Shield Maiden Author: Sharon Emmerichs Genre: Fantasy Publication Date: October 3, 2023 Publisher: Redhook Thank you to Redhook and Angela Man for sending me an ARC of this book in exchange for an honest review. CONTENT WARNING: earthquake, blood, trauma, enslavement, ableism, sexual assault, violence, substance use, death […]
I finished August with 22 ARCs left to be read. September was just a hectic and out of control month. I’m traveling a bit in October, so I spent a lot of this month running around trying to handle a lot of stuff. Between medical appointments, hospital visits, […]
The Witching Tide Author: Margaret Meyer Genre: Historical Fiction Publication Date: September 5, 2023 Publisher: Scribner Thank you to NetGalley and Scribner for providing me with an ARC of this book in exchange for an honest review. CONTENT WARNING: violence, blood, death of a child, grief, mention of […]
I’m currently drowning in ARCs, so the vast majority of my fall 2023 TBR is going to be ARCs. However, there are some books I got that I’m dying to start sooner rather than later. Here’s just some of the books I’m hoping to read in fall 2023: […]
This week’s prompt is about broody/grumpy characters, and it’s surprisingly apropos for me. I love a good grumpy/sunshine story, and that obviously can’t happen without a grumpy or broody character. I also read a lot of fantasy novels, and those tend to be chock full of broody and […]
This week’s topic is a fun one—books that defied my expectations, and it was submitted by Sia @ Every Book a Doorway. The prompt further clarifies: we can focus on books we thought we wouldn’t like that we loved, books we thought we’d love but didn’t books that […]
I finished July with 23 ARCs left to be read. I really did try to focus on getting through some more of my ARCs this month, but the trend of the universe laughing in my face has continued. I’m dealing with my own health issues, and visiting a […]
This week’s prompt is water, which is a relatively broad topic. We’re given some suggestions, like book covers with water on them, books with bodies of water in them, titles with bodies of water in them, etc), but I kind of wanted to come up with my own […]
He Who Drowned the World Author: Shelley Parker-Chan Genre: Fantasy Publication Date: August 22, 2023 Publisher: Macmillan Audio Series: The Radiant Emperor #2 Thank you to NetGalley and Macmillan Audio for providing me with an ARC of this audiobook in exchange for an honest review. The sequel and […]
This week’s prompt is a genre-related freebie, where we get to pick a specific genre and then build a freebie around it. And while I read and post about fantasy a lot, I want to take it in a different direction this time. My sister-in-law was visiting me […]
