Finished this one on 5/4. I started in April and it was a bit of a struggle for me to read. It was a really uncomfortable subject matter and the vet stuff was a bit triggering for me (with losing our dog last year). So it‘s a low pick for me.

My flowers are not doing so well after the storm yesterday. They lost all their petals!

Officially caught up on May books reviews!

Finally received my May #botm books!

They gave me a free credit for the delay, so that was nice of them. The sprayed edges are pretty cool. Now to find time to read them.

This book was recommended to me book riot #mytbr.

It‘s not the type of romance I was expecting. Kiki is a college student who has a very popular radio show. A new student comes and disrupts everyone‘s flow. She ends up in a fake relationship (that was never actually fake). This book was a bit dramatic with different cliques and drama. And it was a bit long. Overall I liked it.

June #roll100 picks !! Looking forward to both of these books.

Low pick. This was a bit long and I don‘t like long romances. Rosie gets sexually harassed by her boss and then fired, so she goes back home to her small town. Ford is from a rich family, but earns his own money and decides to start his own business in this small town. Rosie and Ford reconnect after 10 years and romance ensues.

Finished 5/20.

I decided to read this authors backlist after picking up the Never List. This book has some of the same elements but is also different enough I was able to enjoy it. I‘ll definitely be picking up the rest of the books in this series.

Finished 5/14

Book 8 in the vampire knitting club book. Cozy mystery, a wedding, murder and witchcraft.

Finished on 5/12/25.

This was a low pick, but will continue the series. This is pure smut with a bit of plot. They are sex wizards, so they have to perform different types of sex acts to conjure magic. Dom comes to a magical school with a letter of introduction and you learn everything as he does.

Finished on 5/11.

I haven‘t posted a book review in May yet. 😬😬

Finished this one on 5/5/25. It was okay, a little long. Music, demons, princes of hell, smut.

So not only did #botm make me pay $3 for a special edition. I now have to wait all month to get my books…

I‘m not sure I would have actually gotten to them in May, but I‘m now worried they‘ll get delivered while I‘m away on vacation…

#bookishproblems 🙄🙄

I‘m annoyed about the May picks. Didn‘t really care for any of them. The only one I remotely considered picking (which I did), I had to pay 2 extra dollars for because it‘s a special edition. 😒

I just REALLY wanted the add ons! #botm

My May #bookspin and #doublespin picks!

It‘s been a while since I‘ve read a smutty book on audio. every time smutty things were happening the hubby would walk in. 😆

I really liked this one. Set in the UK, Dina is a kitchen witch and imbues magic into her baked goods. Her best friend is getting married at a country house and her friends keep trying to set her up with Scott. She doesn‘t date because there is a hex on her and everyone she dates ends up getting hurt.

Finished jn April

Omg! I loved this book. It‘s been a while since I‘ve stayed up late to read a book. It‘s a why choose romance with 4 dudes, 1 girl. They‘re all Prince‘s and looking for their mate. Every year they have a choosing party and pick 1 person. Rylee spends 1 month with each guy to get to know them before deciding to go through with the ceremony that makes her immortal. There is also magic and goddesses and powers. Loved it!

Finished in April

My May #bookspin list!

My #bookhaul for #independentbookstoreday !!

The tagged book caught my eye because it has pretty edges! I just realized it‘s a why choose romance, so we‘ll see!

I also picked up the new Emily Henry and Abby Jimenez! Quarter life was a free blind date with a book with my purchases.

#indiebookstoreday #anunlikelystory

I picked this up finally, trying to get those goodreads bookmarks. It‘s been on my TBR for a while now. This is a low pick. It‘s a completely different kind of fantasy. They eat books instead of food. The women are kept from really knowing anything and are required to birth 2 children but are forced to leave them after 3 years. The story is told from the present and flashes back to her as a kid, giving birth and why she‘s where she is at now.

This picture is too flowery for the contents in this book. This book is dark, which I did not realize but should have because of the TW. Elowen has been through some stuff! And she has never showed anyone her true self until Cayden. They torture people together and kill people and show no remorse. They‘re set on vengeance. This book doesn‘t end on a cliffhanger. But the next book is coming out in July and I can‘t wait.

Is it just me or are romances super long now?

This book is about 2 people helping each other get over the person they‘ve loved for a long time. Fake dating which quickly turns to real dating. Marcela is a librarian, so a lot of great book talk. Marcela also has abandonment issues because he dad left her mom when she was a kid and that affects all her relationships. So she has a lot of stuff to figure out.

My picks for May #roll100! I liked having a choice of 2 numbers to pick for each this time around!!

Picked this to read a robot book for #gottacatchemall

I actually ended up really enjoying it. I‘m going to pick up the next one too! A tea monk goes into the wilderness, because they feel they‘re missing something and meets a robot.

I finished this one this week. I picked it up because it was a quick read and I wanted to read a book for the Her Story challenge on goodreads.

I don‘t listen to this podcast. I don‘t know these women, so I don‘t feel fair rating the book.

Finally starting to pick up Nancy Drew books again. Finished this one earlier this week. This one was okay. Lots of golf and of course Nancy is amazing at golf, even with an injured hand. This one wasn‘t too ridiculous, so it was enjoyable. Though she just happened to find the treasure chest a guy was looking for, for years.

Finished this one last week. It was pretty good and a quick read. Though there was A LOT of Accounting talk. Like I get she was an accountant, so she talked about her job and that was her problem with her family, but still. I‘m not sure why her family was so hard on her for being an accountant. You have someone that can do your taxes in the family!!

Overall, fake dating a vampire you don‘t know is a vampire. Trapped in a blizzard alone. 👍🏻

It‘s spring! My daffodils have finally bloomed. 🥰

This book was a fun, quick read. I‘m glad they only used the “word” “lol” once in the book. It also had THE LONGEST epilogue! Other than that, the story was pretty good. I think this is only my second Christina Lauren book.

Book 7 in the series. A tv show/crew is coming to the knitting shop to film a tv show. And of course one of the students is murdered. This one was a real who dunnit. I was surprised by who the killer was. I really like this series. It makes me want to learn to knit, but let‘s be honest, I‘ll be just as bad as Lucy!

#riseupreads

This was an interesting book and really good on audio. I‘m glad it was picked for this month. This book is about clinical depression and trauma, with fairytale whimsy swirled in.

This series is the kids of the last series. I like that series better, but I‘ll continue on with this one. Ronan moves to New Orleans and meets Celine. Celine is the daughter of Mateo and Evie from the first book. So she has a very overprotective family. It‘s them starting a new relationship. Ronan getting into the local cage fighting and trying to deal with getting in touch with his wolf.

Low pick. This one was a bit too long. It was a lot of fun though. There was a hit v show on the TW about a werewolf cop solving crimes. Devin is all of a sudden showing the same symptoms as his character. He finds Alex‘s website from years ago and goes to Florida for help. It‘s a romance, but it‘s also about both of them figuring out what they want.

Book 6 in this series. Violet is a fortune teller at the fair and keeps giving people bad but true fortunes. One of the people she gave a fortune to dies at the fair and now Violet is under suspicion. They‘re all accusing her of being a witch (she is). So Lucy needs to find the killer to save her cousin.

Yay! Another year of #camplitsy25! Here are my nominations for this year!

New books! Just released this week and can‘t wait to read them both.

I really liked the tagged author‘s other series, so can‘t wait to dive into this new world.

Got to hear Emilia Hart speak tonight about her new book. She signed my book and took a photo with her. It was a fun night and can‘t wait to read this book.

(I didn‘t love Weyward, so I‘m hoping I like this one a lot more!)

The tagged book was my favorite read of March.

I think I liked it more than A Fire in the Sky.

#readingbracket2025

April #bookspin #doublespin picks!

Picked this up because I heard about it on a podcast. Mel is a bartender and she is flirting with this woman at the bar and finds out she‘s married. Then she finds out they‘re poly. At the same time she‘s trying to keep everything casual because she‘s scarred from her divorce. She also learns about this cocktail/bartender contest and is working towards creating a cocktail for it. I liked this one!

My April #roll100 picks! I‘ve already bailed/read the other roll.

Not a creepy haunted house story, but I did keep picking it up at bedtime and spooky stuff would happen.

Cassie moves to this small town to get out of Orlando. When she plugs in her laptop at home, it doesn‘t charge, so she has to work at a coffee shop. This town is full of ghosts and she has a hard time at first but Nick is trying to help her acclimate. He‘s lived in town all his life and isn‘t going anywhere. It‘s a slow burn romance.

Tru moves to nocturne falls to start becoming an oracle. She meets the hot neighbor next door which her aunts think is a vampire. The aunts have 15 cats!! She makes a mention that the house doesn‘t smell, but I don‘t believe it. Unless they had some magic to keep it from stinking. Eamon‘s family is a mutt mix of magical powers. So he can see hourglasses over peoples head seeing how much time they have left. He hates it and a cat will save his life

This was a nice, low key cozy mystery. The residents of the house get an eviction notice and start protesting. One of them gets attacked and put in a hospital. Dorothy has lived there for most of her life and it‘s a mystery as to why, that you find out. Kat is originally from this town and was compelled to come back. And you find out why. No murder in this book. It was good!

Book 6 in this series. Still good! It starts a couple months after the last book. What happened at the beginning is going to be a spoiler if you haven‘t read the last book.

It almost seemed like the author wrote a story in between the 2 books (though I found nothing saying she did). Some things felt abrupt like I missed something. And a situation was described that I don‘t remember from the last book, so it must have happened off page…

Low pick. Picked this up because it was on KU and goodreads had it rated as a buzzy book for the goodreads challenge.

This is my first book by this author and it was good. It‘s a bit dark based on trauma. It‘s a best friends little sister romance trope.

I tried to pick up the second book, but it had the same exact dialogue as this one… so idk if I‘ll read more.

It‘s been a bad, week, month, year. And it‘s been too long since I went to the bookstore. So, I decided to treat myself this weekend to some newly released books.

#newbooks #bookhaul #anunlikelystory

I can‘t believe it‘s already almost April, in the longest year of my life and my slowest reading year. Here‘s a list of 20 books I hope to eventually read. 😆

#bookspin

Went to Mystic village today! Visited this AMAZING horror bookstore, Alice‘s Haunted Bookshop. (I‘m not a horror fan, but it was such a cool bookstore). They had a lot of awesome classic versions of books. I picked this cozy mystery up! And a wicked cool bookmark that I forgot to take a picture of!

Loved it! Aliens, dinosaurs, 2 sexy men that you don‘t have to choose between! This was so much fun. I liked her other books too, but I didn‘t know about this one until #auldlangspine.

Low pick. Because I did enjoy this for the most part while reading it. But it was all smut and no plot. I mean there was a lot of thoughts about god and bible quotes, but he was horny AF. I wouldn‘t have picked this up without the new #readingsmut podcast. I would read another book by this author but probably not another priest romance. I did like the difference of getting the male POV the whole time.

My March #botm and #aardvark picks!!

I‘ve never read Stephen Graham Jones before, so I‘m going to try this one and hope it‘s not too scary!

This book is not in the system and I‘m sick of trying to find it. This book is in a connected World Series. The tagged book is another book in the series.

Lyon‘s lover was so fun. It was just a fun, read. Bella is a retired courtesan looking for a husband. She goes to the Lyon‘s den as they deal with specific things. Bella is given Luke to try and dry him out, get him sober and give him purpose. She is 10 years older than him.

Got my quarterly #myTBR recs! There is a theme, all orange like covers! I had Best Hex Ever on my TBR before, but haven‘t heard of the other ones!