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Join us as we discuss the bookish events happening for the week ending in 3/15 and our thoughts and spoiler and spoiler free review of The Rogue King by Abigail Owens Book description Kasia Amon is a master at hiding. Who—and what—she is makes her a mark for the entire supernatural world. Especially dragon shifters. To them, she’s treasure to be taken and claimed. A golden ticket to their highest...

Join us as we discuss the bookish events happening for the week ending in 3/8 and our thoughts and spoiler and spoiler free review of Godkiller by Hannah Kaner Book description Kissen’s family were killed by zealots of a fire god. Now, she makes a living killing gods, and enjoys it. That is until she finds a god she cannot kill: Skedi, a god of white lies, has somehow bound himself to a young nobl...

Join us as we discuss the bookish events happening for the week ending in 2/22 and our thoughts and spoiler and spoiler free review of How Does It Feel? by Jeneane O'Riley Book description A forbidden obsessionUnyielding family allegianceThree deadly challenges THE HUMAN. When a trip into the forest to collect a rare mushroom goes horribly wrong, I find myself falling through a fairy portal and st...

Join us as we discuss the bookish events happening for the week ending in 2/16 and our thoughts and spoiler and spoiler free review of Deep End by Ali Hazelwood Book description Scarlett Vandermeer is swimming upstream. A Junior at Stanford and a student-athlete who specializes in platform diving, Scarlett prefers to keep her head down, concentrating on getting into med school and on recovering fr...

Join us as we discuss the bookish events happening for the week ending in 2/8 and our thoughts and spoiler and spoiler free review of Forged in Blood by Sadie Kincaid Book description Every few millennia, a child is born. Some say they’re marked with a curse. Others claim they possess the power of the ages. Meet Ophelia Hart. Lover of classic literature and unicorns. An orphan with nobody in her c...

Join us as we discuss the bookish events happening for the week ending in 1/`26 and our thoughts and spoiler and spoiler free review of One Dark Window by Rachel Gillig Book description Elspeth needs a monster. The monster might be her. Elspeth Spindle needs more than luck to stay safe in the eerie, mist-locked kingdom of Blunder—she needs a monster. She calls him the Nightmare, an ancient, mercur...

Join us as we discuss the bookish events happening for the week ending in 1/`18 and our thoughts and spoiler and spoiler free review of House of Beating Wings by Olivia Wildenstein Book description Free the crows, Fallon, and they will make you queen. Until an oracle predicted my regal future, I’d never imagined myself rising above the curve of my round ears. After all, I was the magicless halflin...

Join us as we discuss the bookish events happening for the week ending in 1/11 and our thoughts and spoiler and spoiler free review of Nocticadia by Keri Lake Book description Mortui vivos docent. The dead teach the living. After watching my mother succumb to a mysterious illness, I promised myself two things. I’d find the cure for what ravaged her. And leave the godforsaken city where she abandon...

Join us for our last review of 2024 How My Neighbor Stole Christmas by Meghan Quinn. We will be back for season 2 on January 14th! Book Description Every Kringle in Kringletown celebrated Christmas a lot. But Cole Black on Whistler Lane, unfortunately, did not. As his fellow citizens decorate their quaint town, brimming with carols and glad tidings, Cole wants nothing more than to hibernate the wi...

Join us as we discuss the bookish events happening for the week ending in 12/7 and our thoughts and spoiler and spoiler free review of Phantasma by Kaylie Smith Book description When Ophelia and her sister discovers their mother brutally murdered, there is no time to grieve: Ophelia has inherited both her powerful death-driven magic and enormous debt on their home. Circumstances go from dire to de...

Join us as we discuss the bookish events happening for the week ending in 11/23 and our thoughts and spoiler and spoiler free review of Ice Planet Barbarians by Ruby Dixon Book description You'd think being abducted by aliens would be the worst thing that could happen to me. And you'd be wrong. Because now, the aliens are having ship trouble, and they've left their cargo of human women—including m...

Join us as we discuss the bookish events happening for the week ending in 11/16 and our thoughts and spoiler and spoiler free review of Spark of the Everflame by Penn Cole Book description When old secrets catch fire, everything will burn. In a mortal world colonized by the gods and ruled over by the Descended, their cruel offspring, Diem Bellator yearns to escape the insular life of her poor vill...

Join us as we discuss the bookish events happening for the week ending in 11/ 9 and our thoughts and spoiler and spoiler free review of Shatter Me by Tahereh Mafi Book description I have a curse I have a gift I am a monster I'm more than human My touch is lethal My touch is power I am their weapon I will fight back Juliette hasn't touched anyone in exactly 264 days. The last time she did, it was a...

Join us as we discuss the bookish events happening for the week ending in 11/2 and our thoughts and spoiler and spoiler free review of That Time I Got Drunk And Saved A Demon by Kimberly Lemming and Bonus Content Book description All I wanted to do was live my life in peace. Maybe get a cat, expand my spice farm. Really anything that doesn't involve going on a quest where an orc might rip my face...

Join us as we discuss the bookish events happening for the week ending in 10/26 and our thoughts and spoiler and spoiler free review of Butcher and Blackbird by Brynne Weaver Book description Every serial killer needs a friend. Every game must have a winner. When a chance encounter sparks an unlikely bond between rival murderers Sloane and Rowan, the two find something elusive—the friendship of a...

Join us as we discuss the bookish events happening for the week ending in 10/12 and our thoughts and spoiler and spoiler free review of Fear The Flames by Olivia Rose Darling Book description Princess. Prisoner. Runaway. Queen. Elowen Atarah, Princess of Imirath, came into the world like a firestorm made flesh. A princess with a link to five dragons should have been a blessing to her kingdom, but...

Join us as we discuss the bookish events happening for the week ending in 10/5 and our thoughts and spoiler and spoiler free review of Powerless by Lauren Roberts Book Description She is the very thing he’s spent his whole life hunting. He is the very thing she’s spent her whole life pretending to be. Only the extraordinary belong in the kingdom of Ilya—the exceptional, the empowered, the Elites....

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Join us as we discuss the bookish events happening for the week ending in 9/21 and our thoughts and spoiler and spoiler free review of Broken Bonds by J. Bree Book Description After the death of my mother and her Bonded, I was relieved to find my own Bonds. I was sure everything would be okay if I had ⁠ them. It ⁠ wasn’t. The fate of our people is in my hands and I know we’re better off if I’m alo...

Join us as we discuss the bookish events happening for the week ending in 9/14 and our thoughts and spoiler and spoiler free review of Wild Love by Elsie Silver. Book Description The kind of wild that comes with wanting your best friend's little sister and knowing you can't have her. Forbes may have labeled Ford Grant the World's Hottest Billionaire, but all he cares about is escaping the press an...

Join us as we discuss the bookish events happening for the week ending in 9/7 and our thoughts and spoiler and spoiler free review of The Awakening Zodiac Academy byCaroline Peckham and Susanne Valenti Special Shout out to Dominos Pizza for their cameo! You have been selected to attend Zodiac Academy, where your star sign defines your destiny. If you're one of the Fae, elemental magic is in your b...

Join us as we discuss the bookish events happening for the week ending in 8/31 and our thoughts and spoiler and spoiler free review of A Court this Cruel and Lovely by Stacia Stark Book description: Just hours after humans are born, the gods take what little power we have. In return, they protect our borders from the vicious, merciless fae. The humans who manage to keep their power are known as th...

Join us as we discuss the bookish events happening for the week ending in 8/24 and our thought and spoiler and spoiler free review of Divine Rivals by Rebecca Ross.

Join us as we discuss the bookish events happening for the week ending in 8/17 and our thought and review of The Ritual by Shantel Tessier. Please note this episode contains heavy sexual themes and violence listener discretion is advised.

Join us as we discuss the bookish news for the week ending in 8/10 and our thoughts and reviews of When The Moon Hatched by Sarah A Parker.