Big Fan by Alexandra Romanoff
I have to say, this was a very good romance, but I am never going to be happy if I have to scan something with my phone to go and read the rest of a book I bought. I was so irritated. It didn’t help that my phone since being forcibly upgraded has made it aggravating to use. There was also a song I could listen to and that was a hard nope from me. Everything before this though really worked for me. I thought […]
One Burning Heart by Elizabeth Kingston
Whelp! I have my first buddy read of the year done! I do love my buddy read group, it’s where I find myself reading authors I never would have before. I have not heard of Elizabeth Kingston before, but there’s enough here that makes me want to seek out her earlier books because I liked how some of the characters we see in this one were depicted. No spoilers, but Will’s mother Eluned was hands down my favorite character. Honestly, because of her, she made […]
Fall in Love, You False Angels (Volume 4) by Coco Uzuki
Light spoilers are in my review below. There’s a bit in a shoujo story where the plot either takes the turn to allowing the main characters to get together or the author decides to string the reader along for an unknown amount of time. We’ve reached Volume 4 of Fall in Love, You False Angels and we’ve entered stringing me along for no good reason territory. The basic plot of this series is that Otogi is the picture perfect, most popular girl in school, but this […]
The Do-Over by Lynn Painter
My second read of the year comes from the long-standing tradition between my spouse and me: At the end of each year, we jot down five books for the other person to read over the upcoming year. I confess that The Do-Over was from the 2024 list, but in the spirit of the book, I thought I should go ahead and get ‘er read (a do-over!). I enjoyed the book and found it to be good medicine for our toxic times. Emily Hornby is the kind […]
The Swan's Daughter by Roshani Chokshi
4.5 stars Thank you to NetGalley and St. Martin’s Press for this ARC. My opinions are my own. Demelza is the seventh and youngest daughter of Araminta, a legendary veritas swan (extremely beautiful women who have the power to turn into swans, and whose voices compel anyone who hears it to tell the truth) and Prava, a centuries-old, very ambitious, and some would say, evil wizard. However, when veritas swans fall in love, the person they love gains control over them through a magical necklace […]
Paladin's Grace by T. Kingfisher
After writing my original review, I kept wondering if a different format might suit me better for this book. So I borrowed the ebook, and wow did that make a world of difference. I could skip and skim the inner monologues until they lessened. A little after mid-way through the book, the plot really picked up, the two main characters started interacting more – with each other and with others that can knock some sense into them, other things started happening to keep them busy […]
