ype can be a double-edged sword, though; on one hand, it got me excited for the book, but on the other, it raised my expectations to unbelievable levels. So the question for today’s post is: did The Shadow of the Gods live up to the hype? Let’s get into that in today’s spoiler-free review of the first book of John Gwynne’s Bloodsword Saga!

Last week, I released part one of a two-part series discussing Young Adult books. In that post, I talked specifically about the arguments against Young Adult novels that are often presented and aren’t necessarily genre-specific. I countered them, but also discussed their merits. Today, however, I’m going to be addressing a lot of pros for the Young Adult genre as I see them. This is the last planned part of this two-part series, so I’ll wrap up with my final thoughts on the matter at the end of it.

ne week. It was easy at times, stressful at others, but all around the result at the end was notable. I’ll be talking about how the experience went, my pitfalls and struggles, and finally how I’m feeling now that this little experiment is over!

I finished reading John Gwynne’s The Faithful and the Fallen and… well, I have some thoughts. This is going to be a spoiler-free review, but I may do a spoiler talk in the future if I’m up for it regarding my feelings on this series as a whole. For now, though, we’re going to stick to a straightforward review of the final book in the high fantasy quartet. Wrath, the final book in the series, was exciting and brought the story to a well-earned conclusion. I had a good time reading it, though I personally found that I enjoyed Ruin a bit more. We’ll get into that and more in this spoiler-free review of the book!

In the book reading community, across the board, there’s an argument that I’ve seen prevail, and it’s about young adult books: books that are written with a target audience of people who are between 13 and 18 years old. I’ve heard and read tons of different arguments regarding whether or not these books are good or bad as a whole, so I decided to take some time, do some research, and put together a post about this idea that YA books are objectively bad by default.

Discworld is a massive collection of fantastical works by Terry Pratchett; they feature recurring characters and locations as well as plot threads that weave throughout the story… and yet, there are many different starting points for this series, and there isn’t necessarily an agreed-upon beginning for people who want to dive into Discworld. In today’s post, I’m not even going to bother trying to give you a definitive answer to the question of which book you should begin with. Instead, this post is about suggesting different starting points for the Discworld series so that you can choose which one you want to begin with!