Top Ten Tuesday is hosted by That Artsy Reader Girl Anticipated releases I’ve already got my hands on Last year’s most anticipated releases A House With Good Bones – ★★★ Briardark – ★★★½ Godkiller – ★★★★ In the Lives of Puppets – ★★★★½ Kill Your Darlings – ★★★ Riven – still haven’t read, oops Damsel – DNF A Door in the Dark – ★★½ Fourth Wing – ★★★★★ Spice Road – started to read & lost interest
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Top Ten Tuesday is hosted by That Artsy Reader Girl As always, I’m combining my Novel Heartbeat Awards with Top Ten Tuesday! Top ten books of 2023 *doesn’t include re-reads Top 3 science fiction Top 5 high fantasy Top 5 urban/gothic fantasy Top 3 horror Top 3 out of my comfort zone Top 3 mystery/thriller Top 5 standalones Top 5 audiobooks Here’s my picks for the books with the best narration that I listened to this year! I […]
I’m a little late posting this, oops… YALLfest haul Signed books Books I brought These are the books I already owned and brought with me to the festival to get signed! Immortal Longings by Chloe Gong We Free the Stars by Hafsah Faizal Spells for Forgetting by Adrienne Young (Owlcrate edition) That Self-Same Metal by Brittany N. Williams Song of Silver, Flame Like Night by Amélie Wen Zhao (ARC) Bought at the festival YALLfest hoodie & shirt (not pictured) YALLfest […]
Ugh, I adore this world so so much! I loved going back to it, I just want to crawl into the pages and live there! I daresay this book was just as good, if not maybe even slightly better than the first. I wanted to re-read it as soon as I finished! I can’t WAIT until the audiobook comes out, I’ll be listening on release day because Ell Potter and Michael Dodds KILLED IT in the first book. (I actually could […]
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October haul Bought The Serpent Bride by Sara Douglass (I had never seen this in mass market!!) Talonsister by Jen Williams (I had to order from Amazon UK) The Scarlet Veil by Shelby Mahurin Night of the Witch by Beth Revis & Sara Raasch (SIGNED) The Ten Thousand Doors of January by Alix E. Harrow (SIGNED) Starling House by Alix E. Harrow (SIGNED) Fourth Wing pins from Brio + Brandish Special editions Emily Wilde’s Encyclopaedia of Faeries by Heather […]