A Psalm for the Wild-Built by Becky Chambers was recommended to me by Moon and Aurelie (and many more who loved it and said it in passing). Moon said it was ‘so me’, and she was right. The book follows Sibling Dex as they leave the city to become a tea monk. But even after Read More
Review: A Psalm for the Wild-Built by Becky Chambers
Indie Ink Awards 2022 – Nominate now!
The indie community keeps growing and more initiatives pop up. Last year, the Self-Published Fantasy Blog Off’s science-fiction counterpart launched the Self-Published Science Fiction Competition. And now a new indie award has entered the scene: the Indie Ink Awards! This new competition was announced during the Write Hive writing conference and was received with much Read More
Cover Reveal: The Children of Chaos by Trudie Skies
Earlier this year, I had the pleasure of reading The Thirteenth Hour by Trudie Skies and it became (and still is) my favourite book of the year. The cover alone was enough to seduce me, and then the blurb won me over. But it was the intrinsic worldbuilding that I fell in love with. Soon Read More
ARC Review: Touchstones by Stephanie Burgis
Thank you to Stephanie for sending me a free copy of the book in exchange for an honest review. These last few years have been hard. Some of us cope by writing, others by reading, and there are those who do both. We all have our way to get the day. Stephanie Burgis has written Read More
Ready Player Read(athon)
I joined the SFF Oasis a while ago after a friend, Jaedia, dragged me in. It’s a great Discord community with readers and authors who share a love for the SFF genre. It’s a fun mix of people who are all supportive to each other’s endeavours and chosen paths. Benny, the server owner, and the Read More
Review: K-pop Confidential by Stephan Lee
K-pop is booming. The pop bands from Korea are finally taking over the world, so it was to be expected it would find its way into other pop culture as well. K-pop Confidential is one of the first wave of K-pop books and I really wanted to read this (and all of the others) as Read More
Best Reads of 2022 (so far)
It’s that time of the year again: a mid-year update on my reading! I thought I wouldn’t read a lot this first half of the year because of health reasons. There was one month where I didn’t read a lot but I made up for that in the last two months. Broadening my reading experience Read More
Review: Voice of War by Zack Argyle
This book is a hard one for me to review for multiple reasons. I read this as part of the BBNYA competition so I felt obligated to finish it. I might have stopped reading after the first chapter if I didn’t. Before I read it, I saw the book on a lot of ‘best fantasy’ Read More
Birthday Haul 2022
It was my birthday last Wednesday and I had plans for the first time in years. One of my best friends had a work thing in Amsterdam and she came a day early to celebrate with me. I still had the gift voucher for the American Book Center that I won in a writing competition Read More
Review: Rosemary and Rue by Seanan Maguire
I read Rosemary and Rue as a buddy-read with Aurelie at the beginning of the year. I didn’t know much about the book or the series except that Aurelie loved it and wanted to do a re-read of the whole series. October Daye is unlucky in just about every day. She hardly has any powers, Read More