Rating
Plot ★★★☆☆
Characters ★★★★☆
Excitement ★★★☆☆
Atmosphere ★★★★★
Writing Style ★★★★☆
Tag: Heart-Wrenching
Kindred – Octavia E. Butler (Standalone)
Female Main Character ✓ Heart-Wrenching ✓ Philosophical ✓ Thought-Provoking ✓
We Are the Dead – Mike Shackle (The Last War #1)
Badass Main Character ✓ Female Main Character ✓ Heart-Wrenching ✓ Rebellion ✓ Witty and Gritty ✓
No Heart for a Thief – James Lloyd Dulin (Malitu #1)
“I know how much it hurts to remember, and how remembering is the only thing that comes close to comfort.” What is the Book about? We are the stories we tell ourselves…even the lies. The Thief, a great spirit, and her descendants have abused their ability to steal magic for centuries. When Kaylo starts to…
Assassin’s Apprentice by Robin Hobb (The Farseer Trilogy #1)
“Nothing takes the heart out of a man more than the expectation of failure.” What is the Book about? He serves his king until death – a masterpiece full of magic, suspense, and emotions. Fitz is a bastard, the son of a prince and a peasant girl. Yet, at a young age, the king takes…
The Atlas Six – Olivie Blake (The Atlas #1)
“We all have our own curses. Our own blessings. We are the gods of our own universes, aren’t we? Destructive ones.” What is the Book about? The Library of Alexandria has never perished; it has hidden away the darkest secrets of humanity for millennia. Every ten years, the most talented magicians of their generation are…
The Narrow Road Between Desires – Patrick Rothfuss (The Kingkiller Chronicle #2.6)
“Hearts were easier to read than books. Glamour wasn’t that much more than making sure folk saw the thing they already had plans to see. And making fools of foolish folk was hardly cunning grammarie. But this? Convincing someone of the truth they were too twisted up to see? How could Bast begin to loosen…
Daughter of Redwinter – Ed McDonald (The Redwinter Chronicles #1)
“But how can something that has no form begin in one place and end somewhere else? If a crow begins flying south, but what arrives is a swan, then the crow never undertook a journey.” What is the Book about? Those who see the dead soon join them. From the author of the critically-acclaimed Blackwing…
Shadowmarch – Tad Williams (Shadowmarch #1)
“Most dreadful of all, as she lay with her shivering children on the cold ground just outside the murdered town, she could hear the destroyers of everything she had, and they were singing. Their voices were painfully lovely. Darkness claimed her then, but only for a while.” High Fantasy ✓ Slow Storytelling ✓ Strong Emotions…
Empire of Grass – Tad Williams (The Last King of Osten Ard #2)
“Saying peace never lasts, or that an empire must grow or die, is like saying that only birth and death matter,” she told him. “Most of life is not part of either, but what comes between–the simple hard work of living.” So what’s the book about? Danger lurks on all sides in Osten Ard. King…
The Reading Stray 