Romance. Fantasy. Reader culture. Honest thoughts.
🎧 Podcasts I’ve Been Listening To This month has been a bit of a podcast personality split. On one side: Heart Starts Pounding, a newer listen for me that blends true crime, mystery, supernatural stories, and generally darker, spookier themes. It’s eerie in that “I shouldn’t listen to this before bed” kind of way… so … Continue reading Other Pursuits | Life Beyond the Books (June 2026)
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: Get Back into Fantasy 📖 Current Read: Thorn Bird by E. Kennedy 🎧 Currently Listening: Kingdom of … Continue reading The Reading Diaries: My Latest Reads (#3)
I used to love doing tags when I first started blogging and seeing as its my Birthday today its seems like the perfect one to come back with. Lets get into it. 🎈1. The Birthday Candle A book you read years ago that has never quite left you. I know I have mentioned this book … Continue reading The Birthday Book Tag! 🥳
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
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 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
Summary This dark and thrilling vampire romance—set in the world of the New York Times bestselling Serpent & Dove series—is perfect for fans of Sarah J. Maas!Célie Tremblay has always been a good girl: kind and beautiful, a daughter of whom every parent would be proud. She surprises the entire kingdom when she defies tradition to become the first … Continue reading [Book Review] The Scarlet Veil
Summary She’s the virginal cheerleader, and he’s the tortured bad boy. Their worlds are different, but college life at Dickson University brings them together in a passionate, angsty, fiery collision.Finn Hayes is what girls my age would call “stupid hot.” He’s handsome, has brown eyes that remind me of warm chocolate chip cookies, and a … Continue reading [Book Review] Learning Curve by Max Monroe
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