Fantasy, Unboxing

Fairy Loot Unboxing: Dark Magic, April 2019

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I am a regular subscriber to the FairyLoot box – a Young Adult Fantasy themed surprise box that arrives monthly and cost £26 a month. I am yet to be disappointed by any of these boxes, and I thought I’d share this month’s goodies!

The theme for April’s box was Dark Magic and promised to include exclusive items inspired by Harry Potter, A Darker Shade of Magic, Shadow and Bone, Nevernight and Children of Blood. The April box also included a signed and limited edition print of Maya Motayne’s Nocturna, which I recently reviewed on this blog.

Let’s see what was included in this month’s box!

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Book Reviews

Review: Nocturna (A Forgery of Magic #1) by Maya Motayne

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A Forgery of Magic #1

By Maya Motayno

4.5 out of 5 stars

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“Given enough time you can learn to survive most anything. You learn to breathe when your lungs are too scared to move and you learn to calm before your heart bursts. You learn. Or you die.”

Review copy provided by the publisher through Edelweiss. 

I originally had this review scheduled to post closer to the release date but seeing as my beautiful blue (!!!!) Fairyloot edition arrived today, I thought I’d get this posted. I’ll hopefully do a post about the April box soon!!

After his brother’s assassination, Alfie fled far from his kingdom and his responsibilities in search of answers. What is the point of having magic colouring your world if you can’t use it to save someone you love? Now Crown Prince Alfehr has returned to Castallan, consumed by his grief and willing to do just about anything to bring back his brother. Finn just needs to stay one step ahead of her past. She’s a wanted woman. Or women, actually. Her propio – her intrinsic expression of magic – allows her to change her face as easily as she would a dress. Hopping from city to city, Finn knows that as long as she stays smart, she can keep her freedom. When dire circumstances throw Finn in Alfie’s path, the two have to work together to combat an ancient darkness that threatened to destroy their world.

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Collections

A Feast of Fantasy: Five Fantasy Books for April

April, the season of Autumn, Easter and most importantly, my birthday! I arbitrarily decided that April called for some Fantasy Reads, so here are my Top Five Fantasy Reads (in no particular order!) to put you in the mood for a very magical season~

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Book Reviews

Review – Romanov by Nadine Brandes

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Romanov

by Nadine Brandes

2.5 out of 5 Stars

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The history books say I died.
They don’t know the half of it.

Review copy provided by the publisher through Edelweiss. 

Rasputin is dead, the Tsar has left his throne and a revolution is sweeping through Russia. Seventeen-year-old Nastya, the former Grand Duchess Anastasia, has been given the task of smuggling a magical object into exile. With the Bolsheviks outlawing magic, the magical matryoshka doll her last hope of saving her family and curing her ailing brother, Alexi. When the inevitable occurs, Nastya must trust in her magic – and a handsome Bolshevik soldier – to find the spellmaster who can save them all.

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Book Reviews

Review: Spinning Silver by Naomi Novik

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By Naomi Novik, read by Katy Sobey | Published July 2018

4 out of 5 stars

“Anger was a fire in a grate, and I’d never had any wood to burn. Until now, it seemed.”

Unhelpful One Sentence Summary: Three young women fight to save their people from beasts of fire and ice.

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