This is actually a re-read for me as I read it long ago when smartphones were just a dream. This is an urban fantasy book by Canadian author Charles De Lint. There’s no relation to Derek De Lint but I was watching Poltergeist: The Legacy the first time I read this novel. While this is technically the 4th book in
Wow just.. wow this book was amazing! I’m so glad it was recommended in the book group because I loved it. I actually ordered the illumicrate special edition which looks gorgeous and I’m just waiting for it to arrive. We start with someone that doesn’t know much about the world, and we see them grow and change to be a
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This is a cosy read, sure there are some dark things happening, one might even say that parts of it are downright creepy but the overall vibe is cosy. If I’m honest I found the world more interesting the two main characters for most of the book. That being said, I found myself enjoying the ending immensely. I’m not sure
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This is the 4th book in the Wax & Wayne series and the 7th book in the Mistborn saga. It takes place 6 years after The Bands Of Mourning. Wow a lot can change in 6 years but there are still some things that are the same. Wayne working more with Marasi instead of Wax was a bit of change.
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This is book is meant to be read after The Bands Of Mourning and definitely shouldn’t be read if you haven’t read the original Mistborn trilogy as there are huge spoilers for that series. Wow.. This book takes place right after the showdown between Kelsier and The Lord Ruler. From there we get some answers about things that happened in
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This is the 3rd book of the Wax and Wayne series but the 6th book of the Mistborn series. This book starts with a bang and just keeps on going. I actually liked it better than the last two books and read it quite a bit faster as a result. We finally get to see Wax get married to Steris
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My copy of Dragon’s Fire by Christine Stobbe came from my Rocky Mountain Book Box. It was actually the August book box so I’m a little behind in reviewing it. I would rate this a YA read, I would say a minimum of age of 13 though. This book is the first book in a 10 book series, there’s magic,
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This is book 2 of the Wax and Wayne series and technically book 5 of the Mistborn saga. It took me quite a while to finish this one as I had trouble getting started. It’s mostly because of the western vibe of the book. However once the Kandra came back into the picture.. well I started enjoying the book a
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This is my first Book Box from Rocky Mountain Book Box which is based in Hinton Alberta. They are currently an online and pop up independent bookshop with dreams of having a physical shop in Jasper or Hinton. I vote for Jasper as a lot of people tend to visit there. I got a lovely signed paperback of Dragon’s Fire
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This is the first book in the Wax and Wayne series. It takes place after the Mistborn trilogy by 300 years and can technically be considered the 4th Mistborn novel. While the original Mistborn trilogy had a heist crew overthrowing an evil tyrant, this one is a little more western meets Sherlock Holmes. There are still thefts but they aren’t
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This is the final book in the modern faerie tale series by Holly Black which started with Tithe. After the side quest with Val, we are back to original couple of Roiben and Kaye. We do see Val and Luis in this book though so hopefully you read Valiant. The description of the book focuses on the quest that Kaye
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This is the second book in Modern Faerie Tale series by Holly Black which started with Tithe. This is a book that deals with drug use, people without homes and addiction. There is also a cat death, so you’ve been warned. In Tithe we got Kaye learning about her heritage and dealing with the dark side of the Faerie. We
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The Shrouded Queen by Ashley Tropea appears to be the first book in a series. I received this book as part of my June Book of the Month club subscription. This is a book that I might not have picked up at a local bookstore because a part of the description reminded me of a romantasy or paranormal romance. A
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This is the first book in Holly Black’s Modern Fairy Tale trilogy. This is a dark series with mature themes so I would recommend it for older teens. I hate it when characters smoke, it doesn’t matter if it’s in books, movies or television. Smoking is just plain gross and smells absolutely disgusting. It’s unfortunate that the main character is
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This is the 5th book of the Stormlight Archive which began with The Way of Kings. Wow, this series just keeps improving with each book. Honestly this one was amazing and it’s getting harder to pick a favourite out of the series because I squealed just as much reading this one as I did reading Rhythm of War. In fact
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This is the 4th book in the Stormlight Archive, the first book is The Way of Kings. I didn’t think I would like any book as much as Words of Radiance but hot dang was this book.. dare I say it.. better? Yes, yes it was. It took my favourite moment from book 2 and then gave a few more
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This book is between Oathbringer and Rythm of War. We find out that Yalb survived the sinking ship but unfortunately can’t get hired with the other survivors as people view them as bad luck. However this book isn’t about Yalb. It’s about Ryan the owner of the Wandersail, The Lopen and Chiri-Chiri. This is perfect for fans of Pirates of
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This is the third book in the Stormlight Archive so make sure you’ve started with The Way of Kings. I also recommend reading Warbreaker before reading this one as there are some references to it in this book. I think I actually like Words of Radiance more than this one but maybe that’s because it had Kaladin’s superhero moment in
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Edgedancer is the book in between Words Of Radiance and Oathbringer. In other words.. it’s book 2.5 of the Cosmere. This is a story about Lift a character we meet in the second book. In fact the first part of this novel is a copy and paste from there. Luckily after that the reader is given a side quest featuring
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This is book 2 of the Stormlight Archive which began with The Way Of Kings. It’s one of many books in the Cosmere universe. This book is another slammer for me. I’m not sure why some people complain about the Sanderlanche as I find the book amazing from start to finish. I think it’s because I enjoy getting to know
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The Way of Kings by Brandon Sanderson is the first book of the Stormlight Archive and one of many books in the Cosmere universe. This isn’t my first Sanderson book, I actually started my journey into the Cosmere with the novella The Emperor’s Soul. After that I was hooked, I went on to read the Misborn trilogy and Elanrtris. This
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Wow the 5th and final book of the Fablehaven series. It’s been quite a journey with Kendra, Seth and Hugo. They all grew and changed as the books progressed. The books are technically for middle graders but honestly, anyone of any age could enjoy them just as much. We knew that the parents got kidnapped in the last book, having
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This is the 4th novel in the Fablehaven series so make sure you’ve read the other books first starting with Fablehaven. This series is family friendly and appeals to all ages. This book started at school of all things and with magic, one should always expect there to be unpleasant surprises. In Kendra’s case she learned the hard way by
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This is the third book in the Fablehaven series so make sure you have read the other books first. This book takes a more serious tone than the previous ones. While some magical creatures have died in the earlier novels the human characters have been mostly untouched. As I always say, characters are always safe…until they’re not. In this book
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This is the second book in the Fablehaven series so make sure you read Fablehaven first. While the last book mostly dealt with Kendra, Seth and their family, this book we got to know more about people outside of Fablehaven. At the end of the first book, Kendra gained the ability to see magical beings without having to drink milk.
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I confess I have never read Fablehaven before. I’ve seen it in stores but I wasn’t sure it would appeal to an older audience. Well I finally gave it a go, and yes it is a good book for all ages. It’s a fun read with some important lessons in there, Fablehaven is going to be made into a movie
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This is another great story in the Cosmere universe. It’s a standalone novel but that doesn’t make it any less wonderful to read. I loved Siri and Lightsong the most out of all the characters had something to keep you interested in them. Brandon Sanderson excels at making you care about the people and the worlds he creates. I found
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I really struggled with this book. I wanted to like it, we didn’t get along. I spent the first half of the book disliking the main character. Then the war came and I was just disappointed. I never connected with Rin but I did like Kitay and Jiang. Rin did have some character growth but not enough to make me
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This book was published before Mistborn. This would be the 4th Brandon Sanderson book I’ve read if we don’t count the novella of The Emperor’s Soul. I still like the Mistborn trilogy more but the characters of this book grew on me. I ended up cheering for them loud enough that I’m glad I wasn’t in library reading it! This
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We’ve come to the 5th and final book in this series Blood Debt! However this book is more of a transition book passing the torch to the next series where Tony gets to shine. It’s like a backdoor pilot episode tucked into your favourite TV show, the same way NCIS started in JAG and Wayward Sisters would have started in
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Well after the horror of third book Blood Lines, I was more than happy to move onto the 4th book Blood Pact. The books started with demons, went to werewolves, then mummies so it should be no surprise that in this book our heroes could come up against zombies. Well.. it’s not exactly zombies.. it’s more like a mix of
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I’ve finally made it to book 3 of the series. While Vicki has dealt with slowly going blind, vampires, werewolves and demons… now she gets to face off with a mummy! I think fans of the movie The Mummy will take a shine to this book. Then again maybe not since that was more of a love story in monster
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It only makes sense in fantasy world that if there are vampires, then there must also be werewolves. In fact the only series that I can think of that didn’t include both is Teen Wolf. That said the lore on werewolves here is definitely interesting considering most media insists on the whole bite/scratch thing. The werewolves in this universe are
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I bought this ages ago on my Kobo and there used to be a Kindle edition as well.. sadly that doesn’t seem to be the case anymore. This series is great which is to be expected from Tanya Huff as she is one of my favourite Canadian authors. However the TV adaptation of her books called “Blood Ties” lacked her
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The Hero of Ages is the third book in the Mistborn Trilogy. Although I know there is another trilogy after it, a sequel series. I loved that we got to see things from TenSoon’s point of view and learn more about the Kandra. In each book of the Mistborn Trilogy we got a complete story. In the first book we
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The Well of Ascension is the second book of the Mistborn Trilogy and takes place 1 year after the ending of the first book. It turns out that this book was originally where Brandon wanted to start, luckily for everyone he wrote Mistborn instead. The reason I say this is because it gave the reader more of a chance to
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I just finished reading Mistborn by Brandon Sanderson and I absolutely loved it. It’s not very often where I find a book or any media where I love the whole cast but Sanderson did it. I’m clearly going right to the second book after finishing this little review of mine because I MUST know what happens next. Brandon was right
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Well it started as a game, then it got an anime adaptation.. and now we have books and manga. This is the novel version. The novel follows the prologue and book 1 of the Twisted Wonderland game. If you’ve watched the animation, then this novel covers that too. I love the spin on classic fairy tales and in some ways
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I see this book recommended a lot in Fantasy spaces. Malazan seems to be a bit polarizing, you either love it or hate it. Although I did see some posts saying it was confusing as well. I wasn’t confused by it, but I couldn’t get attached to any of the characters either. It’s an interesting tale but it just isn’t
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I’ll make a confession, I haven’t read any Brandon Sanderson books before this. I picked this little novella as my taster because Brandon said on his website that it was short and would give the reader a feel for his work. I loved this little book. It was short but it didn’t feel short, it felt complete in ways many
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I had a good chuckle at the beginning when the prologue warned readers that the author wouldn’t make things pretty. Now a quick explanation on the difference between Young Adult (YA) and New Adult content by Elisabeth Wheatley is in order because I don’t consider this YA at all. Most people don’t and yet Goodreads had it tagged as YA.
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I really liked this one a lot. It felt like a fairy tale in all the best possible ways. I know many people might think of the Little Mermaid and the thought did briefly cross my mind. However this book also brought to mind The Ill Made Mute or at least my vague memory of it. I can also see
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My first thoughts were of the movie The Lake House when I read about the pendant. I wasn’t very far into the book at the time but it’s a thought that decided to chime in. Now that I’ve finished this book that was dedicated to Cdrama girlies.. I felt it was more like The Vampire Diaries than a Cdrama. The
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This book take off a year after the events of the first book Daughter of the Moon Goddess. It seems like we have a Katniss vs. Snow situation going on. Xingyin has freed her mother, it’s seen as an act of defiance and rebellion by the Celestial Majesties. This gives Catching Fire vibes. Thankfully readers don’t have to wait too
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I just finished reading Daughter of the Moon Goddess by Sue Lynn Tan. It’s a good book, the beginning gives me a bit of Cinderella vibes. This is because our female protagonist comes from well off family and then through circumstances beyond her control she has to toil away for some horrible people until a prince rescues her. The prince
Read moreI haven ordered from some of these and I’ll put a little * next to the ones I’ve used and verified. The others are from searches I’ve done for book boxes. Canadian Book Box Canada Gold Leaf Book Box Lit Love Box Rocky Mountain Book Box* Mythic Manuscripts Ships to Canada Aardvark Book Club The Arcane Society Aurora Crate Book
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P’Med walks towards his tomb which is now clean, it also has offerings of food. Soon the rest of the group joins him including his two ghost friends. P’Med starts off by thanking Prince and Golf for helping Thun with his case. Since they still can’t hear him, Thun relays the message for P’Med. Prince says that it was their
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Thun takes P’Med to a house. Thun says that he misses his childhood, every school break he would come there and after tomb sweeping ceremonies. P’Med asks who lives in the building now, so Thun replies that his mother does. Thun says that he didn’t understand why she wanted to live there, so far from the city. He understands now
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Gramps is in a wheelchair now, with Auntie Nom taking care of him. She takes away a tray still full of food because Gramps refuses to eat. Praifah visits him, telling him that if he wants to eat anything then he should just Auntie Nom. Gramps just sadly shakes his head. Praifah urges him to eat something. Praifah informs her
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P’Med is lying on the grass while in voiceover he says that no one could ever know what life after death could be like until you.. he interrupts himself to promise that he isn’t jinxing the audience or wishing them harm. P’Med then continues to say that in movies or novels they says that people see light and walk towards
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Luckily Golf did get back to the room before the maid opened the door but she caught him with Praifah’s bra in his hands, which he quickly drops. Auntie Nom asks where Thun went so Golf quickly tells her that he went to the bathroom. At the hospital Prince comes back into the waiting room with some medications from the
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In the morning Prai’s father is sitting at the breakfast table while Auntie Nom brings him his morning medication. Gramps asks where Praifah is so the maid tells him that Thun came to see Praifah. Gramps says that they should invite Thun to join them for breakfast but Auntie Nom tells him that Thun has already left. Praifah came down
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At night back at Thun’s apartment, the two of them are hanging out on the balcony. P’Med asks Thun how he knew that P’Med would be at the Tomb. Thun flirts back saying that it’s because he’s great.. and P’Med just asks him for the truth. Thun admits it’s because he knew that with the electronic incense turned off, the
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Thun is driving when his mom asks him what restaurant is he driving to as they are going pretty far. Thun tells her that he never said that they were going to a restaurant. Kwan is confused as she was told to dress nicely but when she asks Thun about it, he says that it’s a surprise. Thun then asks
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Thun and his Mom are giving things to the monks but when Thun hands over the chocolate, it triggers a memory of him giving P’Med chocolate and telling him that he will become a fat ghost. That earned him a nasty look from P’Med at the time. After the priest receives the alms and leaves, Kwan asks her son what
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At the cemetery P’Med is sitting next to his tomb looking very depressed. A-ngoon asks Jeng what to do as it’s already been a week and Med isn’t getting any better. Jeng sits down next to Med saying that he had told Med that feeling was the most dangerous thing for ghosts like them. Jeng points out that if Med
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Thun is sitting alone at a table while his friends see him from a distance off. Prince and Golf have asked Praifah for help since nothing they did helped. Praifah wonders why anything she would do would help, but Golf says that if they kept trying on their own.. he would have ended up punching Thun. Praifah isn’t sure what
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The episode starts off with Thun saying in voiceover that he never thought his story with P’Med would end up this way. When they had first met, Thun had hated his special gift. Thun says that it’s no fun to be the kid that sees ghosts, or at least it wasn’t until he met P’Med. P’Med was a poor ghost
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The next morning Golf tells Prince that he saw it with his own eyes, then he gets Prince to open Thun’s apartment so they can check on Thun. However, Thun isn’t in the apartment. Golf thinks that maybe Thun really has gone crazy, then they both head to the balcony. They find Thun soaked to the skin lying on the
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The next morning P’Med is still on the balcony having stayed out all night, then watching the sun rise. Thun and Prai come out of the apartment. Prai’s jacket is hanging off her shoulder so Thun fixes it while telling her to cake of herself it’s very awkward. P’Med walks into the hallway during this moment. P’Med walks back out
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