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Hello, bookworms. I’m hosting my first ever challenge and I’m really excited about it. Would you like to participate?
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10 Bookish Problems I Have In My Life
This is an old topic that was once very popular in the book community. It’s been talked about and shared many times and today, I’d like to share the top 10 that I faced as a reader.
1. Sometimes, you want change. You want to read something that’s out of your comfort zone but nothing feels right and you eventually end up with something that you’re comfortable with.
2. It’s the worst when this…
https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/comicuno/bi-visibility-a-bisexual-anthology?ref=f0j7qx
“Featuring 9 different stories from 20 creators, Bi Visibility explores bisexuality from various different perspective with stories ranging from romance to high fantasy.”
Please consider checking out and backing this project! I recently did art for one of the stories included in it. I’ve read through the previews for the rest of the book and honestly was just left feeling so warm and fuzzy. I promise it’s such a sweet book with so much goodness <3
BIG PROBLEMS / BIGGER GOD
The book of Jonah cover art
As of lately, creating book covers and art around certain stories (that aren’t even books…yet) is what I have been doing with a passion.
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More spicy witches please ✨
Review: Book Lovers (Emily Henry)
Rating: ★★★★★/5
“Maybe love shouldn’t be built on a foundation of compromises, but maybe it can’t exist without them either.
Not the kind that forces two people into shapes they don’t fit in, but the kind that loosens their grips, always leaves room to grow. Compromises that say, there will be a you-shaped space in my heart, and if your shape changes, I will adapt.
No matter where we go, our love will stretch out to hold us, and that makes me feel like…like everything will be okay.”
Cue the sobs. This is a book I think I read at the exact right moment, and it has skyrocketed to one of my favourite romances ever.
Nora Stephens is tired of being the villain. She’s tired of getting dumped because her exes have found someone else, tired of never being enough as the city girl, the Peloton-rider, the driven, organized agent. She gets shit done, and she has enough in her life without those men and their excuses. When her sister Libby, who she will do anything for, asks her to go away on vacation for a month to the town where one of her favourite books is set, Nora is hesitant to leave New York - but of course, she does. She could never prepare for what’s waiting for her in Sunshine Falls; not a traditional happy ending, but perhaps exactly the journey she needs.
I’m a huge fan of romances that take tropes and turn them on their heads. Knowing going into this that the main character was the typical bitchy city girl, the antithesis of the sweet, laidback country girls that the dudes in romances always end up with, I was primed to love her. Give me allllllll the driven career ladies, and don’t make them change for a man. I live for that kind of shit.
This one was just so goddamn charming. Right from page one, I felt like I was wrapped in a warm hug while reading. The various nods to being a bookworm absolutely helped - there is something to be said for being seen in fiction, and that’s what this does for those of us that live our lives in books more than anywhere else - but it was also the combination of the small town, the nostalgia for the past, the characters themselves. All of it was this perfect storm of emotion for me.
First of all, as I said already, I loved Nora. I loved her so fucking much. She’s driven and in love with her work, and she’s a caretaker, there for her family no matter what they need. Even if it’s at the cost of her own happiness, because making them happy also makes her happy - or so she rationalizes. And Charlie is an absolute perfect match for her in every way; their chemistry is off the charts immediately, and they had me laughing out loud multiple times with their banter.
The trip to Sunshine Falls, and the ultimate reason behind it, were both so heartwarming yet heartbreaking. This hit close to home for me with the family aspect and had me bawling at the end of it all. Nora deserves all the happiness in the world, and her journey to realizing that moved me.
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Late spring walks and new favourite reads
My favourite kind of day is one where my biggest problem is deciding what to read next happy Victoria Day to my fellow Canadians!
I would kill to be here today
Cozy spring vibes
TBR looking pretty ✨ I’m reading A Magic Steeped in Poison right now, but what would you pick next?
Cozy cuddles
Review: A River Enchanted (Rebecca Ross)
Rating: ★★★★★/5
“‘I look at me and I look at you, and I see two different dreams. I am death. And you, Sidra…’ He reached out to touch her face, softly, as if she might vanish beneath his fingers. ‘You are life.’
She closed her eyes beneath his caress. When his hand eased away, she looked at him and whispered, ‘Does that mean we cannot exist as one?’
He had been waiting for her to ask this. He had yearned too answer her in the orchard, when she had made it evident that they were vastly contrasting souls.
‘No,’ Torin said. ‘It means that without you, I am nothing.’”
That ending…ouch :’) This book was like ivy by Taylor Swift with a touch of Outlander and so much heart that it made me ache the whole way through. I loved it so much.
After ten years away from his island home of Cadence, Jack Tamerlaine has been summoned back by his laird. He returns, unsure of what he’ll find, what he’ll feel, being back on the island that the was forced to leave at age 12. Turns out, it was his childhood nemesis, Adaira, who summoned him back, and the island has a problem: a missing girl problem. The spirits of the island are crafty, but Jack is willing to use his skills as a bard to try to win them over to find the girls - but the island has many secrets, and Jack is entwined with more of them than he realizes.
The word that comes to mind when I think back on this book days after finishing it is “lovely”. In all aspects, this book is that. I feel like I spent weeks on Cadence, breathing the salty island air and learning about the spirits, and god, I would kill to actually live there.
Jack and Adaira are what I would consider the “main” characters of this book, and they are such a joy to read about. Jack is soft, with music in his heart, but he’s been slighted by the island, and it takes him time to readjust and accept that it is still his home; Adaira is strong, ready to rule in the event of her father’s death. Their enemies to lovers romance was, naturally, SO satisfying for me.
But it was Sidra and Torin that drew me in the most, that made me feel the most. The amount of compassion and love that they have for each other and their daughter, the way that their relationship changes as they change and grow and suffer loss and heartache and triumph, just…got me. I wanted them to be so, so happy and so, so good for one another.
I liked the structure of the plot here as well. As the spirits are summoned and the mystery is unraveled, things always felt like they were clipping along, but with room to really *feel* the island, to live there with the characters. I loved the clan dynamics and how everything feels distinctly Scottish, but with those magical, fae elements that elevate it to a place that I would die for.
I absolutely can’t wait to return to Cadence and these characters. That ending personally hurt me, and I need to know where we go from here. I adore the cover of book 2, and I wish it was in my hands right now.
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An excellent spooky read ☠️
Between the pages is my favourite place to be
Horror reads and journaling
