Sweep of the Blade by Ilona Andrews 🌺🌺🌺/5 After her husband betrayed his clan, landed her and her daughter on a murderous desert planet and got himself kill through sheer stupidity, Maud had decided she was done with vampires once and for all. Until Arland, the handsome Marshall of House Krahr, strode into her life, … Continue reading Book Review: Sweep of the Blade
Book Review: Foundryside
Foundryside by Robert Jackson Bennett 🌺🌺🌺🌺/5 Sancia Grado is a thief in the slums of the Commons, but she has a secret: she can hear what objects. Everything and anything, which makes life difficult but her job easy. Until one day she is sent into a warehouse to steal a box, and her entire world … Continue reading Book Review: Foundryside
Book Review: The Flatshare
The Flatshare by Beth O'Leary 🌺🌺🌺🌺/5 Trigger Warning: Emotional Abuse, Prison Tiffy and Leon share a flat. They share a bed. Their flat is peppered with notes. But they have never met. I adored this book. So. So. Much. My heart is so full after reading this, and it's probably going to be one of my top … Continue reading Book Review: The Flatshare
Women in the Military: Pre-1920
Military Monday is a series of posts I've wanted to make for a while, and I plan on doing it during November, which contains my second-favorite holiday of all time, The Marine Corps Birthday (no you ghouls, it's not Veteran's Day—that's horrific) (my first favorite is Halloween). And since I'm exhausted by the never-ending amount … Continue reading Women in the Military: Pre-1920
November TBR
It's already November 3rd. I had meant (ha) to post this on November 1st so that I could also post a Scorpio Races quote, but that did not happen. Work has been wildly busy and I closed two nights last week so didn't get home until 10pm. And the mornings I was working on setting … Continue reading November TBR
October Wrap Up
I love October, and October was a pretty good reading month, all things considered. I went to my first librarian conference and finished a short story...and had two things accepted for publication! One is a kickstarter campaign that launched last month and the other was a novella that had been published earlier this year until … Continue reading October Wrap Up
Book Review: Ancestral Night
Ancestral Night by Elizabeth Bear 🌺🌺🌺🌺/5 Haimey Dz is the captain of a small salvage tug operation. She thinks she knows what she wants. She thinks she knows who she is. But all that changes when she and her crew stumble upon a huge prize and uncover war crimes beyond what they can even imagine—and … Continue reading Book Review: Ancestral Night
Top 10 Tuesday: Favorite Urban Fantasy Reads
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. This week's theme is Halloween Freebie, and what better way … Continue reading Top 10 Tuesday: Favorite Urban Fantasy Reads
Book Review: Ninth House
Ninth House by Leigh Bardugo 🐍🐍🐍🐍/5 Trigger Warning: Rape, Assault Alex Stern is not the kind of student Yale generally welcomes...if welcomes is even the word. Rescued from a hospital bed, the former junkie is living a new life as one of the guardian enforcers of the secret societies. It's a fresh start. A new … Continue reading Book Review: Ninth House
Book Review: Pumpkinheads
Pumpkinheads by Rainbow Rowell and Faith Erin Hicks 🎃🎃🎃🎃/5 Deja and Josiah are seasonal best friends, and tonight is their last night working at the Pumpkin Patch. When Josiah expresses his desire to meet and finally talk to the object of his desire, the mystical Fudge Girl, Deja makes it her mission to make it … Continue reading Book Review: Pumpkinheads
The Suspected Bibliophile 