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Hello hello hello! Hope you're enjoying your summer. Here's everything I read with both my eye and ear balls in June. :)

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Come along with me as I babble about one of my favorite things on the internet right now.

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The Mercenary and the Mortician is a masterful, dark MM romance with paranormal aspects. Unique concept, incredible voice, immaculate character development, and driving plot. Check it out!

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Sorry for being a ghost. I'm back! I missed everyone. :)

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We're all just doing our best. All will be well. Love you.

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Here's everything I read in March. And a bit of a life update? Apparently? :)

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GRWM While I Hurt My Own Feelings - this one is going to hurt so good.

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This series might have gotten away from me. In this post I go into why.

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Get ready with me while I completely lose my cool about Sleep Token's US tour. #sleeptoken

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Book Review (Sorta): Lover Boy

This review is going to be a little different than the usual format because, one, it’s the second book in a series and, two, it will contain spoilers. Don’t get me wrong, the first one in the series, Pretty Boy, is great as well, but the subject matter in the second one was executed exceptionally well and I want to talk about it. So, if you don’t want to be spoiled, feel free to click out, read…

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Hey friends! One of these days I will figure out how to get consistent with my blog posts. In the meantime, here's everything I read in February! #fiction #monthlyreads #contemporary #series #fantasy #darkromance #romantasy #lgbtq #mm #rinakent #jeneaneoriley #5star

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Interconnected Multi-Series

Follow me down the rabbit hole that is interconnected multi-series books. New post on the bloggo. #series #cassandraclare #shadowhunters #rinakent #rinaverse #fantasy #mafia #romance #darkromance #magic

For all of us in the reading community, we know that there are many different categories of books: stand-alones, interconnected stand-alones where each book follows a different storyline with cross-over characters from other books, and series where the one story continues through multiple books. But what if you mash together several interconnected stand-alones series together? In this case, you…

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What I Read: Jan 2025

Despite currently existing in a soul crushing, emotional pain spiral that Rebecca Yarros has shoved me into, it’s the end of the month, so I suppose I’ll set the tissues aside to share my reads. But, first, I ask: why do we do this to ourselves? For the 467th time, I find myself audibly sobbing into a pillow about fictional characters…that I imagined…from ink on paper…on purpose. I spend my hard…

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Book Review: Five Broken Blades

Five Broken Blades is a thrilling, twisty, unpredictable story of six strangers tasked with stealing the crown of immortality. Read more in the new post! #maicorland #fivebrokenblades #fantasy #5stars #api #lgbtq #ownvoices #romance #bookreview

Five Broken Blades by Mai Corland is sort of Oceans Eleven meets Lord of the Rings, but instead of a bank heist, it’s an assassination of a King and, instead of a ring, it’s a crown that grants the wearer immortality. Best described by Aeri, one of the main characters, “A thief, a strongman, a spy, an assassin, a nobleman, and an exiled prince add up to a ring of liars. Trust is a surefire way to…

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Book Review: Parable of the Sower

Take care of yourselves today. I'm thinking of you. ❤️ #octaviabutler #parableofthesower #5stars #fiction #dystopian #emotional #foundfamily #ownvoices #bipoc #scifi #triggerwarnings #apocalyptic

…you know…for no reason at all. Absolutely no reason I can think of as to why I’m demanding that all of America read this scarily accurate prediction of a “future” dystopian landscape, imagined by a brilliant black writer back in 1993. Oh, and the timeline just happens to be 2024-2027. So. Parable of the Sower by Octavia Butler is a haunting projection of what the US would be like if it was…

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Happy New Year

Random ramblings to start the new year. I don't know. lol.

Hello all! Happy 2025! It’s the sixth…how are we all doing? Are we back to work? Finding motivation? Back in the swing of things? Yeah, me neither. I’m back to work, but the gears are turning slowly. I don’t know about you, but I always get vacation amnesia; when I come back to work after time off, I (temporarily) forget everything I know about what I do. What I’ve been doing…for years. Woof. But…

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What I Read: Dec 2024

Wishing you all the happiest of holidays with everything I read in December. See you next year!

We made it, Fam. It’s the end of the year and I didn’t ghost you. Well, not completely. I know it’s been a little touch and go for most of year. I hope that I can figure out how to manage my time a little better in 2025 and create more content either here or Substack or both. More on that later. For now, I hope that you enjoyed your holidays and are looking forward to the chaos that 2025 will…