challenges of assuming the Sun Throne, a powerful barrier appears around New Atlantis’s famed rejuvenation center. But who could have created such formidable magic . . . what do they want from the immortality clinic . . . and what remains of the dozens… Continue reading

So What’s It About? Isabel, once known as Wasp, has become leader of the fearsome upstarts, the teen girl acolytes who are adjusting to a new way of life after the overthrow of the sadistic Catchkeep-priest. They live in an uneasy alliance with the town of Sweetwater—an alliance that will be tested to its limits… Continue reading