Book Reviews

Uptown Oracle Reads… Feathertide | A Magical Tale of Exploration and Finding Yourself

Feathertide starts with the birth of our main character and plenty of questions. Is she a bird? Is she fae? Will her father come for her? Leman, her mother, hides her away for her own safety and the questions we have are mirrored as our character grows up. Living in a brothel, and being taught…
Uptown Oracle Reads… The Crow Rider

#Gifted | After finishing The Storm Crow I immediately wanted to find out what happened to Thia, Kiva and Erican and so I was super excited to read The Crow Rider. The premise of giant crows, which are not only super helpful in battle but are vital to the cities that have been built around…
Uptown Oracle Reads… The Storm Crow

The Storm Crow starts off with us in flight on the back of a crow. This is such a beautifully written scene, and it truly helps you understand what Thia loses later on in the book. I adored the description of the lift and fall of flying, and it truly helps you imagine what it…
SPFBO 6 | Try a Chapter and First Impressions Book Reviews | 2020 Entrants | Part 1

The first five books I read from SPFBO 6’s 2020 entrants. These were a good start, and I found two books I just wanted to continue reading.
Uptown Oracle Reads… The Sin Eater

So I thought this was going to be a fantasy book from what I’d read about sin eaters before but it’s more historical fiction. Sin Eaters are women who have been given the task to hear all the sins of a person before they die, and eat all the coresponding food over their coffins. They’re…
Uptown Oracle Reads… Incendiary

IncendiaryZoraida Cordova (Affiliate Links) I am Renata Convida.I have lived a hundred stolen lives.Now I live my own. Renata Convida was only a child when she was kidnapped by the King’s Justice and brought to the luxurious palace of Andalucia. As a Robari, the rarest and most feared of the magical Moria, Renata’s ability to…
Uptown Oracle Reads… Ashlords

AshlordsScott Reintgen (Affiliate Links) Every year since the Ashlords were gifted phoenix horses by their gods, they’ve raced them. First into battle, then on great hunts, and finally for the pure sport of seeing who rode the fastest. Centuries of blood and fire carved their competition into a more modern spectacle: The Races. Over the…
SPFBO 2018 Top 10 Finalists – Try a Chapter and First Impressions Book Reviews

For the past couple of weeks I’ve been testing all the SPFBO 4 (2018) finalists books by reading them for an hour. I’ve already done this with SPFBO 5 and it worked really well to let me see which of the books I would want to read more of. I’ve also made a master list…
Uptown Oracle Reads… The Sisters Grimm | A Unique Retelling of Classic Fairytales

The Sisters GrimmMenna van Praag (Affiliate Links) Once upon a time, a demon who desired earthly domination fathered an army of dark daughters to help him corrupt humanity . . . As children, Goldie, Liyana, Scarlet, and Bea dreamed of a strange otherworld: a nightscape of mists and fog, perpetually falling leaves and hungry ivy,…