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’.” Continue reading “The Silence of the Girls”
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 …”
Continue reading “The Strange Case of the Alchemist’s Daughter”
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!
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