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Top 10 Retellings
Looking back at this list I’m quite surprised about the top 2 because Sleeping Beauty is one of my lease favorite fairytales. And to top it off, Beauty and the Beast is one of my favorites but the 2 least favorite are based on B&B. I don’t know how it all flip...
Review #276
Above the Sea earned a 4.2.5 stars for this YA fairytale retelling, clean HEA romance. The plot is very fast paced and I don’t feel as if there’s time to settle in a scene or into the characters. Their dialogue is saying exactly what they think instead of making me...
Review #275
Master of Salt & Bones is a dark/modern gothic contemporary standalone romance. I gave this a generous 4.0/5 stars. Sometimes it felt more like a psychological thriller/almost erotica. At times I couldn’t determine what was real and what was a hallucination which...
July Top Ten
I read 14ish books in July, kind of lost track this month since a few were DNF. Here's my top ten list. I had heavy fantasy this month to prep for my next writing projects, so there's not much variety of genre this time around. For individual reviews of each of these...
Review #274
I did not finish Kiersten White’s novel. I made it to page 50 but not much had happened and there was too much head hopping. I bet once the “instigating event” takes place the ball will start rolling but it was only setting up the stage for the story instead of...
Review #273
Solid 5/5 stars!! I loved loved loved so much about this book that I read it in under 9 hours with a few meal breaks and interruptions from kids thrown in there. I barely made any comments which showed proof of how smooth it felt. If you are a fan of clean YA...
Review #272
DNF. I got through enough of this one to leave a short review. This is a sequel to a YA fantasy all about demons, female power, and seeing things through another perspective. Here’s the blurb: It's been six months since Deka freed the goddesses in the ancient kingdom...
Review #271
Until this last chapter I had averaged my rating of a 4.1/5 stars. Because of the last chapter, this contemporary witchy fantasy was immediately bumped up to a 4.7/5 stars! I loved the main heroine and the overall inclusivity but wished there were only two pov instead...
Break the Stone!
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Top 10 Enemies to Lovers
If you ADORE enemies to lovers like I do, check out the following blog. My favorite is at the bottom, so keep scrolling! Which is your favorite enemies to lovers book? Do you have a trope you like more? Number 10 The Girl the Sea Gave Back by Adrienne Young (4.0/5)...
Top Ten Books in 3rd person
Please check out my recent third person narrative reads that I've enjoyed. They're in order, with my favorite at the bottom. Do you like third person or first person narration better? As always, I have tons of other Top Ten posts as well as 265 book reviews on my...
Review #270
I gave this one a 3.9/5 stars which is a little lower than the first book. “For the Throne” is the sequel to “For the Wolf” and I believe it finishes the duology. This is a YA fantasy with a “good vs evil” theme. This one didn’t feel as much of a fairytale retelling...
Top 10 witchy books
Number 10 The League of Gentlewomen Witches by India Holton (3.9/5) Number 9 A Witch in Time by Constance Sayers (4.0/5) Number 8 Sea Witch by Sarah Henning (4.1/5) Number 7 The Witch Haven by Sasha Peyton Smith (4.2/5) Number 6 Sweet and Bitter Magic by Adrienne...
Review #269
I rated this fantasy fairy-tale retelling a 4.4/5 stars. This will hopefully be one I remember details of compared to other novels because the woods are s described in such detail. I started to get frustrated with the repetition of the plot in the 30-60% part of the...
Top 10 authors of color
So, first let me start out by saying that I wasn’t sure how to title this blog. Some of my friends want to be referred to as Black. Others want to be called a person of color. And another prefers African American. I could possible label the blog “Diverse Authors” but...