March has arrived, and I’m actually a little disappointed! Hang on, let me explain. In my part of New York, we barely got any winter. I was able to walk around in short sleeves for half of the winter, we got a few cold weeks, and we had […]
So I mixed up the prompts and did this week’s prompt last week, and last week’s prompt was too similar to a Friday Favorites post that I did recently, so I was kind of in a fix for this week’s TTT. Instead, I decided to revisit a previous […]
The Institution Thank you to NetGalley and Avon for providing me with an ARC of this book in exchange for an honest review. CONTENT WARNING: murder, blood, fetal abduction, grief, mention of physical and psychological abuse, stigmatizing language towards mental illness (challenged at times), misogyny, suicide, violence, gore, […]
The Wife Before CONTENT WARNING: violence, mention of parental abandonment, mention of death of a parent, blood, molestation, suicide, murder, mention of addiction, abusive relationship Samira Wilder has never had it easy, and when her latest lousy job goes south, things only promise to get harder. Until she […]
Happy Tuesday! This past weekend was my birthday, and I actually went out on Saturday and then had a family brunch and get together afterwards, so that was a whole lot of people-ing for me, and I’m currently pretty wiped out. But, February is almost here, and in […]
The Hacienda CONTENT WARNING: death of a parent, violence, racism, blood, mention of rape, murder Mexican Gothic meets Rebecca in this debut supernatural suspense novel, set in the aftermath of the Mexican War of Independence, about a remote house, a sinister haunting, and the woman pulled into their clutches… In the […]
Last year was a great reading year for me all around—in terms of the number of books I read, the amount of 5 star books, and the number of new-to-me authors that I had discovered. There were a lot of really great authors that I hadn’t read any […]
A House With Good Bones Thank you to NetGalley and Tor Nightfire for providing me with an ARC of this book in exchange for an honest opinion. CONTENT WARNING: fatphobia, blood, gore A haunting Southern Gothic from an award-winning master of suspense, A House With Good Bones explores the dark, […]
The Soulmate Thank you to NetGalley and St. Martin’s Press for providing me with an ARC of this book in exchange for an honest review. CONTENT WARNING: suicide, mention of domestic violence, infidelity, postpartum depression, alcohol misuse, untreated mental illness, self-harm, murder, blood, misdiagnosis Get ready for a […]
There’s a bunch of great books being released in 2023 that are on my radar so far, and I’ve already been lucky enough to get my hands on some of them—mostly as ARCs, but also one as a preorder, and you’ll be seeing them reviewed on my blog […]
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