With some cautiously reserved excitement, I preordered The Golden Enclaves, the final entry in The Scholomance Trilogy. The predecessor to this final installment, The Last Graduate, ended with a massive cliffhanger, leaving the fate of the male lead, Orion Lake, looking very bleak—so I was pretty invested in finding out what befell him and how protagonist Galadriel “El” Higgins reacted. I never would have guessed the sequence of events that […] The post Book Review : The Golden Enclaves appeared first on Blogging with Dragons ..read more

When I saw that Susan Dennard, author of one of my few favorite young adult series The Witchlands, had a spooky new book releasing, I knew I had to read it. Though I wasn’t the biggest fan of the last book I read by the author, Witchshadow, I found The Luminaries to be a really enjoyable and fluffy read. Though it’s easy to see where the series is going, and […] The post Book Review : The Luminaries appeared first on Blogging with Dragons ..read more

Blade Breaker is a novel that’s hard for me to review because I found it to be so disappointing and I want my review to be constructive, despite those emotions. Though I enjoyed its predecessor, Realm Breaker, I found that the problems that occasionally plagued the first novel ran egregiously rampant in this sequel. The “telling” versus “showing” is practically unbearable, sapping out all of the tension in everything, even […] The post Book Review : Blade Breaker appeared first on Blogging with Dragons ..read more

Hearing the hype about Iron Widow, and loving the idea of the story, which marketing boldly proclaimed is Pacific Rim meets A Handmaid’s Tale, I picked up this young adult novel. To put it bluntly, Iron Widow, and books like it, are the very reason I have mostly stopped reading young adult novels. In a nutshell, Iron Widow reads worse than some Wattpad stories, and despite having a good core […] The post Book Review : The Iron Widow appeared first on Blogging with Dragons ..read more