Fiction

Hello everyone. Welcome back to Bibliophilia Book Reviews. Today I’m reviewing The Ghost Bride by Yangsze Choo. This author, however, is best known for her second novel The Night Tiger (read my review here).Nonetheless, The Ghost Bride is also quite popular, and it has been picked up by Netflix for adaptation into a TV drama series. The show is available for streaming on Netflix’s website now. Visit the author’s website here. This review has spoilers. This book is definitely going to make it to my most surprising reads of 2021 list, for I liked it a lot more than I…

Hello everyone. Welcome back to Bibliophilia Book Reviews. Today I am reviewing Ariadne by Jennifer Saint. This is the author’s debut novel. Visit her website here. Ariadne by Jennifer Saint is a retelling of the Greek myth of Theseus and the Minotaur, from the point of view of the woman who helped Theseus kill the monster, Ariadne of Crete, daughter of Minos and the King of Crete. Or so that is what Goodreads says. Frankly, the synopsis of this book is a little misleading because this is not what the book is about. Yes, Ariadne helps Theseus kill the Minotaur…

Hello everyone. Welcome back to Bibliophilia Book Reviews. Today I am reviewing A Thousand Ships by Natalie Haynes. This book was shortlisted for the 2020 Women’s Prize for Fiction, and this is not the first retelling of The Iliad to be considered for this accolade; The Song of Achilles by Madeline Miller, for example, won this award in 2012, and The Silence of the Girls by Pat Barker was shortlisted in 2019. Read my review for The Song of Achilles here, whereas my review for The Silence of the Girls is posted here. Circe by Madeline Miller was also considered…

Hello everyone. Welcome back to Bibliophilia Book Reviews. Today I am reviewing The Grave at Storm’s End by Devin Madson. This is the third book of The Vengeance Trilogy. Read my review for The Blood of Whisperers (Book 1) here and The Gods of Vice (Book 2) here. My review for the prequel In Shadows We Fall is found here. Visit the author’s website here. My review has spoilers. The Grave at Storm’s End (TGaSE) is one of those books that is both a satisfying end to the trilogy and unsatisfying in my personal experience reading it (this may be…

Hello everyone. Welcome back to Bibliophilia Book Reviews. Today I am reviewing The Gods of Vice by Devin Madson. This is the second book of The Vengeance Trilogy. Click here to visit the author’s website. This review has spoilers. I will begin this review by saying that The Gods of Vice (TGOV) surpasses The Blood of Whisperers (TBOW) by a whole lot. The characters must now chose sides in the war between Kin and Katashi, and each decision they make is another thing I did not see coming. The pacing of this book, like the first, is fast, and I…