Reviews by Category: Fantasy

Written by Shelley Parker-Chan, She Who Became the Sun is an exhilarating and emotional

read, especially if you like queer historical fiction and fantasy. It follows the growth of a young

woman who takes her brother’s name, a name destined for greatness. In Mongol China, peasants are

starving, famine is commonplace, and bandit attacks are frequent. When a bandit attack leaves both

children without a father and eventually takes the life of the brother, Zhu--the name the young

After his friends help save the Rainwing tribe from the experiments of the Nightwings,

Starflight himself is captured by his tribe, where he is to be “trained in the Nightwing ways.”

While staying in his original home, Starflight discovers the truth about his tribe and is forced to

make the choice between his dragons and home or his friends and peace. In this book, the

reader can really get a genuine look at Starflight and see the reasoning behind his often

Glory and her friends the Dragonets of the Prophecy are supposed to be the key to

ending the 20 year long war still raging in Pyrrhia. After escaping from the Seawing palace, the

dragonets head to the rainforest in search of Glory’s parents, but instead they find the lazy tribe

being hunted by mysterious monsters from the shadows. Glory decides to take things into her

own claws and hunts the monsters and runs for the queen position in order to help her tribe, and

If you like mermaid stories, then this book is definitely for you. Though mermaids may sound childish to

some, this book is far from that. It is an amazing book with the perfect mix of romance, action/violence,

fantasy, and sea creatures. In the world described in the novel, sirens live in the ocean and are feared by

humans since the sirens kill humans by drowning them and then ripping out their hearts. You meet

Princess Lira of the sirens who is considered as royalty since she is the daughter of the Sea Queen. She is

Tsunami is a Seawing, and part of a troupe of 5 dragonets prophesied to bring an end to

the 20 year war ravaging Pyrrhia. Tsunami ventures out to the kingdom of the Seawings in

hopes of finding her family, but when the royal nursery is attacked and her and the dragonets

are accused, Tsunami must earn back the trust of the kingdom to help free her friends, and

once done the dragonets are on the hunt again to look for their long lost families. When reading

Clay, one of five dragonets who are prophecised to bring an end to the 20 year war in

Pyrrhia, wants to see the world with his friends after living under a mountain for their whole

lives. However, when the dragonets try to sneak out they are captured by the ruthless Queen

Scarlet of the Skywings’s guards and forced to fight in her area. The dragonets form a plan and

escape with some inside help and go off to explore the world and find their families that they

Summary: After escaping from Sadeas’s camp with Dalinar’s aid, Kaladin has everything

he’s ever wanted: a battalion of soldiers, all under his command. Dalinar, on the other hand,

finds himself in much more trouble than before, with Sadeas’s betrayal splitting the highprinces

into two sides, making it much more difficult to unite them. Meanwhile, Shallan and Jasnah are

traveling to the Shattered Plains in search of Urithiru, in the hopes they can prevent the return of

the voidbringers.

Summary: Harry Dresden is a detective wizard living in Chicago. Having difficulty paying

rent, he eagerly takes a job from a woman named Monica Sells, asking him to find her husband

who disappeared while dabbling in magic. What at first seems like a simple case though soon

turns into something far more dangerous than Harry could’ve imagined.

Summary: Waxillium has spent the past five years patrolling the roughs, patrolling the

streets as a deputy and being a hero to all who live there. However, after the tragic death of his

lover, Lessie, and of his rich uncle, Wax finds himself back in the city. There, he mourns his

losses and takes over his uncle’s estate, assuming that his life of crime-fighting has ended. To

his surprise though, it may have only just begun.

Summary: After a long journey with Bayaz, Logen Ninefingers has decided to return to

the North in order to settle a few scores, specifically with Bethod. Jezal Dan Luther is trying to

figure out how to live a normal life, one that he dreamed about while on the plains, though this

proves to be more difficult than he first expected. Glokta, under the instruction of the Arch

Lector, is doing everything he can to gain votes for their choice of the new king, as the old king’s