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Category: Fantasy

Serpent & Dove

Posted by Robin Holthuizen on 13 June 202013 June 2020 in Fantasy, Reviews

Meet Louise Le Blanc, a rebellious witch with a mysterious past. She maintains herself through stealing and swindling, making herself notorious among the Chausseurs, who have not found out about the witch-part, luckily. They’d definitely come after her. So when one Chausseur, Reid Diggory, does decide that Lou looks rather suspicious, there’s only one chance, one way, to avoid being burned alive. Marriage.

An Enchantment of Ravens

Posted by Robin Holthuizen on 16 May 202016 May 2020 in Fantasy, Reviews

In this standalone high-fantasy novel, we’re thrown into a world that consists of four regions, each one named after the season every region has always lived in. Isobel, a painter living in the endless summers of Whimsy, has to be very cautious when it comes to her clients. The fair folk cannot create Craft themselves, so they turn to humans to create it for them. And Isobel was doing great: her beautiful portaits have become a phenomenon among the fair folk …

Legendary

Posted by Daniëlle de Boer on 9 May 20209 May 2020 in Fantasy, Reviews

Legendary is the second part of the Caraval series. The book begins where the first part ended with Donatella waking up after Caraval’s closing party. In this part, you follow Donatella and find out that Donatella has made a deal with someone she doesn’t know to be able to participate in Caraval. Now she has to pay for this with information that Donatella can only get if she wins Caraval. The thing Donatella really wants is to find her mother, who disappeared many years ago. In order to achieve this, she must find out the identity of Legend.

The surface breaks

Posted by Daniëlle de Boer on 11 April 202011 April 2020 in Fantasy, Reviews

Deep in the sea, on the cold Irish coast, mermaid Gaia dreams of a life without her tyrannical father. Gaia is the youngest of six sisters and is praised for this by her father. Gaia’s mother died on her first birthday and Gaia would like to find out what the human world had to do with her moms passing. When she finally gets to swim to the surface on her fifteenth birthday, she falls in love with a human boy. She longs for a life above water. But how high is the price she has to pay for this?

Six of Crows & Crooked Kingdom

Posted by Robin Holthuizen on 4 April 202016 May 2020 in Fantasy, Reviews

In this book we follow a crew of the most deadliest and cunning outcasts of Ketterdam working together to fulfill a mission that would make them richer than they’d ever dared to dream of. Kaz Brekker, also known as Dirtyhands is given the chance to pull off the toughest heist ever: he has to break into the highly secured Ice Court and get a prisoner out of its jail …

The Kingdom

Posted by Daniëlle de Boer on 15 February 202015 February 2020 in Fantasy, Reviews

The Kingdom is a fantasy amusement park where guests are immersed in a world full of virtual animals and castles. Ana is one of the seven Fantasists, beautiful android princesses made to entertain the guests of the amusement park. Fantasists are unable to feel emotions until Ana meets Owen, an employee in the park. When Ana’s sister Nia is turned off, Ana tries to find out why this happened. When her other sister Eve was also turned off, Ana knows that something is wrong

Just dreaming

Posted by Daniëlle de Boer on 1 February 20209 February 2020 in Fantasy, Reviews

In the third book Liv and Henry are still together, but some differences in their interest cause some problems in their relationship. The friends are trying to unmask Secrecy, which turns out to be easier than expected. What does Secrecy have to hide?

To Best the Boys

Posted by Robin Holthuizen on 25 January 20205 April 2020 in Fantasy, Reviews

In a little town called Pinsbury Port, all gentlepersons of age receive a letter inviting them to compete in the so-called Labyrinth. The winner receives a full scolarship to the all-male Stemwick University. The poorer men mostly participate for a better future, the rich ‘Uppers’ participate for honor and maybe even prestige. But Rhen, a girl, isn’t looking for any of those things …

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