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

Book Review – Supernova by Julie Hall – 5 stars

Warning: May contain minor spoilers, but opening comments are spoiler-free. Check out my Reading Ranting page for more. I didn’t think this series could get any better, but this was top tier tension between Nova and Thorn. Wow, just freaking wow. I liked Nova in the previous books, but when she leapt for Thorn… I

Book Review – Belladonna by Adalyn Grace – 5 stars

I absolutely loved every pWarning: May contain minor spoilers, but opening comments are spoiler-free. Check out my Reading Ranting page for more.age of this book.  What I liked… Signa is a fantastic character. I love how she’s a no nonsense young woman doing her best to fit into a world that fears her because they

Book Review – Death Maker by J.C. McKenzie

Warning: May contain minor spoilers, but opening comments are spoiler-free. Check out my Reading Ranting page for more. I received this as an ARC in exchange for an honest review. Wow, wow, and wow some more. I sailed through this book and was really disappointed when it ended.  They’ve just been dirty dancing in the

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 – Unleashing Fire by Julie Hall – 5 stars

Warning: May contain minor spoilers, but opening comments are spoiler-free. Check out my Reading Ranting page for more. OMG what a way to end the story. I was not prepared for any of it.  This is book 3 and the final part of this storyline, but not the end of the series. There’s another book

Book Review – Stealing Embers by Julie Hall – 5 stars

Warning: May contain minor spoilers, but opening comments are spoiler-free. Check out my Reading Ranting page for more. I actually read this last year but wasn’t posting reviews then so I may have forgotten bits. This book is a YA fantasy about human/angel hybrids. It’s similar to The Mortal Instruments and Zodiac Academy, which are

Book Review – Glow by Raven Kennedy – 4 Stars

Warning: May contain minor spoilers, but opening comments are spoiler-free. Check out my Reading Ranting page for more. The first half of this book was on the slow side for my liking. Not much happening, but then it picked up and was worth the wait.  The ending… No spoilers, but wow and 😭 What I

Book Review – Zodiac Academy 8 – Sorrow and Starlight by Caroline Peckham and Susanne Valenti

Warning: May contain minor spoilers, but opening comments are spoiler-free. Check out my Reading Ranting page for more. Last review of the year. I’m still emotionally drained, so I’m struggling to sum up this one. I definitely cried a lot during this book. Warning: don’t ask Alexa to read it to you while driving. You’ll