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⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ I have been slowly trying to make my life more analog for a while now. I use a paper planner, keep actual notebooks, buy physical magazines, carry books around and generally want more of my time to involve objects I can touch instead of apps I can open. I knew my phone did not…
Keep reading⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ I am a huge Jane Austen fan, which meant I went into Jane Austen’s The Watsons with very mixed feelings. Of course I wanted to read a completed version of one of her unfinished novels. I also knew that attempting to finish Jane Austen’s work requires a level of confidence normally reserved for people who climb…
Keep reading⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ I need to begin this review with an important distinction: I am giving The Heart Trials four stars as a young adult fantasy. Is this going to completely reinvent the genre for someone who has spent years reading enormous fantasy books with twelve kingdoms, six magic systems and a glossary longer than the average novella? Probably…
Keep reading⭐️⭐️⭐️ On paper, Hallowed Bones contains an impressive number of things I am almost guaranteed to enjoy: Salem, witches, a haunted college, secret societies, cursed families, morally questionable men and a heroine who has no idea why everyone around her is acting so suspicious. Unfortunately, having all the correct ingredients did not automatically turn this into a…
Keep reading⭐️⭐️⭐️ An archaeologist racing to recover the stolen Maya artifact her entire dissertation depends on—with a handsome fellow grad student and a possible antiquities heist involved—sounded extremely promising. The archaeology was easily the best part. It felt well researched, the academic setting was refreshingly different, and I genuinely learned things without feeling like I had…
Keep reading⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ I have read quite a few Katee Robert books, so I thought I had a pretty good idea of what I was getting into with The Tarot Trials. Instead, this ended up feeling noticeably different from most of her other work. The fantasy plot is not just background scenery for the romance. It is the…
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