v.e. schwab

  • Hosted by the Top 5 Wednesday Goodreads Group   Hey, gang! Sorry I haven’t been as active lately. I just haven’t felt like blogging. Maybe that’s blunt, but I figure there’s no reason to not be honest. Today, however, I felt like I could bang out a quick post and it’s Top 5 Wednesday, so

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  • Hosted by the Top 5 Wednesday Goodreads Group   Well, tomorrow is Thanksgiving, and with that an entire moral conundrum. The very foundation of the holiday (happy pilgrims and natives working together) is based on a lie. It pretty much celebrates colonialism. It also glorifies overeating (which I have never understood how that relates to

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  • The Four London Book Tag

    On Halloween this year, the collector’s edition of A Darker Shade of Magic by V.E. Schwab was released. Even though it’s over a week later, I thought I’d do this tag in honor of that release. It poses questions based on each of the Londons in that series: Gray London, Red London, White London, and

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  • Hosted by the Top 5 Wednesday Goodreads Group Hey, gang! It’s Top 5 Wednesday! The topic is your top five creepy settings. They don’t have to be from horror stories, but they do have to give you the willies. Once again, as a lover of Halloween and all things creepy, this topic was right up

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  • As a part of the generation that grew up with Harry Potter, I know all about the search for another book or series that speaks to me as much as it did. And, over the course of my life, I’ve found some that I think feel fit that mold. Now, I’m not going to include

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  • Cassandra Clare’s magnum opus The Shadowhunter Chronicles is one of the most successful YA series to date. The characters are well-loved, the plots infamous, and the ships swoony as hell. But what do you do once you’ve exhausted every word of the overarching saga? Well, I’ve found a few other books and series that I

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  • Hosted by the Top 5 Wednesday Goodreads Group Hello, Strangers! It’s time for Top 5 Wednesday… on Thursday! I wasn’t feeling too hot yesterday, so I didn’t feel like writing up a post. But I didn’t really want to skip the topic. This week’s topic is your top five books without romance. Obviously, if a

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  • Hosted by ThoughtsOnTomes Hello again, Strangers! It’s time to do this week’s Top 5 Wednesday topic! This week’s topic is your favorite “unlikable” protagonists. “Unlikable” protagonists get a bad rap, but they’re often some of my favorite characters. I get tired of flawless, can-do-no-wrong main characters, so “unlikable” ones are often a refreshing change. So,

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  • Hosted by the Top 5 Wednesday Goodreads Group Strangers, when I saw this week’s topic for Top 5 Wednesday, I gasped with excitement. As you know, there are only three things that give me a reaction that powerful: Demi Lovato, Harry Potter, and Star Wars. This time it’s Harry Potter. This week’s topic is five

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  • Hosted by ThoughtsOnTomes Hola, Strangers! It’s Wednesday again, which means it’s time once more for Top 5 Wednesday! This week’s topic is your top five favorite minor characters. As stated in the topic, in regards to the difference between a side character or a minor character, a side character is someone like Ron Weasley or

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