Romance. Fantasy. Reader culture. Honest thoughts.
Summer is finally here so I thought I'd share my reading plans. Furybound The Ballad of Falling Dragons Rites of Stirling Broken Dove Starside Light Wielder Harvest Season Project Hail Mary I'm actually so excited to read all of these books. I have a fair few sequals to get through, heres hoping they are all … Continue reading My Summer TBR
Zinnia Falling for a stranger over coffee? Fine. Learning he’s your art history professor? Problem. Nick is guarded, intense, and so tightly wound I ache to unravel him. I know it’s wrong to pursue my professor, but he keeps showing up anyway—at the coffee shop, outside of class—as if he can’t stay away any more … Continue reading [Book Review] She’s Worth the Risk by Jen Morris
A weekly catch-up from my reading life — what I’m reading, buying, obsessing over, abandoning, annotating, and generally spiralling about. Think of it as part reading journal, part life update, part chaotic book club chat. This Week’s Goal: Finish off all my book reviews! 📖 Current Read: This Summer Will Be Different by Carley Fortune … Continue reading The Reading Diaries: My Latest Reads (#2)
After reading Laura Brown's recent Telegraph article, "Gen Z's taste for fairy porn lays bare the MeToo generation's hypocrisy", I have thoughts. Quite a few, actually. Lets get into it. The Telegraph recently described romantasy as "fairy porn", reducing an entire genre to a lazy stereotype. Here's why that argument misses the point. I've been … Continue reading Romantasy Is More Than “Fairy Porn”: A Response to The Telegraph
A hockey team captain and a bubbly staffer mix business with pleasure when they start fake dating through the wedding season in this hot sports romance perfect for fans of Mariana Zapata and Elle Kennedy. Darcy Kendrick is used to putting out fires. As an overworked admin to a hockey team, she’s seen it all. But … Continue reading [Book Review] Big Stick Energy by Sarina Bowen
Right now it seems like we are in the golden age of book to screen adaptations. The most recent example is Off Campus. A lot of plot changes were made compared to the book. I’m not deep diving everything here but there is one element that I keep seeing online that has got me thinking; … Continue reading What We Lose When Adaptations Remove Difficult Storylines
ENDURE THE STORM. EARN YOUR PLACE. FULFIL YOUR DESTINY.For nineteen-year-old Poet Graves, New Manhattan has always promised safety from the deadly electrical storms that ravage the world ― but only if she plays her part.Raised within the ruling Houses and betrothed to a powerful heir, she arrives at the prestigious Amery Academy knowing her future has already … Continue reading [Book Review] Storm Breaker by Nisha J. Tuli
A weekly catch-up from my reading life — what I’m reading, buying, obsessing over, abandoning, annotating, and generally spiralling about. Think of it as part reading journal, part life update, part chaotic book club chat. This Week’s Goal: Getting back into a reading routine. 📖 Current Read: Our Secret Summer by R.S. Grey 🎧 Currently … Continue reading The Reading Diaries: My Latest Reads (#1)
To understand my journey I’m taking you back to 2024. I was taking a career break and blogging had started to lose its shine for me so I opened up instagram again (side note, I’ve had my bookstagram account since March 2017) and decided to go all in. I spent 9 months posting here and … Continue reading Why I Stepped Back From Bookstagram
Initial thoughts and feelings To note, my expectations were already pretty low after seeing the trailer, but I still tried to go in with an open mind. I’d also literally finished rereading The Deal the day before starting the show. The first couple of episodes were ok, but it went downhill fast imo. The last … Continue reading I watched Off Campus and I have thoughts…
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