I have begun the Herculean task of actually organizing all the books I own in an effort to begin the Sysaphian task of actually reading them. In that effort I plan to do a little review/update series here and maybe on TikTok if I get the wild hair to.
Book 1 Dreamdark: Blackbringer by Lani Taylor.
Lani Taylor’s first book, published in 2007 I actually read this when I was in middle school along with the sequel when it came out. It’s a fun fantasy from what I remember (I’m only 5ish chapters into this reread). While the world as a whole is familiar set in a vaguely Victorian Earth we get the underworld of magic and mysticism that’s hiding from humans or ‘mannies’. Magpie Windwitch is a fun FMC chasing devils and old dead gods call Djinn with her crow brothers and dancing around a romance with Talon Rathersting a fairy who’s wings are too small to carry him so he made his own way to fly.
I remember this being at least a 7/10 so we’ll see how it holds up. So far it’s promising
