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 […]
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 […]
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, […]
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. […]
Hot for the Fireman Ex-Army Ranger Erik Grady lives for the job. So when his chief at the Boston Fire Department offers him two choices—mandated therapy for supposed PTSD or a permanent desk job at the station, he reluctantly agrees to see a shrink. Only this doctor is […]
Greenteeth Thank you to Orbit and Oliver Wehner for sending me an ARC of this book in exchange for an honest review. From an outstanding new voice in cozy fantasy comes Greenteeth, a tale of fae, folklore, and found family, narrated by a charismatic lake-dwelling monster with a voice unlike […]
Hello February! January has become a month full of joy mixed with a drop of sadness for my family since my father passed six years ago. We have always had a lot of January birthdays in the family, and my dad had one in January as well. But […]
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 […]
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 […]
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