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April 11, 2025Snoozly KitsuneLeave a Comment

Book Review: Among The Burning Flowers

Through the years, I’ve always been planning to pick up Samantha Shannon’s The Bone season series due to a lot of raving reviews from my fellow book bloggers. But such plan was forgotten after life got in the way and my other hobbies took over. Fortunately, in this year of 2025, fate has other plans for me, and I came across this ARC while I was browsing the Netgalley titles. It was not the author’s name that caught my attention at first but that lovely cover had me giddy and so when I checked it out, the giddiness became an…

April 10, 2025April 10, 2025Snoozly KitsuneLeave a Comment

Book Review: Crueler Mercies

Wow. That was quite a wild read. For a standalone fantasy, I did not expect that Crueler Mercies would really live up to its title, Crueler Mercies. Get it? After finishing it, I was reeling about the different kind of emotions it provoked. On one hand, I enjoyed it a lot since there was a lot of gore involved, no mercy from our characters, it’s a standalone, and of course, the plight of our heroine, Princess Vittoria. On the downside, however, there were a lot of glaring flaws that hindered me from thoroughly savoring the whole book with gusto. Before…

April 7, 2025April 7, 2025Snoozly KitsuneLeave a Comment

Book Review: To Bargain With Mortals

What a dazzling read this book is. I am so glad that I took a chance on To Bargain With Mortals despite the fact that I haven’t read anything about the author and the premise seems like the usual fantasy trope of girl-of-destiny. But as I have mentioned in my previous reviews, I can put up with familiar fantasy tropes as long as executed well and To Bargain With Mortals has just done that. It’s not perfect but every page was perfect for me. Inspired by colonial India, R.A. Basu’s To Bargain With Mortals follows the story of Poppy Sutherland,…

April 2, 2025Snoozly KitsuneLeave a Comment

Book Review: Neverwhere

Prior to reading Neverwhere, I have already read several Neil Gaiman books and it’s prolly obvious by now that I immensely enjoyed all his works. As of this review, there’s no single Neil Gaiman book that I did not like and I’m glad that Neverwhere would not be the first time. As with the other Gaiman books, Neverwhere has that same whimsy, quirky and yet, profound vibe that are so familiar yet novel with Gaiman’s stories. How does Neil do it? Being able to weave a lot of stories without losing the individual magic of each one. Neverwhere was somewhat…