Yeine Darr is the very young leader of a barbaric northern kingdom, but after her mother mysteriously dies, she’s named one of the heirs to rule the Hundred Thousand Kingdoms. She travels to the capital city Sky and is quickly thrust into a complicated and deadly game of politics. Her cousins, the other heirs, are not keen on allowing Yeine to ascend to the throne. Practically everyone in Sky is against her, but luckily she finds a few people she can (sort of) trust. As […]
Deception! Scandal! Intrigue!
How can you not want to read a book with a title like that? And the book doesn’t disappoint. This thing is 352 pages chock-full of late 19th century sensation, intrigue, and occasional bouts of madness. This story combs through the entirety of the bizarre Druce-Portland affair, a famously strange set of legal cases taking place in the late Victorian and Edwardian eras. The press and public obsessed over it for more than a decade. It’s hard to imagine any case finding the same level […]
Little Sam Likes What She’s Having
I wanted to love this book so much. And I did kind of love it. But I also kind of hated it. A modern romance novel featuring a complicated and impossible love affair, three complicated families, and a Bollywood tie-in? Sign me up for that. Unfortunately the execution left me wanting more and not in a good way. Mili Rathod was married off in tears when she was just 4 years old to 12-year-old Virat Rathod. A few years after their marriage, Virat, his mother, […]
Genre Bending Murder Mystery
After hearing someone on Book Riot say that Bellweather Rhapsody was influenced heavily by The Westing Game, I had to go out and get it that very day. As a kid I was OBSESSED with The Westing Game, a smart book that still holds up as an adult reader. While it’s easy to see TWG’s influence, Bellweather Rhapsody is firmly its own thing. If you like clever little mysteries with casts of interesting characters, this needs to go on your list. Every year the majestic, […]