🌸 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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The Midnight Library: Predictable yet relatable
🌸 Title: The Midnight Library🌸 Author: Matt Haig🌸 Release Date: September 29th, 2020 🌸 Genre: Young Adult, Fantasy, Fiction, Retellings, Romance🌸 A non-major spoilers review. “It is quite a revelation to discover that the place you wanted to escape to is the exact same place you escaped from. That the prison wasn’t the place, but the perspective.” –Matt Haig, The Midnight Library Goodreads summary: Between life and death there is a library, and within that library, the shelves go on forever. Every book provides a chance to try another life you could have lived. To see how things would be if you had made other choices . . . Would you have…
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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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February and March Wrap-Up—Surprising DNF’s and more!
Hello, lovelies! I know my wrap-up is a tad late, so I’ve decided to put both my February and my March wrap-ups in the same post. Things have been so busy for me lately—a new set of classes have begun, my internship, my other internship, and trying to balance it and also have some personal time has been hard. Don’t worry, we got this. Maybe. Hopefully. I’m also fully vaccinated now, so that’s some good news. We (my boyfriend, myself, and my roommate) are planning a small trip in May that hopefully will get us out of the funk that has been this past year and a half. However, I’m…
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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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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…
