First Time Caller by B.K. Borison | Heartstrings #1 | ARC Review

Posted February 10, 2025 in Books, Reviews / 1 Comment
First Time Caller by B.K. Borison | Heartstrings #1 | ARC Review

I was so, so thrilled when I heard that B.K. Borison was starting another romance series! The Lovelight Farms series really took the romance book community by storm, and I was intrigued to see how the author would pivot from a small-town series to a big city one. I’m pleased to report that First-Time Caller has all of the charm and coziness that readers have come to expect from Borison’s stories, cocooned in a romantic radio booth tucked away amongst the hustle and bustle of big-city Baltimore. Inspired by Sleepless in Seattle, First-Time Caller is a dual POV romance novel […]


Throne of the Fallen by Kerri Maniscalco | Review

Posted February 3, 2025 in Books, Reviews / 0 Comments
Throne of the Fallen by Kerri Maniscalco | Review

I am a huge fan of the OG Kingdom of the Wicked series (books 2 & 3 specifically, book 1 was kind of mid). So when I heard we were getting a spin off series about the OTHER PRINCES I was verrrry intrigued. Especially because there’s potential for SIX additional books (if there’s one per prince, which I’m hoping very much is the case!) I love a good companion series where I can dive into a new story in a universe where I’m already familiar with the world building and have a solid foundation of knowledge of which to build […]


Let’s Call Her Barbie by Reneé Rosen | ARC Review

Posted January 20, 2025 in Books, Reviews / 3 Comments
Let’s Call Her Barbie by Reneé Rosen | ARC Review

My first five star read of 2025! I’m so happy this came across my inbox to read and review because it reminded me just how much I love reading historical fiction (I feel like I say this every time I read and review a historical fiction novel, lol). I’ve always been a fan of Barbie (I had the boat, the motor-home, the airplane, etc growing up) and I loved the resurgence of Barbie-mania in 2023 with the movie (ah, the summer of Barbenheimer). I was intrigued at the idea of a historical fiction take on the creation of the iconic […]


January 2025 TBR

Posted January 10, 2025 in Features, TBR / 0 Comments
January 2025 TBR

I’m excited to be back with making structured TBRs for 2025! I sort of fell off doing this in 2024 after March because I got pregnant and understandably other things took priority. But in those first three months of 2024 I was reading pretty much everything on my TBR and then some, and I felt like picking 6 books to hold myself accountable to worked well! Last year I made sure I had one book “per category,” but this year I’m being more flexible and just picking the top 6 priority books regardless of categories (hence the 3 ARCs on […]


Top 5 Books of 2024

Top 5 Books of 2024

Another year in the books! Most of my top reads this year were in the first half of the year, as the second half was dominated by pregnancy and baby books. These are in no particular order, except for Quicksilver being number uno. Quicksilver | You know that GIF of Lady Gaga that’s like “terrific, fantastic, phenomenal, iconic” etc? That’s how I feel about this book. Is it super original? No. I haven’t written my review yet but in many ways it felt like it could’ve started as ACOMAF fanfiction, but it was still so so good and captivated me […]


Holiday Romance Review: Wreck the Halls by Tessa Bailey

Posted December 9, 2024 in Books, Reviews / 0 Comments
Holiday Romance Review: Wreck the Halls by Tessa Bailey

When I found out that my Spotify premium account now came with a free number of audiobook listening hours per month, I instantly pursued their romance selection and decided it would be a great chance to try my first Tessa Bailey novel. I’d heard her name floating around often online, and I was trying to make a conscious effort to read more holiday novels in December (always a challenge for me, as the month feels like it flies by so fast!) I didn’t know much about this one except it sounded seasonally appropriate and since it was “free,” I decided […]


Holiday Romance Review: Tis the Season by Morgan Elizabeth

Posted December 5, 2024 in Books, Reviews / 0 Comments
Holiday Romance Review: Tis the Season by Morgan Elizabeth

Did I have any idea going into this one that it was inspired by Legally Blonde? No, no I did not. Did that probably make me love it. Yes, there’s a good possibility lol. As a lover of romance novels AND of Legally Blonde (I object!) it was so fun to read a novel that is inspired by/a retelling of a more “modern” classic piece of media. The story follows Abigail, a makeup artist who’s contorted her life into a pretzel for her uppity boyfriend who clearly does not think she’s good enough for him and his blue-blooded world. Like […]


Enchanted to Meet You by Meg Cabot | Witches of West Harbor #1

Posted October 7, 2024 in Books, Reviews / 0 Comments
Enchanted to Meet You by Meg Cabot | Witches of West Harbor #1

I have been reading Meg Cabot’s books for over 20 years, and she’s an auto-read author for me at this point. I don’t even bother reading the synopsis most of the time, I just know a new release is going to make it onto my TBR, regardless of the subject matter. Despite the fact that I would have read Enchanted to Meet You no matter what, I was THRILLED to see that Meg was getting in on the witchy rom-com trend. I loooooove witchy stories, movies, aesthetic, etc. and the cover + premise + title (please don’t be in love […]


The Reappearance of Rachel Price by Holly Jackson | Review

Posted August 26, 2024 in Books, Reviews / 0 Comments
The Reappearance of Rachel Price by Holly Jackson | Review

I was a huge huge fan of Jackson’s debut novel, A Good Girl’s Guide to Murder, and overall felt it was a very strong trilogy. I know she’s put a few books out since then, but this is the first I picked up since the original trilogy, and I was excited! I’ve been wanting to start reading more thrillers as the end of summer looms and we transition into fall up here in the Northern Hemisphere, and what better way to kick off my thriller TBR than with a tried and true author? Turns out I was wrong. I honestly […]


Pestilence by Laura Thalassa | The Four Horsemen #1

Posted June 17, 2024 in Books, Reviews / 0 Comments
Pestilence by Laura Thalassa | The Four Horsemen #1

I feel like I should not have enjoyed this book as much as I did, but I legit could not put it down. The former religious studies major in me always has a ~curiosity when I see a plot point that even remotely draws on religious themes, and once I saw that there was a ROMANCE series based on the FOUR HORSEMEN OF THE APOCALYPSE I was like of course I need to check this out for science. I am apparently terrible at reading/remembering synopses of books when I add them to my TBR because I didn’t realize that I’d […]