Book Review: Circus Mirandus

“Just because a magic is small doesn’t mean it is unimportant… Even the smallest magics can grow.” p.120 One word review: Shallow Rating: 3/5 invisible tigers Circus Mirandus Cassie Beasley “Do you believe in magic? Micah Tuttle does. Even though his awful Great-Aunt Gertrudis doesn’t approve, Micah believes in the stories his dying Grandpa Ephraim…

Book Review: Hot Dog Girl

“I am an ungrateful little hot dog.” Rating: Solid 3.5/5 One word review: Ho-hum. Hot Dog Girl Jennifer Dugan In this stream of consciousness novel, Eloise (Lou) Parker is determined to have an impossibly amazing summer before she becomes a senior. The boy she’s been dreaming of for the last year is working at the…

Book Review: We Hunt the Flame

“They had lost more than magic that day. Their lands had become untameable beasts. Walls rose between caliphates, and now a dark forest was creeping closer with each passing day.” We Hunt the Flame Hafsah Faizal “Zafira is the Hunter, disguising herself as a man when she braves the cursed forest of the Arz to…

Book Review: Nocturna

One word review: Messy. Nocturna Maya Motayne Nocturna just isn’t sure what it wants to be. The elements for a great book are there: a unique magic system, characters that are engaging, a Big Bad, but the execution of those elements falls very short of where it needed to be in order to succeed. I stopped…

Manga Review: Witch Hat Atelier #1

“The world is brimming with magic. It brings boons to us all…Only witches can cast spells. The rest of us can only bask in whatever comes our way. You can’t just become a witch.” Witch Hat Atelier #1 Kamome Shirahama I’m beginning with the blurb on the back of the manga and not the one from…