📖 Genre Fiction, Thriller, Mystery, Contemporary, Dark Academia 📃 Number of Pages 354 pages 🪴 Average Goodreads Rating 4.18 ⭐ 🌻 My Rating 4.5 ⭐ What is If We Were Villains About? If We Were Villains by M. L. Rio is a dark academia novel in which Oliver Marks, recently released from prison, tells a … Read more
📖 Genre Classic, Fiction, Literary Fiction 📃 Number of Pages 186 pages 🪴 Average Goodreads Rating 4.07 ⭐ 🌻 My Rating 5 ⭐ What is A Single Man About? A Single Man by Christopher Isherwood is a short novel showing a day in the life of George, a gay university professor whose partner has recently … Read more
If you’re looking for a short and sweet read under 300 pages, look no further. Plus, I have a list of romance books under 300 pages in here for you.
If you’re a part of any bookish community, whether it’s on YouTube, TikTok, or Instagram, you’ve probably noticed a (not-so-recent) trend marketing books through tropes. Instead of getting a full synopsis or a book review, you will usually see videos that mention various tropes used in a certain book. Alternatively, you’ll see a list of … Read more
A Third (Hopefully Final) Update Fans speculated whether Stephanie Garber’s new book will be in the Caraval universe (or not), whether it will be her first adult release, or maybe something else. Theories ranged from it being a story about the Valors, Eva and Jacks novella (or A Curse for True Love part two), a … Read more
If you don’t normally enjoy classics, here are some that are easy to read and great for beginners.
Whether you wanted to or not, at some point in your life you’ve either read fanfic, written it, or laughed about some of the more ridiculous examples (like My Immortal, the infamous Harry Potter fic; if you haven’t, here’s the link, thank me later). And if you think you haven’t, you’re likely wrong; just wait. … Read more
Over the past few weeks, I’ve seen a growing discussion on whether or not negative book reviews are okay, or even necessary. It may just be the algorithm feeding me these types of posts, but either way, it got me thinking. If you’ve spent any sort of time on my blog, then you’ll know that … Read more
📖 Genre Fantasy, Romance, Young Adult 📃 Number of Pages 357 pages 🪴 Average Goodreads Rating 4.26 ⭐ 🌻 My Rating 2 ⭐ What is Divine Rivals About? Divine Rivals follows Iris, a young woman whose brother went off to war (between gods), and whose mother turned to drinking. To get money, she leaves school … Read more
It’s time: National Novel Writing Month is finally here! And whether you’ve already started writing (and did Preptober like a responsible person) or you’re more like me and about a week late to the game, you could probably use some inspiration to get you going. And we all love quotes about writing from the great … Read more