Happy Friday once again! This week I was able to post reviews for A Court of Frost and Starlight, Then She Was Gone, Circe, and In the Night Wood! Click the titles to go directly to those reviews.If you've been on the blog before you know I passed my Goodreads 2018 Reading Challenge quite a while ago and am now at 86 books completed for a 246% completion rate!
And I finally figured out YouTube! I think...my first video (Friday Reads) is being posted on Friday at 7:00 AM so be sure to check that out here.
Below are the three books I plan on devouring this weekend. We have two fantasies from a series and one middle grade mystery. This is the first kid appropriate read in quite a while! The Tiger's Daughter was a 2017 release but you will have to wait until early next month to pick up The Phoenix Empress and Kat Wolfe Investigates.
Happy reading!
Title: The Tiger's Daughter
Author: K. Arsenault Rivera
Page Count: 526
Progress: 215
Format Read: Paperback
Genre: Fantasy
Keywords: Friendship, Loyalty, Demons
Kid Appropriate: Teens and older
Synopsis from Goodreads:
Even gods can be slain...
Away on the silver steppes, the remaining tribes of nomadic Qorin retreat and protect their own, having bartered a treaty with the empire, exchanging inheritance through the dynasties. It is up to two young warriors, raised together across borders since their prophesied birth, to save the world from the encroaching demons.
This is the story of an infamous Qorin warrior, Barsalayaa Shefali, a spoiled divine warrior empress, O-Shizuka, and a power that can reach through time and space to save a land from a truly insidious evil.
My thoughts so far:
First, I am in love with this book so far. Second, I have no idea how to pronounce most of the names in this book so filming the video was terrifying.
After a couple of slower reads in a row, I am absolutely flying through this one. I nearly read 200 pages in a single sitting. The world building is both thorough and yet not overpowering. Through Shefali's stories of the two's past you get glimpses of a world that grows as they grow older and take on their future roles more.
There are an abundance of strong friendships and strong women in this book was a diversity of personalities including stubborn, girly, quiet, boisterous, and many more. Something I had not thought of previous to picking up this book was that this is one of the few female-female romances I can think of where the couple are main characters rather than secondary characters. So if you have been looking for a book with that representation then maybe give this one a go.
I am also really enjoying the demon storyline that seems to have elements of zombie-esque creatures in terms of poisoned blood. Normally I am not a huge fan of stories told in a letter format but this one is just different enough that it is really working for me.
My only issue is the event around page 214, and not because the event happened but more the timing of it felt really abrupt to me and out of place. If you've read it maybe you'll understand where I'm coming from. That being said, this book is about as appropriate as Nevernight to read at work or in front of children. You have been warned.
Title: The Phoenix Empress
Author: K. Arsenault Rivera
Page Count: 544
Progress: 0
Format Read: e ARC
Genre: Fantasy
Keywords: Friendship, Loyalty, Demons
Kid Appropriate: Teens and older
Release Date: October 9, 2018
Synopsis from Goodreads:
The Phoenix Empress, the sequel to K Arsenault Rivera's wildly buzzed about The Tiger's Daughter, an epic historical fantasy in the vein of Patrick Rothfuss and Naomi Novik.
Since she was a child, the divine empress O Shizuka has believed she was an untouchable god. When her uncle, ruler of the Hokkaran Empire, sends her on a suicide mission as a leader of the Imperial Army, the horrors of war cause her to question everything she knows.
Thousands of miles away, the exiled and cursed warrior Barsalyya Shefali undergoes trials the most superstitious would not believe in order to return to Hokkaran court and claim her rightful place next to O Shizuka.
As the distance between disgraced empress and blighted warrior narrows, a familiar demonic force grows closer to the heart of the empire. Will the two fallen warriors be able to protect their home?
Title: Kat Wolfe Investigates
Author: Lauren St. John
Page Count: 304
Progress: 0
Format Read: e ARC
Genre: Middle Grade
Keywords: Mystery, animals, adventure
Kid Appropriate: Yes
Release Date: October 9, 2018
Synopsis from Goodreads:
When twelve-year-old Kat Wolfe starts a pet-sitting agency, she soon finds herself unraveling a mystery, in this first book of a new middle-grade series from award-winning author Lauren St. John.
After a break-in at their London home, Kat Wolfe and her veterinarian mum decide it's time to move to the country. Dr. Wolfe's new job on England's Jurassic Coast comes with a condition: They have to adopt Tiny, a huge Savannah who resists Kat's best attempts at cat whispering. Kat starts a pet-sitting agency to make pocket money, but then the owner of her first client, an Amazon parrot, vanishes from his gadget-filled mansion. Only one person shares Kat's conviction that he's the victim of foul play: Harper Lamb, an American girl laid up with two broken legs thanks to her racehorse. Kat and Harper team up, but what starts out as mystery-solving fun turns deadly for the duo. When all clues point to a nearby army base, can they count on their unruly animal friends to save the day--and their lives?
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