Where the Dead Sleep Thank you to NetGalley and Poisoned Pen Press for providing me with an ARC of this book in exchange for an honest review. CONTENT WARNING: homophobia, murder, blood, death, suicide, racism, xenophobia, bullying A small town’s dark secrets turn deadly… When an early morning […]
July went by in a flash, and it was a super hectic month for me. My mom had a fall and while she didn’t break anything (yay!) she did have a huge wound on her knee (boo!), so there was a lot of driving back and forth between […]
I finished June with 25 ARCs left to be read. I know that I said I was planning to seriously work on making progress on my ARCs this month, but the universe basically laughed in my face. Mom had a fall, and it involved a stay in the […]
This week’s prompt is forgotten backlist titles, with the direction to spread love for books that people don’t talk about much anymore, and I feel like this prompt was custom-made for me. I took a long break from reading as an adult, and didn’t come back to it […]
This week’s prompt is the ten most recent books I did not finish (DNF). I’m excited about this one because I’ve really come around to the benefits of DNFing books. At first, I really tried hard to finish every book I started, whether I was enjoying it or […]
This week’s prompt was submitted by Angela @ Reading Frenzy Book Blog, and it’s books with one-word titles. It’s finally starting to look like we’re moving on from the “A ____ of ____ and ____” book title trend, and while I don’t think we’re going to have a […]
Gone Tonight Thank you to NetGalley and St. Martin’s Press for providing me with an ARC of this book in exchange for my honest review. CONTENT WARNING: parental abandonment, death of a parent, terminal illness, alcoholism, child abuse, emotional abuse, racial slur (for Latines), prejudice, bullying, sexual assault, […]
I finished May with 17 ARCs left to be read. I was originally planning to make some serious progress on my ARCs in June, but things got super busy in June. I ended up going to two fairs with friends, went to my nephew’s high school graduation, and […]
Happy Pride Month! I love books involving queer characters, and I love them most when they are OwnVoices books. I’ve read quite a few of these, and naturally, there’s a ton on my TBR. Here are some of my recent favorites: What are some of your favorite OwnVoices […]
Murder at the Pumpkin Pageant Thank you to NetGalley and Kensington Cozies for providing me with an ARC of this book in exchange for an honest review. CONTENT WARNING: murder, mention of an inappropriate relationship between an adult and a minor, grief, violence It’s Halloween weekend and Beacon […]
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