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Hey, everyone! I’m back with another book review and today it’s for Helen Hoang’s 2021 release, The Heart Principle. About the Book A woman struggling with burnout learns to embrace the unexpected—and the man she enlists to help her—in this new New York Times bestselling romance by Helen Hoang. When violinist Anna Sun accidentally achieves career success […]
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Hey, everyone! Today’s review is for Ali Hazelwood’s debut romantic-comedy, The Love Hypothesis. About the Book As a third-year Ph.D. candidate, Olive Smith doesn’t believe in lasting romantic relationships–but her best friend does, and that’s what got her into this situation. Convincing Anh that Olive is dating and well on her way to a happily […]
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Hey, everyone! Today’s review is for the first installment in Christelle Dabos’ The Mirror Visitor quartet, A Winter’s Promise. About the Book Long ago, following a cataclysm called “The Rupture,” the world was shattered into many floating celestial islands. Known now as Arks, each has developed in distinct ways; each seems to possess its own […]
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Hey, everyone! Today’s review is for Sarah J. Maas’s fantasy romance, A Court of Silver Flames! About the Book Nesta Archeron has always been prickly-proud, swift to anger, and slow to forgive. And ever since being forced into the Cauldron and becoming High Fae against her will, she’s struggled to find a place for herself […]
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Hey, everyone! I’m back with a new book review, and this time it’s for Hafsah Faizal’s debut YA fantasy, We Hunt the Flame! About the Book People lived because she killed. People died because he lived. Zafira is the Hunter, disguising herself as a man when she braves the cursed forest of the Arz to […]
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Hey, everyone! I’m back with a new book review, and this time it’s for Faridah Àbíké-Íyímídé’s YA contemporary thriller, Ace of Spades! About the Book Gossip Girl meets Get Out in Ace of Spades, a YA contemporary thriller by debut author Faridah Àbíké-Íyímídé about two students, Devon & Chiamaka, and their struggles against an anonymous bully. When two Niveus […]
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Hey, everyone! I’m back with a new book review. And this time it’s for the newly released Blackout, a young-adult anthology of interconnected Black Love stories set during a blackout in New York City. Blackout hits shelves today (June 22, 2021), so a huge thanks to EpicReads for my early review copy of the book! […]
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Hey, everyone! (It’s been forever, I knowww). I’m currently doing a re-read of The Raven Cycle series by Maggie Stiefvater, and I couldn’t help but think back to my experience reading The Raven Boys for the first time. To make a long story short, I was severely underwhelmed by it and honestly quite disappointed that […]
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Hey, y’all! It’s been a minute, and school has been eating me alive. I decided to take two eight week courses which made the first eight weeks of the semester the busiest weeks ever. Throughout this time, my reading was basically nonexistent. I was pushing about one book a month, if that. Let’s just say […]
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Hey, y’all! Today’s post is one that I’ve been wanting to make for some time. I wanted to address this because it’s been a reoccurring theme in my life in the last year or so and I think it’s important to tackle it head-on. When I was 14 years old, I started a Bookstgram (and […]
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