Book Reviews

12/2024 - My Feral Romance by Tessonja Odette
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A fae world friends to lovers with all the best parts of a romance novel. Daphne and Monty used to be friends until Monty gets fired and doesn't return Daphne's attempts to continue to be friends. A year later, Monty is back and he has regrets. Maybe he can make it up to Daphne in a mutually beneficial professional bargain.
Review can be found here. 

12/2024 - A Sky of Emerald Stars by A.K. Mulford
⭐️⭐⭐⭐ (3.75 stars rounded up)
A fantasy novel that touches on the challenges the social construct of gender. This book is the redemption arch for the first book in the Golden Court series.  A solid 3.75 rounded to a 4.
Review can be found here. 

11/2024 - Dream Girl Drama by Tessa Bailey
⭐️⭐⭐⭐ (3.5 stars rounded up)
First of all, if Tessa Bailey writes it, I will read it. I know exactly what I am getting from a TB book and I go into that being comforted and excited. I was excited to read about Sig and Chloe's blossoming relationship. And without the step-sibling storyline, there'd have been no book. But I can't say it didn't sit with me the wrong way the whole book. And not because of the relationship itself, but because the characters made it so.
Review can be found here. 

9/2024 - It's All Relative by Rachel Magee
⭐️⭐⭐ (2.5 rounded up)
Two soon-to-be sisters couldn't be more different. Helena is a flighty forgetful teacher and Amelia is a put together type A architect. Their parents are about to get married when Helena's bff, Landon, comes along for moral support. Things get a little more complicated when Amelia turns out to be Landon's long lost love, Mia.
Review can be found here. 

8/2024 - A Winter Wish by Emily Stone
⭐️⭐⭐⭐*(3.75 stars)
Lexie's dad's sudden passing leaves her with some unresolved father issues, a half-sister relationship that needs some attention, and a new business partner in a company she didn't realize existed.
Review can be found here. 

8/2024 - Fall Into You by Caroline Frank
⭐️⭐⭐ (2.5 rounded up)
Liza was just dumped by her cheating, pretentious professor fiancé of three years. But she's not that broken up about it. In fact, she's sort of relieved. And what do we have here? Her brother Vinny's old med-school, roommate she had once crushed on hard! He just happened to have gotten even better over the last few years.
Review can be found here. 

8/2024 - Best Hex Ever by Nadia El-Fassi
⭐️⭐⭐⭐*(3.75 stars)
Feel good read for Fall. A cute love-hexed witch runs into a cute curator that has just come back from a heartbreak healing journey. Insta-connection but can it work when she's destined to hurt him?
Review can be found here.

5/2024 - City of Books by Nicole Meier
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This book gave me grown up indie book store meets From the Mixed-Up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler by E. L. Konigsburg vibes.
Review can be found here. 

5/2024 - The Au Pair Affair by Tessa Bailey
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There isn't a book that Tessa Bailey writes that I would not dive head first into without a second thought. I live for her little synopsis ideas she posts occasionally, so a full book about an older single dad who falls first and hard for his au pair, I couldn't have opened this one faster.
Review can be found here. 

4/2024 - The Book Swap by Tessa Bickers
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This one is for the book lovers and missed connections. There are not many books that crack me open, this one did so slowly and with precision.
Review can be found here. 

3/2024 - Attached at the Hip by Christine Riccio
⭐⭐ (2.5 stars)
Attached at the Hip is a love triangle, reality television, finding herself rom com. If you love survivor and books about finding yourself, this might be for you. It was not for me.
Review can be found here.  

3/2024 - Truly Madly Magically by Hazel Beck (Book 3 in the Witchlore Series)
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My favorite of the three from the Witchlore series, Ellowyn and her coven are fast approaching the battle against the current evil coven in charge. Black magic, ghosts, found family, and reignited love makes this a fun read.
Review can be found here.

3/2024 - Slow Dance by Rainbow Rowell
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Rainbow Rowell can always crack me wide open and find those parts of me that I forgot existed and put them into her characters' stories.
Review can be found here.

2/2024 - The Darkest Corner of the Heart by Lisina Coney
⭐️⭐⭐⭐*(3.5 stars)
A beautiful cover at odds with a love story growing from the dark places in life we travel through. TW: death, drug use, death.
Review can be found here.

1/2024 - The Break-up Pact by Emma Lord
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Fake dating for revenge between best friends that fell out of touch after their separate public break ups go viral. TW: Sibling loss.
Review can be found here.

1/2024 - How To Fake It With A Fae by Amy Boyles
⭐️⭐️⭐️
A silly enemies to lovers romantasy set in modern day times featuring a magicless witch from a big southern family meets royal fae king with an ax to grind.
Review can be found here.

1/2024 - Weekends with You by Alexandra Paige
⭐️⭐️⭐️ *(A generous 2.75 stars)
This will they won't they romance was saved by the found family's banter and connection. Along with the FMC's professional journey towards her dreams.
Review can be found here.

1/2024 - An Education in Malice by S. T. Gibson
⭐️⭐️⭐️
A dark and lovely twist on academic enemies to lovers set in the 1960's between two young women at an all girls college.
Review can be found here.

1/2024 - Bad Dreams in the Night by Adam Ellis 
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Comic style horror with a nostaglic feel. 10/10 if you're a fan of his work.
Review can be found here.

2/2023 - A Sword from the Embers by Chloe C. Peñaranda
⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
If you’re a AHCTR fan, buckle up, it’s a wild ride. Looking forward to the next installment.
Review can be found here.