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Practical Candle Magic: Witchcraft with Wick & Wax Thank you to NetGalley and Llewellyn Publications for providing me with an ARC of this book in exchange for an honest review. Light that flame and set your magic in motion with bestselling author Rachel Patterson’s guide to candle magic. […]
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: This is my first time doing this, but I figured […]
The Other Mothers Thank you to libro.fm for providing me with an ALC of this audiobook. I am offering my honest opinion voluntarily. When a young nanny is found dead in mysterious circumstances, new mom, Tash, is intrigued. She has been searching for a story to launch her […]
Son of the Storm Thank you to Orbit and Angela Man for sending me an ARC of this book in exchange for an honest review. In the city of Bassa, Danso is a clever scholar on the cusp of achieving greatness—only he doesn’t want it. Instead, he prefers […]
This week’s prompt is books on my winter 2023-2024 to-read list and I’m actually kind of excited about this topic for a change. Why is that, you might ask? Because you might have noticed that while I work through an ever-growing backlog of ARCs, my list of pleasure […]
Age of Ash Thank you to Orbit and Angela Man for sending me an ARC of this book in exchange for an honest review. Every story matters, and the fate of the city is woven from them all. From New York Times bestselling and critically acclaimed author Daniel […]
A Victorian Grimoire: Enchantment, Romance, Magic Thank you to NetGalley and Crossed Crow Books for providing me with an ARC of this book in exchange for an honest review. The magic and romances of the past are brought back to life in Patricia Telesco’s A Victorian Grimoire . […]
The Hexologists Thank you to Orbit and Angela Man for sending me a copy of this ARC in exchange for an honest review. The first book in a wildly inventive and mesmerizing new fantasy series from acclaimed author Josiah Bancroft, where magical mysteries abound and only one team […]
Wrath Becomes Her CONTENT WARNING: antisemitism, genocide, grief, murder, violence, death of a parent, body horror Vera was made for vengeance. Lithuania, 1943. The Nazis have killed Ezra’s daughter. He can’t bring Chaya back from the dead, but he can craft something in her image—a golem, infused with […]
This week’s topic is a freebie, and since Chanukah starts at sundown on Thursday night this year, I figured I would use this week’s post to highlight ten of my favorite Chanukah stories. I figured it works because of the heavy emphasis on Christmas books, and the recent […]
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