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ARC Review: You Have a Match

Title: You Have a MatchAuthor: Emma LordPublication Date: January 12th 2021Genre: ContemporaryFormat: eARCRating: ★★★ Synopsis When Abby signs up for a DNA service, it’s mainly to give her friend and secret love interest, Leo, a nudge. After all, she knows who she is already: Avid photographer. Injury-prone tree climber. Best friend to Leo and Connie…although ever since the B.E.I. (Big…

Title: LoreAuthor: Alexandra Bracken Publication Date: January 5th 2020Genre: FantasyFormat: eARCRating: ★★★★ Synopsis Every seven years, the Agon begins. As punishment for a past rebellion, nine Greek gods are forced to walk the earth as mortals, hunted by the descendants of ancient bloodlines, all eager to kill a god and seize their divine power and immortality.Long ago, Lore Perseous fled…

November + December 2020 Wrap Up

Since I conveniently forgot to do my monthly wrap up at the end of November, I decided to combine the both November and December into one post. Between the two months, I read a lot and was able to surpass my original reading goal by 10 books which is something I don’t think I’ve ever done. I owe it all to my new found love: audiobooks. Without audiobooks I don’t think I would have read as much…

ARC Review: The Burning God

Title: The Burning God Author: R.F Kuang Publication Date: November 17th 2020 Genre: Fantasy Format: eARC Rating: ★★★★★

Synopsis

After saving her nation of Nikan from foreign invaders and battling the evil Empress Su Daji in a brutal civil war, Fang Runin was betrayed by allies and left for dead. 

Despite her losses, Rin hasn’t given up on those for whom she has sacrificed so much—the people…

October 2020 Wrap Up

I’m baaacccckkkk with the only post that you seem to get from me nowadays. It’s not that I don’t have reviews written. I do! I’m just terrible at actually typing them up into something that is coherent and then posting them. I need an assistant who’ll take my handwritten sticky note reviews and will put them together for me. That would be nice.

I did really well this month reading wise! So…

September 2020 Wrap Up

Guess who’s back again with the only consistent post they write?? If you guessed me then you’re absolutely right!

Monthly wrap up posts are so easy to write and they don’t take me that long which is why I keep writing them every month even if I don’t post anything in between them.

I am in the middle of writing my review of The Burning God though and I do want to have that out before the…

Review: The Poppy War

Title: The Poppy War Author: R.F Kuang Publication Date: May 1st 2018 Genre: Fantasy Format: Audiobook Rating: ★★★

Synopsis

When Rin aced the Keju—the Empire-wide test to find the most talented youth to learn at the Academies—it was a shock to everyone: to the test officials, who couldn’t believe a war orphan from Rooster Province could pass without cheating; to Rin’s guardians, who believed…

August 2020 Wrap Up

It seems like monthly wrap ups are the only blog posts I’m consistently writing. This is kind of late though and that has to do a lot of with the fact that I don’t currently have a laptop. It’s in a shop right now and I’m hoping that it can be fixed. If it doesn’t I might buy a new one or I might wait until my birthday next year.

I read five books this month but I still haven’t caught up to…

Review: Take a Hint, Dani Brown

Title: Take a Hint, Dani Brown Author: Talia Hibbert Publication Date: February 12th 2019 Genre: Romance Format: Audiobook Rating: ★★★★

Synopsis

Danika Brown knows what she wants: professional success, academic renown, and an occasional roll in the hay to relieve all that career-driven tension. But romance? Been there, done that, burned the T-shirt. Romantic partners, whatever their gender,…

July 2020 Wrap Up

Here I am with another wrap up where I didn’t read as many books as I had hoped. After listening to both the Brown sisters books, I haven’t really been in a mood to continue reading. I need to pick up books physically as I can finish a physical book much faster than I can finish an audiobook.

I did finish four books this month which to me seems like a really good amount.

The Kiss of…

Review: Get a Life, Chloe Brown

Title: Get a Life, Chloe Brown Author: Talia Hibbert Publication Date: November 5th 2019 Genre: Romance Format: Audiobook Rating: ★★★★

Synopsis

Chloe Brown is a chronically ill computer geek with a goal, a plan, and a list. After almost—but not quite—dying, she’s come up with seven directives to help her “Get a Life”, and she’s already completed the first: finally moving out of her glamorous…

Title: Bloodwitch Author: Susan Dennard Publication Date: February 12th 2019 Genre: Fantasy Format: Ebook Rating: ★★★★★

Synopsis

Fans of Susan Dennard’s Witchlands series have fallen in love with the Bloodwitch Aeduan. And now, finally, comes his story.

High in a snowy mountain range, a monastery that holds more than just faith clings to the side of a cliff. Below, thwarted by a lake, a…

June 2020 Wrap Up

This is kind of late because I didn’t realize that it was the end of the month and so I didn’t have this post ready but I’m here now! I have fallen behind on my reading challenge which isn’t ideal but I’m hopeful that I will get back on track soon.

I only read two books this month but they were both really good so I’m counting this month as a reading win.

Girl, Serpent, Thornby Melissa…

ARC Review: Girl, Serpent, Thorn

Title: Girl, Serpent, Thorn Author: Melissa Bashardoust Publication Date: July 7 2020 Genre: Fantasy Rating: ★★★★

Synopsis

A captivating and utterly original fairy tale about a girl cursed to be poisonous to the touch, and who discovers what power might lie in such a curse…

There was and there was not, as all stories begin, a princess cursed to be poisonous to the touch. But for Soraya, who…

May 2020 Wrap Up

Another month has passed us by and I still don’t know what I’m doing with my life. I hope that everyone is doing well. I know that I’m not doing as well as I would like to be but it’s okay. I just need to relax and remind myself that everything is going to be fine.

I graduated from university this month and within two weeks I’ve found a job. I’m a little nervous about starting this new job…

ARC Review: The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue

Title: The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue Author: V.E Schwab Publication Date: October 6 2020 Genre: Fantasy Rating: ★★★★

Synopsis

A Life No One Will Remember. A Story You Will Never Forget.

France, 1714: in a moment of desperation, a young woman makes a Faustian bargain to live forever and is cursed to be forgotten by everyone she meets.

Thus begins the extraordinary life of Addie…

March and April 2020 Wrap Up

Wow it’s been a while since I last posted. I didn’t plan to stop writing reviews. It just seemed to happen. I had been posting pretty regularly even going so far as to schedule posts in advance but since everything with COVID-19 all that planning seemed to go down hill.

Social distancing was fun for a little bit but now it’s not and I hope things can go back to the way they were soon. In the…