The Book Wyrms Hoard

Seven people set out to pray to the Mad God, said to grant a wish, only one wish to those who complete their pilgrimage. Pilgrim, Seeker, Player, The Tragic Lovers, Priest, and Book all have secrets and all have a wish dear to their hearts but as they get closer to their destination they begin to question whether or not their quest is worth it.  This was an extremely fun, short story with an MC who reminded me of Aragorn from LOTR if he had very questionable morals and a talking demon sword 😅. And honestly, while I loved Pilgrim, especially since at the end he's like "This was actually great because now I can go kill even more people!" Seeker was my favorite. And yes this is mostly because she's a beast master and has a hyena. Seriously hyenas are underappreciated animals and are perfect for fantasy novels so I don't know why they aren't used more. But I feel like she'll be a great balance between the chatty Demon Sword and the silent Pilgrim ...

Kim Roksu falls asleep one day reading the fifth volume of Birth of a Hero and wakes in the body of minor antagonist character Cale Henituse. Which is great except for one small thing; in a week Cale is going to be beaten half to death by the Hero Choi Han! Determined to avoid that fate and live his life as the spoiled, loutish older son of Duke Henituse Cale immediately sets to work to increase his reputation not knowing that he'll end up far more embroiled in the novel's events than he ever intended.  This was so much fun! Cale is the absolute perfect reluctant Hero because everything about Kim as Cale screams Hero. Kim/Cale may come across as calculating and selfish but as we learn more about his life as Kim it's pretty easy to see that these are defense mechanisms. As an orphan Kim/Cale is very defensive especially when it comes to getting close to other people but because he was an orphan he also has an ingrained need to protect those he sees as being in a ...

I am absolutely not crying.  Okay, yes I am, of course I freaking am. Dani told me I'd love book 4 and omg they were absolutely right! I love Anders, I hope he becomes a regular houseguest at the crypt! I also really enjoyed the conversations the three of them had on matters of spirituality vs religion vs science. These conversations were surprisingly insightful given how short the book is. I think what I loved the most though is how Winnie and Crela are truly a unit now.  One thing I wanted to touch on that has been a recurring thing throughout the series is how Crela explains her unlife and how Winnie has taken it to be very much a respect thing to use the terminology that Crela prefers. I know it sounds weird but after reading four books I think its very important to point out because we have parallels in our own lives.  I am most definitely looking forward to book five, which hey I've got it loaded on the Kobo and ready to go right now so leaving this revi...

Dee Dee and Dilly are seventeen-year-old twins recently orphaned after their father passed away in an accident. For Dilly his death, while sad, is a doorway to freedom. With him gone, she can finally pursue her lifelong dream of being a surgeon just like he was. She knows that this will be a difficult path to follow but she is willing to do anything to follow her dreams. After a chance encounter with Ben the son of the president of the medical school Dilly is confident that she has just found a way to make that path easier after Ben invites her to a lecture at the college with a renowned surgeon who admits that not only is he searching for a way to bring the dead but that her father had paved the way for his own research. Determined to prove to herself, to the world, and the ghost of her father she will succeed she starts down a dangerous path that makes her realize there truly isn't a line she is not willing to cross.  As we all know Frankenstein is my favorite book of...

Lord Toturi has failed his Emperor and the entire Empire with the assassination of the Emperor and the kidnapping of his sons. Due to this shame, he chooses the path of the Ronin, the clan less class of samurai that wander the Emerald Empire. He tells himself it is to find the missing princes but as he travels he sees so much wrong with the Empire. Samurai are pulled away from villages to fight in pointless battles that start over petty insults at court so villagers are left to defend themselves against bandits and worse. One afternoon he stumbles across a village that has been taken over by just such a gang of bandits, making a stand and saving the village. There is no way he could know at the time the impact this one action would make.  Hotaru is the Clan Champion of The Crane and currently at her wits' end. With the Emperor dead, a Crane now sits as regent which doesn't sit well with the other clans, especially the Lion the Crane's mortal enemy. She arrives a...

The people of the Nine Lands have been at war with the greybloods, techwork monsters, for thousands of years. Under the rule of the Ahiki warrior clans train their whole lives to summon the Spirits of their Ancestors to protect the people from the greybloods. Jinao is the youngest son of the most celebrated general of her time and unfortunately unable to summon his Ancestors, desperate to contribute something to helping his people he sneaks off and joins the army, only to watch his mother die and become the sole target of the greyblood the Bairneater after cutting off its arm. Unfortunately, everyone thinks his brother is the target which will have devastating consequences.  After Temi had a run-in with a strange woman on the beach she finds that she has a voice living inside of her. As a lowblood she knows she can't invoke her Ancestors so she is confused and terrified of this presence, but after the Chedu family murders her little brother Temi discovers that whatever ...

A body of a young woman is found mutilated in the desert and for Det. Bill Renney stumbling upon this body is like deja vu. A year earlier another woman had been found in the desert in the exact same state, but Bill knows for a fact this can't be a serial killer and it can't be a copycat because the details of the original murder were never released.  Toby is a young man desperate to escape his overbearing mother, living mostly on the street he does day labor in order to survive. He spends his nights trolling clubs the worst of the worst because it's the only ones that will let him in. There he meets a young woman, a vampire she calls herself, and he begins what he believes is his calling in life as her Renfield. Unfortunately, Toby has difficulties distinguishing fantasy and reality and he soon finds himself spiraling into a dangerous obsession.  Maureen is marrying Greg Lawson a lawyer and a film producer. While she is happy with their impending marriage she d...

Donovan has been taken in as an Enforcer in his Uncle's gang and after several screwups he's pretty much on his last legs as far as his Uncle is concerned. Donovan must hunt down the Renegades and bring the location of their hideout to his Uncle before his Uncle has him killed. Unfortunately, for Donovan he's pretty much the worst gangster in existence and he gets captured by the Renegades instead. Horrible gangster withstanding though Donovan is very good at surviving and he sees a silver lining in his capture as long as he can convince the people he's been trying to kill up until very recently not to kill him.  Prince Lorenzo is the epitome of a spoiled prince. Spending most of his life drinking away he all of a sudden has taken an interest in politics. That interest being unsettling his father King Erod whom he views as an ineffective wastrel at best. With the whole kingdom mortgaged to the powerful Cyrus Gold Lorenzo begins scheming with the beautiful Ma...

After the god Rodocolte screws up and gives Hiroto Amamiya's cheat skills to the wrong soul he is reincarnated onto the world Origin with less than nothing, except for a vast amount of magical power and a new form of magic: Death Magic. The scientists of Origin lock him up and spend twenty years of Hiroto's second life conducting inhumane experiments on him and when he finally dies a second time he vows revenge swearing to Rodocolte that if he sends the Heroes of Origin to his new world of Ramda he will kill them all. Rodocolte can't have that so the reincarnates Hiroto again with a host of curses attached to him. However, this time he reincarnates as Vandal, the beloved son of Dalshia a dark elf and a vampire, making him a Dhampir. While Dhampirs are hated by most humans in his new world Vandal seems to have his cheat codes, even if the womb he remembers his old lives and thanks to his massive magic power even as a baby Vandal and his Death Magic is nigh unstop...

Jiyoo's mother takes her and her father on a family vacation to the cabin in the woods at Half Moon Marsh. Jiyoo is excited to see her father but she knows if she gets too excited she'll upset Mother. So while Jiyoo would love to run up to him and hug him she doesn't, but even so Father promises that they will go back to the marsh tomorrow. But the next morning Father is gone, Mother tells her that he had to leave and he won't be coming back.  Wife has been gone for five days now, which isn't new but what is new is that Eun-Ho has unplugged his landline and shut off his cell phone so he doesn't call Wife and plead for her to come back. Unfortunately, as Wife, his Mother, and Noah his son have made plans for the weekend and even though he's made it this long without calling her he knows he has too as she is very late. Deciding to put it off a little bit longer Eun-Ho leaves the house to catch up on some grading at school when he is surprised to fi...

Lufeng has been married to the King of the Palace, the third daughter of her line, and their mother all sacrificed to The Palace's unending expansion into Feng, their marriages bargaining tools to gain a few more years. Adapting to life in the Palace before the wedding is difficult as a tree wearing clothes, using outside light sources, and even eating is foreign to her. She knows she must at least appear to assimilate if she wants to save her people. Finally, her wedding day comes and Lufeng learns just part of the truth regarding the sacrifices the women of her family have had to make over the years and she decides that she will be the last sacrifice no matter the cost.  Honestly, didn't even read the synopsis again before I started reading it so truly went into this with no expectations and discovered I had picked perfectly for tonight's read as this was just a different aspect of the issues Tsai discusses in The Memory Hunters.  I'm not going to delve to...

As heir to the temple and an established diver at the Museum of Human Memory Key Strade is one of the most well-known people in Asheburge and Vale her Guardian entrusted to protect Key both from herself and from the public from her should she ever get stuck in a memory. Vale's job is also to ensure that Key follows the rules, even if they do seem suffocating. Key, however, isn't very good at following the rules and after convincing Vale to stay a week out on an expedition to preserve one of the most important memories of not just her career but all of memory diving both women are suspended for a week without pay. For Key this is fine, but for Vale who is supporting her family back home this is the worst possible thing that could happen. On top of this Key seems to have not come back from this memory fully and is determined to go back to the site even if it costs both girls everything.  Honestly, so I thought this was going to be an interesting little tale where magi...

Calinthe is a Merchant of Knowledge for her Lord Williford, the Demon Lord of Ignorance and she has been sent off on a mission to track down a missing demon. While in the middle of her mission she meets Paivi who is on the run from its seems everyone after turning traitor Calinthe agrees to help her escape from those chasing her but feels there much more to the story than Paivi is letting on and once they return to the Lord of Ignorance's realm she learns that not only is that the case but the missing demon is far more important than she had imagined. What a freaking ride! From beginning to end this story had me guessing what was going to happen next and it honestly didn't go any direction I thought it was going to end in. As always we'll start with the characters and omg are there a lot of them, like maybe too many there were more than a few times that I wasn't sure who was talking or which was the Lord of what, or who was a god and why did these Terran guy...

After a night of celebrating not being one of the heroes chosen by the Goddess Myva Cinnamon drunkenly makes her way home. Part of the way there she darts off after one of the local trouble makers into the woods only to find a man who appears to have been caught in some sort of landslide. Doing what any good person would she frees him, only to discover far too late that he's a demon. She rushes back home through her family's cinnamon fields only to be tackled by the demon, doing the only thing she can she smacks him in the face with a branch from a cinnamon tree giving her enough time to race home. As a woman wholly allergic to dangers imagine her surprise when the dangerously handsome demon shows up at her home the next morning with an unbelievable tale; it's not the demons that are the bad guys but the "goddess" Myva herself and Cinnamon is just the girl to take her out.  Any book that starts the MC wine drunk on a quest for cheese is going to be goo...