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Got my Bookspin all set and ready. I guess Bemused and May Day will be this month's general focuses! 🙂 #Bookspin #BookspinBingo

Not as much fun at the first two, but introduced a lot of new and interesting characters as well as real politic into this fantasy world at war.
The 4th eldest sister tries to be recognized as an adult and makes some stupid decisions while trying to help her sister the queen build an alliance with two other queens who might bring blood and war to their doorstep.
3/5 read for dragons as well as centaurs but less bloody battles

This was a fun audiobook, and had some interesting commentary.
When a girl who shouldn‘t have magic is discovered, a rich and powerful magic family scrambles to hide her origins and enrolls her in a magical school where she can build connections and learn to be a proper magical lady. Treachery, mean girls, and power plays threaten the new life that Sarah, now Cassandra, tried to build.
4/5 stars read for more political magic school novel

It took me a while to get into it and once I did I found that I was still feeling the same from the previous book which is that the love triangle is odd.

The overall story was ok and I'm glad to have read this trilogy years after it was published to be able to read them in a close enough time frame that I knew the characters and world building but it felt less magical for me this time.

#25in2025

October 2025 Book#5

I like this retelling of Beauty and the Beast but love it. But I like to read retellings from my favorite fairytale. 3⭐️

September was a tough month to choose. Two 5🌟 books from two of my favorite authors. I ended up picking The Eyre Affair over The Shattering Peace by John Scalzi. Both are great books, and I highly recommend both of them, I just enjoyed Fforde's book a little bit more.

#12Booksof2025 @TheEllieMo

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October Book #1

Iris hides that she is a witch. When she is frustrated, she writes curses not intended to happen, she destroyed them at the end. But one day writes a curse for Pike after he made a comment. A bird took the paper where she wrote the curse. Now she and Pike are working together to find the bird because if it dies, the curse could destroy Pike and the region🙄It was so boring 🥱 2.5/3⭐️

#12BooksOf2025 @TheEllieMo

For September, I got nuthin'. I had rotator cuff surgery at the end of August, and September kinda went by in a blur. 🌪️