Mini Audio Reviews: Sea of Tranquility, Outsider, Book Thief

Posted by Jessi (Geo) on September 15, 2023 | 0 Comments

Won’t most of us die in fairly unclimactic ways, our passing unremarked by almost everyone, our deaths becoming plot points in the narrative around us? I don’t have a whole lot to say about this book, but between FANTASTIC narration and one of the single most mind blowing twists I’ve ever read, I really enjoyed it! It reminded me a lot of Cloud Atlas, spanning multiple stories across multiple timelines that all interconnect and come together in the end in […]

ARC Review: A Study in Drowning by Ava Reid

Posted by Jessi (Geo) on September 11, 2023 | 0 Comments

“Survival is bravery, too.” I had sky high hopes for this book going in, and while it sadly didn’t meet my expectations, I did still enjoy it for the most part. It was actually quite hard for me to rate this book because I had such mixed feelings over it. While I adored certain aspects of this book, I found others to be rather dull and dragging. My absolute favorite thing about this book is how atmospheric it is! The […]

Heartbeat Monthly [37]: August 2023

Posted by Jessi (Geo) on September 10, 2023 | 0 Comments

August haul Bought Books Fourth Wing by Rebecca Yarros (German edition) Fourth Wing by Rebecca Yarros (extra copy for annotating) The Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins Immortal Longings by Chloe Gong The Ten Thousand Doors of January by Alix E. Harrow Light Bringer by Pierce Brown Broken by Jenny Lawson Ink Blood Sister Scribe by Emma Törz (Waterstones edition) From subs The Jasad Heir by Sara Hashem (Illumicrate, July) Forged by Blood by Ehigbor Okosun (Fairyloot Adult, August) Bonesmith […]

Audiobook Review: The Honeys by Ryan La Sala

Posted by Jessi (Geo) on September 8, 2023 | 0 Comments

Wow, what a wild ride!! I honestly didn’t know much about this book going in. Ryan La Sala has been at YALLfest a couple of times and will be back again this year, and I’ve had at least one of his books on my TBR for a while. I don’t even remember how this one popped up on my radar, but whatever drew my attention was enough to make me go request it from Libby immediately. I actually loved going […]

Book Event Recap: I MET PIERCE BROWN AHHHH

Posted by Jessi (Geo) on September 6, 2023 | 0 Comments

I’ve met quite a few authors since I started attending events back in 2013, but Pierce Brown has been the one author that eluded me. He was the only one of my faves (still alive, anyway) that I hadn’t met! Funny story: When I first read Red Rising and became obsessed with the series, I discovered that Pierce had been to my fave bookstore ONE. MONTH. before I’d read it. I was sooo salty! I missed him by that much. […]

ARC Review: Starling House by Alix E. Harrow

Posted by Jessi (Geo) on September 4, 2023 | 0 Comments

This one started off extremely slow, and I was lamenting the fact that there will never be another Harrow book to rival The Ten Thousand Doors of January. I was actually considering possibly DNFing in the beginning. It took forever, but thankfully it picked up right around the 35% mark. And when it picked up, it picked up HARD!! If it weren’t for the extremely slow beginning, this absolutely would have been a 5 star book for me. Anyway, from […]