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Reviews
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Happy New Year, everyone! Though the blog was neglected by yours truly for the better part of the final stretch of 2022 (a combination of my finishing up college and a much needed break from internet content creation as a whole), I’m looking forward to the fresh start of the new year and sharing my…
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I’m usually weird about sequels. I’ll either read them immediately after finishing the first installment, or I’ll wait months–or in some cases years–before picking them up. In the case of Wayward Son, I dived right in after finishing Carry On. And what a time it was. (Note: This review will contain spoilers for books one…
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Another TBR veteran, conquered! Carry On by Rainbow Rowell is a book that I’ve owned since it’s release in 2015. And as many times as I’ve tried to start it in the past, I was never in the right mood for it to stick. But timing is truly everything, because this book not only cured…
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I picked up The City of Brass on whim with the intent to only read the first chapter while trying to determine to my next read. To my surprise, I read the first 80 pages that night and ended up discovering one of my favorite fantasy books of the year. About the Book Nahri has…
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I gave in. The Atlas Six by Olivie Blake took the online bookish world by storm in 2021 and it’s been on my radar ever since. All I knew about the book was that it was described as adult dark academia, but even with such little information, I was still extremely intrigued by the hold…
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There are a ton of reviews that I forgo posting to the blog if I feel like they aren’t in-depth or long enough to stand on their own. But I still like the idea of being able to point to my thoughts on a certain book, even if the review is on the shorter side.…
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I was in quite the reading slump back in January, but there was still one, great read that came out of last month, and that was K.A. Tucker’s The Simple Wild. About the Book Calla Fletcher wasn’t even two when her mother took her and fled the Alaskan wild, unable to handle the isolation of…
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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 worl d was shattered into many floating celestial islands. Known now as Arks, each has developed in distinct ways; each seems to possess its…
City of Deja 