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I haven't done one of these in a while.
Goals:
📚 Finish the tagged book.
📚 Finish Everything for You by Chloe Liese.
📚 Start the next book in The God-King Chronicles.
📚 Start the second book in the Chorus of Dragons series by Jenn Lyons.

#FabulousFebruary @Andrew65

This is an interesting, albeit maybe a little longer than it needs to be, fantasy about two peoples, enemies for a long lying, who must work together to survive and defeat a growing evil. The world building is fantastic and includes a really interesting understanding of gender, pronouns, and gender roles. On balance I enjoyed this one. It‘s the first in a duology and I‘m interested enough I‘ll likely read the second one at some point.

Sort of feel like I‘m teetering on the edge of a reading slump—and for no good reason because I‘ve read some great books recently—so I‘m trying to fight it off with the tagged book which grabbed my attention because of its super cool cover. Here‘s hoping it‘s awesome!

#WyrdAndWonder day 13 (belated): had me at hello

Technically, The Black Coast had me at ‘war dragons‘ but they are a helluva way to say hello. Delighted to say I enjoyed this even more than I expected to (which is saying something) - looking forward to The Splinter King later this summer.

It‘s the start of #wyrdandwonder and I have yet another TBR that I probably will deviate from entirely but ya know...joys of being a mood reader. These are catching my eye as well as Dungeons of Strata and The Lost War which are both on my kindle. We‘ll see how this month turns out...

Reading High Fantasy always throws me back to my much younger years when I pretty much devoured only books in the genre- and I would have enjoyed this one then as much as I did now! With solid world-building and an expansive cast (which does sometimes slow the pacing down but the chapter headers help keep things straight), this makes for a great pageturner of a start to a new series! With raiders, knights, spirit-villains and dragons, this is fun!

You want to read this book.

A knife-throwing princess secretly running a patriarchy. Honourable young men caught between duty & pragmatism. A fierce warrior chief & her dragon-taming daughter trying to do a peace. Frigging DINOSAUR riders. Oh and god-kings, demon possession & street rats saving hidden heirs... as subplots.

I loved it - it both plays to and subverts epic fantasy tropes with glee.

https://onemore.org/2021/02/15/the-black-coast/

“There‘s a girl here holding his head, and it‘s not attached to his body. If he‘s not dead, he‘s a fucking good actor.”