Tag: fantasy

  • EXPeriencing ‘The City of Brass’ by S. A. Chakraborty

    EXPeriencing ‘The City of Brass’ by S. A. Chakraborty

    Cover image via Amazon. I know reading and travel quotes can be a bit cliche, but reading a great book can sometimes take you on journeys that rival those in real life. I found just that in S. A. Chakraborty’s novel The City of Brass. It’s an adventure in time, religion, and the fantastic, and I…

  • EXPeriencing ‘An Ember in the Ashes’ by Sabaa Tahir

    EXPeriencing ‘An Ember in the Ashes’ by Sabaa Tahir

    Cover image via. You know when you read a new Harry Potter book for the first time and you just couldn’t stop reading? All the way through the night, you kept turning pages because you just had to find out what happened next. Rarely did a chapter end where you thought, Yeah, I can put the bookmark…

  • EXPeriencing ‘Uprooted’ by Naomi Novik

    EXPeriencing ‘Uprooted’ by Naomi Novik

    Cover image via. Who doesn’t love a good, mindless Buzzfeed quiz? At worst it’ll eat up a few minutes as you’re waiting for your Starbucks order. At best, you’ll get a killer book suggestion. It was through a Buzzfeed quiz that I discovered Uprooted by Naomi Novik. It was something like, “Pretend to Write a Book…

  • EXPeriencing Mercedes Lackey’s Tales of the Five Hundred Kingdoms

    EXPeriencing Mercedes Lackey’s Tales of the Five Hundred Kingdoms

    Cover image via this review site that had a good, high-quality version. Never has it been more true than this series, but don’t judge this book by its cover. Mostly because nothing that’s happening on the cover has anything to do with the story, nor do the people even look like the characters. Fantasy novels are my…