Color Wheel Picks My TBR // Purple Covers

And we're back! I'm currently behind on reading books for this color wheel challenge but that's okay... at least I am reviewing books on the regular. If you don't know I created this easy challenge to focus on reading books from my 2025 Reading List. I've reviewed books with yel…

Royal Blood by Aimee Carter

An American girl becomes the British Monarchy’s greatest nightmare in this thrilling new series where royal scandals just got deadlier.As the King of England’s illegitimate daughter, 17-year-old Evan Bright knows a thing or two about keeping secrets. But when she’s forced to spend the summer in Lon…

Threads That Bind by Kika Hatzopoulou

In a world where the children of the gods inherit their powers, a descendant of the Greek Fates must solve a series of impossible murders to save her sisters, her soulmate, and her city. Descendants of the Fates are always born in threes: one to weave, one to draw, and one to cut the threads that co…

Little Café Readathon Wrap-Up

I've been wanting to join in one of the seasonal Little Café Readathon's for a little while now. Unfortunately, I was behind with my own Fall Scavenger Hunt challenge and only got to one book read on time. But whatever, I was able to get to the other two in December. Next time I join I won&…

Fall Scavenger Hunt // Spirit Hunters

And here we are on to my fourth book in my Fall Scavenger Hunt series! I almost immediately regretted the haunted house prompt because I love Haunting of Hill House but I wasn't in the mood for a dark book. I am clearly in the mood for middle grade lately so I chose Spirit Hunters by Ellen Oh. …

A Curious Beginning (A Veronica Speedwell Mystery) by Deanna Raybourn

Veronica Speedwell recently buried her last living relative. She's on her way to continue her world travels hunting rare butterflies when she fends off a would-be robber and abductor with the help of a German baron. She does not know the person who just saved her but the baron's insistence …

Reading Two of My Most Anticipated Mysteries // Finlay Donovan Is Killing It & Arsenic and Adobo

If you knew me, you wouldn't categorize me as a mystery reader. Thrillers in general bore me. But I have enjoyed a fair few in the past especially since they tend to be fast-paced and fun. There were three mysteries on my radar that were coming out this year that I had a great feeling I would e…

Summer of Salt by Katrina Leno // Magical Summer Days and the Bond of Sisterhood

A magic passed down through generations. An island where strange things happen. A summer that will become legend.
Georgina Fernweh waits impatiently for the tingle of magic in her fingers—magic that has touched every woman in her family. But with her eighteenth birthday looming, Georgina fears her g…

Rescue at Lake Wild by Terry Lynn Johnson

In this funny and moving animals-in-peril adventure, a twelve-year-old girl and her two best friends determine to rescue two orphaned beaver kits—and soon find themselves trying to solve a local environmental crisis. Perfect for fans of Pax and A Boy Called Bat
Everyone knows that twelve-year-old …

Mother Daughter Book Club Review // When You See Me

FBI Special Agent Kimberly Quincy and Sergeant Detective DD Warren have built a task force to follow the digital bread crumbs left behind by deceased serial kidnapper Jacob Ness. And when a disturbing piece of evidence comes to light, they decide to bring in Flora Dane who has personal experience o…

The Many Mysteries of the Finkel Family by Sarah Kapit

Fans of the Penderwicks and the Vanderbeekers, meet the Finkel family in this middle grade novel about two autistic sisters, their detective agency, and life’s most consequential mysteries.
When twelve-year-old Lara Finkel starts her very own detective agency, FIASCCO (Finkel Investigation Agency So…

Trying to Get My NetGalley Score to 80% and a Bunch of Mini Reviews

I will never get my NetGalley score to 100%. In my youth, I read a lot of NetGalley books and I asked for a lot of ARCs. Some of which I never got the chance to download or have been on my list to review for too long that I have taken them off because lets be honest, I'll never get to them. But…
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