Author: Brie Selby | @plotsandreviews

 5/5 WELCOME Dear Readers, Aliens and Creatures, Cardan loves it when you beg 🤣. I present the wondrous – ‘How the King of Elfhame Learned to Hate Stories’. BASICS Official title: How the King of Elfhame Learned to Hate Stories My title: More Reasons to Adore Cardan Author: @blackholly Publisher: @littlebrown Fav character: Cardan (duh 🤣) Type: Book – Novella? 5/5 INTRO Yay! Finally in Cardan’s head and what a lovely place it is. 😊 REVIEW Styled somewhat after a children’s book (10 up?) we are taken behind the scenes and on a final adventure with this couple we grew…

PREVIOUSLY POSTED Dear Readers, Aliens and Creatures, I am unsure about this one. Here, we have a book with somewhat insulting undertones, but a fresh approach to the Cinderella story. I give you, ‘Cinder’.  Firstly, HOWEVER, I am delighted that this book was written before the Covid-19 pandemic, because OTHERWISEEEE I fear what this author would have been up to. 🙈 ▪️BASICS: Official title: Cinder My title: How to Never be Clean Author: Marissa Meyer Publisher: @macmillanusa Fav character: The moon Type: Book – LONG LONG 😒 LONG series Will you read the others? – Nope 3.5/5 ▪️INTRO: Basically a story about 5…

 4/5 WELCOME Dear Readers, Aliens and Creatures, Meh. It was meh. Not terrible, just an overall hardly satisfying ending. I give you – ‘When She Reigns’. BASICS Official title: When She Reigns My title: The Final Drama Author: Jodi Meadows Publisher: @harpercollins Fav character: The Celestial Dragon Type: Book – Series 4/5 INTRO I took some time before writing this review because I wanted to compose my thoughts. The plot in itself is interesting, a young woman is treated unfairly and must learn to survive and thrive on her own. Against all expectations, she manages to make, and keep,…

PREVIOUSLY POSTED Dear Readers, Aliens and Creatures, here we have Mira in the forest. What could possibly go wrong?🙈 **cough cough, EVERYTHING** Welcome to ‘As She Ascends’. ▪️PSA: Baths are always important. 😢 ▪️BASICS: Official title: As She Ascends My title: Mira, the Ball of Nerves Author: @unicornwarlord #jodimeadows Publisher: @harpercollins Fav character: Hush Type: Book – Fallen Isles Series Will I read the last book: Yes 🤦‍♀️ 4/5 ▪️INTRO: We are back with Mira and her band of escapee misfits now trapped in the forest trying to find a way to the coast. Perils abound in the forms of soldiers chasing…

PREVIOUSLY POSTED Dear Readers, Aliens and Creatures, I have come to a conclusion- I do not like the mixture of weakness, helplessness and stupidity. It makes for frustrating female characters. 😔 ‘Before She Ignites’ gives me all of these. ▪️PSA: Going food-less or water-less for 4 days – unless you have a very serious precondition – will not kill you. ▪️BASICS: Official title: Before She Ignites My title: Watch Me Grow Author: @unicornwarlord #jodimeadows Publisher: @harpercollins Fav character: Lex Type: Book – Series Will I read the others: Yes, at least the next one. 4.2/5 ▪️INTRO: First off, 👏👏👏 kudos to Jodi…

PREVIOUSLY POSTED She bathes! Dear Readers, Aliens and Creatures of the Sea! SHE ACTUALLY BATHESSS.😭😭😭 **cries with gratitude** 🖤 ‘Dead Shifter Walking’ has quite a bit going for it. ▪️BASICS: Official title: Dead Shifter Walking My title: Wild Underworld Thugs Author: Kim Schubert Publisher: #createspacepublishing Fav character: Gramps Type: Book – Series Will I read the others: Probably no 4/5 ▪️INTRO: SIDENOTE: Ok, when authors use ‘olive skin’ to describe people, right? Are they speaking about the greenish sheen of the olive?! Or like… the yellowish green of the oil?! 😭😭😭 Just describe skin shades betterrrrr! Get a pack of crayons or…

PREVIOUSLY POSTED Dear Readers, Aliens and Creatures of the Sea (because you just never know who could be here😁 ), I am not much of a lover of contemporary romance, there are several tropes I find highly annoying and overly… hopeful 💁‍♀️?, but many of the good stories, this one included, seem plausible and I can accept them. Here is my review of ‘Run Away Home’. ▪️BASICS: Official title: Run Away Home My title: Dating and Dogs Author: Mimi Francis Publisher: @4horsemenpublications Fav character: Soldier Type: Book – ARC 4/5 ▪️REVIEW: Van and Serena star in this small town love story where one…

PREVIOUSLY POSTED Hi Dear Readers, Aliens and Creatures, I have a serious problem with this series – *coughs Jude* – I love Cardan, I love the created world, and I PROMISE I WANNNT to love Jude… but GOODNESS, her thought process and choices… smh, a big no no for me. This is my review of ‘The Queen of Nothing’. ▪️BASICS: Official title: The Queen of Nothing My title: Sigh, JUDE! Author: #hollyblack Fav character: Cardan Type: Book – Series – Book 3 Folk of the Air 4.5/5 ▪️INTRO: All’s well, that ends well. BUTTTT What a tiresome girl. 😩😔 If nothing else, I…

PREVIOUSLY POSTED Dear Readers, Aliens and Creatures, here is a Mexican soap opera mixed in with a Bollywood soap opera, both from the 90’s, I give you ‘Caraval’. 😒 ▪️BASICS: Official title: Caraval My title: Idiots at Caraval Author: Stephanie Garber Fav character: Castilo Maldito Type: Book – Series Will you read the others: NO, NO, NO 2.8/5 ▪️INTRO: It was a book with a story. 😒 Featuring characters I disliked. The hot men were only good thing. ▪️REVIEW: 🚨🚨 Some SPOILERS Read as a bumbling idiot, who should have been put out of her misery long before getting to Caraval, is immersed in…

PREVIOUSLY POSTED Dear Readers, Aliens and Creature, I really enjoy Black’s writing.‘The Wicked King’ is great 🤦‍♀️🤦‍♀️🤦‍♀️, if only I didn’t mind Jude as much. She is okay, but she lack critical thinking. ▪️BASICS: Official title: The Wicked King My title: The Delicious King Author: @blackholly Fav character: Cardan Type: Book – Series – Book 2 Folk of the Air 4.3/5 ▪️INTRO: After such a delicious book as the Cruel Prince, which I was hesitant to give a 5/5 because of a perceived flaw in Jude… I was concerned that, given the chance, the author would have taken her rashness and…