The nitty-gritty: The dark academia trope is turned on its head in Cassandra Khaw’s latest, a bloody feast with Gothic imagery, lush prose and ravenous characters. “Oleander and nightshade grew in pastel eruptions, Rosary peas sprawled everywhere, ladybug-patterned in their gray husks, vivid as a fresh heart. No small amount of the school’s namesake bloomed […]
Welcome to Future Fiction, my reimagining of the Waiting on Wednesday meme! There are so many amazing new books coming out, that I can no longer pick just one. My goal with Future Fiction is to share at least three new books each week, a combination of recent cover reveals and books that I’ve recently […]
It’s already Q3 of 2025! How did we get here? This is an excellent new book release quarter, and I have to say it was hard to narrow down my most anticipated books. But as usual, I have picked my top five books for each month of the quarter: July, August and September. And at […]
The nitty-gritty: Cats, cozy fantasy and time travel combine in this delightful witchy feel-good romance. I was expecting An Ancient Witch’s Guide to Modern Dating to be a cute rom-com, but I didn’t expect it to have so much heart and emotion. I ended up falling head over heels for Thorn, Walls and all the […]
Welcome to Buffy’s Corner, where I take a look at what’s coming up this week on the blog! I’m linking up with The Sunday Post over at Kimberly’s blog, The Caffeinated Reviewer. I’m enjoying a long, holiday weekend, and I hope my U.S. friends are too. We’ve had lovely weather up here in the mountains […]
As you might imagine, red is a very popular cover color for horror books, and so it was very easy to come up with a bunch. I’m just limiting this to books I’ve read, and this is probably only a small portion of those, otherwise this list would go on forever! Let me know what […]
The nitty-gritty: The Palace of Illusions is a unique Nutcracker retelling with magic, charm and sparkling characters. The Palace of Illusions was a breath of fresh air in a crowded pool of “retellings,” and I was in love from the first page. In this case, Rowenna Miller takes on the story of the beloved Christmas […]
Welcome to Future Fiction, my reimagining of the Waiting on Wednesday meme! There are so many amazing new books coming out, that I can no longer pick just one. My goal with Future Fiction is to share at least three new books each week, a combination of recent cover reveals and books that I’ve recently […]
July is packed with some of my favorite authors’ new releases, so I think it’s going to be a very fun reading month. I’m actually having trouble deciding what to read first! I guess there are worse problems to have:-) Here are the books I hope to read in July: Angel Down by Daniel Kraus. […]
This was an odd reading month. On one hand, I read three outstanding books, two of them 5-star reads. On the other hand, I only posted seven reviews, even though I read eight books. I decided not to write a review for D7 by Philip Fracassi, since it was more of a short story and […]