by Michelle | May 4, 2020 | Book Review, Books Read in 2020, R Author, S Author
Y’all. I love Emma Straub as a person and author. She is adorable in her online presence, and visiting her bookstore is on my bucket list. Plus, her writing style is perfection. She truly gets people and captures the most intricate nuances in her characters and...
by Michelle | May 1, 2020 | Book Review, Books Read in 2020, R Author, Review Copy
What happens when you combine Polish folklore with a story about a monster hunter, a princess who may or may not be a monster herself, and an entire forest filled with monsters? You get Don’t Call the Wolf by Aleksandra Ross. I call it awesome. Ms. Ross’s...
by Michelle | Apr 21, 2020 | Book Review, Books Read in 2020, R Author, Review Copy
The toll of a happily ever after for chosen ones- those heroes and heroines fate chooses to save the world – is not normally something readers get to see; Mockingjay is the only book that comes to mind, and most people vilified the epilogue for this very reason....
by Michelle | Apr 15, 2020 | Book Review, Books Read in 2020, R Author
Everyone has an author or two that makes them feel at home. The author’s works provide a much-needed break from reality, no matter how often you read them. They are the shelter in a storm, a meditative break in a chaotic world. For me, Nora Roberts is one of...
by Michelle | Feb 10, 2020 | Book Review, Books Read in 2020, R Author, Review Copy
Peeps, I have no idea what the point of Veronica Raimo’s The Girl at the Door is. I suppose one could loosely describe it as being about relationships. However, even that possibility has me shaking my head. With no plot, no world-building, and no character...
by Michelle | Dec 30, 2019 | A Author, Book Review, Books Read in 2019, C Author, D Author, E Author, R Author
Holy shit. Sexy. Mysterious. Forbidden. Seductive. Feminist. Give. Me. More. A satisfactory sequel with enough summary to make it easy to pick up the series months or even years reading the first one. I find that this book did a better job of explaining this world,...