Fiction

Hello everyone. Welcome back to Bibliophilia Book Reviews. Today, I’m reviewing An Ember In The Ashes by Sabaa Tahir. In this post, I will talk about all four books of this series and rate it as a whole at the end of the review. This series was published in 2015-2020. Click here for more information. I DNF’d this series twice before picking it up a third time and actually finishing it. An Ember in the Ashes by Sabaa Tahir was one of the first YA Fantasy books I ever picked up. It is widely popular and considered one of the…

Hello everyone. Welcome back to Bibliophilia Book Reviews. Today I’m reviewing The Silence of the Girls by Pat Barker. When talking about Troy, we inevitably think about Helen, the daughter of Zeus and once wife of Menelaus, king of Sparta, and all the deaths that were laid out at her feet. But was it really her fault? After all, she was promised to a man other than her husband against her will, and there is not much you can do when the goddess of love forces you upon another. Why did no one launch a war for the aggrieved nymph…

Hello everyone. In this post, I am going to talk about Greek mythology retellings. This genre became very popular after the publication of The Song of Achilles by Madeline Miller in 2011. Another well-known retelling of The Iliad is A Thousand Ships by Natalie Haynes. The books I will talk about here though are not just retellings of Homer’s epic poem. This list includes books that recreate any Greek myth. When relevant, I will also include an author’s other published works on the topic. My personal 5 Must-Reads for Greek Mythology retellings include: 1. Circe by Madeline Miller “Humbling women…

TW: violence, gore, and death. I found this series on a whim. I had just finished reading Gods of Jade and Shadow by Silvia Moreno-Garcia (read my full review here) and I wanted to read something set in Mexico and its pre-Columbian history that I would enjoy more. And this series became an instant favorite. The protagonist is Acatl, the High Priest of Mictlantecuhtli, the God of Death, turned into a reluctant detective tasked with looking into the disappearance of a priestess (in the first book). This who-du-it storyline is solved by the end of the first installment but all…

Hello everyone. Welcome to Bibliophilia Book Reviews. Today I’m trying to catch up on my reviews and will be reviewing Practical Magic by Alice Hoffman. Visit the author’s website here. This review has minor spoilers. Practical Magic is one of those books that I wanted to love, because I watched the movie and loved it so much, but I just couldn’t. This book, unfortunately, was a miss for me. It is one of those rare cases where the movie is so much better than the book. Maybe it was that I couldn’t help comparing the protagonists in this book to…

Hello everyone. Welcome back to Bibliophilia Book Reviews. Today I’m reviewing The Love Hypothesis by Ali Hazelwood. Now, I know that I haven’t been posting a lot of reviews lately, but I am slowly trying to get back into it. Life simply tends to get in the way sometimes. SPOILER ALERT: This review has spoilers, so please read at your own discretion. Or if you have not read or finished the book yet, please don’t read at all. Trigger warning for death of a parent and sexual harrassment. Okay. So… I don’t know why, but contemporary romance isn’t doing it…

Hello everyone. Welcome to Bibliophilia Book Reviews. Today I’m reviewing The Rules of Magic by Alice Hoffman. Visit the author’s website here. The Rules of Magic is one of two prequels to this author’s very famous novel Practical Magic first published in 1995. This review has spoilers. The Rules of Magic are: Do as you will, but harm no one. What you give will be returned to you threefold. Fall in love whenever you can. But Franny, Jet, and Vincent have to follow another set of rules: No walking in the moonlight, no Ouija boards, no candles, no red shoes,…

Hello everyone. Welcome back to Bibliophilia Book Reviews. Today I am reviewing Atomic Love by Jeannie Fields. Visit the author’s website here. This review has minor spoilers. I admit that I started this book several times. For some reason, it was hard for me to get into it, and I had to start over once or twice. Not that this book is hard, it isn’t. The writing is pretty straightforward and clear. The problem is that I wasn’t in the right mindset for it when I first started it. I read a lot of historical fiction, but surprisingly, I’m not…

Hello everyone. Welcome back to Bibliophilia Book Reviews. Today I am reviewing Half Sick of Shadows by Laura Sebastian. Visit the author’s website here. This review has spoilers. Half Sick of Shadows by Laura Sebastian is a retelling of the poem The Lady of Shalott by Lord Tennyson. I confess, I have never read the poem, which is ironic because I am an avid reader of Arthurian legend. In fact, I started reading when I first picked up the first book of The Pendragon Cycle by Stephen R. Lawhead, and I loved it. So when I first read the synopsis…