Fiction

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.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. Circe by Madeline Miller was also considered for this award in 2019. My review for this novel is posted here. “It does hurt, I whispered. It should hurt. She isn’t…

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…

Hi everyone. Welcome back to Bibliophilia Book Reviews. Today I’ll be reviewing The Blood of Whisperers by Devin Madson. This is the first book of The Vengeance Trilogy. Click here for more information on this series and upcoming releases from this author. This review has spoilers. Summary Imperial Expanse of Kisia. Sixteen years later. Emperor Lan is dead. Empress Li is dead. Their children are dead. Now, Tianto, the late emperor’s only surviving brother, is Emperor Tianto and his son, Katashi, is his heir. However, in less than a year, the new emperor is accused of having conspired to kill…

Hello everyone. Welcome back to Bibliophilia Book Reviews. Today I will review In Shadows We Fall by Devin Madson. This book is a prequel novella to The Vengeance Trilogy by the same author. Click here to learn more about this author’s books. This review has spoilers. You don’t have to believe in fate. Fate believes in you. In Shadows We Fall is set in the Imperial Expanse of Kisia, where Emperor Lan is bent on making his concubine, Jingyi, his new wife. But Empress Li isn’t going out without a fight, and she seeks to stop the emperor from signing…

Hello everyone. Welcome back to Bibliophilia Book Reviews. Today I will review The Bone Witch by Rin Chupeco, the first book of The Bone Witch trilogy. I first saw this book at Barnes and Noble and bought it primarily for its gorgeous cover. This review has spoilers. For more information about this author and her books, visit her website here. “Let me be clear: I never intended to raise my brother from his grave, though he may claim otherwise. If there’s anything I’ve learned from him in the years since, is that the dead hide truths as well as the…

Hello again everyone. Today I’m reviewing The Enduring Flame Trilogy as a whole by Mercedes Lackey and James Mallory. There will be no individual book reviews posted for this second series of the Obsidian Universe. The Enduring Flame Trilogy was published in 2007-2009. Click here for more information on this series. General Thoughts I’ll begin this review by saying that I intentionally did not read this trilogy for the longest time. I thought about buying it several times and always decided against it, until I finally said, “Screw it,” and bought all three books on a whim. I had already…

Hi everyone. Welcome back to Bibliophilia Book Reviews. Today I am going to review The Name of the Wind by Patrick Rothfuss. Though minimal, this review does have spoilers. When The Name of the Wind was published in 2008, I remember picking it up from the fantasy shelf at my local bookstore, reading the synopsis and saying to myself, “I’ll buy it later.” I didn’t buy it until 2019 though, and part of me regrets that. Why? Because in 2008 the book was relatively unknown, and it didn’t have all the hype it does today. Don’t get me wrong, I’m…