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By the Book by Jasmine Guillory

RATING: 5/5 SYNOPSIS: Izzy feels stuck at work and at home. She hasn’t received the promotion she so desperately deserves and she can’t afford to move out of her parents’ home, so when an opportunity to advance herself by getting the first draft of celebrity Beau Chambers’ memoir is presented to her, Izzy can’t help but seize it. The only problem is that Beau is a recluse and isn’t willing to…

Watcaha Reading Wednesday (#97)

Happy Wednesday everyone! I hope your week is going great! This week I’m still reading the Clanlands Almanac. I’m learning a lot about Scottish history that I didn’t previously know and it’s also fun getting some behind the scenes stories from Outlander as well. I really enjoy Sam and Graham as narrators and I’m excited to learn more about Scotland. What are you reading? Let me know in the…

Watcha Reading Wednesday (#96)

Happy Wednesday everyone! I hope you all are having a wonderful week! This week I’m The Clanlands Almanac by Sam Heughan and Graham McTavish. I really enjoyed Clanlands by these two and I’m really excited to learn more about Scotland in this follow-up book. I love how they include their playful banter in the written narration and I love that they write how they talk. It’s like talking to a…

Daughter of the Deep by Rick Riordan

RATING: 5/5 SYNOPSIS: Ana is a freshman at the elite science school, the Harding-Pencroft Academy, and is all set to take her final when an unexpected attack by their rival school leaves them stranded on a yacht with no school to return to. Ann and her classmates are then pushed into a quest well above their years to find technology that shouldn’t exist and stop their enemies from getting to it…

Watcha Reading Wednesday (#95)

Happy Wednesday! I hope the week has been treating you well. I’m still reading Jade Fire Gold by June C.L. Tan. I still think it’s a very slow story, but I am still intrigued as to what will happen next. I think all the characters have a good energy to them and although I haven’t really connected to any of them, I love the relationships that they have with each other. It’s not my favorite book…

The Downstairs Girl by Stacey Lee

RATING: 5/5 SYNOPSIS: There is not much opportunity for women in Gilded Age Atlanta and even less for a Chinese girl like Jo, but when she’s given an opportunity to write anonymously for a local newspaper under the name of Miss Sweetie, she discovers her voice and causes a stir. Every book by Stacey Lee that I have read I ended up loving. Jo is a fantastic narrator and I loved her voice. She…

Watcha Reading Wednesday (#94)

Happy Wednesday! I hope everyone has had a wonderful day! This week I’m reading Jade Fire Gold by June C. L. Tan. So far I haven’t really connected with the characters and it’s been a very slow start. I am intrigued by the premise and it’s exciting to read a high fantasy novel that uses an Asian influence for the world rather than a European. I’m hoping once all the initial secrets are revealed…

Whatcha Reading Wednesday (#93)

Happy Wednesday! This week I’m reading The Storyteller by Kathryn Williams. This is my first time trying out Once Upon a Book Club and I think it’s really cool that there’s little treats to go along with moments in the book and I can’t wait for them to be revealed. As for the story, it isn’t quite what I thought it would be, but I am interested in what happens next. Part of me wishes that it…

This Poison Heart by Kalynn Bayron

RATING: 4/5 SYNOPSIS: Briseis was adopted as a baby and was raised in NYC by her two mothers, but she has a power that her adopted parents don’t share with her. Plants bloom and grow just by being in her presence and nobody in her family has an explanation why. One day a lawyer shows up and tells her that her biological aunt passed away and Briseis has inherited her estate and the apothecary…

Watcha Reading Wednesday (#92)

Happy Wednesday everyone! I hope you all are having a good week. This week I’m reading Daughter of the Deep by Rick Riordan. I’ve only read the first chapter, but since Rick Riordan is my favorite author I have no doubts that I’m going to love it. I’m really excited to see what he does with the science fiction genre and I’m curious how he’s going to work 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea into a more…

RATING: 5/5 SYNOPSIS: Simi is a Mami Wata, a mermaid tasked with collecting the souls of those lost at sea, and she is only allowed to collect souls, no more and no less. One day while following a ship, a boy falls in and he’s still alive. Simi makes the decision to save his life, but because she went against her mission she must beg the Supreme Creator for forgiveness. On her journey she…

Dread Nation by Justina Ireland

RATING: 5/5 SYNOPSIS: When the dead rise up after the Battle of Gettysburg the American Civil War effectively ends, but a new war takes its place, a war against the undead. Black youths are conscripted into military schools to learn how to fight the undead and protect the white people and Jane is enrolled in the most prestigious one, but when she meddles in something that she shouldn’t she…

Watcha Reading Wednesday (#91)

Happy Wednesday! I hope your week is going well. This week I’m reading Skin of the Sea by Natasha Bowen. I am absolutely in love with this book! First of all the cover of my Owlcrate Exclusive Edition for this book is absolutely stunning and it makes me so happy to look at, but the story on the inside is just as beautiful! I love that it took inspiration from Hans Christian Anderson’s The…

The Lavender Soul by L. K. Walsh

RATING: 3/5 SYNOPSIS: Vera was born with lavender colored eyes and according to an ancient prophecy that means she’s destined either to save the world from evil or join the darkness and destroy the world. Due to the fear surrounding the Lavender Soul she grew up sequestered until it was time to fulfill the prophecy, but when Draven’s forces get closer and closer, Vera is pushed into fulfilling a…

Watcha Reading Wednesday (#90)

Happy Wednesday! I hope you all are having a wonderful week. This week I’m still reading Dread Nation. I’m still really enjoying this book! It’s gone in a lot of directions that I wasn’t expecting and I love Jane as a narrator. It’s funny, fast paced, and also deals with the social issues of that time period. I’m really excited to see how it ends and I should finish it by the end of the…

Vengeful by V. E. Schwab

RATING: 5/5 SYNOPSIS: Eight years after Victor and Eli had their final showdown, a new EO shows up on the scene causing a spectacle with her destructive power. When Eli is released from prison to help bring her down, the cat and mouse chase between him and Victor resumes again. I absolutely loved this book! It’s really hard to write sequels, especially when it comes many years after the…

Watcha Reading Wednesday (#89)

Happy Wednesday! I hope all of you have been having a fabulous week! This week I’m reading Dread Nation by Justina Ireland. So far I am loving this book! I normally don’t enjoy zombie stories, but this has historical fiction tossed in so that’s what really drew me into picking up this book. The pacing is great and I love Jane’s narration. She’s so funny and full of spirit. I’m really excited to…