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: “Her wedding dress is the colour of the […]
Once Was Willem Thank you to Orbit and Oliver Wehner for sending me a copy of this book in exchange for an honest review. From bestselling author M.R. Carey comes an utterly unique and enchantingly dark epic fantasy fable like no other. This is the tale of Once-Was-Willem, […]
Daily Mindfulness: A 31 Day Guide to Mental Clarity Thank you to NetGalley and Victory Editing NetGalley Co-Op for providing access to an ARC of this audiobook in exchange for an honest review. Transform your daily experience with bite-sized, science-backed mindfulness practices designed for real life. This 31-day […]
Happy Tuesday, and I hope your week is off to a wonderful start. The weather outside has been beautiful in the last day—maybe to make up for all the cold weather and snow? Whatever it is, I’m not complaining. It is so pretty to go outside and see […]
Nobody’s Fool Thank you to NetGalley and Hachette Audio for providing me with an ARC of this audiobook in exchange for an honest review. A year after the devastating events that took place in Fool Me Once, Harlan Coben’s bestselling thriller and #1 Netflix series, a secret from former Detective […]
Fool Me Once Former special ops pilot Maya, home from the war, sees an unthinkable image captured by her nanny cam while she is at work: her two-year-old daughter playing with Maya’s husband, Joe—who had been brutally murdered two weeks earlier. The provocative question at the heart of […]
Love Love is a fever dream of a novella about a young sex worker whose life blurs the boundaries between violence and intimacy, objectification and real love. Startlingly intimate and lyrically deft, Maayan Eitan’s debut follows Libby as she goes about her work in a nameless Israeli city, […]
Swordheart Thank you to Netgalley and Bramble for providing me with an ARC of this book in exchange for an honest review. Halla is a housekeeper who has suddenly inherited her great-uncle’s estate… and, unfortunately, his relatives. Sarkis is an immortal swordsman trapped in a prison of enchanted […]
Junie Thank you to NetGalley and Ballantine Books for providing me with an ARC of this book in exchange for an honest review. A young girl must face a life-altering decision after awakening her sister’s ghost, navigating truths about love, friendship, and power as the Civil War looms. […]
The Sirens Thank you to NetGalley and Macmillan Audio for providing me with an ARC of this audiobook in exchange for an honest review. A story of sisters separated by hundreds of years but bound together in more ways than they can imagine 2019: Lucy awakens in her […]