August was all over the place for me. I just got a new job that I’m super excited about, though it’s been a long road to get here. My reading has reflected my changing moods over the course of the month. In total, I read four novels and three manga. The lowest rating I gave [...]
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Book Review: “Count Your Lucky Stars” by Alexandria Bellefleur (ARC)
Add on Goodreads ***Thank you to Netgalley for providing this ARC in exchange for an honest review.*** “I don’t know how to be anything but all in when it comes to you.” Margot Cooper doesn’t do relationships. She tried and it blew up in her face, so she’ll stick with casual hookups, thank you very [...]
Book Review: “Honey Girl” by Morgan Rogers (ARC)
Add on Goodreads ***Thank you to Netgalley for providing this ARC in exchange for an honest review.*** “Have you ever stared up at the sky and wondered where it was you saw yourself, all those years ago? Which star it was you followed here?” With her newly completed PhD in astronomy in hand, twenty-eight-year-old Grace [...]
Book Review: “The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue” by V.E. Schwab (ARC)
Add on Goodreads ***Thank you to Netgalley for providing this ARC in exchange for an honest review.*** “What is a person, if not the marks they leave behind?” 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. [...]
Book Review: “Harrow the Ninth” by Tamsyn Muir (ARC)
***Thank you to Tor Publishing for providing this ARC in exchange for an honest review.*** Here is the graveyard and we are the graves. She answered the Emperor's call. She arrived with her arts, her wits, and her only friend. In victory, her world has turned to ash. After rocking the cosmos with her deathly [...]
Book Review: “Bonds of Brass” by Emily Skrutskie (ARC)
***Thank you to Netgalley for providing this ARC in exchange for an honest review.*** “With him at my side, we’ll always fly true.” A young pilot risks everything to save his best friend— the man he trusts most and might even love— only to learn that he's secretly the heir to a brutal galactic empire. [...]
Show & Tell Without the Showing: A Review of “Prince of Air and Darkness” by M.A. Grant
Official Summary The only human student at Mather’s School of Magick, Phineas Smith has a target on his back. Born with the rare ability to tap into unlimited magick, he finds both Faerie Courts want his allegiance—and will do anything to get it. They don’t realize he can’t levitate a feather, much less defend the [...]
‘Cause This Is (Not a) Thriller: A Review of “A Danger to Herself and Others” by Alyssa B. Sheinmel
Official Summary: Four walls. One window. No way to escape. Hannah knows there's been a mistake. She didn't need to be institutionalized. What happened to her roommate at her summer program was an accident. As soon as the doctors and judge figure out that she isn't a danger to herself or others, she can go [...]
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