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  • Swamp Thing: Becoming (Vol.1) Review

    Swamp Thing: Becoming (Vol.1) Review

    Swamp Thing returns in a new series that stars Levi Kamei as the next Guardian of the Green! –StoryGraph My Review The art was absolutely gorgeous in this, I read it for the graphic novel club at my local comic book store (first read with them, for me). It was…

    Feb 18, 2025
    Book Review, Graphic Novel/Comic
    batman, book blogger, book club, book list, Book Review, Books, comic, comic books, DC Comics, DComics, Graphic novel, Reading, Swamp Thing
  • Diverse Book Recommendations for all the Moods

    Diverse Book Recommendations for all the Moods

    Hey all, I thought it’s been a hot minute since I hit you all with some recs, and well, I’m feel a lil feminine rage, a lil sad, so I’m going to get you all a nice rounded out post. We’ll start with the angry, go to the sads, then…

    Nov 8, 2024
    bookish
    book blogger, book list, book recs, Book Review, book reviews, Books, diverse recommendations, Fantasy, feminine rage, feminist recs, lgbtq+, poc authors, queer recs, Reading
  • Carmilla Film VS. Book

    Carmilla Film VS. Book

    I won’t be writing my usual review for the book here since I *just* reviewed it, so here’s the link and if you want something shorter and not have a new tab, here we go… Awesome classical novel with Carmilla being BEFORE Dracula, and lesbian. Book is super atmospheric, short,…

    Nov 4, 2024
    bookish
    book blogger, book list, book recommendation, Book Review, Books, books and films, carmilla, classic novel, comparisions, Dracula, Fantasy, film, film vs book, films versus books, halloween read, Horror, Reading, tbr, vampires
  • Immortal Dark Review

    Immortal Dark Review

    Hidden in our world, a society of vampires originating in Africa, can only feed from select human bloodlines.  –GoodReads My Review First off, you can take this book out of my cold dead fingers. That being said, let’s get to some fangirl review of this because I have no objectivity…

    Oct 22, 2024
    Book Review
    African Vampires, book blogger, Book Review, book reviews, Books, dark academia, enemies to lovers, Fantasy, Halloween, Immortal Dark, poc author, Reading, Tigest Girma, vampires
  • The Eyes are the Best Part

    The Eyes are the Best Part

    Feminist psychological horror about the making of a female serial killer from a Korean-American perspective. –GoodReads My Review Monika Kim did her job too well. This book freaked me out and yet it was like a scary movie so good that you couldn’t look away. Or well, I couldn’t, and…

    Oct 18, 2024
    Book Review
    biopic author, body gore, body horror, book blogger, Book Review, book reviews, Books, cannibalism, evernight, gory, halloween books, Horror, horror book, Reading, review, scary book, the eyes are the best part, thriller
  • Carmilla Review

    Carmilla Review

    In an isolated castle deep in the Austrian forest, Laura leads a solitary life with only her ailing father for company. –GoodReads MY REVIEW Thanks to a friend sending me a cool factoid thing on messenger which I then checked out to see if it was real…I ran not walked…

    Oct 11, 2024
    Book Review
    book blogger, Book Review, Books, carmilla, Classic, Dracula, gothic, Halloween, Horror, la fanu, lgbtq+, Reading, scary, stoker, vampires
  • Her Halloween Treat

    Her Halloween Treat

    Joey knows her best chance to get over one guy is to get under another. –GoodReads MY REVIEW I don’t usually review books like this, no reason other than they’re kinda my like genre breaking reads so I use them to help me chug along sometimes. I decided to review this…

    Oct 9, 2024
    Book Review
    book blogger, Book Review, Books, halloween read, harlequin blaze, hea, her halloween treat, Holiday Read, Nirvana, Reading, review, Reviews, romance, seasonal, spicy book, Tiffany Reisz
  • Final Girls by Riley Sager

    Final Girls by Riley Sager

     In an instant, she became a member of a club no one wants to belong to—a group of similar survivors known in the press as the Final Girls. –GoodReads MY REVIEW My first Riley Sager read and I’m a fan! This book definitely hooked me in and I barely wanted…

    Oct 4, 2024
    Book Review
    book blogger, Book Review, Books, final girl, final girls book review, Halloween, Horror, Reading, review, Riley sager, thriller
  • The Library Thief -Review- Blog Tour

    The Library Thief -Review- Blog Tour

    The library is under lock and key. But its secrets can’t be contained. A strikingly original and absorbing mystery about a white-passing bookbinder in Victorian England and the secrets lurking on the estate where she works, for fans of Fingersmith and The Confessions of Frannie Langton  1896. After he brought her home from Jamaica as…

    May 11, 2024
    Book Review
    Blog Tour, book blogger, book list, Books, diverse reads, eARC, earc review, gothic, Harper Collins, historical fiction, kuchenga shenjé, netgalley, summer release, the library thief
  • He Who Drowned the World Review

    He Who Drowned the World Review

    How much would you give to win the world? –GoodReads MY REVIEW Content/Trigger Warnings from the Author: In terms of violence, I think of both She Who Became the Sun and He Who Drowned the World as roughly equivalent to the Asian historical dramas on Netflix: you’ll see some splatter during fight scenes, but…

    Apr 9, 2024
    Book Review
    adult fantasy, book blogger, Book Review, Books, duology, Fantasy, He Who Drowned the World, High Fantasy, Illumicrate, Radiant Emperor Duology, Reading, she who became the sun, shelley parker-chan, YARC
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