The Scorpio Races by Maggie Stiefvater {Book Review}

If you've been following my blog you might know that stand alone are a struggle for me to find, but have created a sort of quest as well (kind of like a holy grail). When it comes to the types of books I read, there generally are a lot more series than there are novels,...

Duologies to Keep You Reading

One of my favorite types of series are duologies, it's also the one that does not exist in autocorrect, so not my computer's favorite. These mini series are just long enough to go deep into character and world building, but short enough that if you jump on from the beginning it isn't absolute torture waiting....

January TBR

We are off on another year! It's a time of happiness/excitement and a time of groaning as we take in the number of things we didn't achieve the last year. I almost met my challenge of reviewing every book I read, but was beaten by a series I thought I had reviewed (big fail), so...

The Lowdown on: Handling Book Buying with a Book Obsession

There is one thing that book lovers love and fear at the same time; book buying. There's nothing like walking into a Barnes & Noble and having infinite amounts of time to peruse all the books in every aisle. It can fix a bad day instantly, and make a great day even better. So what...

The Lowdown on: The Online Book Community

Once upon a time there was not an internet, nearby bookstore, nor weird judgement for reading. Once it was a rare thing to own a book, and pretty expensive at that. Now of course there are bookstores big and local, and an internet full of communities, one of the strongest and most welcoming being the...

The Beautiful by Renee Ahdieh {Book Review}

My obsession with Renee Ahdieh's work started with her duology, The Wrath & the Dawn, which somehow remains not only my favorite of her books, but also of the 1001 Nights Retellings I've read. If you haven't read that series yet, I highly recommend that you do. It is one of my favorites on my...

The Lowdown on: Tackling TBRs

TBR's, otherwise known as 'to be read', or that pile of books that only seems to grow, is a common term and worry in the book community. With so many books releasing each year, and hype driving us to the stores in droves it's hard to imagine a time when the TBR pile didn't make...

A Treason of Thorns by Laura E Weymouth {ARC Review}

I don't often get to say that I've received an advanced reading copy, which makes this post in itself special. Thank you so much to Epic Reads for the free copy, and giving me the opportunity to be a part of this book's beginning! Getting into the synopsis of Treason of Thorns, Violet Sterling has...

The Lowdown on…DNF

This marks the start of a new series of posts I'll be doing monthly, based on a host of topics that come up on bookish discussion boards. I'm not really the end all say all on these topics, but it felt like a great starting point for tackling some of the issues or questions that...

Stalking Jack the Ripper Series (Books 1-3, 3.5) by Kerri Maniscalco {Book Review}

This is still part of that grouping of posts where I "valiantly" try to catch up with my pile of books I've read. We're nearly to the end of this thank goodness, since I'm going to try to be more on top of my reviews (I really don't want a repeat of this). Have you...