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Diversity Spotlight Thursday #5

The goal of this meme is to take a moment every Thursday to highlight 3 diverse books: one from your TBR, one you read and enjoyed, and one that’s not yet released! I want to give you guys an idea of the rep each book offers, but with books that are still on my TBR, I’ll have to make the best educated guesses I can. If I ever make an error or miss something, please let me know in a...

#TheReadingQuest Update!

We’re officially over halfway through #TheReadingQuest, so I thought I would give you guys a quick update on my reading progress so far! If you missed my original post about it, you can find that here, or if you have no idea what the hell #TRQ is in the first place, you can learn about it here! Here’s a cute little card with my current stats! The character card at the top of my page may look familiar, as it’s...

T10T: Hidden Gems in YA

This is a weekly tag hosted by The Broke and the Bookish, and this week’s challenge is Ten Hidden Gem Books in X Genre! I decided to go with a few under-hyped YA titles for this post. If you see some titles that you don’t think are under-hyped, keep in mind that I’m not basing this off of sales so much as I am basing it off of how often I actually hear other readers and reviewers discussing and recommending these...

An Enchantment of Ravens — Margaret Rogerson

Spoiler-free review! I was gladdened by the sight of those vicious thorns more than I could say, and wondered whether the stories would have gone any differently if the princesses had been the ones telling them. A book about star-crossed lovers, art, and a fae prince who shape shifts into a raven? YES, please! ✘ plot In Whimsy, humans practice Craft: cooking, artistry, writing stories, even designing clothing – all of which the fair folk are drawn to, despite their...

House of Ash – Hope Cook (ARC Review)

She felt her own solidness, and she felt the tremor of spirits all around her. Mila smiled. The house had made its first mistake. You’ve shown your hand. You’re a thing that’s alive. Anything alive can be killed. ✘ PLOT Curtis is determined to keep his head down, protect his little sister from their mentally ill and unstable father, and work through his own demons just a little longer – just until his eighteenth birthday, when he can take his sister...

All Rights Reserved – Gregory Scott Katsoulis (ARC Review)

“Words matter. Words make ideas. They preserve truths and history. They express freedom and they shape it. Words mold our thoughts. That gives them value and power.” ✘ plot In the future, lawyers have realized they can put copyrights on things as basic as words, and now, on each individual’s fifteenth birthday, they are given a device that tracks every word they speak or gesture they make – and charges them exorbitantly for it. On Speth’s fifteenth birthday, she realizes she doesn’t want...

The “Get to Know Me” Book Tag

Another tag! I apologize for straying away from my normal posts and reviews a bit, but this has been one hectic week around my house, and I’ve been taking this desperate need to relax in some small way as an excuse to catch up on these backlogged tags some lovely people have sent my way – like this one, from Iryna! 1. favorite color and do you have a book in that color? I have three favorite colors: black, purple,...

Diversity Spotlight Thursday #4

The goal of this meme is to take a moment every Thursday to highlight 3 diverse books: one from your TBR, one you read and enjoyed, and one that’s not yet released! I want to give you guys an idea of the rep each book offers, but with books that are still on my TBR, I’ll have to make the best educated guesses I can. If I ever make an error or miss something, please let me know in a...

The TBR Tag

Tag time! I wasn’t feeling today’s Top 5 Wednesday category, so I decided to work on my incredibly long and ever-expanding list of blog tags. They’re burying me alive, but I love it. Today’s tag is “The TBR Tag”, which I was tagged in by the love Darque Dreamer! She’s just as gorgeous as her blog is, and if you haven’t checked it out and followed her, you totally should. how do you keep track of your tbr pile? I...

T10T: Ten Books I Loved in Middle/High School

This is a weekly tag hosted by The Broke and the Bookish, and this week’s challenge is a Back to School freebie! I decided to highlight ten books that I loved in my middle and high school years. Some of the books that I loved then are still favorites of mine, like the Harry Potter and Hunger Games series, so I’m not going to include those, otherwise it would fill all ten spots, and then where would we be?! 1. the beasties –...