This week, Shades of Milk and Honey is:
• A brilliant blend of subtle magic and historical fiction
• Exactly the kind of gentle romance I like
• Making me want some strawberries
Tag Archives: Fantasy fiction
Three Twins at the Crater School Review
This week:
• I love school stories
• How many twins are there, exactly?
• This book has weird, fascinating worldbuilding
Legends & Lattes: what is cosy fantasy? Or, how to make yourself hungry by reading descriptions of cake
This week:
• I try to nail down what cosy fantasy is
• Travis Baldree becomes a one-click author for me
• The mouth-watering descriptions of pastries made me hungry
Rainbringer: passive heroine, active heroine
This week, Rainbringer:
• Has two strong heroines
• Subverted my expectations
• Totally blew me away
Fantastic Regency Fantasy – Manners and Monsters
This week, Manners and Monsters is:
• A weird mix of American and Regency
• A great mix of magic and cosy crime
• Full of pickled cabbage
How to tell genre-snobs to f- off in 3 glorious phases
This week:
• I am not happy that I was genre-shamed
• It takes me less than a minute to think of three examples of fantasy in ‘great classic literature’
• It’s weird boiling Hamlet down to ‘man is haunted by the ghost of his murdered father until he goes on a homicidal rampage’
ALISON JANET BROWN 