Many readers regard author Sarah J. Maas as one of the best fantasy (or “romantasy”: fantasy with a heavy focus on a romantic subplot) authors publishing today. Throne of Glass, her most famous series besides the adult Beauty and the Beast retelling A Court of Thorns and Roses, is an eight-book fantasy series set in… Read More Engrossing and Endearing: Throne of Glass, Reviewed
Author M.L. Rio first gained fame with her 2017 “dark academia” novel If We Were Villains. This past September, she released her first published novella just in time for the spooky Halloween season. Inspired by Rio’s own struggles with insomnia, Graveyard Shift follows five individuals who, unable to sleep for various reasons, meet up in… Read More Graveyard Shift: A Review of M.L. Rio’s Spooky New Release
Pace is home to a variety of majors – from BFA acting to chemistry to finance, there appears to be no limit to the courses one can study. One subject that the university is lacking, however, is that of dragon-riding – the major that Violet Sorrengail, the main character of Rebecca Yarros’ TikTok-famous novel Fourth… Read More Fourth Wing: My Thoughts on the Slow yet Captivating Journey
by Shahab Gharib The history of the Great Zulu nation shines ever so brightly in Donald Morris’s masterpiece The Washing of the Spears. First published in 1965 by Simon & Schuster in New York, the book covers the historic rise and fall of the Zulu empire. It begins with a riveting description of the first… Read More The Washing of the Spears: Book Review