BOOK REVIEW: Atomic Love by Jeannie Fields
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…
BOOK REVIEW: Half Sick of Shadows by Laura Sebastian
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…
JANUARY WRAP UP: What I Read This Month
Hello everyone. Welcome back to Bibliophilia Book Reviews. In this post, I will be doing a wrap up of all the books I read in January. This new year though I want to try something a little different with my wrap ups. I am still going to list how many books I read in the month I am wrapping up and provide a synopsis for each one of them, but this time I want some of those books to be part of a reading challenge I set up for myself this year so that my reading includes various types of…
BOOK REVIEW: Lords of the North by Bernard Cornwell
Hello everyone. Welcome back to Bibliophilia Book Reviews. Today I am reviewing Lords of the North by Bernard Cornwell, the third installment of The Saxon Stories series. Read my review for The Last Kingdom, the first book of this series, here. My review for The Pale Horseman is found here. Like all my reviews, this review has spoilers. “I hated Alfred. He was a miserable, pious, tight-fisted king who distrusted me because I was no Christian, because I was a northerner, and because I had given him his kingdom back at Ethandun. And as reward he had given me Fifhaden….
BOOK REVIEW: The Fifth Indoctrinated City by Chris Sykes
Hi everyone. Welcome back to Bibliophilia Book Reviews. Today I’m reviewing The Fifth: Indoctrinated City by Chris Sykes. For this review, I received an ARC by the author in exchange for an honest review. This book was published April 16th, 2021. This review has minor spoilers. The Fifth: Indoctrinated City is a YA dystopian novel about how hatred on the top levels of Britain’s fascist government affects the lives of the country’s citizens. New laws are implemented, and certain people in the country are now illegal. Thus, they are hunted by the Patrol. Victor, an Iranian man living in York…
DECEMBER WRAP UP: What I Read This Month
Hello everyone. Welcome back to Bibliophilia Book Reviews. In this post, I will be doing a wrap up of all the books I read in December 2021. These reviews have minor spoilers. 1. The Woman In The White Kimono by Ana Johns I Really Liked this book, but there were a few things that affected my overall experience reading it. First off, the narrator of the audiobook is the same one that read The Oyster Thief by Sonia Faruqi and we all know how much I loved that (read my review here). I do not mean to say that this…
NOVEMBER WRAP UP: What I Read This Month
Hello everyone. Welcome back to Bibliophilia Book Reviews. In this post, I will be doing a wrap up of all the books I read in November 2021. These reviews have minor spoilers. 1. Augustus by Anthony Everitt This book is a biography of Augustus, the first Emperor of Rome. Forced to take center stage in Roman politics at a young age, Augustus’s rise to power culminated when he defeated Marc Anthony and Cleopatra at the Battle of Actium. Later, he consolidated his power by transforming Rome into the greatest empire of the world. I enjoy reading about the lives of…
OCTOBER WRAP UP: What I Read This Month
Hello everyone. Welcome back to Bibliophilia Book Reviews. In this post, I will be doing a wrap up of all the books I read in October 2021. This month I read Alice Hoffman’s Practical Magic series in addition to a couple more books that I really enjoyed. These reviews have minor spoilers. 1. The Rules of Magic by Alice Hoffmann This book is the first of two prequels to Alice Hoffmann’s bestseller novel Practical Magic, first published in 1995. I read this book for the first time in January 2021, and I admit that I liked it more the second…
SEPTEMBER WRAP UP: What I Read This Month
Hello everyone. Belated Merry Christmas and Happy New Year to all of you. Welcome back to Bibliophilia Book Reviews. In this post, I will be doing a wrap up of all the books I read in September 2021. I confess I have a little catching up to do again, but September was one of my slowest reading months of last year. I think I was in a little bit of a reading slump honestly. Still, I managed to read five books that month, and some of those books are new favorites. In the next few weeks (more than a few,…
BOOK REVIEW: An Enchantment of Ravens by Margaret Rogerson
Hello everyone. Welcome back to Bibliophilia Book Reviews. Today I’m reviewing An Enchantment of Ravens by Margaret Rogerson. Please visit the author’s website here. I admit I wasn’t sure about reading this one for the longest time. I just didn’t think I would like it, and unfortunately I was right. It was a very disappointing read for me. I will say that An Enchantment of Ravens had a lot going for it, I just didn’t like the execution. The main character, Isobel, is a talented portrait painter with the uncanny ability of painting raw emotions on the portraits of her…