This book warmed my black soul so much!! It was delightful and sweet and just all around wonderful. The familiar characters are still present, along with many of the more popular quotes. Of course, the major shift is in Oliver’s (Elizabeth) thoughts on his dysphoria and societal expectations. Even without the transgender aspect the societal […]
Top Ten Tuesday is a weekly topic hosted by That Artsy Reader Girl. Each week she provides a topic, and you are free to use that topic and/or variations of that topic to make your top ten list. A full list of the weekly themes can be found here. I want to preface this by […]
I am in awe of this book! So beautiful and heartbreaking and healing. But also, at times, challenging and uncomfortable. The religious trauma that I’m still working through and trying to become comfortable in my own skin hits hard many times throughout the book. I feel so connected to Benji in trying to figure out […]
I should give up reading hyped-up books I hear about on BookTok. It never works out for me, and I set my hopes low for this book before starting it. I will review this differently than other books by separating the two main genres: fantasy and romance. The fantasy aspects of the book were okay. […]
I was never planning on reading Six of Crows. I never planned on reading any of Leigh Bardugo’s books after reading Shadow and Bone. I was not impressed when I read Shadow and Bone within the first year it was out. The world-building was excellent, and I loved that Russia was the setting, but the characters were bland, and the […]
I totally decided to read this book based on the cover and nothing else. But I’m so glad I did because this book was fascinating and a ride from beginning to end. The actual plot was a good and usual mystery novel. The Emperor tasks Charm to find who killed him and is in a […]