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Today’s review is on my top five favourite fantasy novels of all time. I’m limiting myself to specifically Fantasy instead of delving into sub-categories too much. Urban Fantasy for me is very much its own category and I will definitely do another post about that at some stage in the future. I couldn’t arrange these in much of a specific order, I don’t really enjoy grading artistic works on a scale as it devalues the art itself. Instead these are my favourite five. I have plenty of other books I like, but these are the ones that made the list. As I go, you’ll find a trend in the style of stories I like. None of these are bildungsromans, and these are all single-point-of-view main characters. I like a highly personalised focus in the novels I read; the political intrigue or world-exploding threats are a secondary interest in the face of personal struggle or growth. 1.        The Curse of Chalion by Lois McMaster Bujold Image from Amazon catalog This book

Today I’m going to be interviewing the fabulous K.M. Pohlkamp, author of Apricots and Wolfsbane . Her debut novel released in October and it is chock full of girl power and intricate details. Please check it out and support her by leaving a review if you do! Summary of Apricots and Wolfsbane Lavinia Maud craves the moment the last wisps of life leave her victim’s bodies—to behold the effects of her own poison creations. Believing confession erases the sin of murder, her morbid desires are in unity with faith, though she could never justify her skill to the magistrate she loves. At the start of the 16th century in Tudor England, Lavinia’s marks grow from tavern drunks to nobility, but rising prestige brings increased risk. When the magistrate suspects her ruse, he pressures the priest into breaking her confessional seal, pitting Lavinia’s instincts as an assassin against the tenets of love and faith. She balances revenge with her struggle to develop a tasteless poison