YALLfest 2023 Recap

YALLfest 2023 Recap
Posted by Jessi (Geo) on December 27, 2023 | 0 Comments

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 […]

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ARC Review: Emily Wilde’s Map of the Otherlands by Heather Fawcett

ARC Review: Emily Wilde’s Map of the Otherlands by Heather Fawcett
Posted by Jessi (Geo) on December 11, 2023 | 0 Comments

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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Heartbeat Monthly [39]: October 2023 + Book Signings

Heartbeat Monthly [39]: October 2023 + Book Signings
Posted by Jessi (Geo) on November 12, 2023 | 0 Comments

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 […]

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Tips for attending YALLfest (updated 2023)

Tips for attending YALLfest (updated 2023)
Posted by Jessi (Geo) on November 1, 2023 | 0 Comments

I’ve posted tips several times over the years, but with YALLfest 2023 coming up in a couple of weeks, I wanted to repost them because I have things to add! This will be my ninth year attending the festival and the tenth anniversary of my very first YALLfest (HOW has it been an entire decade since I started attending?!?!) and I am SO FREAKING EXCITED! It’s always chaotic, but SO. FUN. This festival is non-negotiable in my schedule and I look […]

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Review: The Never King by Nikki St. Crowe

Review: The Never King by Nikki St. Crowe
Posted by Jessi (Geo) on October 20, 2023 | 0 Comments

Save the king, save the island. I’m actually quite shocked that I enjoyed this book! This was only the second reverse harem I’ve ever read in my life, lol. But I do think this was a good one for a beginner to the genre because it’s not in your face smutty (which I am not a fan of) and it’s still got a great story! This book was a very quick and easy  (and fun!) read. There are no white […]

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Review: Ink Blood Sister Scribe by Emma Törz

Review: Ink Blood Sister Scribe by Emma Törz
Posted by Jessi (Geo) on October 16, 2023 | 0 Comments

Holy. SHIT. Dude. This book. This is the kind of story I dream of finding every time I open a new book (and rarely find). This book GRABBED me from the very first page and never let go! I was hopelessly hooked, and I knew in the first handful of pages that this was going to be a 5 star read for me as well as a new favorite. And I was sooo not wrong! I fucking LOVED every single […]

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