Was ich vor dem Lesen wusste: Es gibt eine ziemlich krasse künstliche Intelligenz, der Fokus liegt unter anderem auf dem Militär, es gibt mehrere Protagonisten, von denen hat einer ein Huhn und eine schießt mit Pfeil und Bogen. Mehr musste ich eigentlich nicht wissen, um mich neugierig zu machen. Und ich wurde von der Geschichte […]
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Empire of Gold | S.A. Chakraborty | ARC-review
By Kat @ Bookish Blades on 12/05/2020ADVERTISEMENT This book was given to me by the publisher via NetGalley in exchange for an honest review *note: This review will contain spoilers for book 1 & 2 in the Daevabad trilogy! What is it about? Daevabad has fallen. After a brutal conquest stripped the city of its magic, Nahid leader Banu Manizheh and […]
The Manifesto On How To Be Interesting | Holly Bourne | Review
By Kat @ Bookish Blades on 02/05/2020What is it about? Bree is by no means popular. Most of the time, she hates her life, her school, her never-there-parents. So she writes. But when Bree is told she needs to stop shutting the world out and start living a life worth writing about, The Manifesto on How to Be Interesting is born. […]
WERBUNG/ADVERTISEMENT *I got this copy from the publisher via Netgalley in exchange for an honest review* What is it about? When Nishat comes out to her parents, they say she can be anyone she wants—as long as she isn’t herself. Because Muslim girls aren’t lesbians. Nishat doesn’t want to hide who she is, but she […]
WERBUNG/ADVERTISEMENT – REVIEW COPY *I received this copy in exchange for an honest review* What is it about? Jamie has been dreaming of this summer forever: of road trips and intensive art camps, of meeting cute boys with her best friend Jazz. What she didn’t count on was the car accident. Exiled away from her […]
swords, feminism, and the love of family | The Life and (Medieval) Times of Kit Sweetly | ARC-Review
By Kat @ Bookish Blades on 13/04/2020What is it about? Working as a wench―i.e. waitress―at a cheesy medieval-themed restaurant in the Chicago suburbs, Kit Sweetly dreams of being a knight like her brother. She has the moves, is capable on a horse, and desperately needs the raise that comes with knighthood, so she can help her mom pay the mortgage and […]