Happy Indulgence

It’s been two years since we last had a book from Sarah J Maas, so to say that House of Flame and Shadow was highly anticipated is probably an understatement. The third book in the Crescent C...

http://www.happyindulgencebooks.com/2024/03/28/5-thoughts-about-house-of-flame-and-shadow/

In the Atlas Six series, you’ve got 6 powerful magicians with the ability to not only take over the universe, but to form and shape new worlds. In the Atlas Six, we met them. In The Atlas Parad...

http://www.happyindulgencebooks.com/2024/01/23/the-atlas-complex-review-the-conclusion-of-tortured-magical-academics/

What do you do when you get kidnapped by a vampire? But even better, what do you do when you get kidnapped by a vampire, befriend them, get protected by them and realise it’s better than the li...

http://www.happyindulgencebooks.com/2023/10/22/the-scarlet-veil-review-vampire-romance-is-back/

Not quite dark academia, not quite fantasy mystery, A Study in Drowning is one of those books that is difficult to define. If I were to call it anything, I would go with a magical realism that ...

http://www.happyindulgencebooks.com/2023/10/16/a-study-in-drowning-review-magical-realism-and-a-thesis-on-a-mysterious-author/

It’s been a long time since a book has compelled me to read it as fast as possible, but Yellowface was one that I found absolutely bingeworthy. Yellowface is set in a part of the bookish commu...

http://www.happyindulgencebooks.com/2023/07/15/yellowface-by-r-f-kuang-review-a-bold-unapologetic-tell-all-of-the-publishing-industry/

With a richly evocative, sumptous atmosphere based around a mysterious and magical estate, The Last Tale of the Flower Bride had me captivated. Indigo is a glittering, enchanting woman who almos...

http://www.happyindulgencebooks.com/2023/05/03/the-last-tale-of-the-flower-bride-review-a-gothic-dark-fairytale/

Trigger warnings: domestic abuse, physical abuse, attempted rape There’s no denying that It Ends With Us is an iconic, important read that definitely cements Colleen Hoover as an author of ch...

http://www.happyindulgencebooks.com/2023/03/04/the-issues-i-had-with-it-ends-with-us/

This whole series makes me feel like I’m having drunken flashbacks, but I somehow find that enjoyable. If you’re ever looking for a series to really challenge the brain cells, well you’ve f...

http://www.happyindulgencebooks.com/2023/01/13/nona-the-ninth-review/

Just finished The First to Die at the End, and I’m left with some really profound thoughts about life and the way you are living it. Which is exactly how I felt after reading the first book, ...

http://www.happyindulgencebooks.com/2022/11/29/the-first-to-die-at-the-end-review/

So I’m not usually one for WW2 books, I find them bleak and depressing (and rightly so). However, I was willing to give The Killing Code a go, because it features female sapphic codebreakers �...

http://www.happyindulgencebooks.com/2022/11/22/the-killing-code-review/