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rainbowbrarian's Reviews (1.85k)
Thank you to NetGalley for giving a DRC copy of this book.
This sadly was not the book for me. The fake amnesia plot felt really creepy to me and the whole, staying with my boss under false pretenses was uncomfortable. I also felt like Jonathan was completely unlikeable.
There was some good writing though! I highlighted couple of quotes that made me actually laugh out loud. Loved the cat, Gollum.
If you can overlook the "building the relationship on lies" thing, you might enjoy this book. It just wasn't right for me.
This sadly was not the book for me. The fake amnesia plot felt really creepy to me and the whole, staying with my boss under false pretenses was uncomfortable. I also felt like Jonathan was completely unlikeable.
There was some good writing though! I highlighted couple of quotes that made me actually laugh out loud. Loved the cat, Gollum.
If you can overlook the "building the relationship on lies" thing, you might enjoy this book. It just wasn't right for me.
OMG, folks. This is a GOOD ONE. Fast facts: 4th in the Singing Hills Cycle, following Cleric Chih as they traverse the world collecting stories for the Abbey’s archive.
This one is my favorite of them all so far. For the first time we get to see the magic behind Chih as we get our first glimpse of the Singing Hills Abbey, itself. I loved getting to see glimpses of Chih in their childhood, learn about some of their backstory and to meet their friend Ru.
But things have changed at the Abbey since Chih was last home. We meet old friends and new family in this installment. With Mammoths literally at the gates of the Abbey and the familiar order upset, Chih has to reckon with changes both good and bad.
The idea of stories within stories is SUCH a good one, and that’s what you get in these books. They are SO good. I loved meeting Chiep and all the rest. This is probably a series I should own. I could read and re-read this again and again.
This one is my favorite of them all so far. For the first time we get to see the magic behind Chih as we get our first glimpse of the Singing Hills Abbey, itself. I loved getting to see glimpses of Chih in their childhood, learn about some of their backstory and to meet their friend Ru.
But things have changed at the Abbey since Chih was last home. We meet old friends and new family in this installment. With Mammoths literally at the gates of the Abbey and the familiar order upset, Chih has to reckon with changes both good and bad.
The idea of stories within stories is SUCH a good one, and that’s what you get in these books. They are SO good. I loved meeting Chiep and all the rest. This is probably a series I should own. I could read and re-read this again and again.
DNF this one. I just got really fed up with listening to Snowman/Jimmy whining about things and being a general garbage person. And I was SO done with him demanding details of trauma from Oryx. He was just such an unlikable protagonist that I stopped caring about what happened to him.
Life is too short to read books about people you hate.
Life is too short to read books about people you hate.
This story was SO GOOD. I kinda wanna keyboard smash about it.
Fairy bargains, goblin markets, set in an alternative history of London where Queen Elizabeth I made a treaty with Titania the Fairy Queen and the two worlds have sort of merged.
The stakes are high in this romance urban fantasy thriller. Deri and Owain, two of the main character are indentured servants to cruel and untouchable mystrers and mistresses. Deri serves Merchant Maurlocke and Owain Missus Graspar who runs an exploitative workhouse on the backs of enslaved children. A chance meeting brings them together and as they try to create futures for themselves in a world set against them, the entirely of London's future hangs in the balance as a royal destiny comes up for sale in the Untermarkt, the Goblin Market.
The writing is excellent, the characters are so well done and fully realized. The magic systems and fairy laws are creative and fresh. And I love an overthrowing corrupt systems story any way I can get it! Don't sleep on this one!
Fairy bargains, goblin markets, set in an alternative history of London where Queen Elizabeth I made a treaty with Titania the Fairy Queen and the two worlds have sort of merged.
The stakes are high in this romance urban fantasy thriller. Deri and Owain, two of the main character are indentured servants to cruel and untouchable mystrers and mistresses. Deri serves Merchant Maurlocke and Owain Missus Graspar who runs an exploitative workhouse on the backs of enslaved children. A chance meeting brings them together and as they try to create futures for themselves in a world set against them, the entirely of London's future hangs in the balance as a royal destiny comes up for sale in the Untermarkt, the Goblin Market.
The writing is excellent, the characters are so well done and fully realized. The magic systems and fairy laws are creative and fresh. And I love an overthrowing corrupt systems story any way I can get it! Don't sleep on this one!
