Liar’s Dice Thank you to NetGalley and Random House for providing me with an ARC of this book in exchange for an honest review. A heart-rending and hopeful debut about a teenage girl in 1970s Brazil who is unexpectedly torn away from her disabled twin sister—and who must […]
Honor & Heresy Thank you to NetGalley and Harper Voyager for providing me with a copy of this book in exchange for an honest review. Instagram sensation Max Francis makes his highly anticipated debut with this atmospheric, gothic, dark academic fantasy of two scholars racing each other to […]
May was a really eventful month in my house. I started out the month getting T-boned by a car that came flying out of a parking lot. The car was totaled but I am mostly okay, just some shoulder issues but I started physical therapy today, and hope […]
An Arcane Study of Stars Thank you to Redhook for sending me a copy of this ARC in exchange for an honest review. From Sydney J. Shields, the breakout author of The Honey Witch, comes An Arcane Study of Stars, a historical dark academia fantasy filled with ancient secret societies, […]
Odessa Thank you to NetGalley and Little, Brown and Company for providing me with an ARC of this book in exchange for an honest review. In a powerfully imagined Russia at the height of the pogroms, a grief-stricken family turn to ancient magic to bring their daughter back […]
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: “Freida was underwater. Her muscles contracted, shocked from […]
The Trident and the Pearl Thank you to Orbit for sending me a copy of this ARC in exchange for an honest review. A desperate queen makes a deal with the gods to save her land in this spellbinding romantasy debut from Sarah K. L. Wilson. Queen Coralys […]
We’re still having some temperature swings, but they’re heading in the warmer direction for the most part. It’s bananas to think that I have seen climate change alter weather patterns and they keep getting more extreme. As if my brain needed one more thing to worry about, here […]
The Book Witch Thank you to NetGalley and Ballantine Books for providing me with an ARC of this book in exchange for an honest opinion. She can hop into any novel, she just can’t stay there. Come along with the book witch in this magical and inspiring love letter […]
March hit us with some weird weather—we got snow, rain, days in the 40s and days in the 70s, most recently back to back. I am glad to see some of the plants and trees start to bloom, although I will miss the cold weather. I really love […]
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