Dona's Book Blog

Thank you to the author T Kingfisher, publishers Tor Books, and NetGalley for an advance audio copy of ᴛʜᴏʀɴʜᴇᴅɢᴇ. All views are mine. Three (or more) things I loved: 1. I connected to the idea of "The Greenteeth," magical folk who are both skilled and queer, who keep themselves to themselves and according to their own and not that of the "civilized world." 2. I love characters that have a hard time. Antiheros and unlikeable characters are the best. But I have speciaI love for underdogs. Both of the main characters in the book, the main character, Toadling, and her "knight" figure, are hard luck babies. Toadling...well, she's named Toadling, so that's a start. And her knight is a hapless, unsuccessful, third in line prince with very little confidence. They help each other throughout the book, and grow equally (despite what this means for cgaracter diversity). 3. This story includes some beautiful and important themes, like even outsider...

Thank you to the author, publishers, and as always NetGalley, for an advance digital copy of Time's Mouth. All opinions are mine. Time's Mouth is a time travelling story, but this element is more than that term implies. More on that in a moment. This story is also story about mothers and daughters linked into the past and future, and it is this maternal connection that powers the time travel in this story.  The women and girls in Time's Mouth are tattooed by trauma at one another's hands, in the form of abuse and neglect and abandonment and fierce, indomitable love, the kind that leaves scars. The magic these women possess exists in themselves in a series of moments in time. But their power is limited in a way that can empower the women against other, only not all of them know it. Wonder what would happen if the family suddenly takes back the cards from the one whose always been helding them all? I didn't invest too much in the main character's perso...