PLAYING FAVOURITES
Legendborn by Tracy Deonn Review
The House in the Cerulean Sea by TJ Klune - review
We Ride the Storm by Devin Madson Review
Network Effect by Martha Wells Review
The Dark Abyss of Our Sins by Krista D. Ball Review - The Demons We See and The Nightmare We Know
The Murderbot Diaries by Martha Wells Review
Queens of the Wyrd by Timandra Whitecastle Review
The Bone Ships by RJ Barker Review
A Magical Inheritance by Krista D. Ball Review
The Hanged Man by K.D. Edwards + interpretive dance book review
RECENT POSTS AND REVIEWS
Sunday Post, Stacking the Shelves and January Wrap-Up
31 Jan 2021
Dianthaa 21 comments
I’ve been going a bit slower with blog posts this month, trying to focus mostly on just not falling behind with reviews (I am a little behind, but 3 mini-reviews should solve that) so I haven’t done a Sunday Post all month, so here comes a big one. I’m linking
Blackathon: reading plans, looking for and giving recs
29 Jan 2021
Blackathon: reading plans, looking for and giving recs
Dianthaa 7 comments
Blackathon is a month-long event hosted by Jesse @ Bowties & Books. They’ve got a lot planned, reading prompts, movie nights, lots of events across Youtube, Instagram and Twitter. Three teams and 6 co-hosts. It’s going to be a lot of fun. The part I’m most excited about is obviously reading
Top Ten Tuesday: New to me authors in 2020
26 Jan 2021
Dianthaa 7 comments
Top Ten Tuesday was created by The Broke and the Bookish and is now hosted by That Artsy Reader Girl. Each week a new theme is suggested for bloggers to participate in. It’s beyond me to narrow it down to a top ten list without additional criteria, so for this list I’ve excluded
We Lie With Death by Devin Madson
25 Jan 2021
We Lie With Death
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Genre: Fantasy Age group: Adult Pub. date: January 12th 2021 Format:  Ebook Pages: 576 Goodreads link I received an ARC through NetGalley and these are my honest thoughts The empire has fallen and another rises in its place in the action-packed sequel to Devin Madson’s epic fantasy, We Ride the Storm. Into
Cemetery Boys by Aiden Thomas – review
22 Jan 2021
Cemetery Boys - review
Dianthaa 2 comments
Genre: Contemporary Fantasy Age group: Adult Young Pub. date: September 1st 2020 Format: Audiobook Pages: 352 Goodreads link A trans boy determined to prove his gender to his traditional Latinx family summons a ghost who refuses to leave in Aiden Thomas’s paranormal YA debut Cemetery Boys, described by Entertainment Weekly as
Top Ten Twensday: Books I Meant to Read In 2020 but Didn’t Get To
20 Jan 2021
Dianthaa 4 comments
Top Ten Tuesday was created by The Broke and the Bookish and is now hosted by That Artsy Reader Girl. Each week a new theme is suggested for bloggers to participate in. This list is a huge mix of books I own and 2020 releases I was very excited for but didn’t get
Sequels mini-reviews: The Heartforger, The Farthest Shore and A Closed and Common Orbit
15 Jan 2021
The Farthest Shore,The Heartforger and A Closed and Common Orbit
Dianthaa no comments
Hello and welcome to the first batch of mini-reviews of 2021! Two of my big goals this year are catch up with some series and don’t fall so behind on reviews, so I’ll be reviewing the sequels I read as mini-review posts. The Heartforger by Rin Chupeco The sequel to
Top Ten Tuesday: 2021 goals
12 Jan 2021
Dianthaa 13 comments
Top Ten Tuesday was created by The Broke and the Bookish and is now hosted by That Artsy Reader Girl. Each week a new theme is suggested for bloggers to participate in. This week’s theme is Resolutions/Hopes for 2021 (bookish or not!), and I love the chance to write down my goals for
2020 end of year round-up – many stats – more (45) favorites
09 Jan 2021
Reading stats and favorites
Dianthaa 6 comments
Last year I had tons of fun with my wrap-up post, I made a pretty journal thing and fake awards and I really wanted to do the same this year but somehow never found the available brain space for something so creative. So after two weeks of procrastinating, this is
Top Ten Tuesday: Anticipated Releases
05 Jan 2021
anticipated 2021 fantasy and sci-fi book releases
Dianthaa 13 comments
These are my most anticipated 2021 fantasy and sci-fi book releases, narrowing it down to 10 was not easy. I’m so excited for these books, and a bit worried about what checking out everyone else’s posts will do to my TBR, but onward! I’ve not copied in blurbs for sequels,
SEWING & COSPLAY
Mistcloak Cosplay from Mistborn by Brandon Sanderson
May 14, 2020
Mistcloak Cosplay from Mistborn by Brandon Sanderson
Dianthaa 12 comments
This is my “random noblewoman” Cosplay mistcloak from Mistborn by Brandon Sanderson. I really wanted to cosplay a character from a fantasy book and this was really the obvious choice for something easily recognizable. For full artistic freedom, she lives sometime between era 1 and era 2, just so I could go with the kind