Top Ten Tuesday is a weekly feature/meme now hosted by That Artsy Reader Girl. The meme was originally the brainchild of The Broke and the Bookish. This week marks TTT’s 10th anniversary! The topic is Top Ten Tuesday Turns 10!; it offers a chance to revisit a topic you didn’t get the… Read more »
Tag: fantasy
How You as a Reader Can Help: Read Black Authors
For white and other non-black readers, one place to start the work of anti-racism in our own lives is by reading and supporting black authors (and other authors of color, but because of current events, right now the focus is on black authors.) Reading more diversely helps us see the… Read more »
Winterwood (Jacey Bedford)
Winterwood by Jacey Bedford Series: Rowankind #1 Published by DAW Books on February 2, 2016 Genres: Alt-History, Fantasy, Historical Fantasy Pages: 424 Format: Paperback Purchase: Amazon | Book Depository | Barnes & Noble Add to Goodreads It’s 1800. Mad King George is on the British throne, and Bonaparte is hammering… May 18, 2020 Lark_Bookwyrm Book Reviews 6 ★★★★★
The Dark Lord Clementine by Sarah Jean Horwitz
The Dark Lord Clementine by Sarah Jean Horwitz Published by Algonquin Books for Young Readers on October 1, 2019 Genres: Fantasy, MG Books Pages: 336 Format: eARC Source: the publisher Purchase: Amazon | Book Depository | Barnes & Noble | Audible Add to Goodreads The new face of big evil… October 4, 2019 Lark_Bookwyrm Blog Tours, Book Reviews 1 ★★★★★
East (Edith Pattou)
East by Edith Pattou Series: East #1 Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt on September 1st 2003 Genres: Fairy Tales, Fantasy, MG Books, YA (Young Adult) Format: Kindle or ebook, Paperback Source: purchased Purchase: Amazon | Book Depository | Barnes & Noble | Audible Add to Goodreads Rose has always been… January 2, 2019 Lark_Bookwyrm Book Reviews 7
Nice Dragons Finish Last (Rachel Aaron)
Nice Dragons Finish Last by Rachel Aaron Series: Heartstrikers #1 Published by self-published Genres: Fantasy, Urban Fantasy Format: Kindle or ebook Source: purchased Purchase: Amazon | Book Depository | Barnes & Noble | Audible Add to Goodreads As the smallest dragon in the Heartstriker clan, Julius survives by a simple… December 3, 2018 Lark_Bookwyrm Book Reviews 11 ★★★★½
Closer to the Chest (Mercedes Lackey)
Closer to the Chest by Mercedes Lackey Series: Herald Spy #3 Published by DAW Books on Oct. 4, 2016 Genres: Fantasy Pages: 381 Format: eARC, Hardcover Source: the library, the publisher Purchase: Amazon | Book Depository | Barnes & Noble | Audible Add to Goodreads Also in this series: Closer… November 30, 2018 Lark_Bookwyrm Book Reviews 7 ★★★½
RIP Ursula K. Le Guin (1929–2018)
Ursula K. Le Guin, award-winning and bestselling author of science fiction and fantasy, died Monday at the age of 88. LeGuin is best known for The Left Hand of Darkness, The Dispossessed, The Lathe of Heaven, and her EarthSea Cycle, beginning with A Wizard of EarthSea, but she also wrote short stories, poetry, children’s books… Read more »
Snowspelled (The Harwood Spellbook #1) by Stephanie Burgis
Snowspelled by Stephanie Burgis Series: The Harwood Spellbook #1 Published by Five Fathoms Press, self-published on September 4, 2017 Genres: Fantasy Romance, Historical Fantasy Pages: 166 Format: eARC, Kindle or ebook Source: purchased, the author Purchase: Amazon | Book Depository Add to Goodreads Also by this author: Kat, Incorrigible, Masks… September 14, 2017 Lark_Bookwyrm Book Reviews 10 ★★★★½
Women dominate this year’s Hugo Awards
Women dominated the Hugos this year, winning all the fiction categories as well as graphic story and best related work. At least four of them are women of color, making this year’s Hugo Awards a resounding YES to diversity in science fiction and fantasy. N. K. Jemisin won Best Novel for… Read more »