Reading Ranting – On the High Seas of Piracy

Honestly, this is one Hell of a rant today because I’m just furious over people’s ignorance and blatant disregard for others when it comes to piracy. Imagine you’ve worked for months on an important university project. It counts for half your final results and without it, you’d have to repeat the year. You spent hours

Reading Ranting – Fiction Vs Reality

I’m so sick of people getting all huffy over the “morally gray” character or the “touch her and die” or similar tropes in dark fiction, mainly fantasy but also in many books set in the real world. They get slated for being “problematic” and “unrealistic”. Well, obviously. It’s fiction, so what do people expect? Firstly,

Book Review – Monthly TBR Update January 2023

Check out full reviews on my Reading Ranting page. Busy month with books. Books I read this month… Mini non-spoiler reviews… Wow. Great start to the year for me.  Glow was an awkward one since I loved it but kept getting distracted by other books. But I was always excited to get back to it,

Book Review – Haunting Adeline by H.D. Carlton – 4.5 stars

Warning: May contain minor spoilers, but opening comments are spoiler-free. Check out my Reading Ranting page for more. This is very dark, with a dash of mystery, psychological thriller, and some spooky goings on. I enjoyed this book far more that I expected to since it’s not my usual genre, but I read a lot

Book Review – The Awakening, as Told By the Boys by Caroline Peckham and Susanne Valenti – 5 stars, obviously

Warning: May contain minor spoilers, but opening comments are spoiler-free. Check out my Reading Ranting page for more. We all know the Heirs are jerks to the twins in book 1 of Zodiac Academy, but why? Why did they go so far? We get our answers from Darius and Orion, with sprinklings of Seth, Caleb,

Reading Ranting – Don’t Have Time to Read?

Disclaimer: The product recommendations mentioned below are based on my personal experience. Also, I have no affiliation with them. Do you have time to read? Me neither. I also find it super hard to focus on written words after a long or busy day, especially on Kindle because I only have my phone for digital

Book Review – The Never King by Nikki St. Crowe – 4 stars

Warning: May contain spoilers, but opening comments are spoiler-free. Check out my Reading Ranting page for more. Firstly, TikTok made me buy it and I’m glad.  Secondly, this has adult content, including graphic sex scenes and violence. Thirdly, this is a fun but way-too-short story.  Winnie has spent her whole life being dragged around by

Book Review – Dark Fae – Ruthless Boys of the Zodiac book 1 – By Caroline Peckham and Susanne Valenti – 4.5 stars

Warning: May contain spoilers, but opening comments are spoiler-free. Check out my Reading Ranting page for more. I loved this book and the characters. It’s set in a mirror world to our own, but Fae live there in place of humans. They have the power of the elements plus a magical creature form. Dragons, vampires,

Monthly TBR Update – June 2022

Oops. Sorry it’s late. I meant to post this last weekend but… tired. I read some looooong books this month, so didn’t get through that many. But I did finish book 7 of Zodiac Academy. I don’t think I’ll survive until the next one in December, so I’ll probably read the novellas some point over

Book Review – Heartless Sky – Zodiac Academy Book 6 – By Caroline Peckham and Susanne Valenti – 5 stars

Warning: May contain spoilers, but opening comments are spoiler-free. Check out my Reading Ranting page for more. The Twisted Sisters never fail to make me laugh and cry throughout every one of these books. Just… 😭😭😭 So things seemed a bit too random for a while until it all clicked, so bear that in mind