🇬🇧 bookish reviews 🇳🇱
English below 🇬🇧 Het is nu een week sinds ik Addie’s verhaal heb gelezen. En ik ben nog steeds ondersteboven van dit meesterwerk. Mijn hart is in stukjes gebroken, maar ook tegelijkertijd weer op de kintsugi manier gelijmd met goud, zodat het mooier is geworden dan voor de breuk. Een betere metafoor heb ik niet… Continue reading The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue / Het onzichtbare leven van Addie LaRue – VE Schwab
Foreshadow is a collection of 13 novellas, set up a little different than normal. Because you get a lot more than 13 short stories all with an amazing plot twist, you also get a short essay explaining why each story works, what makes it tick and you get explained how to keep suspense, how to… Continue reading Foreshadow – Emily X. R. Pan and Nova Ren Suma
Where Dreams Descend is a brand new debut by Janella Angeles. We follow Kallia, a magician showgirl who grew up an orphan in a nightclub, and is kinda trapped by Jack, the master. When she sees a flyer for a competition in a town she’s been longing to visit, she takes her chances and runs… Continue reading Where Dreams Descend – Janella Angeles
What a wild ride! Fireborne is everything a fantasy novel should be: a complex grey world with a rich history, dragons, wonderful characters struggling with choices, dragon tournaments, found family, cute teenage dragons that have trouble finding their fire. Cute baby dragons the size of a dog. Dragons that are very animalistic and think very… Continue reading Fireborne – Rosaria Munda
I have to say, I fell for the cover back in 2016... and also the description. But as it was very expensive to get the ebook or a physical copy in my country, I waited. I waited for a looooong time until last week when there finally was a price drop! And The anticipation was… Continue reading Iron Cast – Destiny Soria
It’s really difficult to write a review for The Silvered Serpents by Roshani Chokshi. I 100% loved The Gilded Wolves, and then I got a chance to read the e-arc (has not influenced my opinion, my fangirling is embarrassingly authentic) so I immediately started reading and didn’t stop till it was finished. This book is… Continue reading The Silvered Serpents – Roshani Chokshi
🇬🇧 English below 🇬🇧 Deze hele trilogie is bewonderenswaardig. Zoveel verbeelding, zoveel diepte en thematiek, en tegelijk breekt het je hart en een hele wrede wereld (vrij letterlijk ook, haha!). Ik ben er stil van, dit is één van de meest unieke werelden die ik ooit heb gelezen. Er is veel diversiteit wat ik geweldig… Continue reading The Stone Sky (De stenen hemel) – NK Jemisin
🇳🇱 Dutch below 🇳🇱 The Fifth Season truly is a fantasy like no other. A unique world, which has seen multiple Seasons (aka apocalyptic events caused by an unstable earth). The people that survived made Stonelore, rules that help optimal survival, and everyone knows them. The story is told from three perspectives, one of them… Continue reading The Fifth Season (Het vijfde seizoen) – N.K. Jemisin
Sisters of Sword and Song by Rebecca Ross is a YA fantasy standalone. And that’s one of the many things I love about it: no waiting for sequels! I really wish there were more fantasy standalones, and Rebecca Ross clearly proves that it can be done to have a whole new world captured in one… Continue reading Sisters of Sword and Song – Rebecca Ross
When I think about Storm of the East I honestly can’t form thoughts. I thought it would be better after a few weeks but I’m afraid it didn’t really. Athan, Aurelia and all the other characters have taken up residence in my head have turned said head into a giant ball of feels. Nevertheless I… Continue reading Storm from the East – Joanna Hathaway
🇬🇧 English below 🇬🇧 De ijzige verloofde is het eerste van vier delen in De Spiegelpassante serie van Christelle Dabos. Ik heb op aanvraag het ebook mogen lezen voor #hebbanbuzz maar mijn mening is daardoor niet beïnvloed, en dat bewijst zichzelf denk ik wel als ik vertel dat ik het fysieke boek zelf heb gekocht omdat ik… Continue reading De ijzige verloofde / A Winter’s Promise – Christelle Dabos
I just has to use my grandmother’s distribution cards she used in World War 2 for this picture Dark of the West by Joanna Hathaway was quite a suprise for me, it feels like I have discovered a hidden pearl and now need to show it to everyone because it’s so awesome! I honestly can’t… Continue reading Dark of the West – Joanna Hathaway
Before She Ignites features Mira Minkoba, a girl who’s become the face of a treaty signed between the nations of the seven isles. She is a political figurehead, who gets told what to say by the government. However, when she stumbles across something she shouldn’t have seen, her peaceful luxurious life (with an awesome baby… Continue reading Before She Ignites – Jodi Meadows
Wow this was quite the ride! I adored the concept of this book: through some sort of epileptic seizures Nolan gets a glimp of a whole other world through the eyes of a girl named Amara every time he closes his own eyes. That can be a blink, a whole night’s sleep, and it even… Continue reading Otherbound – Corinne Duyvis
Crown of Feathers by Nikki Pao Preto was not what I expected, it was so much better! I expected cool phoenixes and a simple YA action based plot, instead I got treated to a wonderfully complex world, phoenixes that bond with humans, and animages who can talk to all animals. I cannot express my love… Continue reading Crown of Feathers by Nikki Pau Preto
There have been 6 apocalypses, 6 suns that have died and were brought back alive by sacrifice of the gods. The seventh sun has been in the sky for hundreds of years, but the days grow shorter... But that might be the least of prince Ahkin’s worries, as his father has suddenly passed away and… Continue reading The Seventh Sun by Lani Forbes
I bought the special Iskari book box from Blossom Books (Dutch publisher), and it was amazing! Forgot to photograph the tote bag though 🤦🏻♀️ 🇳🇱 Nederlands onderaan 🇳🇱It is official: this series is going in my forever favorites, alongside Harry Potter, The Infernal Devices and Narnia. This is the highest honor as I usually wait… Continue reading The Sky Weaver (Iskari 3: De piratendief) by Kristen Ciccarelli
Be aware that this review will have spoilers for Mark of the Raven and Flight of the Raven as this is the third book in this series! Please do not read any further if you haven’t read those! I try to keep spoilers at a minimum but some can’t be avoided. In Cry of the… Continue reading Cry of the Raven by Morgan L. Busse (The Ravenwood Saga 3)
“For the girl who is not okay. For the boy who wonders if it’ll ever get better. This story is for you.” In Coral we follow 3 different characters: mermaid Coral, the human girl Brooke and a boy named Merrick. Before this story starts, the author gives a special trigger warning, and that one already… Continue reading Coral by Sara Ella
“You’ve had one moment of clarity and now you think you have all the answers.” She gave a grim smile. “Take a breath, Thomas. There has always been fear. There will always be fear. It’s up to us to stand tall, even when the fear demands we bow down to it.” Why is it always… Continue reading Fawkes by Nadine Brandes
Yellow Mockingjay 