Ana E. Way

Thanks to NetGalley and publisher for this arc  Welcome to Forever  may have been a little ambitious for me. As you've read previously, I'm trying to read more SF and am often left confused, but still, I'm enjoying my reads. I didn't think this book would particularly challenge me, but here we are, with me unable to wholly enjoy this story because I felt left out. Welcome to Forever  was a 5 star prediction, and if my rating was solely based on the characters it would totally be. I feel  like it isn't a story especially hard to understand, so maybe it was not the right time for me to read it. I still enjoyed it though and gave it a 3.5 stars! I can't really explain what I didn't understand since I would be entering the realm of spoilers. At the beginning, we are with Fox, a memory editor who wakes up in a Center for Memory Reconstruction with no memory of who he is, and more importantly, of his dead husband. Throughout the book, he will discover and remember

Thanks to NetGalley and publisher for this arc The Book of Doors is the kind of book that leaves you in a haze days after finishing it. I couldn't stop thinking of the story and the characters, and the next books I read really paled in comparison.  The Book of Doors follows Cassie, a bookseller who receives  a little notebook from a customer. She soon will discover that this notebook is actually the book of doors, a book that transforms any door in another door, allowing her to travel anywhere she wants. But she will also find out that she is now in grave danger (as is the world). I loved everything about this book. The idea of the books was really fun (well, not all of them), the characters were real to me, the friendship between Cassie and Izzy so beautiful and strong, the grief so heartbreaking and everlasting, the baddies so terrifying... Here comes a spoiler: I was surprised to see time travel and was a little worried of how it would be exploited, but I actually found it very

At the start of the year I requested many arcs on NetGalley, as usual yes, and I'm reading them slowly but steady. Two of the first three were really good ( The Many Lives of Charlie and The City of Stardust ) and the third ( The Book of Love ) was...well boring. Sadly, The Warm Hands of Ghosts (Katherine Arden) fell in that same category. To be fair, it wasn't a given that I was going to love this book since it's historical during WWI, but I went ahead anyway because there was a promise of fantasy (ghosts!), the setting was my home country, Belgium, and I was very curious to discover Katherine Arden's writing. As I said, I was pretty bored waiting for the ghosts and at 100 pages, these were only mentioned so I DNF it. I'm disappointed because the synopsis still sounds really good, but I just couldn't continue. On the contrary, The Briar Book of the Dead (A.G. Slatter) was amazing! Ellie, the main character, comes from a family of witches and is the first to no

  Merci à NetGalley et ME pour le SP (English below) J'avais très envie de découvrir l'œuvre de cette autrice tout en étant assez appréhensive des éléments d'horreur dont j'entendais parler. Thornhedge est une novella et une réécriture de conte, et donc moins intimidante que ses autres romans. Le livre compte une petite centaine de pages mais je n'ai jamais eu la sensation que c'était trop peu ou trop rapide. Il s'agit d'une réécriture de La Belle au Bois dormant du point de vue de la "fée" qui plonge la princesse dans un long sommeil. Cette "fée" est un personnage adorable et anxieux, isolée depuis des siècles car elle a pour tâche d'empêcher quiconque de réveiller la princesse. Quand un chevalier arrive à l'orée de la forêt et commence à lui parler, elle devra se confronter aux choix qu'elle a faits par le passé.  Dans sa note à la fin, l'autrice explique que ce livre lui a semblé être charmant et cosy, alors qu'

  Merci à NetGalley et à la ME pour ce SP (English below) J'avais déjà lu (et abandonné) un livre de cet auteur, Celle qui a tous les dons , mais j'avais vu la critique de l'excellente booktubeuse Willow sur sa chaîne Books and Bao qui m'avait vraiment intriguée, donc quand j'ai vu Infinity Gate sur NetGalley, je n'ai pas hésité. L'histoire est narrée à la première personne sans qu'on ne sache qui est lae  narrateurice, qui va présenter trois personnes : Hadiz Tambuwal, Topaz Tourmaline et Essien Nkanika. On rencontre d'abord Hadiz qui, dans une vaine tentative de sauver le monde qu'elle habite, va découvrir par hasard l'existence d'autres mondes, d'autres Terres, ainsi que le Pandominium, un consortium d'un nombre incalculable de mondes parallèles. Le principe du Pandominium m'a paru fascinant ! Dans ce tome, on voit un peu son fonctionnement, surtout celui de son armée, et le début de la guerre contre un consortium de monde

  Thanks to NetGalley for this eArc I've discovered Genevieve Gornichec's first novel through NetGalley and enjoyed it so much that I knew I would love this one, and I wasn't disappointed. It also takes place in Scandinavia (more precisely, Norway in the tenth century) but it isn't centered around gods like the previous one. We follow two friends trying to rescue their sister and we see what they are willing to do to see her back. There is a lot of violence in this book, as we see the aftermath of a Viking raid. There is also violence we don't see and can only imagine. But there is also, and above all, love, friendship and loyalty. I love seeing friendships between women in books, especially in a society so pregnant with misogynistic beliefs.  I don't know anything about Viking culture and I really don't understand how they could work as a society if anyone could be a victim of raids. Like, what was the point of them? Maybe, like Gunnhild said, there were to

Thanks to NetGalley and publisher for this eArc! This is, you guessed it, a first volume. In here you follow Calla, Anton and August in a chaotic city plagued by poverty. Calla and Anton enter an annual game in which the winner is the last one standing (alive). Both of them have a very personnal reason to win and they will form a tentative alliance in order to kill the competition. It is a story full of politics, betrayals, murder, conspiracies and complicated relationships. I was very curious to read Chloe Gong but her previous series didn't tempt me as I'm not really fond of mafia related stories. This is her adult debut and I really liked it! At the beginning I had a hard time understanding the worldbuilding, the magic and the politics at the same time but I was immediately engrossed by Calla's motivations that seemed so naïve to me. How killing the king without a plan for the aftermath will change anything in the politics of the empire?? I'll never understand socie