Unicorn's Bookshelf

Disclaimer: I have voluntarily reviewed this book after receiving a free copy from Edelweiss+, thank you! Title: Girl, Serpent, Thorn Author: Melissa Bashardoust Genre: YA, fantasy, lgbt, retelling Rating: 3,5/5 Goodreads / Amazon / My Instagram / My tumblr So like… This book has monster girlfriends and if that doesn’t convince you to read it I don’t know what will? Soraya is a princess cursed by a div. She’d heard this story millions of times - the story of her mother freeing a woman in a forest and having her captor make her firstborn daughter poisonous to touch. Due to her condition, Soraya has been hidden away in the palace and kept a secret from most of the country. At least until her brother captures a div and brings it to the palace as a prisoner. On her way to find a way to get rid of her curse, Soraya may just have to question everything she’d known about how it came to be. First of all - I love the concept. The inspiration from Persian mythology is refreshing, and the att

Disclaimer: I have voluntarily reviewed this book after receiving a free ARC copy from the publisher via Edelweiss, thank you! Author: Sarah Harian Rating: 4/5 Genre: young adult, dark fantasy Goodreads / Amazon This book has been pitched as Suicide Squad meets Six of Crows and honestly? This is the most unfitting thing I’ve ever seen and sadly it made a lot of people go into the book with a false idea of what they’re going to get and end up disappointed.  Larkin is an Empath - a person with magic power that can catalyze emotions into destruction or creation. In the city, where she lives Empaths are marginalized and feared. They are used to mine a mineral that takes away their powers, they live in poverty and are demonized by every non-magic user. This is why Larkin isn’t surprised that after she steals from a shop, the Queen’s guards come to her doorstep and arrest her and her brother. However, it quickly turns out that there’s more to her arrest than it

Disclaimer: I have voluntarily reviewed this book after receiving a free ARC copy from the publisher via Edelweiss, thank you! Author: Lindsay Littleson Rating: 3/5 Genre: middle-grade, fantasy, adventure Goodreads / Amazon Okay so looking how my reading blog is literally called "Unicorns-Bookshelf" it's only right for me to review some books that actually have some unicorn content in them. You see, as a kid, I was a huge horse person (kinda funny looking at how I've never actually attended horse riding lessons or anything) and all the mythical horses were a big part of it. So as soon as I saw Guardians of the Wild Unicorns I thought "Hey if that isn't something my younger self would absolutely love". The book is about Lewis and Rhona - two eleven-year-old kids who are away on a school camp in the Scottish mountains while Lewis spots a unicorn in the distance. Convinced that he's been hallucinating, Rhona takes him to i

Hello! My name's Carol and this is my book blog! I will be posting all kinds of bookish content, mostly reviews of books already released and ARCs. My preferred genres are fantasy, sci-fi, and YA but I'm looking to read more contemporary. I also love a good thriller or mystery novel. Things that I find very tempting in books are LGBT+ characters, found family trope, and good worldbuilding. A little bit about me I'm 23 and I live in Poland with my girlfriend and two French bulldogs. Besides reading I enjoy video games (some of my faves are Dragon Age, Don't Starve and Stardew Valley). I'm also into manga and anime as well as Marvel movies. I spend a lot of time watching Netflix. I also recently have been trying my hand at bullet journaling and I'm planning to get to it seriously from the beginning of the New Year.  I have come back to reading only recently as I was in a huge reading slum throughout most of the high school and college and I honest