Our Crooked Hearts is a bit of a mind f-(you can guess the rest of that word). Ivy is a teenage girl with a strange mother, who at times is a bit scary. She is strange and does and says weird things that normal people just don’t. When a girl ends up running out of […]
What if there is more riding on Ava reaching her dying grandmother’s side before she passes than a chance to tell her good-bye? A bright high school journalist intern is about to go on a quest of sorts to save the family’s magical blessing and allow her Nana to rest in peace, discover the hidden […]
Brandon Sanderson is one of the best known authors of modern fantasy.  The largest Kickstarter of all time is not a beverage cooler or a smart watch, but to fund the publication of four secret novels he wrote during quarantine.* He has a massive bibliography of original work as well as work he’s completed on […]
Beauty and the Beast retellings are a love of mine. I think The Rose and the Thorn is maybe even the fourth of fifth one I’ve read this year and we are only in the beginning of March. There is just something about them that is so fun to me. Finding someone and seeing their […]
Marissa Meyer is the Queen of fairytale re-imaginings and I have loved her since first picking up the Lunar Chronicles years ago. Gilded is the first book in The Gilded series which is currently set to be a duology completely re-imagining the lore for the Rumpelstiltskin tale. I wasn’t as excited for this book as […]
Evershore is the third novella in the Skyward series and even though it is listed as 3.1 all the events in it happen before book 3 chronologically so I would read it then. Jorgen, call sign Jerkface, has so many new challenges ahead of him. With the disappearance of Cob he is on a rescue […]
Like most compilations I liked some of the stories and then others just weren’t really for me. I love romantic tropes, like most readers I totally have my favorites like friends to lovers, marrying a stranger and then falling in love, enemies to lovers…and the list goes on. I was hoping for ten different romantics […]
I’ve always enjoyed this author and the unique sorts of worlds they build. The premise is always intriguing. Roxy starts with someone dying. So throughout the whole book, I’m trying to figure out who it was. Roxy is the story of the opiod crisis through the lens of a family with two children. The parents […]
Perhaps she told a tiny lie back at her prestigious East Coast boarding school to the snobs before going home for what she anticipates will be the dreariest Christmas ever. But, that was before she finds herself showing an English guy what a small town American Christmas is all about and learns a thing or […]
Cytonic is the 3rd full length novel In Brandon Sanderson’s Skyward series. Just a note – there are 2 novellas between Starsight and Cytonic, which I highly recommend you read before you begin Cytonic or you will spend the entire time wondering what is going on with Jorgen, FM, Rig and all the rest of […]