🌸 Title: The Crown of Gilded Bones (Book 3 of FBAA)🌸Author: Jennifer L. Armentrout 🌸Release Date: April 20th, 2021🌸Genre: New Adult, Fantasy, Fiction, Romance, Paranormal🌸 A non-major spoilers review.🌸 Read my review for From Blood and Ash here. “You are the foundation that helps me stand. You are my walls and my roof. My shelter. You are my home. -Jennifer L. Armentrout, The Crown of Gilded Bones The Crown of Gilded Bones continues off from where A Kingdom of Flesh and Fire ended—Poppy after being attacked, the crown at her feet. Poppy just wanted to go to Atlantia with Casteel, her heartmate, but fate has other plans. A long-forgotten organization will…
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The Infinity Courts – What does it mean to be human?
🌸 Title: The Infinity Courts 🌸Author: Akemi Dawn Bowman 🌸Release Date: April 6th, 2021🌸Genre: YA, Fantasy, Fiction, Contemporary, Sci-Fi, Romance🌸 A non-major spoilers review.🌸I received an ARC copy from NetGalley in exchange for an honest review. “And in this moment, I’m not a spy or a person without a family. I’m one half of a star, bursting across the sky with the only boy that makes my heart feel like it’s on fire.” -Akemi Dawn Bowman, The Infinity Courts The Infinity Courts follows eighteen-year-old Nami Miyamoto as she seemingly is living a good life. She has her best friend turned boyfriend, a loving family, and she just graduated high school. But…
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Lost in the Never Woods – The tension lacked and nothing really happened
🌸 Title: Lost in the Never Woods🌸Author: Aiden Thomas🌸Release Date: March 23rd, 2021🌸Genre: YA, Fantasy, Fiction, Mystery, Retellings🌸 A non-major spoilers review.🌸Note: I received an ARC copy from NetGalley in exchange for an honest review “I thought you weren’t afraid of anything?” Wendy heard herself say. She was lightheaded and breathless. “I’m terrified,” he said quietly. -Aiden Thomas, Lost in the Never Woods Lost in the Never Woods introduces us to Wendy Darling, a girl traumatized after losing her memories and her brothers. Five years later, a boy falls from the sky—literally, and tells her that she’s the key to finding the children who have been disappearing. But she will have…
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Pariah’s Lament – A tale of acceptance and confidence with breathtaking worldbuilding
🌸 Title: Pariah’s Lament🌸Author: Richie Billing 🌸Published: March 17th, 2021🌸Genre: Adult, Historical, Fiction, Fantasy🌸 A non-major spoilers review. 🌸Check out my interview with the author, Richie Billing!🌸 “Our enemies may rob us of everything, but they cannot strip us of hope. The only person who can take that away is you.” -Richie Billing, Pariah’s Lament Pariah’s Lament follows Isy and Edvar. Isy has to help the Amast, an ancient race in dire need of help if they are to survive. Rejected by her own family as the Amast were rejected by society, she helps them find the salvation they so desperately need while facing her. After an attempt on his Keeper’s…
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Bloodlaced – A dark, provoking read that will break your heart
🌸 Title: Bloodlaced🌸Author: Courtney Maguire🌸Published: September 29th, 2020🌸Genre: Adult, Fantasy, Romance, LGBT, Fiction, Historical🌸Preview: A beautiful eastern-influenced fantasy romance that focuses on the topics of love and identity.🌸A no major spoilers review.🌸Note: I received an ARC copy from NetGalley in exchange to review. 🌸Check out my interview with Courtney Maguire! “He’s a monster,” I said, voice cracking. “Yes,” she said. “But he tries very hard not to be.” -Courtney Maguire, Bloodlaced Bloodlaced is an LGBT eastern-inspired fantasy romance that follows Asagi, a man and a woman. Asagi is unable to protect a boy they saw as a son and is sold to Mahiro, a kind and gentle master, and they fall…
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The Necklace – a predictable yet chilling read
🌸 Title: The Necklace🌸Author: Matt Witten🌸Release Date: September 21st, 2021🌸Genre: Adult, Mystery, Thriller🌸Preview: A woman questions whether or not the man accused of killing her daughter is truly guilty.🌸Note: I received an ARC copy from NetGalley in exchange to review.🌸A no major spoilers review. Susan Lentigo’s a small-town waitress who fought for the man who supposedly killed her daughter has second thoughts about the killer. She’ll go to great lengths to find the true killer—and he might be closer than she thinks. The Necklace devastated me and left me breathless. It tore at my soul. I teared up more than once as we learn about Amy’s death, and even though…
