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
Top Ten Books with Colors In the Titles
01 Aug 2020
Top Ten Books with Colors In the Titles
Dianthaa 11 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. First things first, if you’re super interested in books with colors in the title go check out our
May – June – July – Tri-month wrap-up
31 Jul 2020
Round Up header image with Bullet Journal picture
Dianthaa 14 comments
One of my goals this year was do to a monthly round-up each month. Aaaaand then I didn’t. So to catch up, BOOM! 3 for 1 offer! Three months in one post. On the blog @deargeekplace, @imyril & @joriestory organized Wyrd & Wonder, a month-long celebration of the fantastical, and I had a
Top Ten Tuesday: Women in Speculative Fiction
28 Jul 2020
Dianthaa 25 comments
Super excited for today to be a freebie topic, because The Fantasy Hive are hosting Women in Speculative Fiction month and I really wanted to do something to participate. Now, I’m terrible at picking just 10 of anything so for this list I use a few criteria to narrow it
The House in the Cerulean Sea by TJ Klune
27 Jul 2020
The House in the Cerulean Sea by TJ Klune - review
Dianthaa 6 comments
Squeeeeee everyone said this would be sweet and wholesome and it was! I loved this completely and I’m here to unapologetically squee We follow Linus Baker, a lonely man getting along in age. He’s a social worker for the department in charge of magical youth, and except for his job,
One year blogiversary giveaway!
24 Jul 2020
Dianthaa 15 comments
Happy Birthday to me! *Not a picture of me, image by Cucu Petronela from Pixabay My smol blog started last year, mostly because of the bingo hero mode challenge (review every book you read for bingo) and it’s been a lot of fun. Despite general woeness at the world keeping
Mini-reviews novella reviews (1): Of Dragons, Feasts and Murder, The Empress of Salt and Fortune, A Dead Djinn in Cairo and This Is How You Lose the Time War
22 Jul 2020
Mini-reviews novella reviews (1): Of Dragons, Feasts and Murder, The Empress of Salt and Fortune, A Dead Djinn in Cairo and This Is How You Lose the Time War
Dianthaa 4 comments
For short books, these novellas have plenty of title to go around! As usual, I’ve fallen very very behind on my reviews, but in a plot twist no one saw coming, past me took enough notes for me to be able to put these mini-reviews together! I’ve also loved Silver
We Ride the Storm by Devin Madson Review
30 Jun 2020
We Ride the Storm by Devin Madson Review
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Welcome to my stop on the We Ride the Storm blog tour, in which We Review the Book. Long text is long, sorry not sorry. This was my second read-through of We Ride the Storm by Devin Madson, I initially read the self-published version last year. So this review is
Top Ten Tuesday: Series I’d like to catch up on
23 Jun 2020
Dianthaa 3 comments
Top Ten Tuesday Turns 10! Option 1: pick a past TTT topic you’ve done and re-do/update it (Perhaps you’d remove certain books you put on the list back when you first wrote it, or perhaps you have 10 MORE books you’d add to that list now. You could also re-visit TBR
Swashbuckling cats – edited by Rhonda Parrish Review
31 May 2020
Swashbuckling cats - edited by Rhonda Parrish Review
Dianthaa one comments
Pirate cats. I’ll say it again Pirate Cats. This is an entire book about Pirate Cats. Imo you’re either sold by that from the start or not, but I’ll try to put into words how great having a book about pirate cats is. I got an ARC from the publisher,
Wyrd & Wonder: Book rainbow – a few LGBT+ book recommendations
29 May 2020
LGBT+ book recommendations
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I’ve really been slacking on my Wyrd & Wonder plans, but there’s still time to put together a book rainbow of LGBT+ book recommendations Decorative phoenix © Tanantachai Sirival Wyrd & Wonder is a month-long celebration of the fantastic hosted by imyril @ There’s Always Room for One More, Lisa @ Dear Geek
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