This week’s prompt was submitted by Angela @ Reading Frenzy and it’s such a great one. I’m going to talk about ten debut novels I enjoyed, meaning the first published book by an author. It is going to make me think a little harder than I would normally, […]
Long Island Compromise Thank you to NetGalley and Random House for providing me with an ARC in exchange for an honest review. In 1980 a wealthy businessman named Carl Fletcher is kidnapped from his driveway in a cloistered town on the nicest part of Long Island, brutalized, and […]
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: “Paris past midnight is a magnificent creature, conjured […]
A Sorceress Comes to Call Thanks to NetGalley, Tor Books, and Macmillan Audio for providing me with an ARC of this book in exchange for an honest review. A dark retelling of the Brothers Grimm’s Goose Girl, rife with secrets, murder, and forbidden magic Cordelia knows her mother is […]
It’s Tuesday, and you know what that means—time for another Top Ten Tuesday post! This week’s prompt comes from Cathy @ What Cathy Read Next, and I’m already excited to hop around and see what everyone comes up with. It’s ten things I loved about [insert book title […]
Bitter Waters Thank you to NetGalley, Orbit, and Angela Man for sending me an ARC of this book in exchange for an honest review. A witty, charming standalone novella starring Greta Helsing, doctor to the undead, who must get to the bottom of a mystery involving a newly […]
Castle of the Cursed Thank you to NetGalley, Wednesday Books, and Macmillan Audio for providing me with an ARC of this book in exchange for an honest review. CONTENT WARNING: grief, death of parents, trauma, PTSD, anxiety, depression, mutism, suicide attempt, bullying, violence, murder A delicious and dark […]
Benji Zeb is a Ravenous Werewolf Thank you to NetGalley and Penguin Random House Canada for providing me with an ARC of this book in exchange for an honest review. CONTENT WARNING: anxiety, on-page panic attack, antisemitism, racism, mention of death of a parent, xenophobia, homophobia Benji Zeb […]
Welcome to today’s Top Ten Tuesday, where the prompt is a Throwback Freebie! I’m doing a lot of reflecting on the year so far, now that we’re more than halfway through the dumpster fire of a year that we’ve had. Sorry, I had to throw that in there, […]
Lula Dean’s Little Library of Banned Books Thank you to NetGalley and William Morrow for providing me with an ARC of this book in exchange for an honest review. CONTENT WARNING: book bans, prejudice, antisemitism, infidelity, xenophobia, suicide, brief mention of sexual assault, homophobia, white supremacy The provocative […]
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