A boozy-foodie book blog.
A boozy-foodie book blog.
Title: Things You Save In A Fire Author: Katherine Center Genre: Adult/ Romance/ International Pages: 308 After seeing the book cover floating around online, this book instantly went on my TBR List. I can’t help it, I’m a sucker for a pretty cover. So imagine my surprise when I received and ARC/ARE/Galley as book mail from Macmillan Publishers! (Insert pterodactyl screech here.) I …
Title: Crazy Rich Asians Author: Kevin Kwan Series: Crazy Rich Asians, number 1 Genre: Adult/ Romance/ International Pages: 546 I enjoyed this book a lot. It was a pretty quick read and I appreciated that the author used authentic slang from the different languages that the characters speak and included a glossary for those terms and them bottom of each page. Even though …
Title: The Belles Author: Dhonielle Clayton Series: The Belles, number 1 Genre: YA/ Coming of Age/ Fantasy Pages: 434 I thoroughly enjoyed this book. Like any novel, the first few chapters took a couple of days to move through. The world created by Ms. Clayton is very detailed and because of the concept of it is so fresh and unique, it took a …
Title: Healing Stone Author: Brock Booher Series: N/A Genre: YA/ Coming of Age/ Paranormal Pages: 336 Check out my Two Minute Review of Healing Stone on my ‘booktube’ channel:
Title: Witches of East End Author: Melissa de la Cruz Series: Witches of East End (book 1) Genre: SciFi, Fantasy, Pages: 288 Ok, so my favorite writer for the past few years has been Melissa de la Cruz of the Blue Bloods and the Ashleys series. I have loved almost every book that she has written. I mean, there was …
Title: Monster High Author: Lisi Harrison Series: Monster High (book 1) Genre: YA/ SciFi Pages: 246 Review: So I started reading Monster High by Lisi Harrison, and when I say “started” I mean that I’ve inhaled all four of the original books. Ms. Harrison is the woman who brought us The Clique and Alphas. That being said, although I initially loved the …
Title: The Invisible Library Author: Genevieve Cogman Series: The Invisible Library (book 1) Genre: Sci-Fi; Steampunk; Fantasy Pages: 351 Review: I obtained this book as a part of some swag that I received at Phoenix Comiccon this year. I was totally drawn to this book and it was the first one that, based on the blurb on the on the …
Author: Jean Webster Series: kind of the sequel, Dear Enemy, takes place in the same world but not with our protagonist. Genre: YA Pages: 185 When I first saw this book, it was sitting sadly on the shelf at the library. The front cover was particularly boring featuring an ambiguously aged girl sitting with a pen and paper half smiling out of a window. …
Author: Joanna Philbin Series: Rules of Summer (book 1) Genre: YA Pages: 368 I recently read Rules of Summer, the first book in a series of the same name, by Joanna Philbin. The story centers around two girls summering in the Hamptons. The girls are from two completely different worlds and are there for two totally different reasons. Isabel Rule …
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