It’s Not What You Think by Clare Mackintosh
Akarnae (The Medoran Chronicles #1) by Lynette Noni
Daggerbound by T. Kingfisher
The Phone Swap by Lia Louise
Killing Sadie by Rachel Peterson
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I love this book! It is so cute and Hayes and Catherine are the perfect couple. Their witty banter had me smiling throughout. The side characters that work at the ranch, Hallie, Mason, and Levi, cracked me up and added even more levity to the story. Their conspiracy to get this couple to a HEA was perfect.
Continue reading “Blue Jean Summer (Wilder Estate #1) by Maggie C. Gates”
This was a fast-paced, action packed romantasy that kept my attention. The world is complicated and although there is some worldbuilding at the beginning, I found myself still confused about the structure of the society and the magic system. Hopefully things will become clearer in the next book.
Continue reading “This Wretched Alchemy (Ruinous Fate Saga, #1) by Tina Mars”
This is such a cute friends to lovers, fake-dating romance between Fable and Theo who grew up in the same small town. Fable left for awhile trying to figure out what she wanted to do with her life, but after a few failed attempts, returned home and moved into her deceased grandfather’s dilapidated house. Theo left the small town veterinarian practice for the big city, but decided to come back to his roots. He wants to buy the veterinarian practice from the elderly vet that’s selling it, but the vet doesn’t want to sell it to Theo because he doesn’t think Theo is serious about staying in town.
Continue reading “No Place Like You (Oak Sisters #2) by Jillian Meadows”
This is a YA dystopian romantasy that combines a deadly game with a dating show. We have the typical power dynamic where a powerful ruler surrounds himself with sycophants who live a privileged life. In this world they are the only people allowed to touch another person and fall in love. All others live in squalor with no hope of improving their lives. That is, until the ruler announces the Tournament of Hearts. The winning couple become highborn citizens with all the privileges that come with it. Our FMC Axira is a lowborn smuggler that gets into a sticky situation and makes a deal with the MMC Prince Caelus to enter the tournament to steal something for him. On the day the trials start, Caelus enters the tournament at his father’s command.
Continue reading “The Heart Trials by J. Elle”
This book is so dang cute! It starts with a meet-cute between veterinarian Cassie and jack of all trades Noah as they try to capture a tiger that got loose from its cage on its way to a sanctuary. It’s a rocky start between the two, which doesn’t get better when she buys the house next door to him that he’d been trying to buy for his mother to live in. Their grumpy/sunshine personalities light up the pages with witty banter and gestures of kindness. Complete with a meddling mother and small town coziness, this book hits all the right notes.
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I really like dark academia books with unique magic systems so was excited to read this book. The magic system here is definitely unique where magic users can manipulate different elements. Norah is our FMC and she can manipulate probability. When magic users use their magic, however, it can draw possibility beasts whose bites are deadly. When her father is bitten and his health quickly deteriorates, she joins the academy to follow a rumor that a cure can be found there. When she finds out that only senior research assistants are allowed in the archives—and you can only become one by winning a team trial designed to push your navigation abilities to the brink, Norah reluctantly joins a team.
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This is a slow burn Gilded Age book that combines mystery, magic, and romance. Vesper is a young, ambitious journalist with the failing Basalton Globe. The book opens with her attending a society gala with the hopes of interviewing an inventor introducing this recent magical invention. Vesper resents Basalton high society who use sorcery to fuel their luxurious lifestyles rather than help those less fortunate. Vesper briefly interviews the inventor, however a brief time later finds him dead in the garden. Two men are the police’s main suspects, with the prime suspect being industrialist Maximilian Kite.
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WHO GIVES YOU LIFE?
PATER AETERNUS.
WHO GIVES YOU PURPOSE?
PATER AETERNUS.
WHO GIVES YOU JOY?
PATER AETERNUS.
This book was a wild ride! Pater Aeternus, governing party of the fascist, galaxy-spanning Decurion Empire, is run by the Eternal Father. He dictates your status, the work you can do, who you can marry, and women’s purpose is to have as many children as possible. The entire planet is heavily surveilled and even a whisper of discontent is immediately quashed. People are routinely snatched up and disappear forever (sound familiar?). Most are murdered. A few are “re-educated” and come back as fanatical loyalists.
Continue reading “The Infinite State (The Decurion Saga #1) by Richard Swan”
How do you not like a book with a cinnamon roll MMC that projects himself as a boring loser to the girl he’s crushing on, but literally kills people that makes her mad? Rue thinks Hugo is the most boring man alive. He meets her every evening at the mailbox for an awkward conversation that makes her inwardly roll her eyes. But he’s got a dark secret that he never wants her to know about. He hunts down men that abuse women and children and kills them. Turns out, so does she!
Continue reading “To All the Guys I Killed Before by Sara Whitney”
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