mooshake's reviews
239 reviews

Emily Wilde's Encyclopaedia of Faeries by Heather Fawcett

adventurous funny lighthearted medium-paced

5.0

it's comfort media at this point. i take forever to read it because i keep flicking back to previous passages, and i'm faced with the harrowing fact that, eventually, i have to read books that aren't this one. genuinely i have never read something so immaculately, eerily, and embarrassingly tailored (lol) to my tastes. thank u to heather fawcett for writing these books for me specifically, very cool of her.

A Sorceress Comes to Call by T. Kingfisher

4.0

Harrow the Ninth by Tamsyn Muir

adventurous dark mysterious slow-paced

5.0

foreshadowing so craftily hidden it altered my brain chemistry. rereading this cemented it as one of my favourite books and (though i can’t rank my faves to save my life lol) has a very compelling argument for the top spot. 

Wildwood by Colin Meloy
Did not finish book. Stopped at 67%.

my own fault for taking a 2 month break from this lol. the illustrations are beautiful, but it’s really starting to drag and continuing the extra 200 pages to see how it ends doesn’t feel worth it anymore.

i think i’ll just stick to seeing the film when it comes out.

Blood Over Bright Haven by M.L. Wang

challenging dark tense fast-paced

4.0

1. ily moira quirk 
2. this book’s main sin is veering into the rf kuang school of clubbing the reader over the head with The Point™️ instead of letting them come to their own conclusions naturally, as well as a few small things like thomil and sciona’s romantic subplot making me internally raise several eyebrows and an attempted sexual assault scene that was handled quite gracelessly imo. but god damn was it compulsively readable (listenable? lol) and the ending did ultimately, in an emotional sense, catch me slippin. 

A Dark and Drowning Tide by Allison Saft
Did not finish book. Stopped at 26%.

in theory this has a lot of elements i love. in practice the worldbuilding is clumsy, i keep getting the characters mixed up because they’re so boring, and the romance is the definition of “i love the lack of energy she brings, go girl give us nothing!” 

idk if i don’t care that i missed an entire dialogue exchange while trying to wrangle my christmas tree into standing up straight, it’s probably a sign i should stop.

The Warm Hands of Ghosts by Katherine Arden

dark emotional sad medium-paced

4.5

i don't know how this went from me almost dnf'ing at the 20% mark to struggling with whether to give it a 4.5 or a 5. katherine arden is a word magician.

The Buried Giant by Kazuo Ishiguro
Did not finish book. Stopped at 10%.

idk if its the book itself or the fact that the audiobook sounds like it was recorded underwater but every time i press play my mind wanders so i'm just going to have to admit that i don't care :^) 

Mouse Guard: Fall 1152 by David Petersen

adventurous dark medium-paced

3.0

If We Were Villains by M.L. Rio

dark emotional tense medium-paced

5.0

the five star drought that i’ve had since february is over!!!!!! thank god 🫠

i was worried that because i’m admittedly not a shakespeare girlie this would be a flop for me; but i was so blown away (i felt physically sick reading the climax lol) that i’m now realising that i just had bad english teachers all my life and shakespeare fucks, actually. wow wow wow