The Familiar Fate can be changed. Curses can be broken. In a shabby house, on a shabby street, in the new capital of Madrid, Luzia Cotado uses scraps of magic to get through her days of endless toil as a scullion. But when her scheming mistress discovers that […]
I’ve come a long way with being open to books about romance, but I’m still not a mainly romance reader. Sometimes it pops up in other books, usually fantasy or cozy mystery, so I don’t mind seeing romance in books, and I don’t mind it spicy. However, picking […]
Happy Tuesday y’all! I hope February is treating you well so far. We’ve gotten a little light snow over the weekend, and I had a great time celebrating my birthday with family. Which is also why I’m so late in responding to comments and blog hopping. This week’s […]
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 […]
Wow, this week’s prompt is a really great one, and it’s all about my top ten new-to-me authors I discovered in 2024. While I love reading books by the authors I love, I’ve also encountered some really great authors that I hadn’t read anything by. So I am […]
Good Dirt Thank you to Ballantine Books and NetGalley for providing me with an ARC of this book in exchange for an honest review. The daughter of an affluent Black family pieces together the connection between a childhood tragedy and a beloved heirloom in this moving novel from […]
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 […]
Babylonia Thank you to NetGalley and Recorded Books for providing me with an ARC of this audiobook in exchange for an honest review. From the author of the bestselling Clytemnestra comes another intoxicating excursion into ancient history, as Casati reimagines the rise to power of the Assyrian empire’s […]
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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