BOOK LOVE by Debbie Tung  ★★★★/★★★★★

I'm going to keep this review short but sweet, exactly like this book!

I found this short graphic novel extremely endearing. I read it in one sitting and found myself smiling uncontrollably. I think this book describes bookish life perfectly. For what this book is, it's perfect and I wouldn't change anything.

"By living a reading life... I live many lives at once." -Debbie Tung

https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/39296114-book-love

*Free ARC provided from Netgalley for reading/reviewing.*

Give the Dark my Love by Beth Revis   ★★★★.5/★★★★★

This book started off as a typical ya novel about a young girl from a small town going to the big city to study medicinal alchemy. The main character, Nedra, is a spunky and determined female in search of answers to help people through a plague in which her island has been ravaged by. 

This Book is very dark, and I loved every second of it. I would give it a trigger warning for animal abuse, and for very graphic scenes of operations, etc... (it is focused on medicinal alchemy). The story you can kind of figure out but it had lots of crazy twists and turns throughout the whole book. This became a book to help me think up the hospital area of my D&D campaign. 

"I saw death itself. It was a feral thing, made of smoke and shadow. It was empty. And it was hungry." -Beth Revis

Nedra and her professor figure out that the plague is caused by a powerful Necromancy, and this isn't really a spoiler at all if you read the prologue... and things get extra dark from there. This book is kind of like a medieval zombie story. 

What I never really noticed about this book until near the end was the themes surrounding moral ambiguity. What constitutes as evil or good. Is it still an evil thing if you have the best reasons or intentions for it? I'd assign Nedra as Chaotic-Good, she will do whatever it takes to complete her goals.

"If you do this, Nedra, if you choose Necromancy... I will not follow you into that darkness." "Oh, Grey," I said, shiftingmy bag on my shoulder, "What do you know darkness?"

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This blog is dedicated to all the incredible authors out there in the world, who have changed my reading life. This blog is dedicated to all things books and books related. I hope to review books here, and then post to my other account on Instagram. I will write book reviews, and articles on topics that relate to things and um, other bookish things. I may even go as far as to discuss my upcoming Dungeons and Dragons campaign! Nice to meet you all! 

First things first, recommend me a book to add to my tbr in the new year in the comments.

Second if you have a fantasy book to recommend I read as d&d fuel please comment that as well.