Reading Challenge Month 2020

Reading Challenge Month Winners and Wrap Up!

Oct 4, 2020 | 12 comments

Hi everyone! Well, believe it or not, our 6th Annual Reading Challenge Month has drawn to a close. This event is four weeks long and takes months of planning, so I am always surprised how fast the time flies! It is such a fun event to run and I always find great new...

FILED UNDER: News and Notes, Winner
TAGGED: Reading Challenge Month 2020

Review: The Prince’s Consort by Antonia Aquilante

Oct 2, 2020 | 17 comments

Rating: 4 stars Buy Link: Amazon | iBooks | Amazon UK Length: Novel Having taken up the mantle of Prince of Tournai a year ago after a fatal accident killed his parents, Prince Philip has slowly been losing himself under the weight of responsibility. Though groomed...

FILED UNDER: 4 stars, Fantasy, Jovan's Reviews
TAGGED: Antonia Aquilante, Chronicles of Tournai series, intersex, magic, mpreg, NineStar Press, Reading Challenge Month 2020, royalty, violence, virgin

TBR Pile Week: Wrap Up and Giveaway!!

Oct 2, 2020 | 34 comments

Hello everyone! Believe it or not, we are finishing up our final week of this year’s Reading Challenge Month with our TBR Pile Week challenge. This week we dusted off our shelves and picked books that are at least a year old. You guys can play along with this...

FILED UNDER: Giveaway
TAGGED: Reading Challenge Month 2020

Review: American Fairytale by Adriana Herrera

Oct 1, 2020 | 20 comments

Rating: 4.5 stars Buy Link: Amazon | iBooks | Amazon UK Length: Novel Camilo Briggs is a biracial social worker in NYC. He’s been raised by his mom, a Cubana who sought asylum after floating to Florida on a raft. His father, a Jamaican raised in Miami, died when Milo...

FILED UNDER: 4.5 stars, Contemporary, Veronica's Reviews
TAGGED: Adriana Herrera, BIPOC, Carina Press, Dreamers series, kids, Reading Challenge Month 2020, wealthy character

Review: Stick and Poke by E.M. Lindsey

Oct 1, 2020 | 26 comments

Rating: 4.25 stars Buy Links: Amazon | iBooks | Amazon UK Length: Novel Mat Harlow was married and on his way to becoming a doctor when his life got turned upside down by someone texting while driving. The traumatic brain injury Mat suffered left him...

FILED UNDER: 4.25 stars, Contemporary, Jay's Reviews
TAGGED: age gap, aphasia, bisexual, brain injury, coming out, E.M. Lindsey, Irons and Works series, OFY, Reading Challenge Month 2020, tattoo artist

Review: Luck in the Shadows by Lynn Flewelling

Sep 30, 2020 | 17 comments

Rating: 4.5 stars Buy Link: Amazon | iBooks | Amazon UK Length: Novel When Alec of Kerry wanders onto the wrong lands at the wrong time, he finds himself captured and tossed in a dungeon on charges of spying. It’s an overwhelming situation for a young man who was just...

FILED UNDER: 4.5 stars, Fantasy, Sue's Reviews
TAGGED: Bantam Press, intrigue, Lynn Flewelling, Nightrunner Series, Reading Challenge Month 2020, spy

Audiobook Review: Anhaga by Lisa Henry

Sep 29, 2020 | 27 comments

Story Rating: 3.5 stars Audio Rating: 3.25 stars Narrator: Erik Bloomquist Length: 9 hours, 16 minutes Audiobook Buy Links: Amazon/Audible | iBooks Book Buy Links: Amazon | iBooks Min is a thief. A good one. If only he were better at being an uncle. His nephew, Harry,...

FILED UNDER: 3.25 stars, 3.5 stars, Audiobook, Elizabeth's reviews, Fantasy
TAGGED: age gap, enemies to lovers, Erik Bloomquist, fae, kidnapping, Lisa Henry, magic, necromancer, Reading Challenge Month 2020, road trip, Tantor Audio, thief, virgin

Review: The Sea Ain’t Mine Alone by C.L. Beaumont

Sep 29, 2020 | 27 comments

Rating: 4.75 stars Buy Link: Amazon | iBooks | Amazon UK Length: Novel Orphaned at a young age, a war vet who served in Vietnam, Jimmy Campbell is hanging on by a thread. Surfing is the only thing that keeps him from walking out into the ocean and never coming back....