This week I want to introduce a topic to discuss that I see often. Cliffhangers. I tend to read series, and a lot of books in series tend to leave off on a cliffhanger. While I have a strong opinion of my own, I’ve learned that if I […]
The Lies of Alma Blackwell Thank you to Union Square & Co. and Angela Man for sending me an ARC of this book in exchange for an honest review. CONTENT WARNING: parental abandonment, murder, death, death of children, grief, violence A sweepingly romantic gothic mystery about a girl […]
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: “LONDON, SPRING 1815 Most young ladies were expected […]
Strange Practice Thank you to Orbit and Angela Man for sending me a copy of this ARC in exchange for an honest review. MEET GRETA HELSING, DOCTOR TO THE UNDEAD. Dr. Greta Helsing has inherited the family’s highly specialized, and highly peculiar, medical practice. She treats the undead […]
Strange Folk Thank you to NetGalley, Atria Books, and Zakiya Jamal for providing me with an ARC of this book in exchange for an honest review. CONTENT WARNING: self-harm/blood magic, blood, addiction, death, violence, neglect, statutory rape (off-page), murder, domestic violence, grief, mention of genocide, gore A woman […]
It’s another Sunday, and that means we have another discussion ahead of us. This week I want to discuss creative license. This is when an author intentionally strays from accepted facts to achieve an artistic goal. I’ve encountered this most often in historical fantasy—where the author changes an […]
The Black Bird Oracle Thank you to libro.fm and Penguin Random House Audio for providing me with an ALC of this audiobook in exchange for an honest review. Diana Bishop journeys to the darkest places within herself—and her family history—in the highly anticipated fifth novel of the beloved […]
This week’s prompt was submitted by Angela @ Reading Frenzy and it’s such a great one. I’m going to talk about ten debut novels I enjoyed, meaning the first published book by an author. It is going to make me think a little harder than I would normally, […]
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 […]
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