Genre: Fantasy

Review: This Shattered World – Amie Kaufmann and Meagan Spooner

This Shattered World continues the Starbound adventure in a beautiful and fulfilling way! The characters, the worldbuilding and the story are all amazingly well done. My This Shattered World review: In This Shattered World, the readers are taken to another terraformed planet, one that doesn’t progress the way it’s supposed to, and where the army is needed to keep order and a fragile peace. There are rebels hiding in the swamps, and they are apt at coming and going without being noticed. The story starts out very strong, with the army captain Lee in the local bar with some of her soldiers. And she is kidnapped from right under their noses once she realizes that a guy who is checking […]

Posted 10 December, 2014 by Linda @ (un)Conventional Bookworms in Reviews / 14 Comments

Review: Mortal Heart – Robin LaFevers

Mortal Heart rounded up His Fair Assassin series beautifully! With much more mythology, and the big mystery of why Annith was being left behind, I was up half the night because I couldn’t sleep until I had finished reading. My Mortal Heart review: The setting was awesome, the character development of Annith was really good, and I loved learning more about the mythology of Mortain and the other nine my favorite assassin nuns and others worshipped. Annith finally showed her backbone, and she acted according to her own beliefs rather than blindly following the abbess. And let me tell you, the abbess really pissed me off in Mortal Heart – not that I actually liked her in Dark Triumph or […]

Posted 24 November, 2014 by Linda @ (un)Conventional Bookworms in Reviews / 22 Comments

Review: Dark Triumph – Robin LaFevers

Sybella is an amazing character to follow, and I fell in love with both her and Beast in Dark Triumph! My Dark Triumph review: Fast paced, filled with danger and intrigue, battles and battlescars, Dark Triumph kept me up part of the night, and on the edge of my seat to see how Sybella would deal with all of her problems all at once. And my dislike for Mortain’s abbess grew in this story – that woman needs to be marqued, and soon! The main character in Dark Triumph is Sybella, but Ismae and Duval show up as well, as does Beast. And d’Ablret truly showed his despicable colors in this installment as well. Filled with many characters that […]

Posted 28 October, 2014 by Linda @ (un)Conventional Bookworms in Reviews / 4 Comments

Review: Crushed – Eliza Crewe

The fact that Crushed has a half-demon female character who actually enjoys having to eat humans to survive is one of the reasons I loved it so much! My Crushed review: The world-building is awesome, and the characters are many with several of them well developed. Even if Crushed is the second book in the Soul Eaters series, and I have not read the first book, I had no trouble following the action, the story and the plot to the fullest. Meda is a very intriguing main character, both because she is a half-demon actually trying to work with the crusaders to fight against demons, and because she actually needs human souls every now and then in order to […]

Posted 3 October, 2014 by Linda @ (un)Conventional Bookworms in Reviews / 5 Comments

Review: Taste of Darkness – Katie Reus

A sexy dragon-shifter, a beautiful were-wolf, intrigue, war and betrayals, Taste of Darkness have all of that and a lot of slow romance as well. My Taste of Darkness review: Right back into the action, Taste of Darkness brought me back to a universe that is well made, with really good characters and a wolf-pack that is very different from the norm – what with the alpha married to a vampire, and the fact that they were willing and able to also help take care of a dragon shifter who had escaped from hell. Drake is confused by the world, after being brought to hell when he was only twelve, he spent the next fifteen-hundred years there. Mostly alone and […]

Posted 26 September, 2014 by Linda @ (un)Conventional Bookworms in Reviews / 6 Comments

Review: Dissonance – Erica O’Rourke

*I received a free ARC of Dissonance from Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers via Edelwiess in exchange of an honest review* Dissonance opens up multiverses of possibilities so vast it made my head spin in a good way! My Dissonance review: The concept of Dissonance – that each and every time a person makes a choice in the key world, they create at least one echo world where the echo of themselves made the other choice – is one that I love. If you have ever thought ‘what if…’ you will get the excitement I felt when I started reading. I stayed glued to my kindle reading throughout the whole day – and awake part of the night […]

Posted 18 July, 2014 by Linda @ (un)Conventional Bookworms in Reviews / 20 Comments

Review: The Immortal Crown (Age of X #2) – Richelle Mead

*I received a free ARC of The Immortal Crown from Dutton Adult in exchange of an honest review* The Immortal Crown lets the readers know Mae a lot better, and seeing how different Gods are wooing her makes her seem more human, in a way, and more likable. Therefore, the story here is much better than Gameboard of the Gods in my opinion, and there are several reasons for this. One reason is that the world makes more sense in The Immortal Crown, and since Age of X is set in an epic fantasy world, it is easy to understand why the second book makes more sense. I also enjoyed Mae and Justin both more in The Immortal Crown than […]

Posted 6 May, 2014 by Linda @ (un)Conventional Bookworms in Reviews / 7 Comments

Review: The Ring and the Crown (The Ring and the Crown #1) – Melissa de la Cruz

*I received a free ARC of The Ring and the Crown from Disney Hyperion via Netgalley in exchange of an honest review* The Ring and the Crown is a young adult fantasy story, which seems to aim toward a kind of modern fairy tale. While the story unfolds mostly in London in the 21st century, the world isn’t the way it is for real right now, there is magic, and a lot less technology because the mage wants to keep progress at bay to make sure people are still dependent on the magic. The Ring and the Crown is told from several different points of view, and the switching is not always very easy to follow. The actual story of […]

Posted 14 April, 2014 by Linda @ (un)Conventional Bookworms in Reviews / 12 Comments

#COYER Review: Reprisal (The Time Weaver Chronicles #3) – Thomas A. Knight

*I received a free ARC of Reprisal from the author in exchange of an honest review* Reprisal is an epic ending to The Time Weaver Chronicles, battles, dragons, parallel worlds, time travel, love, and strong world building with even stronger characters. Krycin, Seth, Malia, the bard and the other characters are all still there, and now, the fight has to be fought both on Earth and in Galador. The new king of Findoor might just be the most powerful magician yet, and everybody is looking to Seth for salvation. There are a lot of different story lines that are wrapped up in Reprisal, and it is definitely a necessity to read The Time Weaver and Legacy before starting Reprisal. As […]

Posted 20 March, 2014 by Linda @ (un)Conventional Bookworms in Reviews / 16 Comments

Review: Red Rising (Red Rising Trilogy #1) – Pierce Brown

Red Rising is a well-woven story set on Mars, in a dystopian society, where the readers follow Darrow from the mines where he extracts precious helium 3 to help the population from earth to come and colonize the red planet. The Reds working and living deep inside of Mars have little food, and everything is done to make sure the clans do not band together with each other – only staying with their own. Many things are forbidden, but not many people dare to rise and try to make things better. When Eo brings her husband to a secret place she’s found, a place that is fully terraformed already, Darrow has no idea what she means when she tells him […]