Lives of Bitter Rain

 Hi Bookworms,

Today another Netgalley position on my reading list. Short novella by Adrian Tchaikovsky called Lives of Bitter Rain.

This novella is a part of The Tyrant Philosophers series and telling us a story of growing up of Angilly - child of Pal soldiers who by sequence of accidents and sort of wrong life choices lead her to Outreach.

If you read this series you already met Angilly in Days of Shattered Faith which still awaiting my attention...

I do like Angilly, her live is strange really, I'm not sure she really ever had a choice to be someone else...

This story is very compact if I can use this wording, I would like it much more with bit more dialog, but I understand the author wrote it to give us a chance to find bit more about Angilly without writing next long story from this universum.

I gave it strong 3.5*.

Bookshops and Bonedust

 Hi Bookworms,

Did you read Legends and Lattes by Travis Baldree? Bookshops and Bonedust is prequel to this story.

I read Legends.. over a year ago and enjoyed it totally, because come on how to not enjoy a book with ogre girl who worked with sword and decided to stop and be a coffee shop owner :)

This one

telling us bit more about Viv before and is a gem :) I love it :) We have our ogre girl here and ratkin and another ogre and dwarf and bookshop and bakery and I'm not telling more, just read it peeps!

Can't wait to have a chance to read a sequel Brigands and Breadknives which is planned to be published this year.

Tempest's Queen

 Hi Bookworms,

Today another book I read thanks to Netgalley: Tempest's Queen by Tiffany Wang.

This book is a sequel to Inferno's Heir I had a chance to read last year and I can say I enjoyed this one as much as the first book.

Main character of both is Teia princess and later a queen of Erisia. Book 1 tell us the story of a girl who can control two elements and because of that her half-brother - soon to be king - want to have her out of his way (killed). Teia joined the rebels to ensure her own safety by betraying them to her half-brother, but meantime finding friends and... one formidable enemy.

In Tempest's Queen we are finding out what's happened sometime after Teia is crowned Queen of Erisia and she's travelling to Shaylani - her mother home country to warned her cousin about threat from her archenemy Lehm.

I can say it is solid read with right amount of action where you can find friendship, love, manipulation, betrayal and more. 

Both books have solid 4* from me.

The Summer War

 Hiya Bookworms,

Today short novella from Naomi Novik I had a chance to read thanks to Netgalley.

It's sort of fairy-tale like story about Celia who discovering her talent to magic the day her beloved older brother left home.

Book blurp telling us that Celia cursed her brother out of childish anger and then with passing time trying to find a solution to undo this and she's finding out the truth about the old war between her people and their immortal neighbors the Summerlings. Now with help of her other brother she has a chance to undo the curse and heal the war-torn land. 

Whole novella is just bit more then 100 pages long and I can truthfully say fast and nice read when you have some time spare during travelling. I read it when sit in train during my holiday travels.

Story has few twists and giving us a chance to find out more about Celia, her brothers and her father before its final. Characters are nicely written, not 'flat' and I definitely like how this story builds up and how its finished. 

Solid 4* from me here.