A personal review of June Hur’s Behind Five Willows, a warm Joseon-era romance that recalls Pride and Prejudice and You’ve Got Mail.
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Until the End of the World by Sarah Lyons Fleming — Book Review
Sarah Lyons Fleming’s zombie-apocalypse novel offers survival, friendship and romance, but its relationship drama repeatedly overwhelms the danger.
Adrian’s Undead Diary by Chris Philbrook — Series Review
A review of the original eight-book Adrian’s Undead Diary arc: immersive zombie survival, community-building and humour that eventually became too much.
BR: Tell yourself a better lie
Tell Yourself a Better Lie is a book that teaches you how to change the bad and limiting stories you tell yourself, and make them good and empowering instead. The book is based on ten real stories of people who did RTT sessions with Marisa, and how they changed their lives by changing their stories.
BR: A Court of Thorn and Roses – Sarah J. Mass.
Feyre is a huntress. And when she sees a deer in the forest being pursued by a wolf, she kills the predator and takes its prey to feed herself and her family. But the wolf was not what it seemed, and Feyre cannot predict the high price she will have to pay for its death …
Dragged away from her family for the murder of a faerie, Feyre discovers that her captor, his face obscured by a jewelled mask, is hiding even more than his piercing green eyes suggest. As Feyre’s feelings for Tamlin turn from hostility to passion, she learns that the faerie lands are a far more dangerous place than she realized. And Feyre must fight to break an ancient curse, or she will lose him forever.
BR: Vengeance of the vampire Bride – Rhiannon Frater
Vengeance of the Vampire Bride continues Lady Glynis Wright’s diary as she fights for her freedom and remaining humanity. I enjoyed the Victorian atmosphere, the early nineteenth-century Buda setting and the Hungarian references, which felt especially vivid as someone living in Budapest. However, inconsistencies in the vampire lore and changes in certain characters bothered me. I also switched from the audiobook to the ebook because I found the new narrator’s style distracting.
BR: Tale of the Vampire Bride – Rhiannon Frater
Tale of the Vampire Bride was my first book by Rhiannon Frater, and its Bram Stoker atmosphere kept me engaged from beginning to end. I enjoyed its combination of Gothic horror, historical romance and traditional vampire folklore, as well as the author’s restrained use of descriptive detail.