Melissa Ivanco-Murray

Beth Cato, A Feast For Starving Stone . How epic of a title is that?? First, the blurb, courtesy Goodreads:   Two countries at war. A delicious taste of magic. And a fierce princess comes of age in a rousing adventure by the author of A Thousand Recipes for Revenge. Princess Solenn’s marriage into royalty should have unified the continental neighbors of Verdania and Solenn’s homeland of Braiz against a common enemy. the country of Albion. Thanks to Albion’s cunning sabotage,

Time for this month’s reading roundup! This was a finishing-up-series kind of month. But I’m doing this whole thing where I try to read newer books, rather than just binging The Sevenwaters Trilogy  or The Dragonriders of Pern  for the dozenth time. I’m a nostalgia reader by default (but then, I’m also still listening to the same bands I loved in high school).   I made it through six books in March (although technically I started reading Heir to the Shadows at the end of Febr

I've got news! Sort of. It's small news. I have been bouncing the idea around for a while now of creating a brand new mailing list from scratch, since I never really figured out how to get the first one going with any consistency. They have a ton of new tools nowadays for organizing and scheduling email newsletters, so I'm going to try this again! I've got a lot of topics and exclusive goodies and such that I plan on covering in these emails, but I promise I won't spam your i

As promised, I’m back with a more thorough review of my favorite February read: Shelley Parker-Chan’s She Who Became the Sun . Going to try to do this without giving away too many spoilers, but we’ll see how well I succeed. I’ll start with just a copy/paste of the book blurb from Goodreads, because I don’t feel like inventing my own blurb when a) writing blurbs is HARD, yo and b) the blurb already exists. Work smarter, not harder.   In a famine-stricken village on a dusty yel

In my efforts to post more consistently this year, I’ve decided to do a reading roundup at the end of each month to rate the books I’ve read that month and share a few notes about each, and then I’ll do a longer book review of my favorite read. My reading habits are all over the place and I am a chronic re-reader of my old favorites, so fair warning: not all the books I’m going to post in these roundups will be new releases (or even from the past decade). I’m drawn to older w