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The Vicious King Thank you to Gina L. Maxwell for providing me with a copy of this book in exchange for an honest review. CONTENT WARNING: violence, kidnapping, murder, death of a parent, grief, anxiety In a war where shadows and light collide, only the vicious can be […]
Lately, we’ve been talking about some related topics, and I figured I might as well go all in and discuss one more that’s kind of in the same vein. For this week’s bookish discussion, I want to talk about reviewing DNF’d books. Just from what I’ve gathered from […]
Long Island Compromise Thank you to NetGalley and Random House for providing me with an ARC in exchange for an honest review. In 1980 a wealthy businessman named Carl Fletcher is kidnapped from his driveway in a cloistered town on the nicest part of Long Island, brutalized, and […]
First Lines Fridays is a weekly feature for book lovers hosted by Wandering Words. What if, instead of judging a book by its cover, its author or its prestige, we judged it by its opening lines? The Rules: First Lines: “Paris past midnight is a magnificent creature, conjured […]
A Sorceress Comes to Call Thanks to NetGalley, Tor Books, and Macmillan Audio for providing me with an ARC of this book in exchange for an honest review. A dark retelling of the Brothers Grimm’s Goose Girl, rife with secrets, murder, and forbidden magic Cordelia knows her mother is […]
It’s Tuesday, and you know what that means—time for another Top Ten Tuesday post! This week’s prompt comes from Cathy @ What Cathy Read Next, and I’m already excited to hop around and see what everyone comes up with. It’s ten things I loved about [insert book title […]
Bitter Waters Thank you to NetGalley, Orbit, and Angela Man for sending me an ARC of this book in exchange for an honest review. A witty, charming standalone novella starring Greta Helsing, doctor to the undead, who must get to the bottom of a mystery involving a newly […]
Welcome back to another Bookish Discussion Sunday! Last week’s topic inspired some good discussion, and I promised that I was going to bring up the topic of writing negative reviews. Among the people that I’ve spoken to in the past, this is a very polarized topic—people are either […]
Castle of the Cursed Thank you to NetGalley, Wednesday Books, and Macmillan Audio for providing me with an ARC of this book in exchange for an honest review. CONTENT WARNING: grief, death of parents, trauma, PTSD, anxiety, depression, mutism, suicide attempt, bullying, violence, murder A delicious and dark […]
First Lines Fridays is a weekly feature for book lovers hosted by Wandering Words. What if, instead of judging a book by its cover, its author or its prestige, we judged it by its opening lines? The Rules: First Lines: “Of the three living members of the Dark […]
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