Memory, Sorrow & Thorn Book 1 “When you were old, did your memories crowd out your other thoughts? Or did you lose them—your childhood, your hated enemies, your friends?” So what’s the book about? A treacherous battle ensues between the sons, Elias and Josuah, of the aged King Presbyter John. For he lies dying after…
Tag: Heart-Wrenching
Kings of the Wyld – Nicholas Eames
“Matrick plied his knives like a parade drummer, his rhythm so fast his enemies didn’t know he’d murdered them until their god asked them if they took milk in their tea” So what’s the book about? Clay lives a quiet and familiar life. No one would suspect that he was once one of the famous…
The Burning God – R.F. Kuang
The Poppy War Series – Book 3 “You don’t fix hurts by pretending they never happened. You treat them like infected wounds. You dig deep with a burning knife and gouge out the rotten flesh and then, maybe, you have a chance to heal.” So what’s the book about? Rin does not give up despite…
The Poppy War – R.F. Kuang
The Poppy War Series – Book 1 “I have become something wonderful, she thought. I have become something terrible. Was she now a goddess or a monster? Perhaps neither. Perhaps both.” So what’s the book about? As a war orphan, young Rin is at the mercy of her opium-smuggling foster parents and has only one…
The Reading Stray 