Format: PaperbackPublished: Marcy 7th, 2023Age: AdultGenre: Historical Rating: 5/5 Stars This book is so beautifully tragic, and it’s hard not to fall in love with Gaunt and Ellwood’s love story. 1914, and half German Gaunt struggles to understand the point behind the war, while others at his boarding school look excitedly forward to the dayContinueContinue reading “Book Review: In Memoriam by Alice Winn”
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Monday Moods: Freebie – Sapphic
Monday Moods is a weekly bookish meme created and hosted by Unwrapping Words (aka, me!). The premise is simple: every week, there’s a new ‘mood’, ranging from tropes to genres or actual moods (happy, sad, etc). On a Monday, feel free to post about books on your TBR, books you’d recommend, or a mix – whatever youContinueContinue reading “Monday Moods: Freebie – Sapphic”
Book Review: The Story of the Hundred Promises by Neil Cochrane
Format: ebookPublished: October 4th, 2022Age: AdultGenre: Fantasy Romance Rating: 2/5 Stars Even calling this a ‘loose’ retelling of Beauty and the Beast is stretching the idea of a retelling. For a retelling to work, there has to be come core elements connecting the original with the retelling, but in The Story of a Hundred Promises,ContinueContinue reading “Book Review: The Story of the Hundred Promises by Neil Cochrane”
Let’s Talk Bookish: Pride Month Book Recs!
Let’s Talk Bookish is a weekly meme that was originally created and hosted by Rukky @ Eternity Books starting in August 2019, and was then cohosted with Dani @ Literary Lion from May 2020 to March 2022. Book Nook Bits has hosted since April 2022, with Dini at Dini Panda Reads as co-host from February 2025. Before I get into thisContinueContinue reading “Let’s Talk Bookish: Pride Month Book Recs!”
Book Review: Cider Ella by S.T. Lynn
Format: ebookPublished: June 24th, 2016Age: AdultGenre: Fantasy – Romance Rating: 4/5 Stars This was a sweet take on Cinderella, featuring Ella, a trans woman who is forced to go by her deadname and serve her stepmother and sisters following her father’s death. I really liked Ella as a character, and I liked the way theContinueContinue reading “Book Review: Cider Ella by S.T. Lynn”
Book Review: Ace of Spades by Faridah Àbíké-Íyímídé
Format: PaperbackPublished: June 1st, 2021Age: Young AdultGenre: Thriller Rating: 5/5 Stars This is another YA book that I think works really well for the target audience. I enjoyed Faridah Àbíké-Íyímídé’s thriller, and can definitely see young adult readers getting a lot out of it. Set in elite private academy Niveus, Ace of Spades focuses onContinueContinue reading “Book Review: Ace of Spades by Faridah Àbíké-Íyímídé”
Book Review: The Queen of Steeplechase Park by David Ciminello
Format: ebookPublished: 7th May, 2024Age: AdultGenre: Historical Rating: 3/5 Stars I really went back and forth on how I felt about this through pretty much the whole book. It’s (allegedly) based on the author’s aunt, and I’d honestly love to know how much of it, outside the ‘obvious’, is fiction vs reality, as if evenContinueContinue reading “Book Review: The Queen of Steeplechase Park by David Ciminello”
Top Ten Tuesday: Love Freebie – Sapphic Romance
Top Ten Tuesday was created by The Broke and the Bookish in June of 2010 and was moved to That Artsy Reader Girl in January of 2018. It was born of a love of lists, a love of books, and a desire to bring bookish friends together. This week was a love freebie, so I thought I’dContinueContinue reading “Top Ten Tuesday: Love Freebie – Sapphic Romance”
Let’s Talk Bookish: Banned Books Week
Let’s Talk Bookish is a weekly meme that was originally created and hosted by Rukky @ Eternity Books starting in August 2019, and was then cohosted with Dani @ Literary Lion from May 2020 to March 2022. Book Nook Bits has hosted since April 2022. This is an interesting topic, and unfortunately way too relevant in the US right now. AContinueContinue reading “Let’s Talk Bookish: Banned Books Week”
#5OnMyTBR: Contemporary
#5OnMyTBR is a bookish meme hosted by E. @ Local Bee Hunter’s Nook and you can learn more about it here. It occurs every Monday when we post about 5 books on our TBR. ‘Contemporary’ is a really interesting topic for this week’s #5OnMyTBR – it can encompass such a broad range of different genres, and because of theContinueContinue reading “#5OnMyTBR: Contemporary”
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