Book Review: Warcraft: Legends by Richard A. Knaak

Warcraft: Legends Vol. 3 by Richard A. Knaak
My rating: 5 of 5 stars

This manga was a collection of short stories in the Warcraft world, from Fiend, where Trag Highmountain meets a new ally to help him (which I find pretty cool), and he did reach the Ice Citadel, Crusader's Blood, which was just god awful and was action-packed, but at the same time it was just terrible and I feel sorry for the forsaken and the blood elf mage that clashed with the Scarlet Crusade.

Also, screw the Scarlet Crusade, tbh.

I Got What Yule Need was such a cute Christmas story! I really liked how Krizz saved the little girl's father, but the ending felt like Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer. And the last story, The Thrill of the Hunt, was actually pretty good, and I really liked how Hemet Nesignwary took care of the druid and the little cute animals.

My favorite story is the Christmas story and the Thrill of the Hunt. That was just it. The other two were okay, tbh, but the Scarlet Crusade one just made me mad as heck. But other than that, I really enjoyed myself and I would pick up another manga to read from Warcraft.

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Book Review: Blood Games: A Chicagoland Vampires Novel by Chloe Neill

Blood Games by Chloe Neill
My rating: 4 of 5 stars

The only person I know in Chicago is Harry Dresden, but now I know someone else: Merit and Ethan Sullivan. The Master and Sentinel of Chicago, who, I have to say, is very interesting and also very fun to be around. There was a murder mystery that I really didn't get at the end, and then the romance between Merit and Ethan was hot, but because he needed to focus on the trials that might make him King, he's been pushing her away...which, in my opinion, I do understand. At the same time, I was mad that he did that, even when she was trying to help him.

I really like the tarot card mystery aspect in the book, because when I finally figured it out and saw how confusing it can be, but when it clicks and you get it, that's when it starts to come together, and you start to follow the murder and the clues until you get to the end, where you find out it was all because of a jealous boyfriend who broke up with the girl he killed first and then wanted some more people to suffer...

But when you go after the one girl that could instantly kill you? And her boyfriend wants to rage?

Oh boy.

Not a really good place to be right now when said boyfriend has a whole bunch of magic roaring to get to you. But the friend was saved, and everything is fine...right???

Right??

Even when the new vampire queen, Nicole, dismantled the GP.

Um....brah??? You okay??? Did you hit your head somewhere???

So now what?

And what's with that weird note that appeared on Ethan and Merit's bed, ending with a cursive B.

...oh nooo fam. Oh noooo....

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Book Review: The village Library Demon Hunting Society by C.M. Waggoner

The Village Library Demon-Hunting Society by C.M. Waggoner
My rating: 4 of 5 stars

So if you combine Jessica Fletcher with the supernatural, then you have this book. The Village Library Demon-Hunting Society was a fascinating novel, from the time you open the book to the end. You are sucked into the world of Winesap and how Sherry Pinkwhistle lives and tries to solve the murder of her dead boyfriend, Alan Thompson, a lawyer turned antique shop owner. With references to Poirot, Colombo, and Miss Marple, you get all of the cozy vibes, along with a side of the supernatural.

Sherry Pinkwhistle is a librarian serving the Winesap community, until one day her boyfriend, Alan, was killed inside his house. Even though she is known around town for solving murders, for this one, Sherry didn't want to do it. She tried to ignore it until a demon started to possess almost everyone in town, so she could solve the murder. Between solving the murder of her friend Charlotte's husband to the murder of Alan, how can one try and solve the murders at the same time?

Her talking cat, Lord Thomas Cromwell, nudges her along the way, giving her advice even though she was skeptical of the fact that her cat can talk to her now, but along the way she figures out who did kill Alan (it was shocking the girl who works for him) and not who I originally thought it was, which was the son. At the reveal, the son, Corey, became so jumpy and was willing to walk out, but the only thing he could be convicted of was the dope he hid behind a painting.

It was a fun book, a book I enjoyed very much the more I read it. The spirit taking on the form of her best friend and revealing that she liked the storytelling part, so she made up her own stories, made me a tiny bit weirded out, like the demon was playing and writing her own story so she can have something to read about when she's bored and out of her mind? But I still enjoyed it nonetheless and does this make me wanna read more of C.M. Waggoner's books? Maybe, one I get a chance to do so.

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Book Review: Villains Are Destined to Die vol. 1 by SUOL

Villains Are Destined to Die, Vol. 1 by SUOL
My rating: 5 of 5 stars

My name is Brittany and I’m in love with Callisto and I wanna punch Derrick in the face.

So I have been avoiding this manhwa for a very long time for some reason, and now that I read it last night, I have to say that I really enjoyed this. Penelope Eckheart is the villainess in a mobile game, and every time you would play as her, you would die, multiple times. Now that the girl is in Penelope's body, she starts to act and play just like Penelope, only a whole lot different and a heck of a lot smarter.

For one, she called Duke Eckhart father, which unlocked her to speak freely and to finally use her own actions to tell the story of how she wanted to tell Penelope's story, then she had to deal wit
h her brothers, Reynold and Derrick-who I really hate TBH (Derrick, not Reynold, Reynold's a good petunia) and then we went to the Second Prince's Birthday party...

And, um...like most villainous men I fall for, I met and fell for Callisto Regulus who can fold me any kind of way and I'd thank him for it. Penelope remembers him killing her multiple times when she always play his route, so she tries to get him to kill her again so she can have the reset button...only to hold a sword against her neck and told her to find another way to tell him that she loves him.

....my brother in tyrant christ, I can think of FIFTY ways to tell you that I love you.

Dragging an assasin in the ballroom and scaring the crap out of everyone? Yes. Dang near breaking the assasin's ribs with just the hilt of your sword? Yep, uh-huh, that's why I love you, yep, break it a little more, I like his screams to be played on my spotify. Your red eyes that could be very close to crimson? Yesss.

But at the end, even when Penelope meets Vinter in the end of the garden (looking like Xavier Shen from LADS, I might add)she decides to go after the only love interest in the whole game that might actually love her--a slave knight named Eclise.

I cannot wait to get my hands on book two because it was so much fun. The artwork in this is is very well drawn and very well written, and I cannot wait to read on, to see how Penelope finds Eclise and deal with all the other problems in her life right now. Also make sure that Derrick gets punched in the throat. Dearly.


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Book Review: A Forbidden Alchemy by Stacey McEwan

A Forbidden Alchemy by Stacey McEwan
My rating: 5 of 5 stars

To the many people telling me that this was SUCH a good book...

*In Sir Integra Hellsing's voice (the abridged version)* YOU WERE RIGHT.

This book has PEAKY BLINDERS vibes, with a mix of magic, tunnels, secrets, and the SLOWEST of slow burns I've ever read. I loved the fact that Nina Clarke is trying to save everyone and the town of Kenton Hill, and at the same time, she falls in love with Patrick Colson, the leader of the Miners' Union. It also kind of had a love triangle between Nina, Patrick, and Theodore, but to be fair, I really didn't give a flying crap about Theo.

AT ALL.

I wanted him to go away each time he showed up, all jealous of the fact that Nina was getting close to Patrick, and I felt like Theo was going to fight him. I was waiting for him to buck up and actually swing, but he didn't. At the end, he actually helped Patrick face the troops and try to help him find Nina, even when Patrick revealed his secret.

As for Patrick, reading his POV was quite interesting. I really liked how he tries to hide everything from Nina, only for it to turn around and bite him CLEAR across his behind when Nina kept asking fifty million questions and wanting to know about this and wanting to know about that. When the landslide happened and Nina jumped in to try and stop it, Patrick tried to stop her. He even thought something really bad had happened to her as she charmed the earth and saved his brother Gunner and all of the miners from the landslide. But Nina saved a LOT of people that day, and I was glad that she tried to protect Patrick at the end, when he revealed himself to be the alchemist.

I was shocked when he told her that-that the last alchemist died and he became the last Alchemist, mostly because I really didn't believe it. But as he explained how he became the alchemist, I understood it, even to it's painful end. This book was such a good book and I would read it all over again, to visit this world once more and be welcomed back to Keaton Hill again.

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Book Review: Rewitched by Lucy Jane Wood

Rewitched by Lucy Jane Wood
My rating: 5 of 5 stars

Rewitched by Lucy Jane Wood made me feel...so, so seen in so many ways. I related to Belle more than I ever did to any other character that I've ever read. The way Belle is worried about other people, how she puts other people first before herself, and how she doubts herself...I was about 5 pages in when I realized that Belle is basically me in a book....if I were a witch working at a bookstore and rarely use magic. But this book wrapped me up in a hug as I kept reading, and I also kept cheering for Belle as she trains with Artorious to use her magic so she can become a witch.

I liked the learning aspects of the book because I felt like you were learning along with Belle as she learns how to do many things with her magic, and even when she starts to doubt herself, Arty tells her not to give up. That is why Belle is my favorite character throughout the book-you see her grow and learn her magic, to the point she faces her fears and does things she'd never thought she'd do.

From quitting her job and buying her beloved bookstore, to facing the women who have risen up to power by using dark magic and had killed their brother and blamed the other one. It was so painful to see how family hate can drive people to become power hungry--and I was glad that Belle stood up to them, even saving her best friend during the fight, thus completing the tasks in the grimoire that she was learning from. I was scared that she wasn't going to make it, her and Ariadne, but all in all, I really did enjoy myself, and I am going to read more of Lucy Jane Wood's books because this book was SO GOOD, and I enjoyed myself reading this book.

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Book Review: Love's A Witch by Tricia O'Malley

Love's a Witch by Tricia O'Malley
My rating: 5 of 5 stars

This book just became my favorite book I've read so far this fall.

Love's a Witch felt like I was watching an episode of Charmed, but somehow the special guest star was Richard Armitage playing Knox Douglas. I don't know why, but he popped into my head when I was reading this book, and somehow it worked SO MUCH.

So Sloane MacGregor and his sisters came to Briarhaven because their grandmother told them to come back. The moment they stepped foot into Briarhaven, Knox came in and...grabbed the suitcase and told them to leave. Like now. Not today, not tomorrow, not next week, now. Sloane got upset and said, 'hell to the nah, we're staying' and told the house to never let him in again.

Ooof.

But throughout the book, we see both Sloane and Knox going head to head on a lot of things, and how Knox is trying too hard to get rid of the MacGregors. But when Sloane's powers come in on her twenty-fifth birthday, things get chaotic and also very romantic when both Knox and Sloane get together and things happen-like Sloane morphing her car into a dragon, mushrooms popping up everywhere, and her nearly burning the curtain down when she kissed him.

The ending almost made me cry when Knox got all of the townspeople that were related to the founding families to help the sisters try and break the snowy curse, and when they do, they find out that it's not over. I'd never thought that I would like Groupy x Grumpy but I did, and I enjoyed myself reading this book so much that I wanted to stay in this world. Tricia O'Malley did a fantastic job with this book, and I cannot wait to read more.

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Book Review: Silvercloak by L.K. Steven

Silvercloak by L.K. Steven
My rating: 5 of 5 stars

This might be my favorite fantasy THIS YEAR. L.K. Steven, thank you for this book, and thank you SO MUCH for writing this book. A woman going undercover in a magical mafia to try and nab them? PERFECTION. I was rooting for Saffron to finally get her revenge on the Bloodmoons and to figure out what they're actually doing and stop them. I was hooked the moment I started reading this book, and I needed to know more about why Saffron wanted to bring the Bloodmoons down and to also expose them for what they were doing.

I did get worried that some of Saffron's contacts would get compromised, but the more I read and saw how she tried so hard to protect them, even when they couldn't even touch her because of the magic not working on her. I kept seeing her try and try over and over again to figure out what the Bloodmoons are hiding, while at the same time working with them to get what they want. When they face the Silvercloaks again, some of them are shocked that she's working for the enemy, while some of them knew that she was undercover, so they try not to hit her.

The ending of this book got me SO BAD. i wasn't even expecting it or that Levan, the son of the leader of the Bloodmoons, knew Saffron's secret. I thought she was keeping it on the down low, but that journal entry at the end told us, the readers, that we knew that she was a timeweaver, and that he was going to take her down.

Oh no.

Oh, Saff, girl, you are in BIG TROUBLE.

Especially when Levan and Lyrian are trying to bring back Lorissa.

Oh no, girlie.

Time to run.

I need book two right now to know what happens next, because that ending was BRUTAL. But I loved it nonetheless.

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