Punderworld, Volume 1 by Linda Sejic | ARC review

DISCLAIMER: I was given a free digital copy in exchange for an honest review.

✧ This review is spoiler-free! ✧

Title: Punderworld, Volume 1
Series: Punderworld, #1
Author + illustrator: Linda Sejic
Expected Publication: Aug. 3, 2021
Publisher: Image Comics
Category: YA/adult
Genre: mythology, romance, graphic novel
Pages: 176
My Rating: ★★★☆☆
Goodreads page

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Synopsis

Hades and Persephone’s love-struck misadventures.

The classic tale of Greek mythology, but 100% more awkwardly relatable. Hades is the officious, antisocial ruler of the Underworld; Persephone, daughter of Demeter, is an earth goddess of growth and renewal – they’ve been crushing on each other for the past two centuries. But when a festival (and a little liquid courage) present an opportunity to put an end to their olympian will-they-won’t-they, a meddlesome pantheon and several titanic misassumptions threaten to give every god in the sky the wrong impression… and leave their romance dead before it can bloom.

[ This synopsis was taken directly from Goodreads. ]

Top 20 Books of 2020

My Top Books of 2020

Happy New Year (and thank goodness 2020 is over)! We have a tradition on this blog to showcase the top 10 books that I read every year. However, this year I wanted to do something different. Since it was 2020, I wanted to list my top 20 books instead of my top 10. It just has a better ring to it. However, I haven’t read that many novels this year, so I decided to split it into my top 10 books and my top 10 graphic novels. I read a lot of comics (although I don’t review them that much), so it’s only fair that I include them on the list.

In no particular order, I present to you my top books of 2020.

Gods of Jade and Shadow by Silvia Moreno-Garcia | Book Review

“Words are seeds, Casiopea. With words you embroider narratives, and the narratives breed myths, and there’s power in the myth. Yes, the things you name have power.”

– Silvia Moreno-Garcia, Gods of Jade and Shadow

Title: Gods of Jade and Shadow
Series: standalone
Author: Silvia Moreno-Garcia
Publisher: Del Rey
Genre: adult, historical fiction, mythology
Pages: 338
My Rating: ★★★★☆
Goodreads page

This review is spoiler-free!

Synopsis

The Mayan god of death sends a young woman on a harrowing, life-changing journey in this one-of-a-kind fairy tale inspired by Mexican folklore.

The Jazz Age is in full swing, but Casiopea Tun is too busy cleaning the floors of her wealthy grandfather’s house to listen to any fast tunes. Nevertheless, she dreams of a life far from her dusty small town in southern Mexico. A life she can call her own.

Yet this new life seems as distant as the stars, until the day she finds a curious wooden box in her grandfather’s room. She opens it—and accidentally frees the spirit of the Mayan god of death, who requests her help in recovering his throne from his treacherous brother. Failure will mean Casiopea’s demise, but success could make her dreams come true.

In the company of the strangely alluring god and armed with her wits, Casiopea begins an adventure that will take her on a cross-country odyssey from the jungles of Yucatán to the bright lights of Mexico City—and deep into the darkness of the Mayan underworld.

[ This synopsis was taken directly from Goodreads. ]

Sentinel by Jennifer L. Armentrout| Book Review

Title: Sentinel
Series: Covenant, #5
Author: Jennifer L. Armentrout
Publisher: Hodder & Stoughton
Genre: young adult, fantasy, Greek mythology, romance
Pages: 360
My Rating: ★★★★☆
Goodreads page

There is a spoiler-free section in this review.

Apollyon by Jennifer L. Armentrout | Book Review

Title: Apollyon
Series: Covenant, #4
Author: Jennifer L. Armentrout
Publisher: Spencer Hill Press
Genre: young adult, fantasy, mythology
Pages: 373
My Rating: ★★★★☆
Goodreads page

There is a spoiler section in this review.

Deity by Jennifer L. Armentrout | Book Review

Title: Deity
Series: Covenant, #3
Author: Jennifer L. Armentrout
Published: 10/31/12
Genre: YA, Greek mythology, romance
Pages: 360
My Rating: 3.5 / 5
Goodreads page

There are no spoilers in this review.

Pure by Jennifer L. Armentrout | Book Review

Title: Pure
Series: Covenant, #2
Author: Jennifer L. Armentrout
Published: 03/12/12
Genre: young adult, Greek mythology, romance
Pages: 320
My Rating: 3.5 / 5
Goodreads page

Attention: There are no spoilers of this book in this review. However, there are spoilers from the previous book(s) in this series.

Half-Blood by Jennifer L. Armentrout | Book Review

Title: Half-Blood
Series: Covenant, #1
Author: Jennifer L. Armentrout
Published: 09/19/11
Genre: mythology, fantasy, romance, young adult
Pages: 304
My Rating: 4 / 5
Goodreads page

This review is free of spoilers.

The Star-Touched Queen by Roshani Chokshi | Book Review

Title: The Star-Touched Queen
Series: The Star-Touched Queen,  #1
Author: Roshani Chokshi
Published: 04/26/16
Edition: hardcover
Pages: 342
My Rating: 3.5 / 5
Goodreads page

There are no spoilers in this review.