🌸 Title: Honey Girl🌸 Author: Morgan Rogers🌸 Release Date: February 23rd, 2021🌸 Genre: Adult, Contemporary, Fiction, LGBT, Romance🌸 A non-major spoilers review. “You are made up of stars and the black glittering universe.” –Morgan Rogers, Honey Girl Goodreads summary: With her newly completed PhD in astronomy in hand, twenty-eight-year-old Grace Porter goes on a girls’ trip to Vegas to celebrate. She is not the kind of person who goes to Vegas and gets drunkenly married to a woman whose name she doesn’t know…until she does exactly that. This one moment of departure from her stern ex-military father’s plans for her life has Grace wondering why she doesn’t feel more fulfilled from completing her…
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Series Review: Shadow and Bone Trilogy
🌸 Title: Shadow and Bone Trilogy 🌸 Author: Leigh Bardugo🌸 Release Date: June 5th, 2012🌸 Genre: Young Adult, Fantasy, Fiction, Paranormal, Romance🌸 A non-major spoilers review. “I will strip away all that you know, all that you love, until you have no shelter but mine.” –Leigh Bardugo, Ruin and Rising (Book 3) Goodreads summary of Book 1: Surrounded by enemies, the once-great nation of Ravka has been torn in two by the Shadow Fold, a swath of near impenetrable darkness crawling with monsters who feast on human flesh. Now its fate may rest on the shoulders of one lonely refugee. Alina Starkov has never been good at anything. But when her…
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To Kill A Kingdom: A dark siren story that could have been darker
🌸 Title: To Kill A Kingdom🌸 Author: Alexandra Christo🌸 Release Date: March 6th, 2018🌸 Genre: Young Adult, Fantasy, Fiction, Retellings, Romance🌸 A non-major spoilers review. “Technically, I’m a murderer, but I like to think that’s one of my better qualities.” –Alexandra Christo, To Kill a Kingdom Amazon summary: Princess Lira is siren royalty and the most lethal of them all. With the hearts of seventeen princes in her collection, she is revered across the sea. Until a twist of fate forces her to kill one of her own. To punish her daughter, the Sea Queen transforms Lira into the one thing they loathe most–a human. Robbed of her song, Lira has…
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House of Salt and Sorrows: A book that made me both salty and sorrowful
🌸 Title: House of Salt and Sorrows🌸 Author: Erin A. Craig🌸 Release Date: August 6th, 2019 🌸 Genre: Young Adult, Fantasy, Fiction, Horror, Mystery, Retellings, Romance🌸 A non-major spoilers review.🌸 This was part of my May buddy read with @froggyreads! “We are born of the Salt, we live by the Salt, and to the Salt we return.” –Erin A. Craig, House of Salt and Sorrows Goodreads summary: In a manor by the sea, twelve sisters are cursed. Annaleigh lives a sheltered life at Highmoor, a manor by the sea, with her sisters, their father, and stepmother. Once they were twelve, but loneliness fills the grand halls now that four of the girls’…
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The Secret Bridesmaid – A Cute Story of Friendship That Needed More Romance
🌸 Title: The Secret Bridesmaid🌸 Author: Katy Birchall🌸 Release Date: May 4th, 2021🌸 Genre: Romance, Contemporary, Fiction, Adult, Humor🌸 A non-major spoilers review.🌸 I received an ARC copy from NetGalley in exchange for an honest review. “I know you’re supposed to wait until midnight. But, right now, I don’t care. It’s like Cordelia says. Sometimes it’s fun to break the rules. -Katy Birchall, The Secret Bridesmaid Goodreads summary: Matrimony meets mayhem in a modern British romcom about a young woman charged with pulling off the biggest aristocratic wedding of the year––and the misadventures that ensue. Sophie Breeze is a brilliant bridesmaid. So brilliant, in fact, that she’s made it her…
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The Crown of Gilded Bones – A Heart Wrenching and Amazing Addition to the From Blood and Ash Series
🌸 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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A Court of Silver Flames – A riveting story of rebirth with unnecessary plot
🌸 Title: A Court of Silver Flames (Book 4 of the ACOTAR series)🌸Author: Sarah J. Maas 🌸Published: February 16th, 2021🌸Genre: Adult, Romance, Fiction, Fantasy🌸 A non-major spoilers review. “That’s the key, isn’t it? To know the darkness will always remain, but how you choose to face it, handle it… that’s the most important part. To not let it consume. To focus upon the good, the things that fill you with wonder. The struggle with that darkness is worth it, just to see such things.” -Sarah J. Maas, A Court of Silver Flames A Court of Silver Flames follows Nesta Archeron, Feyre’s sister who is quick to anger and too proud to…
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Series Review: A Court of Thorns and Roses – A series that changed the YA genre
It’s not often that I find myself struggling to find the words to describe a book. Often I can just bada-bing-bada-boom and come up with a review. Even when I first read this series I couldn’t quite put into words what I felt because I’d first read Throne of Glass, and ACOTAR was a whole different species. ACOTAR was the first Young Adult series that I questioned for being YA. It seemed to be Adult, but at the same time, the age of the characters belonged in YA. It was dark, gritty, and had sex scenes that I hadn’t even read in any Adult book. So how do we decide…
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From Blood and Ash – A New Mesmerizing Series That I Fell In Love With
🌸 Title: From Blood And Ash (Book 1) 🌸Author: Jennifer L. Armentrout 🌸Published: March 30th, 2020 🌸Genre: Young Adult, Fantasy, Fiction, Paranormal, Romance 🌸A no major spoilers review. “With my sword and with my life, I vow to keep you safe, Penellaphe,” he spoke, voice deep and smooth, reminding me of rich, decadent chocolate. “From this moment until the last moment, I am yours.” -Jennifer L. Armentrout, From Blood And Ash Poppy is the Maiden. She cannot be touched, looked at, or spoken to, and it’s not the life she imagined. She’d much rather be fighting. Hawke, a soldier bound to protect her, makes her question everything and makes her…
