After years of seeing her sisters suffer at the hands of an abusive prince, Marra—the shy, convent-raised, third-born daughter—has finally realized that no one is coming to their rescue. No one, except for Marra herself.Seeking help from a powerful gravewitch, Marra is offered the tools to kill a prince—if she can complete three impossible tasks.... Continue Reading →
Contradictions Book Tag: Fantasy Edition for #WyrdAndWonder
This month has not been good in terms of either reading or blogging but I've been trying to get back to it slowly. That's why I thought doing another tag would be fun for me too and I won't have to think too much like for writing a review. I had bookmarked this very fun... Continue Reading →
Fantasy A-Z : Books From my TBR #WyrdAndWonder
I did an A-Z post few months ago but that was about answering questions which started with the alphabet. But it's been a years since I've done any posts about book titles per the alphabet. So, when I saw this post being done by Tammy @ Books, Bones & Buffy, I wanted to give it... Continue Reading →
Book Review: Bad Blood by John Carreyrou
In 2014, Theranos founder and CEO Elizabeth Holmes was widely seen as the female Steve Jobs: a brilliant Stanford dropout whose startup "unicorn" promised to revolutionize the medical industry with a machine that would make blood tests significantly faster and easier. Backed by investors such as Larry Ellison and Tim Draper, Theranos sold shares in... Continue Reading →
Qie Shi Tian Xia / Who Rules the World : My Review and Thoughts about the Drama and Novel
I think it was summer last year when I decided to watch You Are My Glory before it started airing because I found Dilraba to be very beautiful and wanted to see what all the hype about Yang Yang was. I immediately fell in love with both of them and started looking for guzhuang (costume)... Continue Reading →
Book Review: Empire of Pain by Patrick Radden Keefe
The highly anticipated portrait of three generations of the Sackler family, by the prize-winning, bestselling author of Say Nothing.The Sackler name adorns the walls of many storied institutions: Harvard, the Metropolitan Museum of Art, Oxford, the Louvre. They are one of the richest families in the world, known for their lavish donations to the arts and... Continue Reading →
Audiobook Review: Travelers Along the Way by Aminah Mae Safi
A ragtag band of misfits gets swept up in Holy Land politics in Travelers Along the Way by Aminah Mae Safi, a thrilling YA remix of the classic legend of Robin Hood.Jerusalem, 1192. The Third Crusade rages on. Rahma al-Hud loyally followed her elder sister Zeena into the war over the Holy Land, but now that the Faranji... Continue Reading →
ARC Review: The Stardust Thief by Chelsea Abdullah
Neither here nor there, but long ago…Loulie al-Nazari is the Midnight Merchant: a criminal who, with the help of her jinn bodyguard, hunts and sells illegal magic. When she saves the life of a cowardly prince, she draws the attention of his powerful father, the sultan, who blackmails her into finding an ancient lamp that... Continue Reading →
Celebrating my Favorite Epic Fantasy series for Wyrd and Wonder
Today's challenge prompt for Wyrd and Wonder is to talk about our favorite subgenre, Epic Fantasy. Now I am not much for the various definitions of the subgenre I found on google, but what it means for me is a fantasy novel or series which has high stakes (affecting the whole nation or the world),... Continue Reading →
Book Tag: The Last Fantasy Book I’ve…. #WyrdAndWonder
I've been checking out all my lovely bloggers' posts to find the next tag to do for Wyrd and Wonder and when I saw this fun and easy tag being done by Blair @ Feed the Crime, I thought it will be fun to make it into a fantasy specific one. So without further delay,... Continue Reading →