Most of us can hide our greatest hurts and longings. It’s how we survive each day. We pretend the pain isn’t there, that we are made of scars instead of wounds. How do you review one of the year’s most anticipated YA releases? And it’s only February! King of Scars is the follow-up to both The Shadow of…
Top Ten Tuesday: Wanderlust
Almost everyone dreams of traveling, whether it’s the next town over or another country entirely. Reading is a way that many people travel without going anywhere, which is a magical thing about books. Today I’m going to talk about ten books with real world locations. I really wish I could trade my cold blah weather…
[The Wicked Deep] Shea Ernshaw
Sparrow is a town where high school students long for summer. Sparrow is a town where little cakes help you forget memories that are plaguing you. Sparrow is a town that has a dark history that calls beckons you in. Sparrow is a town that is cursed. This town was built on revenge. And it’s…
[This Splintered Silence] Kayla Olson
Tragedy has struck the space station Lusca. Every since a virus struck down every crew member who had been born on Earth, including her mother, Lindley has been captaining the station amongst growing unrest and fear. Every day is a challenge when you need to learn how to keep a station running. Things get infinitely harder…
[The Girl King] Mimi Yu
This novel follows Min and Lu, two sisters whose paths are spread out before them. Lu is destined to become the first female Emperor, and all of her lessons are preparing her to take over from her father when he deems her ready. Min is her younger sister, seemingly destined to be forever in Min’s…
Top Ten Tuesday: My TBR list keeps growing and growing and growing…
This top ten list is coming a bit late because I just have been feeling a bit under the weather lately. The negative 20+F/ negative 28+C degrees has been killing me. I can handle cold, but when it’s so bitterly cold that it feels like you’re breathing in glass…that’s hard to deal with. I’ve been…
Top Ten Tuesday: Books I Meant to Read in 2018
As I mentioned in my last top ten, 2018 wasn’t a great reading year for me. There were a lot of books published last year that I really wanted to read! Others are ones that have been published in the last few years that I’ve been itching to read. I’m really going to try reading…
[Empress of All Seasons] Emiko Jean
This is another novel that is inspired by Japan and by yokai. I recently read Shadow of the Fox, and was a bit worried I’d compare Empress of All Seasons to it. Empress is a completely different novel. When Mari is born into the Animal Wives––the beautiful beast yokai ––and is an average beauty, her mother knows that her path in life…
[Truthwitch: The Witchlands I] Susan Dennard
This post contains a link to a shop for which I am a brand rep. My code saves you 10 percent on your order! * * * Truthwitch is my official first read of the year! I read it last year in three days and I read it in three days this year….
Top Ten Tuesday: Authors who were new to me in 2018
Last year was not a good reading year for me, so I only have seven authors on this list. I wanted to read a lot more than I did, but with moving a couple of times, a new job, and lots of changes I wasn’t really prepared for, I spent a lot of time…not reading….
[a cup of tea and an armful of books] 