fantasy – Becoming The Muse

Of Your Hogwarts House

11 Feb 202313 Feb 2023

Imagine if the sorting hat used AI and machine learning to finding out which house to place in by answering a few questions. Hogwarts Sorting Hat conceptualised by AI What…

Defining Moments

Of Hagrid Forever

15 Oct 202216 Oct 2022

The Harry Potter books and movies have a fond place in my memories and part of that is because they showed me it was possible to have fantasy and magic…

Of Bloodstone: The Curse Of Time Book 1 Review

22 Jul 202122 Jul 2021

Bloodstone is the first book in The Curse Of Time series by M.J. Mallon. First published August 26th 2017 as The Curse of Time (Bloodstone #1) it was republished June…

Of Kindred Octavia Butler Book Review

30 Aug 202030 Aug 2020

The August book of the month for Harare Book Club was Octavia Butler’s Kindred. Kindred was first published in 1979 and over 40 years after its publication, its still a…

Of Temper: A Nicky Drayden Book Reveiw

21 Jun 202021 Jun 2020

Temper After I finished reading Prey of The Gods GoodReads suggested I read Temper also by Nicky Drayden Temper is Nicky Drayden’s second novel published in August 2018. Temper will…

Of The Wormwood Trilogy: Rosewater, Insurrection and Redemption

Sometimes life is littered with crazy coincidences… I was reading up on Madagascar’s “miracle cure” for the coronavirus derived from the Artemisia Annua plant. Artemisia Annua is also known as…

Of The LockDown Book Hunter

2 Apr 202015 Jun 2020

Genre: Mystery/Thriller The Lockdown alarm went off, a shrill piercing pulse that was designed to unsettle and fill you with and an almost ominous urgency to find shelter. Shelter at…

Of Children Of Virtue And Vengeance Book review

Almost 2 years after Mable introduced me to Tomi Adeyemi’s Children Of Blood And Bone the I finally got the news I had been waiting for that the Book 2…

Of The Priory Of The Orange Tree Review

2 Oct 20192 Oct 2019

I crowdsourced my reading list from twitter: https://twitter.com/Beatonm5/status/1173595653039169537 MusamboTheMuse suggested I read The Priory Of The Orange Tree by Samantha Shannon and used the word epic… I am a sucker…

Of Beasts Made Of Night: A Review

22 May 201822 May 2018

Beasts Made Of Night by Tochi Onyebuchi For the fantasy lovers Beasts made of night is a book set in a strange world where mages can cast sin out from…

Of A Web Well Spun

GENRE; Fantasy “If you didn’t know by now you must know; we come from a long line of story-tellers. Long before my people sat around the first fire and whispered…