Nonfiction and Nonsense

  • Kingdom of Ash by Sarah J. Mass

    This book was almost one thousand pages and I still wish it had been longer. While a great deal happened and the important loose ends were tied up there was still so much more that I wanted. But overall, it was everything I could have wanted and I especially loved the very last sentence.  My…

  • Tower of Dawn by Sarah J. Maas

    I loved getting to go to the southern continent, of which we have heard about in all of the preceding books. Like Wendlyn, magic remained here when it was wiped from Erilea, but it is a different type of magic than what we saw in the eastern continent as there aren’t Fae here. While reading…

  • Empire of Storms by Sarah J. Maas

    This book is almost non-stop action. There are multiple battles, main characters constantly separating to complete tasks and then meeting up at designated locations to join forces, and endless secretive plots planned out and put into effect by former assassin for hire turned hopeful future queen of Terrasen, Aelin. Also, there are several budding romantic…

  • Nothing But Blackened Teeth by Cassandra Shaw

    I finished this book the same day that I bought it. It’s short, but well written, and it’s creepy with psychological terror. I also found myself staring at the cover art even though it is frightening to look at because its depiction of both the title and the monster described within its pages is a…

  • Until I Meet My Husband by Ryousuke Nanasaki

    This is one of the books that captured my eye when my boyfriend said he would buy me a book but I presented him with a pile of three that I couldn’t decide between. It is a very personal autobiographical account of Ryousuke Nanasaki as he grew up in Japan realizing that he was different,…