Dianthaa Dabbles

The first thing I need to say about Monstress is that it’s gorgeous. The art style is so detailed and beautiful. Delicate patterns, steampunk art deco aesthetic, creepy old gods, cats, everything I love. It’s also dark and often bloody, no sunshine and flowers over here. In fact I saw

I know nothing of romance books, but Witchmark by CL Polk was the HEA bookclub pic for december on r/fantasy, and I’d heard only good things about it, so I went in. I was expecting a nice chill love story between two men, maybe some sort of fantasy of manners.

Turns out, I love regency fantasy. A Magical Inheritance was witty and delightful to read, I loved the geeking out over books, the fantasy of manners style, and the great characters. We might all moan about the size of our TBRs, but Miss Knight’s doesn’t even fit in her house. 

I got a bullet journal and pretty pens for Christmas, so really I had no choice but to try my hand at it by doing a visual summary of my reading in 2019. You can probably tell just by how much I tried to cram into two pages, that this

The Hanged Man is the wonderful sequel to The Last Sun by KD Edwards (my review), and if you haven’t read that, what are you going here, go read the awesome book not my review. I’ve left out most names and events here so you should be fine continuing to

Mermaid Fins, Winds & Rolling Pins by Erin Johnson Bingo squares: small scale, self-published, (the other books in the series feature a vampire pretty prominently), audiobook, ocean setting H, would be hard mode, long title I got this series through a giveaway on r/audiobooks. It’s a cosy mystery series involving

Strange Practice is the first book in the Dr. Greta Helsing series, a recently completed urban fantasy trilogy, about a doctor in modern-day London tending to supernatural patients. The plot is a mystery, that has a pretty action packed climax, with a new and dangerous cult attacking the supernatural and

Jane Austen’s Dragons series spreads the actions of Pride and Prejudice over 3 volumes, with Mr. Darcy’s Dragon leaving off just after the Netherfield Ball. Apart from the original plot there’s the added plot Mr. Darcy’s dragon egg having been stolen and needing to be recovered before it hatches. There

In which I derped and read book 2 of a duology thinking it was book one and did not notice until I wanted to get started on book 2.  So, to paraphrase a well known reviewer, this isn’t a review of what it’s like to read Dragon Blood as it

This is my first trying a round-up post, hope I don’t get it too wrong! November was a good month for my reading. I reached my Goodreads reading goal on November 1st and I’ve since made it to 85 out of 75!   I’m one short story anthology short of