I promised I would make a list of Fantasy Book Series that I have enjoyed or would love to read because everything about them just intrigues me and calls out to me—not because of the hype, never because of the hype.Read More »
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Book Review: A Sackful of Wishes by Azizah Idris M.
Title – A Sackful of Wishes
Author – Azizah Idris M.
Publication – 2018.
Publisher – Origami, Parresia Publishers Ltd.
Genre – Women’s Fiction.
Hadiza Musa, 25 years old, has been through hell. As a bubbly fun-loving teenager, she marries the impulsive Abdurrazaq Zanna, known as AR, and for eight years she suffers starvation, rape, and mental abuse from an increasingly obsessive husband. The death of her beloved father followed by the death of her beloved son brings things to a head. Hadiza determines for a divorce just as AR insists they are meant for each other forever. Thus, begins a battle for survival in which scars come to light and allies come from unexpected places.
Book Review: Binti by Nnedi Okorafor
Author – Nnedi Okorafor
Publication – September 22nd, 2015.
Publisher – Tor
Genre – Science-Fiction, Novella & Fantasy
Her name is Binti, and she is the first of the Himba people ever to be offered a place at Oomza University, the finest institution of higher learning in the galaxy. But to accept the offer will mean giving up her place in her family to travel between the stars among strangers who do not share her ways or respect her customs.
Knowledge comes at a cost, one that Binti is willing to pay, but her journey will not be easy. The world she seeks to enter has long warred with the Meduse, an alien race that has become the stuff of nightmares. Oomza University has wronged the Meduse, and Binti’s stellar travel will bring her within their deadly reach.
If Binti hopes to survive the legacy of a war not of her making, she will need both the gifts of her people and the wisdom enshrined within the University, itself – but first she has to make it there, alive.
Book Review: Moody by Destiny Henderson
Title – Moody
Author – Destiny Henderson
Publisher – Self-Published
Published – September 5th, 2018.
A collection of all ages’ short stories featuring friendship, self-consciousness, love, and ice.
Pink is a Distraction
Keva Knight liked bright almost obnoxious colors for a reason.Jo and Terra
Inspired by the summer heat. A slice-of-life featuring two friends at a gas station.Play it Cool, Al
Al is hit with a reverse love confession, job opportunity, and a new perspective of his childhood friend. Of course, his defeatist attitude doesn’t help him.Ice
There’s a rumor that Sasha has ice in her blood, and it may be the only thing keeping her alive.Waiting for Bus 26
She is waiting at the bus stop when he strolls by with a head full of curls and a navy-blue umbrella.Dreaded Dinner Party Prologue
Aucuria “Curi” Andrews is a homeschooled girl who’s tired of her dinner party-throwing parents. Nothing is set to change this latest party until a sabotage attempt and her parents’ reputation is challenged by a cartoonish nasty couple. It’s up to Curi to put a stop to the slander, meet some new faces along the way, such as the mischievous traveler Mister Wolfeman or ambitious Ophelia, and of course, eat some delicious food.
Book Review: Seafire by Natalie C. Parker
Title – Seafire (Seafire #1)
Author – Natalie C. Parker
Publication – August 28th, 2018.
Publisher – Razorbill
Genre – Adventure & Young Adult
After her family is killed by corrupt warlord Aric Athair and his bloodthirsty army of Bullets, Caledonia Styx is left to chart her own course on the dangerous and deadly seas. She captains her ship, the Mors Navis, with a crew of girls and women just like her, who have lost their families and homes because of Aric and his men. The crew has one mission: stay alive, and take down Aric’s armed and armored fleet.
But when Caledonia’s best friend and second-in-command barely survives an attack thanks to help from a Bullet looking to defect, Caledonia finds herself questioning whether to let him join their crew. Is this boy the key to taking down Aric Athair once and for all . . . or will he threaten everything the women of the Mors Navis have worked for?
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