BOOK REVIEW: Lovelight Farms by B.K. Borison

**Thank you to Pan Macmillan and Netgalley for providing me with a digital copy of this book in exchange for an honest review** WHAT IS IT ABOUT? A pasture of dead trees. A hostile takeover of the Santa barn by a family of raccoons. And shipments that have mysteriously gone missing. Lovelight Farms is not…

ARC REVIEW: Shanghai Immortal by A.Y. Chao

**Thank you to Hodderscape and Netgalley for providing me with a digital copy of this book in exchange for an honest review** WHAT IS IT ABOUT? Pawned by her mother to the King of Hell as a child, Lady Jing is half-vampire, half-hulijing fox-spirit and all sasshole. As the King’s ward, she has spent the…

ARC REVIEW: The Battle Drum by Saara El-Arifi

**Thank you to Harper Collins UK and Netgalley for providing me with a digital copy of this book in exchange for an honest review** WHAT IS IT ABOUT? Anoor is the first blue-blooded ruler of the Wardens' Empire. But when she is accused of a murder she didn't commit, her reign is thrown into turmoil.…

BOOK REVIEW: The Sword Defiant by Gareth Hanrahan

**Thank you to Orbit Books UK for providing me with a copy of this book in exchange for an honest review** WHAT IS IT ABOUT? Many years ago, Sir Aelfric and his nine companions saved the world, seizing the Dark Lord's cursed weapons, along with his dread city of Necrad. That was the easy part.…

#Wyrd&Wonder 2023 – Bite-Size Fantasy

Today's Wyrd & Wonder prompt is Bite-Size Fantasy and so I'm sharing some of my favourite fantasy novellas, novelettes and stories that are on the short side that I feel are well worth checking out! A DEAD DJINN IN CAIRO by P. Djéli Clark  To start off with - one of my absolute favourites! This is…

#Wyrd&Wonder 2023 – Best Laid Plans (Wyrd & Wonder TBR)

I had a lot of fun finally joining in with SciFi Month last November that when I heard there is also a themed month celebrating all things Fantasy organised by fellow bloggers I immediately wanted to join in too! Wyrd & Wonder, if you've never heard of it before, takes place in May and is…

QUARTERLY WRAP-UP: Jan-Mar 2023

I was busy for a lot of March/April with it being Ramadan and all so this wrap-up is a little late but honestly how mad is it that we're already over a quarter of the way through the year?! It's been a pretty decent reading year for me so far as I have managed to…

BOOK REVIEW: Vevin Song by Jonathan Neves Mayers

**Thank you to the author for the digital copy of this book in exchange for an honest review** WHAT IS IT ABOUT? Years have passed since hostile creatures flew down from the sky and forced humanity to fight or flee. Now, the surviving humans live in underwater cocoons, knowing that the world above does not…

ARC REVIEW: Some Desperate Glory by Emily Tesh

*for full list of content warnings head to Emily Tesh's website here **Thank you to Orbit Books UK for providing me with a physical ARC of this book in exchange for an honest review** WHAT IS IT ABOUT? All her life, Kyr has trained for the day she can avenge the destruction of planet Earth.…

BOOK REVIEW: You Think You Know Me by Ayaan Mohamud

**Thank you to Usborne Publishing for providing me with a copy of this book in exchange for an honest review and Tandem Collective for allowing me to be a part of their readalong** WHAT IS IT ABOUT? People like me are devils before we are angels. Hanan has always been good and quiet. She accepts…