Tag: Bookish
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REVIEW: “We All Want Impossible Things” by Catherine Newman
“I would give anything to keep you,” I say through the sob that’s gathering in my throat, and she says, “I know you would. I would give anything to stay.” Ash SPOILER-FREE PLOT Edi has been Ash’s best friend since childhood. Effectively, Edi is one of the greatest loves of Ash’s life. They have, and…
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REVIEW: “Rock Paper Scissors” by Alice Feeney
READ THIS IF: You’d stay in a haunted AirBNB. You’ve never heard of prosopagnosia. You’re craving an eerie wintery read set in the Scottish Highlands. MY THOUGHTS: Picture this: You married the love of your life – but he has a clinical condition that prevents him from recognizing faces. Don’t worry, he still recognizes your…
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REVIEW: “A Light in the Flame” by Jennifer Armentrout
READ THIS IF: You crave more steamy Nyktos/Sera scenes. You like trilogies, and don’t mind middle installments that feel like the red-headed stepchild of it. No offense to red-headed stepchildren. You can tolerate leaving off on a cliffhanger for a whole year. MY THOUGHTS: Let me be clear: I enjoyed this book. I did. Yet,…
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2022 WRAPUP: My Favorite Bookish Moments + The Music That Made Them
If it’s not already apparent by my blog: I love music. I love books. While I do think that part of the reason I pair the two together is due to my unfulfilled childhood dream of becoming a movie producer (*shakes fist at the sky*), it also makes the fantasy world that lives rent-free in…
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Review: “A Shadow In The Ember” by Jennifer Armentrout
“A monster wouldn’t care if they were one.” Nyktos READ THIS IF: You love whiskey. You want pure, unadulterated badassery. You didn’t know that your foot is roughly the same length as your forearm. Test that nugget of wisdom out. Go ahead. I’ll wait. MY THOUGHTS: To quote Seraphena: “What in the whole wide world…
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REVIEW: “The Measure” by Nikki Erlick
The great American writer Ralph Waldo Emerson wrote, ‘It is not the length of life, but the depth of life.’ You don’t need a long lifetime to make an impact on this world. You just need the will to do so. Nikki Erlick PLOT OVER-SIMPLIFIED One morning, everyone around the world wakes up to mysterious…
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REVIEW: “Hollow Heathens” by Nicole Fiorina
“I believe the world is filled with nothing of the normal, that we are all monsters and freaks, and if my beliefs are true, we can escape the shadows to find one another. I believe something more hideous and cruel has put us there, in the dark corners of our minds. Something that isn’t normal…
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REVIEW: “Haunting Adeline” by H. D. Carlton
READ THIS IF: You’ve ever entertained a stalker fetish. You order your Thai food with a spicy level 5/5. PLOT OVER-SIMPLIFIED: A writer inherits her grandmother’s house, attracts a sexy vigilante stalker on a mission to end sex trafficking, and in the process of coping with her attraction for him she channels her sexual frustration…
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REVIEW: “Unlikely Animals” by Annie Hartnett
Just get us through the school year, she prayed. Who was she bargaining with? She had always said she was an atheist, or at least an agnostic, whenever the topic came up, but secretly she thought it would be nice to believe in God sometimes, really go whole hog on the Jesus thing. It would…
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REVIEW: “This Time Tomorrow” by Emma Straub
“If anything, she understood that it wasn’t actually something one could ever work all the way through, like a jigsaw puzzle or a Rubik’s cube; grief was something that moved in and stayed. Maybe it moved from one side of the room to the other, farther away from the window, but it was always there.…
