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Author: Joanna Courtney
Publisher: Piatkus Books
First Published: 6 September 2018
Rating: 5 stars
“My heart was not forged simply but it was forged strong and it beat out a rhythm I can never regret. I did not ask to be queen but neither did I refuse. I made my destiny and I followed it all across Alba to its throne and its tomb. I was Lady Macbeth and I was Queen and I can only hope that in some small way Alba was richer for it.”
Author: Pat Barker
Publisher: Hamish Hamilton
First Published: 30 August 2018
Rating: 5 stars
“Great Achilles. Brilliant Achilles, shining Achilles, godlike Achilles … How the epithets pile up. We never called him any of those things; we called him ‘the butcher’.” Read More
Author: Amanda Bouchet
Publisher: Scribe
Books in series: A Promise of Fire, Breath of Fire and Heart on Fire
Rating: 4 stars
“Have I cheated death again? Hades must be allergic to me.”
Author: Theodora Goss
Publisher: Saga Press
First Published: 20 June 2017
Rating: 5 stars
“We are no longer in the age of Charles Dickens or George Eliot, after all. We are Modern. And, of course monstrous …”
Author: Elizabeth Tammi
Publisher: Flux Books
First Published: 27 November 2018
Rating: 4 stars
“I sigh as we walk into the hall, maybe for the last time with Kahina. I want to twist time around myself make it bend and grow where I need it most”
I will start by saying that I was given an ARC copy in exchange for an honest review. These opinions are my own. Thank you so much to Flux Books and NetGalley!
Author: Laura Elizabeth Woollett
Publisher: Scribe
First Published: 30 July 2018
Rating: 5 stars
“This life is the dawn of revolution and she is ready to meet it in a necklace of thorns, sprouting black feathers, adorned with the reddest roses.”
Author: Josie Jaffrey
First Published: 17 October 2018
Rating: 4.5 stars
“It was easy to forget what legends meant when they were enshrined in stories, and that was what the King has always been to most of the guards: a story.”
I will start by saying that I was given an ARC copy in exchange for an honest review. These opinions are my own. Thank you so much to Josie for sending a copy my way!
Author: Angela Meyer
Publisher: Ventura Press
First Published: 01 August 2018
Rating: 4 stars
“This water is so clear I can lean over and see myself. I am Narcissus, in love with the image of my suffering, fixed in place and soon to drown.”
I will start by saying that I was given an ARC copy in exchange for an honest review. These opinions are my own. Thank you so much to Ventura Press and NetGalley!
Author: Josie Jaffrey
First Published: 25 June 2018
Rating: 5 stars
“Their folktales had memories long enough to tell them what he was. He might be harmless to them, but he was still strigoi mort.”
I will start by saying that I was given an ARC copy in exchange for an honest review. These opinions are my own. Thank you so much to Josie for sending a copy my way!
Author: Sappho
Translator: John Maxwell Edmonds
Publisher: Dover Publications
First Published: 15 February 2018
Rating: 5 stars
“For those I have done good to
Do me the greatest wrong,”
I will start by saying that I was given an ARC copy in exchange for an honest review. These opinions are my own. Thank you so much to Dover Publications and NetGalley!
