Monthly Wrap-Up

March 2023 Monthly Wrap-Up

Hello Readers! Why is it that March felt like it simultaneously lasted forever AND flew by?? I stayed busy participating in the Trope-ical Readathon (here’s My Wrap-Up), and while I didn’t cross off every challenge, I’m still happy with how I did. Thanks to the readathon, I managed to read 8 books, 1 novella, and …

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ARC Review Book Review

ARC Review | Lone Women by Victor LaValle

Title: Lone WomenAuthor: Victor LaValleGenre: Horror, Historical FictionPublishing On: March 28, 2023Publisher: One WorldSource: digital (Netgalley)Pages: 304 Synopsis: Blue skies, empty land—and enough room to hide away a horrifying secret. Or is there? Discover a haunting new vision of the American West from the award-winning author of The Changeling. Adelaide Henry carries an enormous steamer trunk …

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ARC Review | You Wouldn’t Dare by Samantha Markum

Title: You Wouldn’t DareAuthor: Samantha MarkumGenre: YA Contemporary Publishing On: March 28, 2023Publisher: Wednesday BooksSource: digital (Netgalley)Pages: 368 Synopsis: A rom com about trying to have the summer of your life before everything changes – only to realize change might be exactly what you need… When Juniper Nash Abreheart kissed Graham Isham for the first …

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ARC Book Review | Love, Theoretically by Ali Hazelwood

Title: Love, TheoreticallyAuthor: Ali Hazelwood Genre: RomanceExpected on: June, 13, 2023Publisher: BerkleySource: digitalPages: 368 Synopsis: Rival physicists collide in a vortex of academic feuds and fake dating shenanigans in this delightfully STEMinist romcom from the New York Times bestselling author of The Love Hypothesis and Love on the Brain. The many lives of theoretical physicist Elsie Hannaway have finally caught up …

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ARC Book Review | Dust Child by Nguyễn Phan Quế Mai

Title: Dust ChildAuthor: Nguyễn Phan Quế Mai Genre: Historical FictionPublishing On: March 14, 2023Publisher: Algonquin BooksSource: digital (Netgalley)Pages: 336 Synopsis: From the internationally bestselling author of The Mountains Sing, a suspenseful and moving novel that tells the intertwined stories of an American GI, two Vietnamese bargirls, and an Amerasian man—all of whom are forced to …

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TBR Top Ten Tuesday

Top Ten Tuesday: My Spring 2023 TBR

Top Ten Tuesday is hosted by the lovely Jana @ That Artsy Reader Girl. Each week a new theme is suggested for bloggers to participate in. This week’s prompt is Books on My Spring 2023 To-Read List! Hello Readers! I hope today’s TTT finds you well. Our weather has been up and down here in …

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ARC Book Review | The Love Match by Priyanka Taslim

Title: The Love MatchAuthor: Priyanka Taslim Genre: Young AdultFirst Published On: January 3, 2023Publisher: Salaam Reads / Simon Schuster Books for Young ReadersSource: physicalPages: 400 Synopsis: To All the Boys I’ve Loved Before meets Pride and Prejudice in this delightful and heartfelt rom-com about a Bangladeshi American teen whose meddling mother arranges a match to secure their family’s financial …

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