Booked Panda Reviews

June Books I'm Excited For   It is almost June already. This month my list is about half new and half continuing series. There will be links to the first book in the series if the title and cover interest you and you'd rather not read spoilers. As like last month these are a mixture of Epic Fantasy 🐉,  Sci-Fi 🚀, and Romantasy 💖 this month.  What books are you looking forward to? 🚀 Service Model by Adrian Tchaikovsky Publication Date:  4 June 2024 Subjects: Science Fiction & Fantasy, Dark Comedy, Dystopian Fiction Available at these retailers: Amazon                      Barnes & Noble     Description: To fix the world they must first break it, further. Humanity is a dying breed, utterly reliant on artificial labor and service. When a domesticated robot gets a nasty little idea downloaded into its core programming, they murder their owner. The robot discovers they can also do something else they never did before: They can run away. Fleeing the household they enter a

  Book Review:   Lore of the Wilds by  Analeigh Sbrana Release Date: February 27, 2024  Genre: Romantasy Age Range: Adult Series: Lore of the Wilds Goodreads  Avg. Rating: 3.40 stars Where to even start with this review? A positive, the writing was pretty and I liked her style. This is a book you might like if you want a magic system not explained much, location jumping, or complete deviation from what the description was. Okay, now let us break this down without being mean and turning potential readers away. First up is the world building, well there isn't much. We are on an unnamed planet, we just know it is not where humans originally come from. Here there are lots of mythical creatures, the ones we see the most are the Fae though. The Fae nobles and military are very prejudiced against the humans. There are two types of Fae, Light and Dark, and different variations of inherited looks between them. The winged Dark Fae make up the noble ruling class though. All Fae seem to be hav

  Book Review:   The Serpent & The Wings of Night by  Carissa Broadbent Release Date: August 30, 2022  Genre: Romantasy Age Range: Adult Series: Crowns of Nyaxia Goodreads  Avg. Rating: 4.33 stars Okay, I read this as part of the Magical Readathon ( Orilium ) and as such maybe I went through it a little fast. I can remember things when I try to say I don't, so hopefully this comes out okay as this book is not bad. It was kind of fun, in a way that probably it's supposed to be something else but I’m enjoying it either way. So here is my review which is possibly a rough draft to be revised on rereads. 😅 The world-building here was quite well done for a romantasy. Do I remember what it is called? Not really, however, the continent is Obitraes and vampires rule over it. Each territory is divided and ruled over by a specific House that has its own unique gifts. The main one we are in is controlled by the Nightborn King of the House of Night. This specific house is also divided

 Top Ten Book Releases Of May Happy May. There are so many exciting books coming out this month. Sadly I missed some of these on my quarterly anticipated releases but that’s one reason why these monthly releases are being created. I hope you can find a great new read this month. These are a mixture of Epic Fantasy 🐉, Speculative 🧪, Sci-Fi 🚀, and even Romantasy 💖 this month. 🐉 Five Broken Blades  by Mai Corland Publication Date: 7 May, 2024 Subjects: Science Fiction & Fantasy, Fantasy Fiction, Epic Fantasy Series: The Broken Blades Available at these retailers: Barnes & Noble                        Amazon Description: It’s the season for treason… The king of Yusan must die. The five most dangerous liars in the land have been mysteriously summoned to work together for a single objective: to kill the God King Joon. He has it coming. Under his merciless immortal hand, the nobles flourish, while the poor and innocent are imprisoned, ruined…or sold. And now each of the five bl