Category Archives: Fantasy

The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue by V.E. Schwab

Posted on October 21, 2022 by bseat

Somehow I missed all the hype about this book when it came out in 2020, but I am sure glad I finally found it! There is a little bit of everything in this book- romance, fantasy, mystery and suspense. Yet, … Continue reading →

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When Women Were Dragons by Kelly Barnhill

Posted on September 30, 2022 by bseat

Alternative history novels are always interesting. They let us speculate about what might have happened or what might have not happened if only one thing were changed. Barnhill, however has gone way beyond that and has imagined a whole new … Continue reading →

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Go Tell the Bees I Am Gone by Diana Gabaldon

Posted on April 1, 2022 by bseat

Sometimes you just bond with an author and their characters. I did that many years ago when I read the first in Gabaldon’s series, Outlander, and every time I  read one book I look forward to the next book. So … Continue reading →

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When Books Light Up the Silver Screen- Part 2

Posted on January 21, 2022 by bseat

A while back, 2017 to be exact, I did a blog about books that had been developed into movies or TV series. Recently, I became aware of how many shows I have been watching that were based on books,  so … Continue reading →

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A Master of Djinn by P. Djèlí Clark

Posted on December 17, 2021 by bseat

Fatma el-Sha’arawi is an agent for the Ministry of Alchemy, Enchantments and Supernatural Entities. Although she is the youngest woman serving in the agency, she already has an impressive track record for preventing magical entities (djinn) from upsetting the carefully … Continue reading →

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The Strange Case of the Alchemist’s Daughter by Theodora Goss (Books to Read During a Pandemic, Part 63)

Posted on June 11, 2021 by bseat

Mary Jekyl is strangely unaffected when her guardian dies. When her parents died when she was a child, she was left in the care of her guardian  for whom she felt very little affection. Now in her twenties, with her … Continue reading →

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Ready Player One by Ernest Cline (Books to Read During a Pandemic, Part 57)

Posted on April 30, 2021 by bseat

The year is 2045. All the things that humanity worried about; climate change, eco destruction and gross inequalities between the haves and have nots, have come to fruition. Earth is a dying planet and the only escape is OASIS, a … Continue reading →

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The Starless Sea by Erin Morgenstern, Books to Read During Pandemic, Part 44)

Posted on January 22, 2021 by bseat

The blurb for this book says it is a “…a timeless love story set in a secret underground world—a place of pirates, painters, lovers, liars, and ships that sail upon a starless sea.” I think that description encapsulates much of … Continue reading →

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The Ten thousand Doors of January by Alix L. Harrow (Books to Read During a Pandemic, Part 32)

Posted on October 30, 2020 by bseat

I have always loved doors. Whenever I travel, I end up taking pictures of doors and doorways. For me they are evocative, mysterious, and inviting. So a book about doors was a fascinating concept to me and this book quickly … Continue reading →

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Six of Crows by Leigh Bardugo (Books To Read During a Pandemic, Part 30)

Posted on October 16, 2020 by bseat

I first met Leigh Bardugo when I read her Grisha trilogy beginning with Shadow and Bone. She is clearly a new and exciting voice in the fantasy genre, so when I saw that she had written another novel set in … Continue reading →

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