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The Long Slog Continues Through Book Four

Queen of Shadows by Sarah J. Maas

January 12, 2020 by Rachel 4 Comments

Queen of Shadows is the fourth entry into the seven-part Throne of Glass series, which is Sarah J. Maas’s first fantasy series. I devoured the author’s second fantasy series, A Court of Mist and Fury. So, of course, I would love Throne of Glass, right? Wrong. I have a serious love/hate relationship with all of these books. The first book (Throne of Glass) did not have enough world building, back story, and the characters were not built up enough for me to care about them. […]

Why Did I Wait So Long

The Hating Game by Sally Thorne

January 6, 2020 by Melina 8 Comments

I received the book The Hating Game from our Cannonball book exchange, it’s been languishing on my “to read” list on Goodreads forever. But here’s my secret, I haven’t really read many romance novels since maybe 5th grade? Well, I’ve read The Hating Game now, and I have feelings…so, so many feelings. I don’t think I’ve cried reading a book in a very long time. Towards the end I had to stop reading for a stretch because I think I was worrying at least one […]

I don’t really find the idea of a snake vampire all that appealing

Archangel's Viper by Nalini Singh

January 2, 2020 by Malin Leave a Comment

3.5 stars This is book 10 in an ongoing series, so really not the place to start. The first book in the series is Angels’ Blood. This review will contain some spoilers for that book. Holly Chang, who for a while renamed herself Sorrow, was the only survivor of the terrible carnage perpetrated when the archangel Uram went crazy and kidnapped her and all her friends and proceeded to torture and kill most of them. He forced Holly not only to drink his blood, but to watch […]

Hunky blue aliens to the rescue

Ice Planet Barbarians by Ruby Dixon

December 31, 2019 by teresaelectro Leave a Comment

Ice Planet Barbarians came highly recommended by The Ripped Bodice bookstore. The blue-skinned alien on the cover had me intrigued! This is the first book of SEVENTEEN about a group of young women stranded on the said ice planet. Each introduces us to a different woman and a potential barbarian suitor. In this one, we meet Georgie on Earth where she is kidnapped in her sleep by some slave trading bobblehead aliens. Half the women are crowded in a cage while the other half sleep […]

Once I finished, I immediately wanted to read it again.

The Starless Sea by Erin Morgenstern

December 30, 2019 by narfna 6 Comments

A short and to the point review, for a couple reasons. One, it’s the end of the year, and thus time for a flurry of review posting. I don’t have time for in depth. And two, more importantly, after finishing this book, I felt the need to sit down with someone and have them take me by the hand and explain the book to me bit by bit. I’m giving this the good old five stars because of how enthralled I was while reading it. […]

::hangs large flashing neon sign saying “MORE PEOPLE READ K.J. CHARLES” over the top of this review::

Gilded Cage (The Lilywhite Boys, #2) by K.J. Charles

December 30, 2019 by narfna Leave a Comment

First, I made the embedded cover real big in this review so y’all can see our heroine Susan’s face. It is the most non-swoony face I have ever, ever seen on a romance novel cover, and that is so true to her character, I love it. Even the arms are folded! Susan Lazarus is not fucking around. This is the second book in the Lilywhite Boys series, which follows two con men and thieves in late Victorian London. This series is actually connected to Charles’s […]

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