Blog Tour Spotlight: Bacchanal by Veronica G. Henry

SYNOPSIS Evil lives in a traveling carnival roaming the Depression-era South. But the carnival’s newest act, a peculiar young woman with latent magical powers, may hold the key to defeating it. Her time has come.Abandoned by her family, alone on the wrong side of the color line with little to call her own, Eliza Meeks …

Monday Chatter: Portal Fantasies and the Best Game of 2019 (So Far)

Happy Victoria Day to all you Canadian readers! I meant to go for a bike ride around the coastal beach trail in "celebration," but it's pouring rain so I'm writing this post instead.   Last Week - Books All the Worlds Between Us by Morgan Lee Miller: A YA F/F contemporary featuring a swimmer protagonist. …

Review: The Binding – Sweetly Flawed and Somewhat Forgettable

Title: The Binding Author: Bridget Collins Publisher: HarperCollins UK Release Date: January 7th, 2019 Genre(s): Fantasy, Historical Fiction, Romance Subjects and Themes: LGBTQIAP+, Memories Page Count: 448 (hardback) Rating: 7.0/10     Emmett Farmer is working in the fields when a letter arrives summoning him to begin an apprenticeship. He will work for a Bookbinder, …

Monday Chatter: A Birthday of a Sort (And Books)

I missed posting last Monday because I got super sick during the weekend and didn't really have the energy to blog for the rest of the week. Luckily I had multiple (*gasp*) posts scheduled that week, which was a first for me. So that was pretty heady. I don't know how you people have posts …

Monday Books & Games – Broken Hearts and a Romp Through Sengoku Japan

I've seen Sionna (Books in Her Eyes) and Lisa (Way Too Fantasy) doing Monday updates forever now, talking the books they have lined up for the current week, and I was always on the sidelines going, "Huh, I should join them someday." Well, someday is now, apparently, and as my creatively-lacking title suggests, I'm expanding …

Top 5 WedTuesday – Disappointing Books of 2018 That I Still Appreciate

"Kathy. I think it's time for an intervention." "Uh, I have no idea what you're talking about. As usual." "'Top 5 WedTuesday'? Published one day before the next Top 5 Wednesday?" "Oh, get off my back. You make it sound like I do this every other week. This is literally the first--" "And speaking of …

Review: The Gutter Prayer – A Dark, Imaginative Debut

Title: The Gutter Prayer (The Black Iron Legacy 1) Author: Gareth Hanrahan Publisher: Orbit Release Date: January 17th, 2018 Genre(s): Epic Fantasy, Steampunk Subjects and Themes: Deities Page Count: 544 Rating: 8.0/10     The city of Guerdon stands eternal. A refuge from the war that rages beyond its borders. But in the ancient tunnels …

Top 5 Wednesday – 2019 Releases that I Didn’t Care About But Am Now Tentatively Anticipating

"Top 5 Wednesday" is a weekly meme currently hosted on Goodreads by Sam of Thoughts on Tomes in which you list your top 5 for the week's chosen topic. Oh boy oh boy. It feels like I haven't done one of these in forever. So, this week's prompt was "2019 releases that I don't care about." …

Discworld Readathon Month 5 – Sourcery

Hey all! So some not-great things came up and my blogging/reading has suffered as a result (which is why it's taking me forever to get to comments). More about that in my wrap-up, but in the meantime, let's get to Discworld! We're now 5 months into the Discworld Readathon that Nicole and I started up and …

Top 5 Wednesday – Books Featuring Werewolves & Vampires

This week's topic is books featuring any paranormal creatures of our choice, so I went with werewolves and vampires. But it's less "Five Books with Werewolves and Vamps" and more "Four Werewolf Books Plus One Vamp Book Because I Couldn't Remember Any More Good Werewolf Books." I've read quite a number of werewolf/vampire stories over …