Brewing Tea & Reading Books

Brewing Tea & Reading Books

My book reviews, lists of interesting books to read and random thoughts on reading.

Brewing Tea & Reading Books broke around september 2021. You can find the old blog on the wayback machine. I am slowly moving the blogposts here

  • Citadel by C.M. Alongi

    Citadel by C.M. Alongi

    Review of Citadel by C.M. Alongi. Citadel is a science fiction story set on an alien planet about a young nonverbal autistic nineteen-year-old scientist who just wants to live her life, but when she meets her city’s enemy her world change and she keeps getting drawn in deeper.

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  • Just Stab Me Now by Jill Bearup

    Just Stab Me Now by Jill Bearup

    Review of Just Stab Me Now by Jill Bearup. Just Stab Me Now is based on a TikTok series by Jill Bearup and written after the community begged her to write the sketch series into a full length novel repeably.

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  • Belladonna U by Tansy Rayner Roberts

    Belladonna U by Tansy Rayner Roberts

    Review of series Belladonna U by Tansy Rayner Roberts including Unreal Alchemy, Holiday Brew and Practical Witching. Belladonna U is a series about a group of university students studying magic at an Australian magical university while living in a shared house and making geeky music and playing role-playing games. It’s wonderfully geeky, whimsical and fun.…

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  • Too Like the Lightning by Ada Palmer

    Too Like the Lightning by Ada Palmer

    Review of Too Like the Lightning by Ada Palmer. Too Like the Lightning is a science fiction book that plays with the idea that utopias are always a utopia for who? It is a deeply philosophical book that borrows much from 18th century philosophy. I have read Too Like the Lightning twice and I don’t…

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  • Why use Storygraph instead of Goodreads

    Why use Storygraph instead of Goodreads

    Why use Storygraph instead of Goodreads? Last year (2022) I decided to switch my reading tracking from Goodreads to Storygraph. This had been a long time coming but I had not found a better alternative. I have tried our a number of other sites and apps without finding a good one, so why use Storygraph?

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  • Tempests and Slaughter by Tamora Pierce

    Tempests and Slaughter by Tamora Pierce

    Review of Tempests and Slaughter by Tamora Pierce. Tempests and Slaughter is the first book in the The Numair Chronicles duology set in Pierce’s Tortall universe. Numair is a beloved character from the Wild Magic series who has gotten his own prequel series as a spinoff.

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  • A Deadly Education & Scholomance by Naomi Novik

    A Deadly Education & Scholomance by Naomi Novik

    Review of A Deadly Education by Naomi Novik and the rest of the Scholomance trilogy, including The Last Graduate and The Golden Enclave. Why would you send your children to a magic school where multiple students die every single year? Where as many as a fourth of the students die? That’s the question that sparked…

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  • Disability in Science Fiction

    Disability in Science Fiction

    When we look for books that deals with disability in science fiction, we have more options than we used to, but especially in main stream books and other media, it is still a rare sight. Content warning: Cancer, chronic illness and disability

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  • Milkweed Triptych by Ian Tregillis

    Milkweed Triptych by Ian Tregillis

    Review of the Milkweed Triptych series by Ian Tregillis including Bitter Seeds, The Coldest War and Necessary Evil. “It’s 1939. The Nazis have supermen, the British have demons, and one perfectly normal man gets caught in between”

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  • Cookie Cutter Superhero by Tansy Rayner Roberts

    Cookie Cutter Superhero by Tansy Rayner Roberts

    Review of series Cookie Cutter Superhero by Tansy Rayner Roberts. A machine is decided who will be the superheroes in each country on Earth via lottery rotating the heroes out on a set schedule. Each story deals with different aspects of this idea.

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