Category: Books
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Revisiting Sweet Valley High as an Adult in 2022
Some people may define their guilty pleasure reading habits by choosing campy science fiction, mystical creature-human love stories, or smutty dime romances. Kudos to them. I say read what you want to read, because I have a guilty pleasure, too. My guilty pleasure books take place in an idyllic small California town, where the Pacific…
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The Glory of HOSAB
House of Sky and Breath by Sarah J Maas A Five-Star Review (Minor Spoilers) If you’ve been on Bookstagram or BookTok in the past two months, you’ve seen tributes to Sarah J Maas’s newest book, House of Sky and Breath, which is the second in her Crescent City. There’s good reason for this adoration, in…
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The Maid: Adventures with Molly
The Maid by Nita ProseA 5-Star Book Review It took me awhile to become engrossed in The Maid by Nita Prose, but once I did, I adored this book, primarily because of Molly, a unique protagonist with a penchant for telling the brutal truth and getting herself into troubling situations. Her character arc was full…
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Inconvenient Daughter
Inconvenient Daughter by Lauren J. Sharkey A 5-Star Book Review Representation and the search for identity? Complicated mother-daughter relationship? A battle to define self-worth? Beautiful writing that made me want to cry? Inconvenient Daughter by Lauren J. Sharkey checks all the boxes for me to make it a 5⭐️ book. I loved this surprisingly brutal…
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Why I Love the A Court of Thorns and Roses Series
If you’ve been around any book lovers on social media in the last minute, you have seen a post or two about Sarah J Maas and her trio of series: Throne of Glass, A Court of Thorns and Roses, and most recently Crescent City. The general consensus amongst Bookstagrammers is that these series are swoon-worthy,…
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