Genre: Fantasy

Average Rating: 3.81

Blog Tour: Tear You Apart by Sarah Cross

Whelp. It tore me apart. I absolutely underestimated how much I’d love Kill Me Softly two years ago and was absolutely heartbroken when I realized it was a stand-alone…until it was announced that there would be a companion continuing Viv’s story. (Which, of course, means that there’d better be books for Jewel and Layla or I will write a petition.) These retellings are simply fantastic in the way that they’re not entirely retellings, so much as loosely based on several fairy tales at once. With […]

Posted 20 January, 2015 by Nikki Wang in 2015, ARC, Book Review, Companion / 8 Comments

Finnikin of the Rock by Melina Marchetta

I read this and I’m going to tell you right now–I wasn’t quite sure what to expect. Of course, I’ve heard everyone squealing about this one, people trying to get me to read it, saying that as a high fantasy fan I absolutely had to read it. I was skeptical though. We all know the dangers of putting a book on a pedestal before we’ve read it. But damn, this book deserved that pedestal. It was hard getting into it at first and I actually […]

Posted 12 January, 2015 by Nikki Wang in 2010, Book Review, Favorites, Series Start, Ten Stars / 0 Comments

The Ring and the Crown by Melissa de la Cruz

I debated against myself for about two months before deciding to read The Ring and the Crown–and really only when a bookish friend said she could get me a copy did I decide to read it. I guess the fact that I was seeing the author a few weeks later helped with my decision! While it did sound enthralling, I was a bit put off by early reviews–mixed early reviews. They went from rave reviews to DNFs to in-betweens and just a ton of […]

Posted 30 December, 2014 by Nikki Wang in 2014, Book Review, Series Start / 2 Comments

Ensnared by A.G. Howard

We all know how much I adore this series, yes? Because I do. I really really do and there are few words to describe how absolutely thrilled I was to get my hands on an early copy. I mean… MORPHEUS. But we’ll get to him later. If there’s something that’s Anita’s trademark, it’s the absolutely haunting harlequin atmosphere she evokes in her books, and that was never more true than it is for Ensnared. While still maintaining that dark atmosphere, Anita creates a […]

Posted 29 December, 2014 by Nikki Wang in 2015, ARC, Book Review, Favorites, sequel / 2 Comments

Forbidden by Kimberly Griffiths Little

Gorgeous and bittersweet. I wasn’t quite sure if I’d love Forbidden, but I decided to try it out after seeing one of my friends just blown away by this book and realizing that I actually loved these kind of desert high fantasy books! So I decided to check it out. And then I fell utterly, utterly, utterly, in love with this book. There’s no magic in the world of Forbidden and it’s highly possible that Little based her world on African tribes–which I think is pretty […]

Posted 1 November, 2014 by Nikki Wang in 2014, ARC, Book Review, Favorites, Seven Stars, Stand-alone / 3 Comments

Chasing Power by Sarah Beth Durst

I’ve adored 2/2 Durst books I’ve read so I was more than excited to read Chasing Power. Sarah Beth Durst was amazing, but I think this one either fell prey to my major book slump or it just wasn’t as fabulous as her other books. I had so many complaints for this one that, if the rest of the book had continued like this, it probably would’ve developed into a 0 or .5 star read. There were just so many things that made absolutely […]

Posted 30 October, 2014 by Nikki Wang in 2014, ARC, Book Review, Stand-alone / 2 Comments

Anthology: My True Love Gave to Me

I am a huge fan of Christmas, and that’s the first thing you should know. I love Christmas. Like, REALLY love it. Throughout the entire year I sing carols when I get excited and start planning presents once August starts. I’m one of those people that others will roll their eyes at. But guys, it’s CHRISTMAS. Second thing you should know–of the 12 authors who wrote a short story, I’ve read (and am a HUGE HUGE fan of) 9 of these authors. These are […]

Posted 25 October, 2014 by Nikki Wang in 2014, anthology, ARC, Book Review, Stand-alone / 3 Comments