Romance
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Swordheart by T. Kingfisher
Book review Halla has unexpectedly inherited the estate of a wealthy uncle. Unfortunately, she is also saddled with money-hungry relatives full of devious plans for how to wrest the inheritance away from her. While locked in her bedroom, Halla inspects the ancient sword that’s been collecting dust on the wall since before she moved in. Continue reading
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Someone You Can Build a Nest in by John Wiswell
Book review Shesheshen has made a fatal mistake for a monster: she’s fallen in love. Shesheshen is a shapeshifter, who usually resides as an amorphous lump in the swamp of a ruined manor, unless impolite monster hunters invade intent on murdering her. Through a chance encounter, she meets a different kind of human, warm-hearted Homily, Continue reading
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Book Review: Winter’s Orbit by Everina Maxwell
Winter’s Orbit was one of my most highly anticipated books of this year. A science fiction romance featuring some of my favourite romance tropes? Yes please. I ended up absolutely devouring this book and totally fell in love with the world and the characters. Continue reading
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Book Review: Thornbound and Moontangled by Stephanie Burgis
The Harwood Spellbook is a delightful series of fantasy short novels and novellas centering on the Harwood family and their peers in an alternate version of Regency England. In a rigid world in which women are politicians and men are magicians, the Harwoods are shattering gender roles and pursuing their hearts. This series is one… Continue reading
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Book Review: The Lady’s Guide to Celestial Mechanics by Olivia Waite
The Lady’s Guide to Celestial Mechanics by Olivia Waite Publisher: Avon Publication date: 23 July 2019 Genre: Historical romance Page count: 336 pages Rating: 4.5 out of 5 stars This is a spoiler-free review. Ah, romance. How I miss thee. I burnt out on romance years ago when I was interning at a literary Continue reading
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Weekly Wrap-Up: 12 July 2019
Happy Friday! It feels like ages since I’ve done a weekly wrap-up post. I’ve been super busy with work and with other projects like our podcast and my YouTube channel! I have, however, been reading a lot and am planning to get much more done this weekend! Continue reading
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Book Review: Spellswept and Snowspelled by Stephanie Burgis
I’ve been seeing these novellas, particularly Snowspelled, pop up all over my bookish social media feeds for ages. However, I was compelled to buy and read them when I found out that Emma Newman, one of my favourite authors, had been selected to narrate the audiobooks. Fully convinced, I dove into Spellswept and Snowspelled and… Continue reading
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Book Review: My So-Called Bollywood Life by Nisha Sharma
I’ve been in a bit of a reading slump lately and needed something totally different to help claw my way out — enter My So-Called Bollywood Life, a debut novel I learned about at an showcase event held by the publisher earlier this year. I don’t have a huge amount of experience with Bollywood films, although… Continue reading
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Book Review: The Royal Runaway by Lindsay Emory
Despite living in the UK now, I’m not a huge Royal Family person. However, I’ve always loved a good princess story and grew up on Disney films. The Royal Runaway sounded like my exact cup of tea — like The Princess Diaries, but all grown up. I threw myself into Theodora’s world and drank it… Continue reading
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Book Review: The Light Between Us by Katie Khan
I’ve been shouting at you all ever since reading and loving Katie Khan’s debut novel Hold Back the Stars last year. In fact, it was one of my favourite books of 2017 — I hadn’t read anything else quite like it and Katie became an auto-buy author for me. When I learned her new book… Continue reading
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