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 Tuesday: 10 SFF books with numbers in the title
14 Sep 2021
Dianthaa 12 comments
Books with numbers in the title seems like a very familiar theme, I think that’s cause we recently did colors.  The First Sister by Linden A. Lewis  The Two Towers by J.R.R. Tolkien Three Parts Dead by Max Gladstone The Four Profound Weaves by R.B. Lemberg The Fifth Season by
Mini reviews: The Obelisk Gate, Nightshift Dragons, The Eternal Champion, Elatsoe, Child of the Daystar
13 Sep 2021
Dianthaa 5 comments
Welcome back for another batch of mini-reviews. I almost daren’t say it, but I’m almost caught up! Obelisk Gate (The Broken Earth #2) by N.K. Jemisin Genre: Fantasy Age group: Adult Pub. date: August 18th 2016 by Orbit Format: Print Pages: 41 Goodreads link, storygraph link This is the way the world
Sunday Post: WordPress SEO, 4 plugins & how I keep my review index
12 Sep 2021
Sunday Post: Wordpress SEO, plugins & how I keep my review index
Dianthaa 11 comments
Goings-On Having a bit of a weird time, with lots of low and some … not highs really, just oks. I had really slipped into just being miserable all day, so I’ve started getting my shit together a bit and doing some stuff, even if I don’t feel like it,
r/Fantasy Top Novels Poll: My 10 (+) favorite Fantasy and Sci-Fi books of all time
10 Sep 2021
Dianthaa no comments
By far, the most popular big list we run is the r/fantasy  top novels poll. Every other year people vote for a list of 10 of their favorite fantasy and sci-fi books of all time and the mods then try to make sense of all the different spelling variations to
Top Ten Tuesday: Books that make me happy
07 Sep 2021
Optimistic fantasy books - books that make me happy
Dianthaa 6 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. Today’s theme is one of my favorites, Books Guaranteed to Put a Smile On Your Face, I love cheerful and optimistic
A Master of Djinn by P. Djèlí Clark
02 Sep 2021
Review of A Master of Djinn by P. Djèlí Clark
Dianthaa 2 comments
Review of A Master of Djinn by P. Djèlí Clark, one of my favorite fantasy / alternate history books of 2021, what’s not to love about steampunk Cairo and ass-kicking, sword-wielding sapphics? Genre: Fantasy Age group: Adult Pub. date: May 11th 2021 by Tordotcom/August 19th 2021 by Orbit Format: Ebook
Top Ten Tuesday: Thirsty edition
31 Aug 2021
Dianthaa 5 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. Today’s theme is Fictional Crushes, so I hope you’re well hidrated, cause this post is thirsty. I know you saw this
July and August Wrap-Up: we were on a break
30 Aug 2021
Dianthaa 6 comments
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 I didn’t plan a blog hiatus for July and August, but we had a very spontaneous “let’s have a trip before wave 4 hits” holiday, that involved a lot
Mini reviews – Black Sun, The Left Hand of Darkness, Abhorsen, The Legends of the First Empire, Too Like the Lightning, Piranesi, The Relentless Moon, Season of the Witch
25 Aug 2021
Mini reviews - Black Sun, The Left Hand of Darkness, Abhorsen, The Legends of the First Empire, Too Like the Lightning, Piranesi, The Relentless Moon, Season of the Witch
Dianthaa 5 comments
Here I am again, just a woman, sitting in from of her PC, trying to catch up with her pile of unwritten reviews by writing a mini-review post. One day I might accept that catching up will never happen, but not today. Black Sun by Rebecca Roanhorse Genre: Fantasy Age
Top Ten Tuesday: Books I wish I could read again for the first time
24 Aug 2021
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. Witchmark (The Kingston Cycle #1) by C.L. Polk The ending of this book was so strong and exciting, I'd love to
SEWING & COSPLAY
Mistcloak Cosplay from Mistborn by Brandon Sanderson
May 14, 2020
Mistcloak Cosplay from Mistborn by Brandon Sanderson
Dianthaa 10 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