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 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 […]
Lion’s Legacy Thank you to Union Square & Co. and Jenny Lu for sending me a copy of this book in exchange for an honest review. CONTENT WARNING: mention of underage drinking, parental abandonment, mention of homophobia, homophobic slur mentioned, violence, blood, death Seventeen-year-old Tennessee Russo’s life is […]
House of Marionne Thank you to Razorbill and YA Books Central for providing me with an ARC of this book in exchange for an honest review. CONTENT WARNING: blood, violence, murder From New York Times bestselling author J. Elle comes a modern-day YA romantic fantasy series opener about […]
There’s so many awesome books out there just waiting to come home with us, and that’s where the idea of a wishlist comes into play. I keep a running wishlist because I have a terrible memory, and this way I can just add the books that I really […]
House of Roots and Ruin Thank you to NetGalley and Delacorte Press for providing me with an ARC of this book in exchange for an honest review. CONTENT WARNING: ableism, death, violence, gore, murder, death of a child, forced drugging, blood A modern masterpiece, this is a classic […]
Skin of the Sea CONTENT WARNING: violence, enslavement, death, suicide, gore, blood, grief A way to survive. A way to serve. A way to save. Simi prayed to the gods, once. Now she serves them as Mami Wata–a mermaid–collecting the souls of those who die at sea and […]
Painted Devils Thank you to NetGalley and Macmillan Audio for providing me with an ARC of this audiobook in exchange for an honest review. CONTENT WARNING: verbal and physical abuse, abandonment, anxiety, panic attack, blood, gore, mention of animal death (off-page), cults, mention of death of a parent […]
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