Another Isabel Ibañez masterpiece! I loved this book, maybe more than the first one. Filled with South American culture, Spanish, loveable characters and phenomenal world-building. Also, is anyone else crazily in love with the cover of these books? Isabel illustrates them herself and they’re so so beautiful! Written In Starlight is the second novel set […]

Mehendi. The fragrance of it is reminiscent of happy times, festivals, days out, weddings. Fresh, earthy, tinged with a musk of sorts. In this day, we put mehendi or henna only when an occasion requires it, the designs, artistic peacocks and swirly, swishy nets that span the back of our hands and palms. It signifies […]

I’ve only everFelt the sting of the needleLeaving deep bloomsIndigoes and violetsPasted on my skin.Felt the anaesthesiaSeep into my bloodAnd sip at itLeisurelyAs though it had comeFor a cup of teaAnd a conversation.‘Won’t you come and dance?’It asks as it coils itself aroundCellsStacked upon cells.And they sit thereIn a stagnant pool of bloodThat begins to […]

In 2013 I picked up the first novel in Morgan Rhodes’s Falling Kingdom Series and I fell in love. I loved the story and the setting. But the series wasn’t over and in the many years it took for her to release all 6 books, I had lost interest and rereading the first book over […]

There areA fewWishesI makeOnly in December,They float on the windLike dandelionsGlowing gold againstThe smoky sky,Throwing backTheir manesAnd roaringTo the breezeOf all the thingsI want.I wantStarfall and spiced apples,To bite intoSo my chin and lipsAre coated inRich golden juice.I wantEmbroidery like snowflakesTo wear on my skinLike a coatingOf fresh frost.I wantAnd I wishFor all the thingsThat […]