What’s Wrong With Platonic Relationships?

Why is everyone shipping platonic relationships into sexual/romantic ones? Is there no value on platonic relationships? I remember watching Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows and begging – begging – the director not to change it from the book as Harry and Hermione danced inside the tent. The sexual tension between them killed me because […]

Abhorsen has used Saraneth to bind me into loving this series

Abhorsen has used Saraneth to bind me into loving this series

Despite their new destinies, Lirael and Sam continue their plan to recue Nick and stop whatever he is unearthing. Slowly the pair come to discover what it is: Lirael embraces her destiny as not only the Abhorsen-in-Waiting, but a Remembrancer as well, someone who can See the past like her Clayr sisters can See the […]

Zelah Green: Queen of Clean and Not Much Else

Zelah Green: Queen of Clean and Not Much Else

SUMMARY/PLOT Zelah’s stepmother can’t handle her OCD, so she tries to ship her off to a mental hospital. Zelah ends up in Forest Road House under the care and guidance of a lovely female doctor with some other misfits – an anorexic, a cutter, and a mute. There she learns to face her OCD and […]

Mid Year Check In Freak Out

I thought I’d take this opportunity to reflect on the resolutions I set myself in January and see how I’ve progressed. I can’t even remember half of them off the top of my head, so taking a look at them again is a good opportunity to see if/how I’ve progressed and to reaffirm where I […]

5 Reasons Why I Won’t Join Your Book Clubs

As a known reader, I’m often being invited to or suggested that I attend or start my own book club. I can’t think of a worse idea. Not only does it mean I’d have to leave my house for a commitment once a week (or whenever) including in the rain and cold, but I don’t […]

Monthly Wrap Up

News I don’t have any news for this month. I had a really small book haul because I didn’t buy any books, and due to personal reasons I wasn’t able to complete this month’s Project Silver Brumby, which was supposed to be Moon Filly. I’ll work on it later. I did read a bunch of […]

Mysteries And Conspiracies in the Heartless City of London

Mysteries And Conspiracies in the Heartless City of London

SUMMARY London has been in quarantine for 13 years thanks to the Hydes, monstrous-like heart-eating beings that shift from ordinary infected humans who have taken the Hyde drug. Elliot, the son of the physician looking for a cure, who in the search for a weapon against the Hydes accidentally made himself an empath, and Iris, […]

The Glittering Court: Not So Much Court, Not So Much Glitter

The Glittering Court: Not So Much Court, Not So Much Glitter

SUMMARY To escape an arranged marriage, a countess impersonates her housemaid and joins the Glittering Court, an exclusive finishing school for lower class girls, teaching them to be worthy wives for the new nobility of Adoria, a new settlement across the sea. But Adelaide’s subterfuge is detected by the handsome Cedric Thorn, son of the […]

5 Reasons I Turned Down Your Review Request

…even though I said I was open to reviews. Yes, I’m theoretically open to review requests, but like with the books I actively request, I have to WANT to read it. I might actually have a bit of a backlog with other books I’m reading and just don’t have time to squeeze yours in right […]

A Little Frayed In Execution, But Otherwise A Solid Hit

A Little Frayed In Execution, But Otherwise A Solid Hit

I’ve never before been so conflicted to review a book I received for review. While the premise and plot were promising, the execution was not on fleek and the book needs a very thorough line edit and copy edit before it will be ready for publication. I am reading an ARC, so my criticisms should […]