by Danielle L. Jensen. In this book we follow a woman called Freya, who’s stuck in an unwanted marriage to an awful man and spends her days longing for a life as a warrior. But when her husband betrays her to the region’s jarl Freya ends up in a fight for life and death. She is forced to reveal her greatest secret. She possesses a drop of a goddess’s blood, which makes her a shield maiden with magic capable of repelling any attack. It w...

by Nicki Pau Preto. In this book we meet Wren, a bonesmith and the daughter of House of Bone’s leader. Born out of wedlock after her father’s quick fling with a woman during the war, Wren has a hard time earning the respect she deserves from her family. Her only chance is to become a valkyr—a ghost-fighting warrior. But things get out of hand when Wren is sabotaged, causing her to fail the qualifying trial. Banished from her home, Wren is l...

by Hannah Whitten. When she was thirteen, Lore escaped from a cult in the catacombs. Now, she is a spy working for the women who took her in when she was found outside the catacombs. Lore can wield Mortem, a form of death magic that people gain after getting close to dying. Only, Lore was born with her ability. The church has prohibited its use, allowing only members of the Presque Mort to channel it.  But during a job, things go south and L...

by Susan Dennard In this book we follow Winnie on her quest to become a hunter of nightmares. Every night the forest in Hemlock Falls turns into a deadly trap. Nightmares spawn here, and the hunters of an ancient order called the Luminaries are tasked with protecting Hemlock Falls, and the rest of the world, from these terrible creatures.  All Winnie wants is to become one of them, a task easier said than done after her father was deemed a t...

by Kate Dylan. Christ that was…. predictable, but enjoyable.   In this book we follow a girl called Sil Sarrah that has a very high-tech supercomputer grafted to her brain. This special computer with its accompanying AI Jarvis, allows her to see and analyze the world around her in seconds. A necessary skill needed to perform her job as a Walker for the Syntex corporation, which means to rescue their field agents by entering their ...

by Sunya Mara. I listened to this book as an audiobook, and I must say that I really enjoyed it.  We follow a character named Vesper Vale. Who I in all honesty thought was named Vespa until I read the blurb for this book just and realized the narrator of the audiobook clearly pronounced the “er” closer to “a”. Oh well, it makes little difference here.  Versper is the daughter of failed revolutionaries, and she’s hiding away wi...

by Alexandra Rowland.  In this book we follow Kadou, the shy prince of Arasht, and his bodyguards as they investigate a break-in and tries to find the source of counterfeit money. So, this is a somewhat hard review to write because I’m honestly not sure what the book was about. It’s a book with some great elements, but also some less great ones.  Let’s start with the plot. There’s some sort of mystery at the core of this story. Coun...

by Roshani Chokshi. This is a very interesting and well-developed book that not only has a diverse and interesting group of characters, but also a very good heist-like plotline that has you intrigued from the beginning until the end.  I really like how diverse the characters are, they have very different personalities that makes this story feel very real. It’s rare to have people who are so different working together in YA books, and it’...

by Adalyn Grace. In this book we follow a young woman called Signa Farrow. She’s lived a life haunted by Death. More or less her whole family died when she was just a baby. But Signa cannot die, which not only made her the sole heir to a fortune, but gave her a connection to Death and the world beyond the living. One by one of Signa’s (very unfitting) guardians is taken by Death, making Signa more and more lonely and angry with Death. But whe...

by Namina Forna. This is going to be a very quick and short review, because I can’t really express my disappointment of this sequel. I really loved the first book in the series and I gave it five stars. That was a fast paced and action-filled novel with great characters and a great plot. Here, I’m not sure what’s going on because nothing happens. It’s so slow and just goes on and on and the characters all of a sudden feels super flat and...