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Midnight Beauties

Another day, another disappointing sequel. Six weeks after the end of Grim Lovelies, Anouk is stuck in a Paris house with the surviving...

Marked

I might’ve DNFed, but this book still counts. Zoey Redbird thinks the only thing she has to worry about is whether or not she looks good...

Grim Lovelies

I first read this book back in 2019-ish, and I wanted to reread so I could finish Midnight Beauties. Anouk is 17, and works as a maid in...

The Wolf and the Woodsman

Nina and Matthias walked so Évike and Gáspár could…well, not run, but fall through the ice I guess? Évike is a wolf-girl from a pagan...

Mister Impossible

Don’t ask me about what I just read because I have NO IDEA. Picking up where Call Down the Hawk left off, Hennessy, Bryde, and Ronan are...

Strange the Dreamer

A reread, so I can finally read Muse of Nightmares, which has been sitting on my shelf so long it’s got dust. Lazlo Strange has always...

Cackle

Once more with the witchy books. Annie’s been dumped by her boyfriend of 10 years, Sam, and so she decides to get a new job in a small...

Summer Sons

TRIGGER WARNINGS FOR SU*CIDE, INJURY, INJURY DETAIL, BLOOD, GORE, MURDER, AND OTHER HEAVY TOPICS. Please read with caution! Full list of...

Shadow and Bone

Here we go. Alina is an orphan and completely in love with her popular best friend, Mal. She’s also a mapmaker for the King’s Army, but...

The Ex Hex

We know I like my witches, HOWEVER. Nine years ago, Rhys Penhallow broke Vivienne Jone’s heart, and so she cursed him. It was all in good...

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What Moves the Dead

I really love this book, and being a Poe girly, I think T. Kingfisher did a great job. As a rewrite of Edgar Allan Poe’s The Fall of the...

Squad

I had this book described to me as Heathers but werewolves, and if that's not accurate-- Becca is new to the Piedmont area, and so she's...

A Psalm for the Wild Built

This book was so ridiculously recommended I had to see if the hype was worth it and hoo-boy, if you need a good book to listen to on your...

Any Way the Wind Blows

Doesn’t really matter to me….to meeeeeee….. After their adventures in America, Penny, Baz, and Simon sneak Shepard back to the UK, where...

Wayward Son

Originally published: Mar 29, 2020. New additions are in this color! It’s much smaller than Carry On, so I’m only a little worried. Simon...

Wilder Girls

Two things I love the most: the LGBT and horror! Hetty, Reese, and Byatt are inseparable. Even when their all-girls boarding school was...

Invisible Cities

I was introduced to Calvino in a creative writing class my sophomore year of college, so when I saw this book at work… Marco Polo has...

Scythe

I’ve seen this book around for such a long time I finally bought it on #indiebookstoreday, and of course dove right in. Citra and Rowan...

Call Down the Hawk

Every time I forget how much I love Maggie Stiefvater’s writing, and then I’m reminded. Picking up a little after where The Raven King...

Tender is the Flesh

MAJOR TRIGGER WARNINGS FOR THIS ONE: CANNIBALISM, ANIMAL CRUELTY, RAPE, PREGNANCY, AND DEATH. A full list of trigger warnings will be in...

Summer Sons

TRIGGER WARNINGS FOR SU*CIDE, INJURY, INJURY DETAIL, BLOOD, GORE, MURDER, AND OTHER HEAVY TOPICS. Please read with caution! Full list of...

One Last Stop

It was Valentine’s Day yesterday, and I was stuck in quarantine, but at least I had something sapphic to read! August is a woman who...

My Sister, the Serial Killer

Three books in one day? I must be in quarantine! (I am). Korede has covered for her sister three times now. Three murder scenes she’s...

Kindred

Two books in one day? Who is she? Dana is a writer from 1976 who inexplicable finds herself transported back to antebellum Maryland. She...

The Confessions of Frannie Langton

This book was a wild ride. It’s 1826, and Frannie Langton is on trial for the murders of Mr. and Mrs. Benham. In the fight for her life,...

Kingdom of the Wicked

My sister gave me this book a while ago, and I finally read it. I wish I’d waited just a bit longer so I could’ve read all three of them,...

We Have Always Lived in the Castle

I love Shirley Jackson. Mary Katherine Blackwood lives in her family’s mansion with her sister, Constance, and their uncle, Julien. They...

An Elderly Lady Is Up to No Good

It took me too long to pick up this book, and just in time for the sequel! Maud is 88, and she is alone, but that’s fine with her. She’s...

Horrorstör

This was my first Grady Hendrix, and to this day remains the only book by Hendrix that I enjoy. Something is happening at Orsk. Amy works...

Fangs

I read this first on Tapas in high school, and when she published I had to get my hands on a copy. Elsie is a vampire, an old one. Jimmy...

The Inheritance of Orquídea Divina

FINALLY SOME GOOD FUCKING BOOKS. This review contains spoilers! Below the photo I discuss specifics, so be warned! Trigger warnings up...

Gideon the Ninth

The tagline on the book says, “Lesbian necromancers explore a haunted gothic palace in space,” and I think that’s highly accurate. Gideon...

Plain Bad Heroines

Hoooooly shit I love this book. In 1902, two students at the Brookhaunts School for Girls are obsessed with the author Mary MacLane. They...

Shiver

It’s not counted in my reads for this year, but I absolutely remember rereading it sometime before I read Forever and Sinner. Grace is...

Pride and Prejudice

A classic! Elizabeth is the second oldest daughter of the Bennett sisters. She’s best friends with her older sister, Jane, and the...

Carry On

I loved this book, and when I found out there was a sequel, I had to reread it. I originally read it in 2017. Simon Snow is the chosen...

Red, White, & Royal Blue

Even before TikTok, the hype surrounding this book was immense. Alex is the son of the first female president of the United States. When...

Into the Drowning Deep

The first book I finished in 2020, and my go-to recommendation since then. I finished this book in Italy, and unfortunately followed it...

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