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book den skip to main skip to sidebar home about me review policy lists tuesday may 5 2026 book review elder race by adrian tchaikovsky source kindle unlimited audible purchase this is a review of my reading experience elder race is a scifi fantasy novel by adrian tchaikovsky lynesse is the lowly fourth daughter of the queen and always getting in the way but a demon is terrorizing the land and now she s an adult albeit barely with responsibilities she tells herself although she still gets in the way she understands that the only way to save her people is to invoke the pact between her family and the elder sorcerer who has inhabited the local tower for as long as her people have lived here though none in living memory has approached it but elder nyr isn t a sorcerer and he is forbidden to help and his knowledge of science tells him the threat cannot possibly be a demon i needed a quick scifi win after a dnf it was the perfect time to pick up elder race the sequel comes out soon so elder race has been hovering at the top of the tbr pile i was so confused when i started reading elder race why was there a princess in my scifi book traveling to a tower to ask the sorcerer to save her people with his magic it became clear the farther i got into elder race this book is so unique i can always count on adrian tchaikovsky to do something unique but i never know what it s going to be elder race is told in alternating povs between the queen s daughter lynesse and elder nyr it s a beautiful marriage of fantasy and science fiction i m so glad i picked this up and i m thrilled to get more later this year 4 5 stars subscribe follow posted by jen book den at 4 00 am 1 comments email this blogthis share to x share to facebook labels 4 stars adrian tchaikovsky book reviews fantasy science fiction sunday january 25 2026 recent updates and currently reading january 25 hello friends tell me about the weather where you are i m curious here it is wet and cold which will probably just make for an icy day tomorrow schools and work are closed if we get to keep power it may just be a much needed rest day my reading took a major left turn in the last week or so depression had me reading nothing and i realized i was letting my looming tbr keep me from picking up something that might help so i put the pause on what i was reading and what i was planning to read and i picked up a couple of star wars books posted last week review ironclads by adrian tchaikovsky journaling goals for 2026 review through gates of garnet and gold by seanan mcguire finished reading lost stars by claudia gray on opposite sides of the war will these friends turned foes find a way to be together or will duty tear them and the galaxy apart currently reading quest for the hidden city by george mann hyperspace prospectors bold explorers jedi peacekeepers and more currently watching this post is being shared as part of the sunday salon at readerbuzz book date s it s monday what are you reading and caffeinated book reviewer s the sunday post subscribe follow posted by jen book den at 2 26 pm 19 comments email this blogthis share to x share to facebook labels currently reading wednesday january 21 2026 review through gates of garnet and gold by seanan mcguire source spotify audiobook hours this is a review of my reading experience through gates of garnet and gold is the eleventh book in the wayward children series by seanan mcguire after nancy was cast out of the halls of the dead and forced to enroll at eleanor west s school for wayward children she never believed she d find her door again and when she did she didn t look back she disappeared from the school to resume her place in the halls never intending to return years have passed a darkness has descended on the halls and the living statues who populate them are dying at the hands of the already dead the lord and lady who rule the land are helpless to stop the slaughter forcing nancy to leave the halls again this time on purpose as she attempts to seek much needed help from her former schoolmates but who would volunteer to quest in a world where the dead roam freely and why are the dead so intent on adding to their number i adore the wayward children series and i look forward to reading the new installment every january the wayward children series follows children who have gone through a fantasy portal into another world that is a better fit for them due to circumstances these children are forced to return to their original world where they must cope with the heartache and loss of losing their new home while through gates of garnet and gold is the eleventh book in the series seanan mcguire does a great job setting up the story for those who decide to jump straight into this series via this installment i don t recommend starting here but we are getting pretty far into the series now i loved getting to see some old favorite and not so favorite characters in through the gates of garnet and gold these books and these worlds and these characters are such a precious thing i felt like something was missing in book 10 and i felt it again here in through gates of garnet and gold i can t put my finger on it but i think it s a lack of something truly new or things have become repetitive i say this every time i read a new installment but i wish this series would last forever that being said these are starting to fall into the 3 star range for me so overall i love this series so much and never want it to end but i m also ready for something more 3 5 stars subscribe follow posted by jen book den at 4 00 am 5 comments email this blogthis share to x share to facebook labels 3 stars book reviews fantasy seanan mcguire wayward children series tuesday january 20 2026 journaling goals for 2026 today s top ten tuesday topic is goals for 2026 my reading goals have been fluctuating heavily recently so i m going to focus on my journaling goals for 2026 weekly journaling i ve been journaling for years but i ve never had a goal to consistently journal this year i d like to journal at least weekly if not daily i ve switched the type of journal that i use and i m working on a new style of journaling so it s all very enjoyable at the moment do you journal what kind of journal do you use if i reach this goal i may treat myself to a hobonichi weeks next year if that fits the vibe of my journaling by the end of the year stickers i do have the goal to not be afraid to use up the stickers but i m also challenging myself to use my favorite stickers first i m not saving them for a better day better moment gift for someone else use the best ones right here right now i m loving this one junk journaling i m still playing in my normal journal and i m trying to do more junk journaling in it this year i m taking little ephemera and gluing it into my journal it brings me joy so i m hoping to be more mindful when i m out of the home to save little things for my journal i haven t caught on to this habit yet no work related stuff i m challenging myself to keep almost all work related stuff out of my journal it brings me absolutely no joy to come across work things in my journal so i m working on this the exception will be things i do outside of working hours while on work trips page counts this is a very loose goal as i only want to attempt this one in a way that brings me joy i d love to track how many pages i read a day i don t want an exact page count but i d love to see something along the lines of 0 50 51 100 101 200 200 this is something i m going to play with this year and see what s possible to track here subscribe follow posted by jen book den at 4 00 am 1 comments email this blogthis share to x share to facebook labels lists monday january 19 2026 review ironclads by adrian tchaikovsky source library borrow this is a review of my reading experience ironclads is the first novella in adrian tchaikovsky s terrible worlds revolutions series scions have no limits scions do not die and scions do not disappear sergeant ted regan has a problem a son of one of the great corporate families a scion has gone missing at the front he should have been protected by his ironclad the lethal battle suits that make the scions masters of war but something has gone catastrophically wrong now regan and his men ill equipped and demoralised must go behind enemy lines find the missing scion and uncover how his suit failed is there a new ironclad killer out there and how are common soldiers lacking the protection afforded the rich supposed to survive the battlefield of tomorrow this is going to be a bit of a lackluster review but i m challenging myself to review all of the books that i finish this year i consider myself a fan of adrian tchaikovsky but he has written so many books i was in the mood to pick up something short from my library and ironclads fit the bill as much as i love all of the science fiction i ve read from adrian tchaikovsky i m not the target audience for this while it s a dystopian scifi it s also very much a military scifi i struggled to enjoy this one every once in a while something would peak my interest but i wasn t really pulled into the vibe of this one if i had cared about the characters more i think my interest level would have been a bit higher i wasn t mad at this book in anyway so this isn t a negative review but my overall feelings are quite mid if you love tactical military stuff this may work out much better for you 3 5 stars subscribe follow posted by jen book den at 4 00 am 2 comments email this blogthis share to x share to facebook labels 3 stars adrian tchaikovsky book reviews novellas science fiction older posts home subscribe to posts atom welcome to book den hi i m jen book den is where i talk about what i m reading thanks for dropping by jen book den blog archive 2026 8 may 1 book review elder race by adrian tchaikovsky january 7 2024 22 july 1 february 2 january 19 2023 69 december 5 november 1 october 1 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