The Bookish Bard

I’d been putting this series off for ages, despite everyone telling me I had to read it. Well, that’ll teach me. 😂 I devoured Red Rising in a day—the first time I’ve read a book that quickly in well over a decade! Pierce Brown’s story follows Darrow, a Red living beneath the surface of Mars.…

Another book I wouldn’t have discovered if it weren’t for Bookstagram! On the surface, this recently published hardcover looks to be riding the LitRPG wave alongside books like Dungeon Crawler Carl and He Who Fights with Monsters. However, look a little deeper and you’ll discover it was originally published in 2016 and has only recently…

Renganaton Books 1 & 2 by Obake – Review Or Bookiesodes, as Obake refers to them. (I like it!) The Renganaton series is exactly the sort of thing I was hoping to come across when I started this Bookstagram journey. Without Instagram, I’d never have connected with Obake and discovered their books. They also seem…

Thanks to Rory, the author, for taking the time to send me an ARC of this book and for taking a chance on a relatively new book blogger/bookstagrammer. MINOR SPOILERS. Wow… What did I just read?! I finished this book about half an hour ago and spent the next 15 minutes sitting in silence, trying…

Thanks to NetGalley and The Lab Press for the advanced review copy of Super Science Vol. 1 (The Lab Portable Edition). I’d never heard of this series before, but it’s built around a really interesting concept. For five days, the sky turns amethyst and the limits of human imagination disappear. Scientific experts around the world…

Thanks to NetGalley and Image Comics for this advanced reading copy.* Wow….. I went into this one completely blind. I made a point of not googling it beforehand, and I’m really glad I did. Red Roots is an ongoing comic series published by Image Comics, written and illustrated by Lorenzo De Felici. This collected edition…

*Thanks to NetGalley and IDW for this ARC of the audiobook version of The Last Ronin.* I really enjoyed this one. *The Last Ronin* is an iconic graphic novel depicting a dark future where only one of the TMNT remains alive and is hellbent on revenge against those who killed his family. The Last Ronin…

Alright. Deep breath. The beginning of the Cosmere….. Well kind of, Elantris was actually published first, however most guides recommend starting with The Final Empire The story follows Vin, a girl who has spent most of her life so far working for street gangs and using her hunches for petty cons. However it turns out…