Book #33 of 2026: Behooved by M. Stevenson The punny premise that lends this romantasy novel its title doesn’t technically spring until almost a quarter of the way through the text, which is late enough that I normally wouldn’t mention it in a review. But since the publisher’s description gives it away anyway, and it …
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Book Review: Two Twisted Crowns by Rachel Gillig
Book #3 of 2026: Two Twisted Crowns by Rachel Gillig (The Shepherd King #2) I liked the first volume of this fantasy series enough to pick up this sequel, and I do think it concludes the overarching story reasonably well. Unfortunately it does this in sort of a weird way, jettisoning the parts I enjoyed …
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Book Review: Silver Elite by Dani Francis
Book #176 of 2025: Silver Elite by Dani Francis (Silver Elite #1) A whole lot of fun and just a little bit trashy, this romantasy title reads like a wild blend of the steamy military academy vibes from Fourth Wing and the covert revolutionary mission from Red Rising. Our heroine is a telepath, a member …
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Book Review: One Dark Window by Rachel Gillig
Book #161 of 2025: One Dark Window by Rachel Gillig (The Shepherd King #1) I’m digging the sinister vibes here, along with the general premise of a heroine with the voice of an ancient monster secretly living in her head, a la Vespertine or Venom. Even better is the fact that, although this is a …
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Book Review: Starling House by Alix E. Harrow
Book #41 of 2025: Starling House by Alix E. Harrow An atmospheric modern gothic / romantasy, in which a feisty heroine from the wrong side of the tracks is drawn to the creepy haunted house in her community and its reclusive and volatile caretaker. My favorite part of this story is its rural Kentucky setting, …
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Book Review: The Hurricane Wars by Thea Guanzon
Book #23 of 2025: The Hurricane Wars by Thea Guanzon (The Hurricane Wars #1) This romantasy debut improves as it goes along, to the point that I’ll grudgingly round my rating up to a mid-grade three stars for the book at large. That beginning is pretty rough, though! I don’t mind a nice enemies-to-lovers arc, …
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Book Review: Onyx Storm by Rebecca Yarros
Book #12 of 2025: Onyx Storm by Rebecca Yarros (The Empyrean #3) I flitted between three and four stars for this latest Fourth Wing sequel, but was ultimately swayed by how wildly off-base the lower-starred reviews on Goodreads seemed to be. So congrats to those users, I guess, who convinced me to push my own …
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Book Review: A Power Unbound by Freya Marske
Book #135 of 2023: A Power Unbound by Freya Marske (The Last Binding #3) Romantasy is the buzzy new publishing genre these days, but for me personally, the fantasy elements always take priority over the romance ones in such a blended work. For that reason, I’ve grown less enamored of this particular trilogy as it’s …
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