Last time we had a quick look at the menus and how to not get overwhelmed by all the buttons on the most important screen, your character screen. Now we’re going to dive a little further into what other things you need to do before you throw yourself enthusiastically into the game. So we talked…
Final Fantasy XIV has a lot of content to offer these days. A Realm Reborn came out in 2013 and since then we have had two substantial expansions (Heavensward in 2015 and Stormblood in 2017) with a large number of patches in between. Which means that if you’re joining the game now or you’re just…
So I’ve gone from my blog for just under a year now (November seems to be when I try to get back into blogging, clearly) but I hadn’t been posting a whole lot before hand. One of the things holding me back was that I felt I was drowning under a backlog of reviews I…
Timekeeper by Tara Sim was probably my most anticipated 2016 debut. From the second I heard about this book, I knew I couldn’t wait to have it, to read it, to hold it in my hands. Thanks to getting an ARC, I got to do the reading part of it a while ago (and then…
Anger: powerful, frightening, driving, intimidating. Anger is something we have been taught since childhood to fear and despise. We are angrily told not to get angry, our arguments or value discarded whenever we allow ourselves to become angry. Some amongst us are so afraid of this emotion that they will forbid themselves from feeling it…
So this year marked my attending my first Nine World con. And it wasn’t just my first Nine World con, it was my first SFF geek con altogether. I had been to anime cons in the past but my experiences at them had always been dreadful (bar the very first one at the time but…
Note: I am here to discuss the exploitation of queer characters and themes in fandom. I am unsure as to whether this happens to PoCs too, though I can unfortunately see how it would, but as a non PoC myself it is something I have yet to become aware of. I tried to look up…
All it took for me to become interested in And I Darken by Kiersten White was the fact that it was a retelling of Vlad the Impaler but with a girl being centre stage as the Impaler whilst her brother was the softer one. Now I’ll be honest in saying I expected at least some…
Sometimes I get tired of all the hetero romances that I find in 99.9% of books I read. I can count on one hand the books in which one of the MC is gay in the YA SFF and SFF books that I have read. So every now and again I make a terrible choice…
What is Fairy Loot, you ask? Well Fairy Loot is a subscription box that focusses on YA fantasy. It literally does not get better for me as it is the primary genre I read (I mean I read most genre of YA SFF but fantasy is and will forever be my first love!). You can…
I’ll start this post by saying this: I have never read any of the Marvel comics, nor do I intend to. My only links to superheroes when growing up were through the old Superman TV show, and the cartoon versions of the X-men and of Justice League. I have never been drawn to comics despite…
So, shame on me, I’ve not reviewed any part of The Throne of Glass series, but in my defence I did read these books when I was going through a really rough patch and I do ramble on about them to anyone and everyone who will listen. Why? Because it’s my favourite series (sorry Shadowhunters…
I was excited about The Crown’s Game by Evelyn Skye when I first saw the words Russia, magic, and enchanters in the same sentence. I have a soft spot for tales set in Russia (hello distant ancestors!), so that was a good start. And well, you throw magic in the middle of Imperial Russia at…
Quick disclaimer: 100% of the books I read and therefore am talking about fall under the wide SFF umbrella term. Out of those about 90% are YA, so it’s from that pool of books that I am drawing my experiences and conclusion. I don’t care if other genres are doing things differently, this is what…
On Death and Dying was one of the hardest books I have ever read. The subject matter was, obviously, in part the reason for this. But there was more than just the topic that made this a difficult book. Elisabeth Kübler-Ross wrote this book at the end of the sixties, almost some fifty years ago…
The Serpent's Quill 