Genre: Fantasy

Your Favorite Blonde Retelling: The Princess Knight by Cait Jacobs

Posted August 12, 2025 by Wendy in Reviews / 0 Comments

Why Did I Read? This book was originally titled Medievally Blonde, and was marketed as a medieval Legally Blonde retelling. Legally Blonde is an all time favorite movie so I was sold! Due to what I assume are legal reasons, the book has been retitled as The Princess Knight. My Thoughts: Well things got off to a rocky start when I was inundated with a lot of names: of people, countries, entities, regions, all in the first 5-10% of the […]

An Elemental Competition: Heir of Storms by Lauryn Hamilton Murray

Posted July 28, 2025 by Wendy in Reviews / 0 Comments

Why did I read? This YA fantasy touts a magical competition, elemental magic and compares it to Shadow and Bone — of course I was so there. My thoughts: Unfortunately, this one wasn’t quite the winner I wanted it to be. I’m not sure if I disliked this more because I was also reading ANOTHER YA book where there was a competition and two princes and this was the inferior of the two… But there were times I thought I […]

Let the Trials Begin: The Notorious Virtues by Alwyn Hamilton

Posted March 24, 2025 by Wendy in Reviews / 0 Comments

Why Did I Read? I really enjoyed Alwyn Hamilton’s Rebel of the Sands (and never finished the series, I really need to get on that) and when I heard about her latest, I knew I had to read it! Magical trials and family shenanigans – yes, please! My Thoughts: The Notorious Virtues has a fascinating premise. Long ago, the Holtzfall family, with the aid of a magical being in the forest, carved out a safe spot for themselves in the […]

Phoenixes and Alchemy: Ashlords by Scott Reintgen

Posted September 7, 2020 by Wendy in Reviews / 0 Comments

Why Did I Read? As many of you may know, two of my all time favorite books is The Scorpio Races and Red Rising. So when Ashlords has those two books as the comps? I was wary to say the least! However, I can safely attest that Ashlords was a whole lot of fun and I greatly enjoyed it! My Thoughts: I don’t think the comparisons for Ashlords are completely accurate so take them with a grain of salt! The […]

A Fantasy Twist On A Survival Story: Warrior of the Wild by Tricia Levenseller

Posted May 13, 2020 by Wendy in Reviews / 7 Comments

Why Did I Read? This one had the sound of a survival story in the wild with fantasy elements and I was all about that! I was at Tricia’s signing when she toured for this book and she talked about Rasmira being a total bad ass axe wielding warrior and I was sold! My Thoughts: If you are hankering for a standalone fantasy, this is it! It’s not often we have a well rounded fantasy standalone so I’m always excited […]