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 Fantasy Opening Lines
26 May 2020
Top Ten Fantasy Opening Lines
Dianthaa 8 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. Starting with the cheater on this list: We Ride The Storm by Devin Madson Because both the original self-published version and
Murderbot – Network Effect by Martha Wells Review
23 May 2020
Network Effect by Martha Wells Review
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This review will probably make 0 sense if you haven’t read the novellas, but doesn’t contain spoilers except for the hidden ones. Network Effect, the new Murderbot novel, was everything I wanted and needed. It ended up being a lot more wholesome and sweet that a novel about a grumpy
Top Ten Tuesday: Reasons I love fantasy
21 May 2020
Dianthaa 6 comments
I know it’s Thursday, but you can’t argue with plaguebrain 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.   Top Ten Reasons Why I Love Fantasy The Dragons I
Some of my unique r/fantasy bingo reads, and why you should try them
16 May 2020
Some of my unique r/fantasy bingo reads, and why you should try them
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I’m really into the r/fantasy bingo challenge, and this week the 2019 Bingo statistics went up, so today another user on reddit, u/SeiShonagon threw up a little challenge which I loved. 2019 Bingo Participants, Shill the Books You Read That No One Else Did I decided to post this up
Wyrd & Wonder: A friend in need
12 May 2020
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I normally do Top Ten Tuesday hosted by That Artsy Reader Girl, but I wasn’t that keen on today’s prompt, so instead I’m using the A Friend in Need prompt, from  Wyrd & Wonder hosted by @deargeekplace @imyril  & @joriestory  Book characters I’d love to be friends with All the gang from
4 Shortish reviews that are completely random: The Magpie Lord, The Girl Who Married a Skull, Reaper Man, Howl’s Moving Castle
09 May 2020
4 Shortish reviews that are completely random: The Magpie Lord, The Girl Who Married a Skull, Reaper Man, Howl's Moving Castle
Dianthaa one comments
I previously did 4 reviews of beautiful books, 4 sci-fi books. and 4 books with tough characters. This only leaves only the last batch of 4, books that don’t really share much in common, or at the very least, one of them is the very odd one out. The Magpie Lord
Wyrd & Wonder: 23 under-rated fantasy and sci-fi books that I love
07 May 2020
Wyrd & Wonder: 23 under-rated fantasy and sci-fi books that I love
Dianthaa 4 comments
LOOK AT ME DOING A POST ON TIME! This is for Wyrd & Wonder hosted by @deargeekplace @imyril  & @joriestory For the purpose of this post under-rated = books I think more people should be reading. Links go to my full reviews. This is my favorite subject for making lists, so buckle-up
Wyrd & Wonder Plans, Flowchart, May TBR and r/Fantasy Virtual Con things
07 May 2020
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It looks like after a brief respite in April, my blogging slump if threatening to come back in full force. Still, here I am, trying to power through and make plans. I signed up for Wyrd & Wonder,  a month blogging Celebration of the Fantastic, hosted by @deargeekplace, @imyril & @joriestory Image: Flaming phoenix by Sujono
April Round-up
03 May 2020
Dianthaa 3 comments
April went a lot better than March, in terms of reading and blogging. Globally April was shit ofc. I got more used to being at home, and very good at avoiding the news. We’re staying at home in Romania, but we’ve been pretty lucky so far. Books read I started
4 Shortish reviews of books with tough people: Jhereg, Junkyard Cats, Tenebre:Labirintul & The Gurkha and the Lord of Tuesday
30 Apr 2020
4 Shortish reviews of books with tough people: Jhereg, Junkyard Cats, Tenebre:Labirintul & The Gurkha and the Lord of Tuesday
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The main flaw in my cunning plan to catch up with my reviews is that I seem to keep reading books. I previously did 4 reviews of beautiful books and 4 sci-fi books. With this about 4 books with tough people, that only leave 4 to go! Unless … I
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