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: “My twin my darling my LUCY All is […]
Saltwater Thank you to NetGalley and Ballantine Books for providing me with an ARC of this book in exchange for an honest review. In 1992 Sarah Lingate is found dead below the cliffs of Capri, leaving behind her three-year-old daughter, Helen. Despite suspicions that the old-money Lingates are […]
The Radiant King Thank you to Orbit and Oliver Wehner for sending me an ARC of this book in exchange for an honest review. Six immortal siblings. Five sworn to peace. One demands a throne. Radiance, the mysterious power of life and creation, is theirs to command. Yet, […]
Happy Tuesday! This week started off with a bang for me. Mom was in the hospital over the weekend, but she’s home now and doing a lot better. So while I was able to just relax and put my foot up to ice and rest it, I was […]
The Knight and the Moth Thank you to Orbit and Oliver Wehner for sending me an ARC of this book in exchange for an honest review. From BookTok sensation and NYT bestselling author Rachel Gillig, comes the next big romantasy phenomenon: a gothic, mist-cloaked tale of a prophetess […]
It’s been a rough week. In addition to being injured and dependent on my elderly mother for transportation and dealing with the pain of this stupid Achilles strain, which I don’t recommend at all. I’ve been getting around to doing some of those tasks that I don’t always […]
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: “The Girls House of Juvenile Detention in the […]
I was hoping to be able to get a review posted for today, but it hasn’t quite worked out that way. Instead, I decided to post a familiar template to many of my fellow bloggers: WWW Wednesday. WWW is a weekly meme hosted at Taking on a World […]
It’s Tuesday again! Hope you’re all doing well and had a wonderful weekend. New York has been getting a lot of rain, so I’ve been spending a lot of time inside. The good news is that I’ve managed to crochet nearly an entire baby blanket and get a […]
The Meadowbrook Murders Thank you to GP Putnam’s Sons Books for Young Readers, Penguin Young Readers, and Sierra Pregosin for sending me a copy of this book in exchange for an honest review. A page-turning murder mystery set at a prestigious New England boarding school and the dark secrets […]
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