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

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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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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.)

Rating: ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ 5 Stars!

Is there spice? YEAH... Multiple open door, descriptive scenes. The demons literally feed on lust. 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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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!

Rating: ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ 5 Stars!

Is there spice? Ooooh-ho, yes. One "big" scene, memories of past moments and lusting for more, and a 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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I won a book giveaway from Ace Publishing! 📚

The Unorthodox Chronicles by James J. Butcher! I’ll post individual reviews when I read each one.

Cold Iron Task is currently available for pre-order, and comes out March 4th, 2025!

I’ll post the blurb for book 1 below!

In the tradition of his renowned father, James J. Butcher's debut novel is a brilliant urban fantasy about a young man who must throw out the magical rule book to solve the murder of his former mentor.

On the streets of Boston, the world is divided into the ordinary Usuals, and the paranormal Unorthodox. And in the Department of Unorthodox Affairs, the Auditors are the magical elite, government-sanctioned witches with spells at their command and all the power and prestige that comes with it.

Grimshaw Griswald Grimsby is... not one of those witches. After flunking out of the Auditor training program and being dismissed as "not Department material," Grimsby tried to resign himself to life as a mediocre witch. But he can't help hoping he'll somehow, someway, get another chance to prove his skill.

That opportunity comes with a price when his former mentor, aka the most dangerous witch alive, is murdered down the street from where he works, and Grimsby is the Auditors' number one suspect. Proving his innocence will require more than a little legwork, and after forming a strange alliance with the retired legend known as the Huntsman and a mysterious being from Elsewhere, Grimsby is abruptly thrown into a life of adventure, whether he wants it or not.

Now all he has to do is find the real killer, avoid the Auditors on his trail, and most importantly, stay alive.

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Star Rating:⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ (4 Stars) Is there spice? Yes. What kind of spice? At least 3 big open door scenes, with some arousal talk in between. Expect your usual sex stuff: oral, fingering, and penetration. There’s nothing to really “warn” about, imo. At the beginning they have to work through a bit of a language barrier, which involves a lot of touching and some body part naming.

TWs: Abduction which leads to imprisonment, being kept in a cage, being whipped and mistreated, near death experience, a mention of drugs in the beginning.

Judging a Book By Its Cover: (Waves at the shirtless man) …Hey. After reading, I really like that it’s demonstrating the changing skin color pigments of the Irrans!

Review: This was my first alien romance book, and I think it was a good one to start with! This really felt like a fairy tale, BUT, make it sci-fi.

I liked the MMC, FMC, AND the side characters. (Except for Chanísh…obviously. eye roll) Oljin (MMC) is such a sweetie; I loved his gentle nature and patience with her. His reserve and decision making when it came to spilling vs not spilling blood. He would make a wonderful Jara.

Speaking of Jaras, I enjoyed learning the Irran’s language alongside Rose (FMC), and I think the word Alara is so pretty?? I appreciated Rose’s determination to survive and her drive to learn everything she could; how she kept a kind heart despite everything she had been through. There was a surprising amount of inspiration in this, and so of course I found myself a little misty-eyed a couple of times.

If you read this book, don’t skip the epilogue or the author’s note! (Thank you to the author for letting us know about Saana and Honhura, it’s like you read my mind, I wanted to know what happened to them. I’m also very excited to know that Rose and Oljin make an appearance later on. I was almost a little upset, haha. I’m also very interested in what's going to happen with Pravil.)

I will definitely be continuing with this series at some point.

Thank you for reading! If you liked my review/thoughts, consider following me on [GoodReads] or [Bookstagram]

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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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"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