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From Blood and Ash by Jennifer Armentrout
This is one of the best examples of a slow burn/forbidden romance that I’ve read in a while. The relationship isn’t exactly what I would call healthy, but the characters aren’t meant to be perfect and if you’re okay with that you’ll enjoy it. Majority of this first book is focused almost entirely on the romance so the plotline develops very slowly. We get a lot of questions and hints at answers throughout most of the book and it isn’t until the last few chapters where I feel like the fantasy world is really fleshed out and we start to understand what is going on. I managed to guess all…
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A Most Unusual Duke by Susanna Allen
I am thrilled to be hosting a spot on the A MOST UNUSUAL DUKE by Susanna Allen Blog Tour hosted by Rockstar Book Tours. Check out my post and make sure to enter the giveaway! Link in bio. About The Book: Title: A MOST UNUSUAL DUKE (Shapeshifters of the Beau Monde #2) Author: Susanna Allen Pub. Date: December 28, 2021 Publisher: Sourcebooks Casablanca Formats: Paperback, eBook, Audiobook Pages: 288 Find it: Goodreads, Amazon, Kindle, Audible, B&N, iBooks, Kobo, TBD, Bookshop.org Bridgerton meets Werewolves Within in this sparkling shapeshifter Regency romance mixed with humor, steamy chemistry, and fantasy. The Duke said he’d never get married… The Prince Regent insists his cousin and fellow bear shifter, Arthur Humphries, the Duke of Osborn, take a mate…
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Pachinko by Min Jin Lee
“There could only be a few winners and a lot of losers. And yet we played on, because we had hope that we might be the lucky ones.” Pachinko is a historical fiction novel taking place in Korea and Japan during the years of Japanese colonialism in Korea (and the years beyond). The story follows Sunja, a young Korean woman who accepts an offer of marriage from a kind minister after falling pregnant and discovering her lover is already married. The newlyweds immigrate to Japan and what follows is a dramatic, heartfelt saga of a family enduring prejudice and surviving in a land where they are not welcomed. I loved…
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The Love Hypothesis by Ali Hazelwood
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Vespertine by Margaret Rogerson
Book Title: Vespertine Author: Margaret Rogerson Publisher: Margaret K. McElderry Books Release Date: October 5, 2021 Genres: Young Adult, Fantasy, Paranormal, Book Details From the New York Times bestselling author of Sorcery of Thorns and An Enchantment of Ravens comes a thrilling new YA fantasy about a teen girl with mythic abilities who must defend her world against restless spirits of the dead. The dead of Loraille do not rest. Artemisia is training to be a Gray Sister, a nun who cleanses the bodies of the deceased so that their souls can pass on; otherwise, they will rise as spirits with a ravenous hunger for the living. She would rather…
