Haven | Book Blitz

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I’m so excited to be a part of this exciting book blitz promoting Mary Lindsey’s upcoming novel, HAVEN. I’m currently reading an eARC and can’t wait to share my review with you soon! Keep reading this post for more about the book itself, the author, some tantalizing teasers, and to enter a giveaway!  Continue reading

Happy Pub Day! | The Beautiful Ones

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THE BEAUTIFUL ONES is out now! 🎈

I absolutely enjoyed reading this book and was so grateful to have been given an eARC via NetGalley. It was literal months ago since I read it but I can still remember the story vividly! And now today it’s available on the shelves of bookstores aplenty for all of you to enjoy! Thank you so much St. Martin’s Press for including me in this little Pub Day celebration! Below you’ll find more about The Beautiful Ones, author Silvia Moreno-Garcia, and even begin reading the first chapter!  Continue reading

Wolves and Roses

Wolves and Roses (Fairy Tales of the Magicorum #1) by Christina Bauer (2017)
-eARC Review-

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YA Fiction | Fantasy
3 Stars
Blurb:

“Seventeen-year-old Bryar Rose has a problem. She’s descended from one of the three magical races—shifters, fairies, or witches. That makes her one of the Magicorum, and Magicorum always follow a fairy tale life template. In Bryar’s case, that template should be Sleeping Beauty.

“Should” being the key word.  Continue reading

Wicked Fallout | Book Blitz

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Keep reading to find out more about WICKED FALLOUT, Kelly Charron, read an exclusive excerpt, and enter a giveaway! While technically the second book in Charron’s Pretty Wicked series this book can be read as a standalone (I love when authors do this!).  Continue reading

A Great and Terrible Beauty

A Great and Terrible Beauty (Gemma Doyle #1) by Libba Bray (2003)

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YA Fiction | Historical | Paranormal
4 Stars
Blurb:

“In this debut gothic novel mysterious visions, dark family secrets and a long-lost diary thrust Gemma and her classmates back into the horrors that followed her from India.  Continue reading

The Tethered Mage

The Tethered Mage (Swords & Fire #1) by Melissa Caruso (2017)
-eARC Review-

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Fiction | Fantasy
4 Stars
Blurb:

“In the Raverran Empire, magic is scarce and those born with power are strictly controlled — taken as children and conscripted into the Falcon Army.
Zaira has lived her life on the streets to avoid this fate, hiding her mage-mark and thieving to survive. But hers is a rare and dangerous magic, one that threatens the entire empire. Continue reading

Cover Reveal! | Splendor and Spark

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I absolutely loved Mary Taranta’s debut novel Shimmer and Burn and I am so excited to share with you all the cover and synopsis for the sequel!! I’m keeping my fingers crossed for an ARC because I’ve been dying to read it ever since I finished the ARC of this series’ opening!

Keep reading for the cover and synopsis of this epic sequel, a snippet from my review of book 1 (Shimmer and Burn), and more about the author!  Continue reading

American Gods

American Gods (American Gods #1) by Neil Gaiman (2001)

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Fiction | Paranormal | (TV-MA)

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Blurb:

“Locked behind bars for three years, Shadow did his time, quietly waiting for the day when he could return to Eagle Point, Indiana. A man no longer scared of what tomorrow might bring, all he wanted was to be with Laura, the wife he deeply loved, and start a new life.

But just days before his release, Laura and Shadow’s best friend are killed in an accident. With his life in pieces and nothing to keep him tethered, Shadow accepts a job from a beguiling stranger he meets on the way home, an enigmatic man who calls himself Mr. Wednesday. A trickster and a rogue, Wednesday seems to know more about Shadow than Shadow does himself. Continue reading

Rhapsodic

Rhapsodic (The Bargainer #1) by Laura Thalassa (2015)

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Fiction | Romance | Urban Fantasy | (TV-MA)
4 Stars
Blurb:

“Callypso Lillis is a siren with a very big problem, one that stretches up her arm and far into her past. For the last seven years she’s been collecting a bracelet of black beads up her wrist, magical IOUs for favors she’s received. Only death or repayment will fulfill the obligations. Only then will the beads disappear.  Continue reading

BRN #18: My Rainy Day Books

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I don’t know about you, but rainy days always makes me crave either a steady movie/TV binge or a luxuriously lazy book binge. For this post I thought I’d share some of my go-to rainy day books 🙂 Honestly some of these aren’t typically my favorite while others I think are the absolute best, but regardless they’re what call to me from my bookshelves whenever the day is long and the rain unrelenting. Strange what weather can do… Continue reading