ARC Review: A Far Wilder Magic

What a cute lil magical story! I’m so tired of giving formal summaries of books so let me sum it up like this: Margaret misses her alchemist mom who abandoned her to search for the last Hala, a mythical creature of great power and destruction. Enter: Wes. An absolute golden retriever of a human who …

Book Review: The Midnight Library

The longer it has been since I read this book, the more I despise it. I just. don't. get it. There's a magical library you go to when you die that has all of the other ways your life could have been. It is somehow made of limitless lives, yet there are certain things that …

ARC Review! All of us Villains

Was it what I was expecting? No. Did it get me out of a months long reading slump? Yes.  The town of Ilvernath has a secret—it is the last town on earth that has access to high magick. Magick that is awarded to one of seven families through a deadly curse. Every 20 years, each …

ARC Review: Our Violent Ends

So I was a really big fan of These Violent delights. And while I definitely enjoyed Our Violent Ends, I wouldn’t say it quite lived up to the first book. Still 1000% better than Shakespeare though. Roma and Juliette return while facing an even bigger threat. Not only are monsters lurking in the city, but someone …

Check in: It’s been a while…

Sigh. Apparently it is my destiny to go on hiatuses with 0 warning and for undetermined lengths of time. The good part is that I always seem to find my way back! Of course, I’ve missed you guys! Before I get back into blogging I figured I’d give you a small life update post. I …

Research: Stereotypes and Books

Well well friends, it's been a while! But I am back to finally give you the conclusion to my research series (I know you have been eagerly awaiting it, after all). However, while there is much research about the benefits of counterstereotypes in literature, there is relatively little research about the impact of stereotypical representations …

ARC Review: Under the Whispering Door

AHHH SO MANY TEARS. Wallace Price is dead, and a jerk. When his reaper, Mei, comes to collect him, Wallace can't believe his fate. But then he meets Hugo, the man who will guide him into the life beyond. What starts as a tenuous tolerance of Hugo at first soon blooms into something like friendship. …

ARC Review: Iron Widow

I seriously can’t even form coherent thoughts after reading that because it was just so good?? I can easily see this being the biggest fantasy book of the year. This was art. And I don’t know how to review art. So this post should be interesting. I’m not sure how to summarize this one because …

Tips and Tricks: Writing Reviews

Wow, its been a while since my last tips and tricks post! When you first start reviewing, it can be so difficult to find your own style, and to know what makes a good review. While the latter is very subjective, there are certain elements of a review that you can't go wrong in using. …

Book Review: One Last Stop

Sigh. This is why I can’t read romance books. August doesn’t believe in putting down roots, getting too comfortable, and she certainly doesn’t believe in love. That’s is until she meets Jane on day on the subway, a girl that looks like she could be straight out of a 70s. There’s just one problem: Jane …