Initial Thoughts I do like me some books about dragons, and this had dragons galore! The dragons themselves are adorable characters, and I might actually have preferred them over the humans (go figure). Still, it was a good tale, and the worldbuilding was lovely, and I'm actually curious about what's going to happen next! ASCENDANT [...]
So the week's Top Ten Tuesday Prompt is about books that made me hungry. Since I've already done something along these lines, it just made me think of the books I've made the food for because the books made me that hungry. Which is the sole reason why I have a ton of Food and Fandom [...]
Initial Thoughts If you're going for Gossip Girl meets Crazy Rich Asians meets K-Pop, then look no further! I really enjoyed this ride, despite the sometimes cheesy dialogue, often cliche character situations, and the highly-disturbing-but-probably-ingrained in-a-sliver-of-truth double standard of men and women in the K-Pop industry. (Though, I find this double standard is almost universal [...]
Two different books, one more enjoyable over the other, and ironically, it's the nonfiction that stood out more than my usual fair of fiction. I actually did a bigger rant about The Glass Hotel in my Goodreads review, but I didn't want to repeat that here, so I truncated the short rant to something a bit more [...]
tl;dr (Click for the Hotteok Recipe.) Here's another first in a long while: actually reading an ARC well in advance of its publication! So listen. Listen. I heard about Shine on Bookconline and was super stoked that I got lucky in the giveaway. Shine not only has epic teen drama and K-pop madness, it also has mention of a lot [...]
