Karabou Review

  Several years ago, I spent a not-insignificant amount of time on a site called Wattpad . And that site, as you may have surmised, is where I found Seventh Born  by Monica Sanz. I had read only the first few chapters before this book was pulled down for publishing through Entangled Teen . Rather intrigued by what I'd already read, I bought a copy as soon as it became available. And then it sat on my shelf for the next few years, undisturbed and gathering dust as all TBR books are destined to do ... Rating: 2.5/5 Buy Seventh Born here . Blurb from Amazon: "Abomination. Curse. Murderer. All names hurled at eighteen-year-old Seraphina Dovetail. As the seventh-born daughter to a witch, she's the cause of her mother losing her powers and, in turn, her life. Abandoned as a child, Sera dreams of becoming an inspector and finding her family. To do that, she must be referred into the Advanced Studies Program at the Aetherium's Witchling Academy. Her birth order, quick temper, ...

  I received  The Darkest Part of the Forest  by Holly Black for my birthday in 2019. Since it’s been sitting on my shelf for some time and I’m generally a fan of Holly Black’s work, I decided it was going to be my weekend read a while back. Suffice to say, it didn’t wind up being that and I have very mixed feelings about this book. Rating: 3/5 Buy The Darkest Part of the Forest . Cover Blurb:  "Hazel and her brother, Ben, live in Fairfold, where humans and the Folk exist side by side. Since they were children, Hazel and Ben have been telling each other stories about the boy in the glass coffin: that he is a prince and they are valiant knights. But as Hazel grows up, she puts aside those stories. Hazel knows the horned boy will never wake.  Until one day, he does .... Set in the same world as the bestselling Folk of the Air  series ( The Cruel Prince , The Wicked King , and The Queen of Nothing ), The Darkest Part of the Forest is Holly Black's triumphant ...

  Toward the end of February, I purchased an e-book copy of That Time I Got Drunk and Saved a Demon by Kimberly Lemming because I was in a reading slump and many of the people in my reading network were touting it about as a really sweet, funny, cozy fantasy-romance book and that sounded like it might help me renew my interest in reading. Suffice to say, I probably should have done a bit more research before going into this one, because it definitely made my reading slump worse.  Per usual, I can't rate a book I didn't finish reading, but let's talk about the reasons I put it down.  Rating:   DNF The copy I have reviewed below is no longer available for purchase. Blurb from Amazon: " All I wanted to do was live my life in peace. Maybe get a cat, expand my spice farm. Really anything that doesn’t involve going on a quest where an orc might rip my face off.  But they say the Goddess has favorites. If so, I’m clearly not one of them. After saving the demon Fallon i...