Harrow the Ninth by Tamsyn Muir 🌺🌺🌺🌺/4 You were always such a little bitch when you were angry. 1 star? 5 stars? 2 stars? 4? Harrow the Ninth was my most anticipated release of 2020, and um, I don't know? Was it the most brilliant thing I've ever read or was it an absolute disjointed … Continue reading Book Review: Harrow the Ninth
The Sunshine Blogger Award x2
I was actually nominated twice—by erin @ReadingonaStar back in July and Siren @SweatersandRaindrops in August. And since I'm so far behind on well, everything, it's taken me until now to post my responses! Sorry for being such a slack, and thank you both so much for nominating me! I'll be answering a mishmash of questions … Continue reading The Sunshine Blogger Award x2
Book Review: Bookish and the Beast
Bookish and the Beast by Ashley Poston 🌺🌺🌺.5/5 Rosie Thorne feels stuck—she's neither here nor there, and she just wants out of her small town life and her overwhelming grief. Until she smacks into teenage pop star Vance Reigns while saving a dog, accidentally destroys a rare book, and then is forced to work with … Continue reading Book Review: Bookish and the Beast
Top Ten Tuesday: Cover Freebie!
Top Ten Tuesday was created by The Broke and the Bookish in June of 2010 and was moved to That Artsy Reader Girl in January of 2018. It was born of a love of lists, a love of books, and a desire to bring bookish friends together. The adult romance cartoon covers are slipping into YA and … Continue reading Top Ten Tuesday: Cover Freebie!
Book Review: Parachutes
Parachutes by Kelly Yang 🌺🌺🌺🌺/5 Trigger Warning: Grooming, Sexual Assault, Sexual Harassment, Bullying This has a Crazy Rich Asians/Gossip Girl vibe, and I was riding that gossip train and then the hits kept coming and they. did. not. let. up. Definitely a book to read when thinking about girls, their bodies, and their rights, and how these … Continue reading Book Review: Parachutes
September 2020 TBR
It's mid-September (well, close enough that I'm rounding up) and I am so woefully behind on my TBR and reviews that it is no longer funny. I had planned to have this be a themed month of reading, but my audiobooks are going to skew some things. So the ~theme~ is Science Fiction and Fantasy … Continue reading September 2020 TBR
August 2020 Wrap Up
I'm back! Thank you everyone for the well-wishes from my last post. I'm not 100%, but I'm feeling a little more able to manage everything. The edits (read: overused words edits) to That Distant Dream are done, and it's such a huge weight off my chest. Nearly 4,000 revisions made, and I hope that it … Continue reading August 2020 Wrap Up
Book Review: The Relentless Moon
The Relentless Moon by Mary Robinette Kowal 🌺🌺🌺🌺🌺/5 Trigger Warning: Anorexia, grief, pandemic and suicidal thoughts While Elma York, aka The Lady Astronaut, is away on a three-year mission to Mars, it's up to Nicole Wargin and the others to hold down the fort. Except something is rotten on the Earth, and the trail of … Continue reading Book Review: The Relentless Moon
14 Adult SFF Releases, Sep-Dec 2020
There are a lot of adult SFF releases this fall (and so many more that were pushed back to 2021) that I just don't know how I'm going to prioritize my reading for next month through well, the end of the year. There are so many I am excited about, and I just want you … Continue reading 14 Adult SFF Releases, Sep-Dec 2020
Book Review: Shielded
Shielded by KayLynn Flanders 🌺🌺🌺/5 Princess Jennesara knows that she's just as good of a warrior as anyone else in her country's army, but her father refuses to send her to the front to fight. Instead, she's sent off without fanfare or warning to wed the heir of another kingdom—while her brother goes to the … Continue reading Book Review: Shielded
The Suspected Bibliophile 