Dianthaa Dabbles

It’s not secret that I love reading challenges and the r/Fantasy bingo is my favorite of the year. I’m a mod there, so ofc, biased, but it’s so much fun. It’s huge, runs each year from April 1st to March 30th. A few hundred people participate. Starting last year we

Today’s TTT is fun! As a primarily speculative fiction reader I love interesting and new settings, either completely made up or cool reinterpretations of existing times and place. Raybearer by Jordan Ifueko The setting in this West-African inspired YA epic fantasy is beautiful and vibrant. It’s going to be adapted

Goings-On This week was about a month long. My bf had a business trip and it was the first time I’ve been home alone since last March. I lost my shit was just randomly crying and pancking at the thought. Which helped me get up the courage to go therapy,

The Deep & Dark Blue by Niki Smith Genre: Fantasy Age group: Middle Grade Pub. date: January 7th 2020 by Little, Brown Books for Young Readers Format: Print Pages: 256 Goodreads link After a terrible political coup usurps their noble house, Hawke and Grayson flee to stay alive and assume new identities,

I’m linking up with The Monthly Wrap-Up Round-Up, hosted by Nicole @ Feed Your Fiction Addiction and Shannon @ It Starts at Midnight. Goings-On After a slow July and August on the blog, 11 posts in September, a few I’m really excited about that I’ll link below. Reading wise and I had some

September is Self-Published Fantasy Month. I haven't been very involved this year, but last year I did a big post of Self-Published Fantasy Books I recommend and I've been meaning to add more to it. The reason I haven't gotten to it earlier this month is partly the entry at

The Stariel series by AJ Lancaster has been my new obsession this past couple of weeks, occupying far too much of my brain space and keeping me up way past my bedtime. It’s secondary world fantasy romance/fantasy of manners series, with faeries, set in a time period similar to the

Goings-On The start of this week was pretending to be winter, and it had me really worried. But the weekend has been lovely so far. I spent most of Saturday outside reading and writing a review, and now I’m sat outside again, surrounded by dogs trying to get at my

The title is a genuine question, I’m asking how to blog hop cause I ain’t got it. I do a few different things but I always end up feeling like I’m behind? Even thought it makes sense a person couldn’t keep up with all the posts in the world (it

Here is a brand new book tag, developed by Peat @ Peat Long’s Blog and  Para of To Other Worlds. Here’s the original post for it. It was inspired by seeing a book tag based on cats elsewhere and thinking “goodness, this is filled with all sorts of cutesy things,