ARC Review: Girls of Paper and Fire by Natasha Ngan

Title: Girls of Paper and Fire Author: Natasha Ngan Publication Date: November 6, 2018 Publisher: Jimmy Patterson BooksPages: 336Add to Goodreads //I received this book from the publisher in exchange for an honest review// Each year, eight beautiful girls are chosen as Paper Girls to serve the king. It's the highest honor they could hope for...and the most cruel. But this year, there's a ninth girl. And instead of paper, she's made of fire. In this lush fantasy, Lei is a member of the Paper caste, the lowest and most oppressed class in Ikhara. She lives in a remote village with her father, where the decade-old...

Top Ten Tuesday #211: Awesome pumpkins

Today's Topic:  Top Five Best Halloween Pumpkins Today was a difficult topic (Halloween freebie) because I've already talked about Halloween/Horror books and movies multiple times this year. I decided to go with something totally different and share ten favorite pumpkins (decorations and carvings) I've seen this year. Happy Halloween! Star Wars - found on Reddit Golden Snitch - found in the Room of Requirement Disney Villains - found in a closed Disney FB group Dumbledore - unknown source Thanos - found on Reddit Top Ten Tuesday is a weekly meme hosted by That Artsy Reader Girl. ...

Weekly Recap: 10/21 - 10/27

HAPPENINGS OFF THE BLOG Hi everyone! This week was insane with even more puppy nonsense. My tiniest puppy got a bug bite, which wouldn't be a big deal in itself. BUT it was where he could reach it on his neck and we've spent the last several days trying as hard as we can to keep him from tearing his skin up. Good times! As a result, I've had an embarrassing reading week. I've started three different audiobooks and changed my mind, instead listening to true crime podcasts. I need to find something to read! I'm also making very slow progress on Wicked Saints, which I'm loving, but having a hard time getting time to read. In exciting...

Halloween Creatures 2.0 Book Tag

Hi everyone! I've seen this tag around on several blogs and I had to do some digging, but I found the source at Keep Reading Forward. No, I was not tagged by anyone, thank you very much. I do what I want when it comes to tags because they're too much fun to pass up! If you're reading this and you think it looks awesome, I tag you too! Let's be rebels together! WITCH A Magical Character or Book. I said in my review of Caraval that it was pure magic and it really is. Everything about Caraval and Legendary can be summed up as magic and I can't wait to read it again! WEREWOLF The Perfect Book to Read at Night. This is...

Fraterfest 2018 Mini Reviews: The Merciless IV, Asylum, Wytches Vol. 1, & Rosemary's Baby

Title: The Merciless IV: Last Rites  Author: Danielle Vega Publication Date: June 12, 2018Publisher: Razorbill Pages: 290 Add to Goodreads Reviews for book 1 & book 3 The fourth book of the scream-worthy cult series The Merciless combines Stephen King level terror with true crime stories like the Amanda Knox case. The ropes tighten on Berkley Hubbard's wrists. Blood drips down her fingers and lands with a smack on the cold floor of the church basement. She's trapped, bound, and petrified by fear. A knife punctures her fragile skin as Berkley's captors search for the mark of the devil on her body. They say they want to save her--drive...

Down the TBR Hole #6

Hi everyone! I'm back again with another edition of my TBR purge. I've made a tiny bit of progress, although I'll admit I've accidentally added a few new books. Whoops! The Down the TBR Hole meme was started by Lost In a Story and it is the most perfect tool for cleaning off shelves that I've come across. Here's how it works: Go to your goodreads to-read shelf. Order on ascending date added. Take the first 5 (or 10 if you’re feeling adventurous) books Read the synopses of the books Decide: keep it or should it go? THE BOOKS HUMAN REMAINS BY ELIZABETH HAYNES Hmm, this one sounds interesting! I actually really enjoyed...

Book Review: Escaping From Houdini by Kerri Maniscalco

Title: Escaping From Houdini (Stalking Jack the Ripper #3)  Author: Kerri Maniscalco Publication Date: September 18, 2018 Publisher: JIMMY Patterson Pages: 416Add to Goodreads Reviews for book 1 & book 2 In this third installment in the #1 bestselling Stalking Jack the Ripper series, a luxurious ocean liner becomes a floating prison of scandal, madness, and horror when passengers are murdered one by one…with nowhere to run from the killer. . Audrey Rose Wadsworth and her partner-in-crime-investigation, Thomas Cresswell, are en route to New York to help solve another blood-soaked mystery. Embarking on a week-long voyage across the...

Top Ten Tuesday #210: Scary villains

Today's Topic:  Top Ten Scariest Villains Villains!! Today I realized that a lot of my favorite books don't have clear cut villains. I tend to enjoy books with more morally gray characters. Eventually though, I did manage to find ten that I found to be genuinely scary or disturbing.  Amarantha - A Court of Thorns and Roses by Sarah J. Maas Dolores Umbridge - Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix by J.K. Rowling Gilead - The Handmaid's Tale by Margaret Atwood Jack Torrance - The Shining by Stephen King Keris Veturia - An Ember in the Ashes by Sabaa Tahir The Nightmare Elf - Welcome to the Dark House...