It took me a little longer this month to decide on my November Reading List hopefuls. November has a lot of celebrations! It is Native American Heritage Month, Nonfiction November and NaNoWriMo. I decided to choose one book for each of the first two and work on writing my own for the last one 😉. […]
I was very ambitious with my October Reading Goals. Thanks to some very good spooky thriller/horror novels that I included, I was on a roll for the most of the month. This month’s Reading Wrap-up includes the five books that I read. It was also a month of awesome book releases. October Reads List I […]
If you checked out my post Friday Night Highlights: A Haunted House and an Unlicensed Exorcist, then you know I was reading pretty fast through Within These Wicked Walls by Lauren Blackwood. It is a debut novel with Jane Eyre vibes set in a haunted mansion in the Ethiopian desert. Scare Factor If you are […]
Bad Witch Burning by Jessica Lewis is the kind of book that you have to force yourself to put down. I’m talking the sun will come up while you are still reading if you started the night before. When I first heard about this book, I was told that it would capture me and hold […]
Dahomey Fighter. Tightrope Walker. Immortal Girl. The Bones of Ruin by Sarah Raughley starts off with one heck of a character profile. It’s been a while since I had this feeling about a character in a book, but Iris Marlow and I could be friends. I love that her character is a no-holds barred, unbowed […]
This week’s Friday Night Highlights is going to be a quick one. I recently finished two books this week. Which means I haven’t had a chance to get too far into the ones I’m reading now. A Court of Wings and Ruin by Sarah J. Maas My hold for the third book in the A […]
I got put onto Ring Shout by by P. Djèlí Clark by fellow Bookstagrammer @Bookish_Afrolatina after I saw it on her timeline. I was immediately intrigued and wondered whether it was a backlist title or something recently published. Either way, I had never heard of it before. But I’m definitely glad it turned up on […]
This week I am reading The Bones of Ruin by Sarah Raughley. I am five chapters in and I really like the main character Iris. She’s got sass, a sense of survival and a need to discover the mystery of her real identity. She is also a Black girl who works in a circus as […]
This post contains affiliate links you can use to purchase the book. If you buy the book using that link, I will receive a small commission from the sale. I read A Court of Thorns and Roses last weekend and was hooked into the series. Once again the book ended up capturing my attention for […]
This post contains affiliate links you can use to purchase the book. If you buy the book using that link, I will receive a small commission from the sale. What have I done?! What was I thinking? Okay, let’s start at the beginning… I kept seeing the book series A Court of Thorns and Roses […]