Down the TBR Hole #2

Hi everyone! Welcome to week two of Down the TBR Hole! First of all, you guys voted by a HUGE majority for Vampire Diaries to remain on my TBR, so there it will stay. I’ll be keeping an eye out for the audiobook at my library! This week isn’t so much embarrassing as I think […]

Audiobook Review: Styxx by Sherrilyn Kenyon

Title: Styxx (Dark-Hunter #22) Author: Sherrilyn Kenyon Narrator: Fred Berman Publication Date: January 1, 2013Publisher: St. Martin’s PressLength: 31 hours, 7 minutes Add to Goodreads Just when you thought doomsday was over… Centuries ago Acheron saved the human race by imprisoning an ancient evil bent on absolute destruction. Now that evil has been unleashed and it […]

Summer is almost over: A spooky ARC & candle giveaway

Happy Wednesday, everyone! September is just days away, which means the end of Summer is right around the corner! Although it’ll stay hot in Florida for awhile, Halloween and Fall decorations have started hitting the shelves (and honestly, can we hurry up with the Halloween candy, please?) and I cannot wait! This year on Halloween […]

Top Ten Tuesday #202: Non-fiction TBR

Today’s Topic:  Top Ten Non-Fiction Books On My TBR This week we had a freebie learning/school-related topic, so I decided to go with non-fiction on my TBR list. My list is a messy mismatched collection of random topics that I’m interested in, from true crime to survival to cults. Honestly, it was hard to narrow […]

Book Review: Spinning Silver by Naomi Novik

Title: Spinning Silver Author: Naomi Novik Publication Date: July 10, 2018Publisher: Del Rey Pages: 480Add to Goodreads Miryem is the daughter and granddaughter of moneylenders… but her father isn’t a very good one. Free to lend and reluctant to collect, he has loaned out most of his wife’s dowry and left the family on the […]

Weekly Recap: 8/19 – 8/25

HAPPENINGS OFF THE BLOG Hi everyone! This week has been crazy busy, as it always is when I have a dog sitting client out of town. There were tons of storms, which made it stressful on my dogs and theirs, but we got through. I also got way ahead on candle making! We have Halloween […]

Saturday Screen Time #23: Superheroes and witches

It has been a few weeks since I’ve done one of these and I’ve watched a few things since then! A lot of people with powers and one or two psychopaths.  THIS WEEK IN SCREEN TIME Hellboy – I FINALLY got around to watching this after years of loving everything I’ve seen by Guillermo del […]

Down the TBR Hole #1

A couple years ago I went through my Goodreads TBR and cleaned it out… kind of? But here we are, in August 2018 and it has just hit 402. Why are there over 400 books on my TBR? Will I ever read them all?? Nope. I’ve often thought about going through them again but IT […]

Book Review: The Merciless III by Danielle Vega

Title: The Merciless III: Origins of Evil Author: Danielle Vega Publication Date: July 11, 2017Publisher: RazorbillPages: 304Add to Goodreads Reviews for book 1 & book 4 Brooklyn knows that there’s no good without evil, no right without wrong. And when a helpless girl calls her teen helpline, whispering that someone is hurting her, Brooklyn knows […]

How have YA genre trends changed over the years?

There’s something I’ve noticed in my relatively short four and a half years of blogging – trends in YA seem to come and go very quickly and very, very overwhelmingly. A few years ago when I started reading YA and seriously thinking about entering the blogosphere, it was seemed like dystopia and paranormal romance were […]

Top Ten Tuesday #201: Contemporary slump cure

Today’s Topic:  Top Ten Contemporary Romances I Might  Try Next Time I’m In a Reading Slump This is a weird topic because I actually have a really hard time getting out of reading slumps. For the most part I tend to try different things until something strikes my interest. I have heard that contemporary reads can help […]

ARC Review: Mirage by Somaiya Daud

Title: Mirage (Mirage #1) Author: Somaiya Daud Publication Date: August 28, 2018Publisher: Flatiron BooksPages: 320Add to Goodreads //I received this book from the publisher in exchange for an honest review// In a star system dominated by the brutal Vathek empire, eighteen-year-old Amani is a dreamer. She dreams of what life was like before the occupation; […]

Weekly Recap: 8/12 – 8/18

TRACY’S HAPPENINGS OFF THE BLOG Hi everyone! This week wasn’t too busy, which is always nice! I found the time to go to Disney for an afternoon and promptly dropped a November ARC in a fountain, so that was nice. 🙂 Next week is going to be really busy between a week-long dog sitting client […]

Book Review: Girl at the Grave by Teri Bailey Black

Title: Girl at the Grave Author: Teri Bailey Black Publication Date: August 7, 2018Publisher: Tor TeenPages: 336Add to Goodreads Valentine has spent years trying to outrun her mother’s legacy. But small towns have long memories, and when a new string of murders occurs, all signs point to the daughter of a murderer. Only one person […]

Reading with the seasons

I know that there is still a bit of summer left, but with my friends and coworkers talking about going back to school I feel like fall is right on my doorstep. Normally I am a bit mood reader, unless I have a review deadline. I like to pick up books depending on how I […]

Audiobook Review: The Darkest Part of the Forest by Holly Black

Title: The Darkest Part of the Forest Author: Holly Black Narrator: Lauren Fortgang Publication Date: January 13, 2015 Publisher: Little, Brown Books for Young Readers Length: 8 hours, 39 minutesAdd to Goodreads Children can have a cruel, absolute sense of justice. Children can kill a monster and feel quite proud of themselves. A girl can look […]

Top Ten Tuesday #200: Blogging Buddies

Today’s Topic:  Top Ten Book Blogging Buddies Who’ve Been With Me For Years Oh man, this kind of topic makes me feel so uncomfortable! What if I miss someone? So I’m going to apologize in advance if I’ve missed someone. I tried really hard not to. This is a list of the bloggers who’ve been […]

Weekly Recap: 8/5 – 8/11

TRACY’S HAPPENINGS OFF THE BLOG Hi everyone! This week ways pretty low key, which was nice after being so busy the week before! I ran my first 10k this week, which was crazy, but I lived through it! I also visited a local art museum for the first time. It was small, but nice! Lots […]

Book Review: Leah on the Offbeat by Becky Albertalli

Title: Leah on the Offbeat (Creekwood #2)  Author: Becky Albertalli  Publication Date: April 24, 2018Publisher: Balzer + BrayPages: 343Add to Goodreads Leah Burke—girl-band drummer, master of deadpan, and Simon Spier’s best friend from the award-winning Simon vs. the Homo Sapiens Agenda—takes center stage in this novel of first love and senior-year angst. When it comes to drumming, […]

Do you read more than one book at a time?

Do you ever find yourself in a situation where you are out and about and find yourself waiting in a line where you could be catching up on some reading, but after a thorough search of your bag you realize you forgot your book?  Then you remember that you have a book on your phone, […]

Mini Reviews: Long Lankin, Without Merit, & City of the Lost

Title: Long Lankin Author: Lindsey Barraclough Publication Date: April 7, 2011Publisher: Bodley HeadPages: 464Add to Goodreads Beware of Long Lankin, that lives in the moss. . . .When Cora and her younger sister, Mimi, are sent to stay with their elderly aunt in the isolated village of Byers Guerdon, they receive a less than warm welcome. […]

Top Ten Tuesday #199: Books that could coexist

Today’s Topic:  Top Ten Books I’d Mash Together This week’s topic was… weird. Honestly, I almost didn’t do it because I had no idea what to do. I the end, I chose books that I thought had worlds that would mesh well together. Not necessarily books that could be put together to create something new, […]

ARC Review: The Glass Butterfly by A.G. Howard

Title: The Glass Butterfly (Haunted Hearts Legacy #3) Author: A.G. Howard Publication Date: August 15, 2018 Publisher: Golden Orb PressPages: 382Add to Goodreads Reviews for book 1 & book 2 //I received this book from the author in exchange for an honest review// For close to a decade, twenty-five-year-old Felicity Lonsdale has masqueraded as a dowager […]

Weekly Recap: 7/29 – 8/4

TRACY’S HAPPENINGS OFF THE BLOG Hi everyone! This week was a lot of fun, but really exhausting! My brother was here visiting and we did a lot of things, including a few that were new to me. We went to a trampoline gym, a local flea/farmer’s market, ate at a chocolate restaurant, and visited Clearwater […]