The Fanciful Reader

Welcome to The Fanciful Reader, where I post book reviews, and do occasional feature posts!

FANCIFUL FEATURE | Book Bracket Jul-Aug 2022

We are back for my 2022 Book Bracket, today for the months of July and August, 2022. Here we go!
FANCIFUL FEATURE | Book Bracket May-June 2022

Welcome back to my 2022 Book Bracket! Today, we are deciding on my favourite book from the months of May and June! Yay!
FANCIFUL FEATURE | Book Bracket MAR-APR 2022

Welcome back Fanciful Friends, to part two of my Favourite Book of the Year Book Bracket! Today we are looking at the books that I read in March and April, and determining which was my favourite of those two months, and why. So, let’s get going!
FANCIFUL FEATURE | Book Bracket Jan-Feb 2022

We are going to spend the next week or so figuring out, through a good old fashioned bracket system, what my favourite book of the year was! Today we pit January and February against each other!
FANCIFUL REVIEW | Deep Water (Shadows of Camelot Crossing) ARC by Lisa Courtaway

Having read and really enjoyed Red Water, the first book in the Shadows of Camelot Crossing series, I jumped at the chance to read and review the second entry, Deep Water. While I didn’t enjoy it as much as Red Water, it was still a good read. The characters were realistic and flawed, though I…
FANCIFUL REVIEW | Gallows Hill by Darcy Coates

Gallows Hill was a fun read, though, as someone who has read most of Darcy Coates’s novels, I will say that I didn’t think this was her strongest story. Her writing was excellent as always, there was some good atmosphere, I enjoyed the characters, but aspects of the ending just seemed a little too convenient,…