I’m so torn on Daughters of Smoke & Bone. I didn’t hate it, but I never loved it the way everyone else seems to. What I Liked I loved the setting of Prague. There was something so great about finally reading a book that doesn’t […]
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Have Physical ARCs Lost Their Appeal?
Jenna from Jenna Does Books posed a question on Twitter the other day: Curious question: who here still sends physical ARC requests to publishers? Jenna Does Books @jennadoesbooks My response and those from other people got me thinking: have physical ARCs lost their appeal? A […]
Maybe One Day by Melissa Kantor
I almost didn’t read Maybe One Day, and oh my god that would have been a massive mistake! I think my problem was that I like romance books, and this is not a romance; it’s about friendship. Those kinds of books usually don’t get me […]
Stacking the Shelves (73) – New Battlestation!
New Books Wow, this is the biggest my haul has been in a while! These are all my new books from the last two weeks or so. Second Star by Alyssa B. Sheinmel Goodreads Daughter of Smoke & Bone by Laini Taylor Goodreads Sunrise by […]
Books I Read Before I Started Blogging
Before I started using Goodreads, I started keeping a text file of the books I read. This only lasted one year, but I thought I’d share some of the books I found on my list! I cut out a few, mostly ones I read for […]
The Secret Diamond Sisters by Michelle Madow
It breaks my heart to write this review. I feel like I’m about to rip the book to shreds, and that saddens me. I actually met the author (very, very briefly) at BEA last year. She was SO SWEET and so excited about her upcoming […]
Fire & Flood by Victoria Scott
I loooooved Fire & Flood! Honestly, the main thing that pulled me into this book was the “animal companion” aspect. I’ve always been a crazy fan of things like The Wild Thornberries, Pokémon, and The Golden Compass—TV shows, movies, and books that have some kind […]
Do You Ever Really *Want* to Love a Blog… But Don’t?
There are a few blogs out there that I really want to love. I want to love them because their blog designs are GORGEOUS and I want an excuse to visit it every day. Or I want to love them because everyone else loves them, […]
Steelheart by Brandon Sanderson
OH MY GOD! This book!! Why did I not read you for like, a million years??? I swear, Steelheart and I have been playing the book equivalent of phone tag. I originally got a copy of it at BEA. I only really stood in line […]
Breaking Bad: Why I Liked it, But Wouldn’t Rate it 9.6/10
Breaking Bad, the TV Show To provide for his family’s future after he is diagnosed with lung cancer, a chemistry genius turned high school teacher teams up with an ex-student to cook and sell the world’s purest crystal meth. Breaking Bad is currently the #1 […]