Do You Dream of Terra-Two? has a premise I just couldn’t resist – set in a world very much like ours, but where a planet capable of sustaining human life has been discovered, the story follows a one-way mission to this new planet. Since it will take 23 years for the crew to even reach… Read More Do You Dream of Terra-Two? (Temi Oh)
I thought for sure I would love The Grace Year, so when I read the description on NetGalley I requested it straight away. As so often happens (to me at least!), by the time I got the approval I was in the middle of something else and I found myself putting The Grace Year off.… Read More The Grace Year (Kim Liggett)
I really loved The Gentleman’s Guide to Vice & Virtue so I was really excited to read the follow up all about Felicity. The Lady’s Guide to Petticoats and Piracy has a very different feel to Gentleman’s Guide but it’s still a great read. Everyone has heard stories of women like us—cautionary tales, morality plays, warnings of what… Read More The Lady’s Guide to Petticoats & Piracy (Mackenzi Lee)
I kept hearing amazing things about Becky Chambers, but for whatever reason I just hadn’t got around to picking the books up. Then finally in June 2018 I picked up the first book, A Long Way to A Small Angry Planet, and it became my favourite book of the year – I flew through the two books… Read More To Be Taught, if Fortunate (Becky Chambers)
SPOILER ALERT: As this is book 2 in The Poppy War series, there may be spoilers for The Poppy War within this review. Plot: ★★★★ Characters: ★★★★★ Readability: ★★★★★ If you haven’t read The Poppy War yet, you should know that R.F. Kuang describes it as “Avatar the Last Airbender if Azula was the main… Read More The Dragon Republic (R. F. Kuang)
