The Earl Next Door by Amelia GreyFirst Comes Love #1Historical RomanceSt. Martin’s Press | May 28, 2019 About the Book: What does a Wickedly Wonderful Widow really want? One noble suitor is about to find out. . . Adeline, Dowager Countess of Wake, is all on her own after her husband’s sudden death. The good […]
Flights of Fancy | B-B-Bad Romance
Reading YA as a mom has been really eye opening. Books I would have taken for granted before Baby Chick, probably even love, I now see very differently. I’m more aware of the unhealthy messages in fiction than I ever was when it was just myself. I think about this a lot, actually. However, I […]
Top 5 Tuesday | Better than Expected
Happy Top 5 Tuesday! This week’s topic was a breeze, since I picked all these books last week when I was searching for books that didn’t meet my expectations. Turns out, books that exceed my expectations are plentiful. Here are my selections for this week’s list. Top 5 Tuesday was started by Shanah at Bionic […]
Review | Obsidio by Jay Kristoff & Amie Kaufman
Obsidio by Jay Kristoff & Amie KaufmanThe Illuminae Files #3YA Science FictionKnopf Books | March 13, 2018 About the Book: Kady, Ezra, Hanna and Nik narrowly escaped with their lives from the attacks on Heimdall station and now find themselves crammed with 2,000 refugees on the container ship, Mao. With the jump station destroyed and […]
Top 5 Tuesday | You’re Not What I Expected
This doesn’t happen very often. I’m pretty good at expecting. I’m not bragging. I think all of us have read enough we can generally judge a book accurately. I mean, trying to find books for this category caused me to find all books for next weeks T5T. That one was easy. I finally figured it […]
Review | Call Down the Hawk by Maggie Stiefvater
Call Down the Hawk by Maggie StiefvaterDreamer Trilogy #1YA FantasyNovember 5, 2019 About the Book: The dreamers walk among us . . . and so do the dreamed. Those who dream cannot stop dreaming – they can only try to control it. Those who are dreamed cannot have their own lives – they will sleep […]