I finished December with 18 ARCs left to be read. January was a great month. There are multiple birthdays amongst my extended family, and within my immediate family, my brother, sister-in-law, and I all have birthday in January. We also remember my father on his birthday, which was […]
Hello! I had a super busy week, but enjoyed some R&R on the weekend. It wasn’t fun, but I finally got around to some chores that I had been neglecting. Although I must admit, it does feel better to not have those tasks hanging over my head, 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: “Deep within a forgotten cave, Sariel’s brother knelt […]
The Lost House Thank you to NetGalley and Minotaur Books for providing me with an ARC of this book in exchange for an honest review. CONTENT WARNING: grief, death of a loved one (off-page), murder, death of a child, suicide attempt In Melissa Larsen’s The Lost House comes the mesmerizing […]
Hopefully the new year is being good to you. Today’s prompt is bookish goals for 2025, and I am here for it. I’ve always been a hardcore goal oriented person, but in the last year or so, I had to relax things a little bit. Okay, a lot. […]
The Empress Thank you to NetGalley and Bloom Books for providing me with an ARC of this book in exchange for an honest review. He’s a ruthless, battle-scarred warrior with a dark past, and she’s stuck pretending to be his wife to save a fantasy kingdom. From New York […]
Butterflies in the End Zone I received a copy of this book from the author in exchange for an honest review. All opinions are my own. Alex has everything going for him. He’s the quarterback of the football team. He has a great group of friends. He’s popular. […]
Today is the last Sunday Bookish Discussion of 2024, and I wanted today’s topic to echo the reflection that I naturally do at the end of the year, so I’m talking about Wrap Up Posts today. When I first started blogging, I loved checking out everyone else’s wrap […]
A Tide of Black Steel Thank you to Orbit and Oliver Wehner for sending me a copy of this book in exchange for an honest review. CONTENT WARNING: murder, blood, gore, violence, enslavement From the international bestselling author Anthony Ryan comes the spectacular first novel in a new […]
Breath of the Dragon Thank you to NetGalley, Wednesday Books, and Macmillan Audio for providing me with ARCs of this ebook and audiobook in exchange for an honest review. CONTENT WARNING: violence, gore, murder, death of a parent (off-page) The first novel in a sweeping YA fantasy duology […]
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