The Book Wyrms Hoard

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...