Moonward Society

Cleat Cute is a sapphic sports romance book that features two players on the same soccer team. Grace is a veteran soccer player while Phoebe is a rookie. They start off as reluctant friends (reluctant on Grace’s side), but that soon turns into something much more than friendship. I think this is the first sapphic sports romance that I’ve read so I definitely liked that part of it! I grew up playing soccer year-round so having a book that included queer representation with soccer was really great! It was also set in New Orleans which was really fun to read about, having been there a few times myself! While I enjoyed some aspects of this book, I also had issues with a few things. First of all, there is so much miscommunication between the two main characters. It was super frustrating throughout the entire book and honestly, it’s kind of surprising that they ended up together because they seemed on totally different pages half the time. Another big issue I had with the book is how one of ...

Witch King starts off with a bang that really draws you in. We immediately meet the Witch King, Kai, a demon who is able to switch his consciousness into other bodies. He wakes after being murdered, imprisoned in an underwater trap with his friend Ziede. Neither of them know what happened to leave them trapped, so we follow them as they try to find the other members of their group and puzzle out what happened. The story is told in two timelines, one in the present and one from Kai’s past. The world building is intricate and lovely, but it is dense. There’s a lot to parse through and remember as you read. Wells definitely does not spoon-feed the lore to her readers, and it can be confusing at points. There is a listing of all the people in the story at the front, but I think this book might have also benefitted from a quick explanation of the different places/groups, as I found those much more difficult to keep track of. The characters are all very lovable in my opinion, but Kai and Zie...

Another delightful book in the Emily Wilde series! We are back following the journal of Professor Emily Wilde as she, Wendell Bambleby, and a few new additions hunt for a missing door back to Faerie. Their quest is aided by both new and old faces, and I loved getting some throwbacks to some of my favorite characters from the previous book. I also liked and am intrigued by quite a few of the new characters and hope to see more of them in the next book. I am so glad to be back in this world, and the wonderful, descriptive language pulls you right in. I feel like I can picture the setting of the places Emily visits so vividly, from offices at Cambridge, to the cottage in the small town the group stays, to the mountainous wilderness they explore. While I do like Wendell and the rest of the crew, Emily will always be my favorite. I’m glad we still get everything from her perspective (although I also enjoy the odd chapter from Wendell every now and again!) This book continues the journal st...