I did the Quick Fire Fantasy Book Tag earlier last year and I thought it would be fun to revisit and see what other answers I can come up with as Fantasy is my favourite genre to read!!! See the original tag post HERE!
The Shadows Between Us by Tricia Levenseller
Winterwood by Shea Ernshaw
The Girl and the Stars by Mark Lawrence
Sky in the Deep by Adrienne Young
Starsight by Brandon Sanderson
Wicked Fox by Kat Cho
This week’s Top Ten Tuesday prompt is books that I think should be adapted into a Netflix show/movie. I went through my recent reads and picked out a few I thought would be perfect!
The Honey-Don’t List by Christina Lauren
Sex and Vanity by Kevin Kwan
The Shadows Between Us by Tricia Levenseller
The Dreamers by Karen Thompson Walker
The Right Swipe and Girl Gone Viral by Alisha Rai
The Devouring Gray by Christine Lynne Herman
Winterwood by Shea Ernshaw
A Winter’s Promise by Christelle Dabos
I Believe in a Thing Called Love by Maurene Goo
This week’s Top Ten Tuesday prompt is books I love but have never reviewed. I started my blog about 2 years ago now and before then I never reviewed my books. I didn’t even really start rating books until I signed up for Goodreads which was in January 2018. So there are quite a large amount of books that I have read in my lifetime that I have never reviewed, these are the top 10 that popped into my head first!
A Darker Shade of Magic by V.E. Schwab
Eliza and Her Monsters by Francesca Zappia
The Name of the Wind by Patrick Rothfuss
The Final Empire by Brandon Sanderson
The Wicked Deep by Shea Ernshaw
Scythe by Neal Shusterman
An Ember in the Ashes by Sabaa Tahir
The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo
The Way of Kings by Brandon Sanderson
Six of Crows by Leigh Bardugo
I completed the Make Your MythTaker Readathon! Granted I didn’t quite stick with my original TBR for this readathon, however, I did end up finishing all of the prompts and I am now a witch!!
The books I completed were:
Featuring an animal – Winterwood by Shea Ernshaw
Read a book with a foiled cover – The Guinevere Deception by Kiersten White
Featuring a magical battle – Furyborn by Claire Legrand
Occult themes – The Devouring Gray by Christine Lynn Herman
*Spoilers Below*
This book is about a girl named Nora Walker who comes from a long line of Walker women who are rumoured to be witches. They have always lived on the edge of a haunted wood named the Winterwood that only Walker woman can traverse as finders of the mysterious objects that’s appear there.
I absolutely loved the overall premise and atmosphere of this book. I think it is definitely one of Shea Ernshaw’s strengths in her writing, I felt like I was actually there on the mountain experiencing the freezing cold along with Nora.
The history of the Walker women was super fascinating and I absolutely loved the fact that we got inserts from their history and their recipes they’ve come up with over the years. It added much needed depth and a sense of history that really reinforced the whimsical nature of these women and how each of their stories impacted Nora throughout the plot.
Nora at times I thought was a little naïve and unprepared for the situations that she walked into. Going to that party and trying to confront those boys and ending up stranded and locked in the room unable to help herself was a little frustrating at times. She definitely had the best intentions, especially when they built the fire too close to the trees, but she lacked a bit of assertiveness. Even when she was leading them to the Winterwood even though she knew they shouldn’t go in there she didn’t really do anything to prevent the situation.
The romance was a little too insta-lovey for me as well. They didn’t really know each other for that long and the fact that this girl literally went back in time to save him demonstrating how much she loved him was a tad much for me to be really convinced. If they had maybe spent a little more time together and actually cultivated a relationship I would be more inclined to believe it.
Other than that I was swept away into the story line and I just kind of enjoyed myself. The few plot twists that were thrown in there were entertaining, a few I predicted a mile away and others, especially Nora’s magical ability I didn’t see coming at all!
⭐️4/5 stars A quick, fun, kind of spooky, ominous read!
Amy Leigh Reads 