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I don’t have a full review (or even a condensed one) for The Witcher Omnibus Vol. 1, but I did give it 4 stars! ⭐️ I need to re read it, it’s been a couple of years and I’ve forgotten some of the plots. But here’s some pictures from inside if anyone is interested!

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Six of Crows Ebook is currently available for $2.99 on Kindle, Apple Books, & Google Books! (It’s usually $9.99.) If you’ve been wanting to read it but have been holding off…… 👀

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A little glimpse inside Demon in the Wood by Leigh Bardugo 🖤✨

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Andrzej Sapkowski Books

The Witcher

📖 The Last Wish (#0.5) ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️

📖 Sword of Destiny (#0.7) ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️

📖 Blood of Elves (#1) ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️

📖 Time of Contempt (#2) ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️

📖 Baptism of Fire (#3) ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️

📖 Tower of the Swallows (#4) ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️

📖 Lady of the Lake (#5) ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️

📖 Season of Storms (#0) ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️

📖 New Book Coming Soon! (#?) - TBR

Hussite Trilogy

Tower of Fools (#1) - TBR

Warriors of Gods (#2) - TBR?

Light Perpetual (#3) - TBR?

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“What did you do to me?” I moaned, my hips still moving lightly. Desperately.

I still wanted more. 

Hell, I still needed more.

“I made you mine.” He rolled me over in one smooth motion, his cock still buried inside me. The change in angle made my head spin, and I struggled to keep breathing with the thick pleasure of the sensation. “You’re not sleeping tonight, Tater-tot.”

** Scene from: How to Fall in Love with a Demon, by Lola Glass **

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Leigh Bardugo Books

Grishaverse

Shadow & Bone

📖 Demon in the Wood (#0) ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️

📖 Shadow & Bone (#1) ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️

📖 The Tailor (#1.5) ⭐️⭐️⭐️

📖 Siege & Storm (#2) ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️

📖 Ruin & Rising (#3) ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️

Six of Crows

📖 Six of Crows (#1) ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️

📖 Crooked Kingdom (#2) ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️

King of Scars

📖 King of Scars (#1) - TBR

📖 Rule of Wolves (#2) - TBR

Other

📖 Language of Thorns - TBR

Lives of Saints - TBR?

Alex Stern

Ninth House (#1) - TBR

Hell Bent (#2) - TBR

Miscellaneous

The Familiar - TBR

Wonder Woman: Warbringer - TBR?

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"I'm gorging myself on candy because I haven't eaten what I want in a year, Tater-tot. And now that we're mated, all I want is you." - Rafael Villin, How to Fall in Love With a Demon by Lola Glass

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"I expect to flirt, spoil, and fuck my way into your life until neither of us has an ounce of desire to live apart again." - Rafael Villin, How to Fall in Love with a Demon by Lola Glass

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My thoughts/review on How to Fall in Love with a Demon by Lola Glass!

(Updated review: Changing my rating from 4 stars to 5 stars as of July 19th, 2024 because I can't stop thinking about this book and the characters.)

Star & Spice Rating: ⭐️ 5/5, 🌶️ 4/5

There are quite a few sex scenes in this, which is to be expected of course, since the demons literally feed on lust lol. 90% of the spicy scenes are open door, there are a few casual mentions of sex in between. There’s use of vibrators, mutual masturbation, dirty talk, & moments of having sex in a shifted demon form (featuring horns, wings, tails, and well…a few physical enlargements.)

TWs:  Kidnapping, blood, estranged family/family trouble

Judging a Book By Its Cover: This cover is beautiful (as are all the covers for the Deceit & Devotion series.) Honestly, it might be one of the prettiest paperbacks I own. I’ve discovered I like a lot of this author’s cover choices.

✨📖Review📖✨

This book was fast-paced, fun, and spicy. It was a great leisure/escape read. I would say about 70-80% of this book is smut/relationship stuff and the rest is plot, which helps set up the rest of the books in this series. (The author says these are standalones, which they can be, but in my opinion, if you read book 2 first it kinda spoils one of the little twists which happens in the last third of the first book.)

Speaking of the last third, I’ve seen a few reviews talking about a tone change during that time and they’re right. It gets a bit more serious for a few chapters and something happens that causes trust issues for Tatum, our FMC. She no longer knows if she can trust Rafael, MMC. This is resolved fairly quickly and the two DO end up with a HEA. 

Tatum has boundaries, and is independent, choosing to follow her own career path despite what her (crappy) parents are trying to force her into. She lives with her two best friends Brynn and Miley, and they are great examples of friends sometimes being better than family. I enjoyed their friendship; the author did a nice job making it feel like the 3 of them were really comfortable with each other and have known each other for a long time.

NOW…let’s talk a little bit about Rafael, because let’s be honest, guys like this are a big part of why we read these sort of books in the first place, right? He’s a tall, dark haired, handsome and charismatic demon who has been in prison for the last year and has been starved for lust. (Lust is what keeps demons alive. His relationship with Tatum gets sexual quickly because of this.) 

He’s good in bed, good with dirty talk and flirting, he's rich, and would give Tatum the world if she asked for it. (I think he’s actually quite sweet.) He’s all about her pleasure 1.) because he genuinely loves her (he fell first) and 2.) because her pleasure literally feeds him (and she tastes REALLY good to him.) He listens to her and is respectful of her, not pushing her to do anything she’s not comfortable with. Rafael can be a bit jealous at times if he thinks other men, including his own two hot demon brothers, are interested in Tatum. Rafe ended up going on my book boyfriend list by the end of the book, so…

If you’re looking for something quick, fun, and mostly spice with guys that are clearly made to be drooled over, I would give this a try! I’ll definitely be reading the other two books in this series as well as some of Lola’s other work. I think she might be one of my new guilty pleasure authors!

Thank you for reading! If you liked my review/thoughts, consider following me on [GoodReads], [Bookstagram], or [Threads]! (I tend to post on GoodReads & Threads first!)

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Once I finish ACOSF I plan on reading the King of Scars duology. After that? Idk what to pick next... I'm leaning toward One Dark Window? But I'm not sure...

Opinions? All of these are first read throughs, btw. (I can't guarantee that I'll go with what gets picked, but I'd still like to know what every one is hyped about!)

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My review/thoughts on Demon In The Wood by Leigh Bardugo!

Star & Spice Rating: ⭐️ 4/5,  🌶️ 0/5 TWs: Attempted murder, and well, murder. Arson. Discrimination.

Judging a Book By It’s Cover: As always, Leigh Bardugo has spoiled me with her excellent hardback book aesthetics. (Seriously, always a treat. Thank you so much.) I love the dust cover too, but the purple and silver underneath are just, chef's kiss. It has that old fairy tale look.

✨Review✨ If you have NOT read the Shadow & Bone trilogy, I highly recommend reading those first before picking up this book. It’s much more impactful that way.

** This post contains spoilers for the end of Ruin and Rising by Leigh Bardugo **

I’m a pretty big Darkling sympathizer to begin with, so of course I enjoyed this. If you think the Darkling is the villain then I highly suggest you read this. Could he have handled things differently/better in the Shadow & Bone trilogy? Yep. But when you read his back story in this, his childhood… I think his character and his choices make more sense.

He has lived a long life of not being able to trust, of being treated differently (even by other Grisha), a life of not having a safe home and knowing that the other Grisha don’t have a safe place either.

In this book his mother tells him, “there is no safe place. There is no haven. Not for us,” to which a young Aleksander then thinks, ”but there will be. I will make one.”

A sanctuary for himself and his mother, a place he can finally call home is all he’s truly wanted from a young age. (I also can’t help but wonder if he doesn’t also think that if he can provide a safe place for other Grisha, if maybe they wouldn’t treat him and his mother differently any more. If maybe they would come to respect him or see him as a friend.) I can’t fault him for that, and I hate that he had to die in the end. I hate that he had to become the villain despite just wanting his people to be treated decently and not be hunted. I wish that he knew someone his own age that was actually decent.

Overall this graphic novel is a bit short, and I wouldn’t have minded to have a little more story, maybe even into his teenage/early adulthood years (but that might have been better suited for a novella and not a graphic novel.) The art is really nice and this left me an even bigger supporter of the Darkling than I was prior to reading it. (Shrugs)

Thank you for reading! If you liked my review/thoughts, consider following me on [GoodReads], [Bookstagram], or [Threads]! (I tend to post on GoodReads & Threads first!)

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For my first post, here's my review/thoughts on A Court of Frost & Starlight by Sarah J. Maas that I wrote a few weeks ago!

Star & Spice Rating: ⭐️ 5/5, 🌶️ 3/5 There's one "big" scene, past memories of sex and lusting for more, as well as a little steamy flirty scene with nudity.

TWs: PTSD, Death/Remembering lost loved ones (due to war), misogyny, depression, menstruation/blood, children with PTSD, abuse (memories of), & a tiny scene with a dead deer.

Judging a Book By It’s Cover: I think this book is such a pretty blue. I've seen some people complain about the paperback covers, but I don't mind them? They add a pop of color to my shelf!

✨Review✨ Before reading I expected myself to give this book a 4, but I ended up enjoying it more than I thought I would!

This was so cute and so well deserved after the trauma that, both the characters, and myself had to endure during ACOWAR. I loved getting to see the more “domestic” casual side of every one, how they handle life with no immediate threat, and delving a little deeper into some of their histories. The shopping and gift giving was so sweet and fun, and finding out that the 3 most powerful Illyrians are actually even bigger dorks/children than I realized was fantastic. "Illyrian babies."

The lightness and humor mixed with the recovery from the war was perfectly balanced. I’m so glad that the PTSD and healing from everything that happened wasn’t swept under the rug in a “and now everything/everyone is fine and we’re on holiday!” sort of way. I surprisingly found myself crying a couple of times when Feyre visited the Rainbow. A great example of “we must continue to adapt and move forward despite what was.” - I love what Feyre has decided to do with Polina’s art studio!!!

I would read 100 more of these little novellas if SJM wrote them. A prequel for the boys or literally just more domestic Feysand would be such a treat for me. (I am never going to be over Rhysand or Feysand, honestly. ) I just adore this world and its characters so, so much, and I don’t want it to end.

Overall, a great bridge between book 3 and book 4! My one complaint is I wish my reading had aligned so that I could have read it for the first time during winter! It would have been so cozy; I guess I know when I will be doing my reread of this!

Thank you for reading! If you liked my review/thoughts, consider following me on [GoodReads], [Bookstagram], or [Threads]! (I tend to post on GoodReads & Threads first!)

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Sweet Berries by C.M. Nascosta is currently free on Kindle (not KU), I'm not sure for how long, but, y'know... It's usually $4.99

(FYI: You don't have to have a Kindle to read Kindle books. Just download the Kindle app onto your smartphone, and there ya go. You can read Ebooks on your phone.)

Book Description:

"Grace has a job she loves, a community she adores, and plenty of friends . . . but her lack of bedroom action has left this event planner too horny to think.

When one ill-advised night at the bar leads to her giving an exhibitionistic show to an unknown presence outside her bedroom window, she thinks she’s hit a new low. When her voyeur turns out to be a nebbishly charming mothman, Grace needs to decide if she can trust her body — and her heart — with this garnet-eyed stranger before he flys out of her life for good.

Sweet Berries is a monster/human romance featuring high heat and a lot of heart, with a guaranteed HEA. It is the second book in the Cambric Creek Steamy Sweet Monster Romance series."

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If anyone is interested, and ok with buying Ebooks on Amazon, Quicksilver by Callie Hart is currently available for $2.99!

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I hate when ebooks cost more than the physical copy.

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"Humans are powerful in their own ways. Some are skilled with words, or paint. Others are great speakers, good friends, or loving parents. There are many forms of magic - and all are worth protecting." - Rafael Villin, How to Fall in Love With a Demon by Lola Glass