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DOWN COMES THE NIGHT by Allison Saft

Publisher: Wednesday Books
Release Date: March 2, 2021

When they first met, [he] had been sallow and frail. Beautiful in that stark, wasting way impermanent things were: the sunlit drip of icicles in early spring, the flush of trees in autumn.

Wow.

Just wow.

DOWN COMES THE NIGHT is a romantic-fantasy-meets-murder-mystery dripping with prose that seemed to slide like blood from a wound: utterly effortlessly. So many times I stopped just to reread a line twice, even three times, absorbi...

MERCURIAL by Naomi Hughes

Release date: March 16, 2021

I swear to protect you, and not to allow harm to come to you, and never to harm you myself.

MERCURIAL is a YA fantasy centered on three interconnected teens and the lengths they’ll go to save the ones they love. Set in the Alloyed Empire, a country where the noblest of blood also possess the power of Metals, Tal is a bodyguard who possesses the dangerous power of Silver. Driven by visions from his God, Tal swears an oath to protect the Destroyer, the heir to ...

THE BROKEN HEARTS HONEYMOON by Lucy Dickens

“Where were we…? Right, I was talking about how excited I was to be finally married to my Matt, and he was talking about how exciting it would be to see if there was anything better out there first.”

Charlotte and Matt have it all planned out. First, the wedding. Then, the month-long honeymoon in Japan, after which they were going to move to London, to start their lives together.

Only, there’s one problem.

Matt suddenly decides he doesn’t like the plan.

THE BROKEN HEARTS HONEYMOON is...

LEVIATHAN WAKES by James S.A. Corey

Release Date: Jun 2, 2011
Published by Orbit Books

Maybe no one who had lived with the certainty and support of a natural atmosphere would ever completely accept the power and fragility of a society based in doing what needed doing, in becoming fast and flexible, the way the OPA had. In becoming articulated.

After a few false starts, I finally managed this past year to fall down the rabbit hole that is The Expanse. In case you haven’t managed to hear of it, The Expanse is the Amazon Prime a...

new year. new blog.

well.

it’s 2021.

ive been kicking around the idea of putting together a real blog for reviews for a while now. for a bit I was leaning towards booktube but in truth, all my best words are written. in time, I might explore but for now, I really just wanted a place to put my thoughts. to really pick apart what it is about the books I love that makes me love them.

so I suppose that’s what this is.

I’ll have more info to come in the future. in the next week or so I’m hoping to have my fi...