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Weekly Roundup – What I Read / Listened to 7/12/26-7/19/26
I’ll be doing weekly updates with quick thoughts on what I read, particularly for books that don’t warrant a full scale review. If I have written a full review, it will be linked. Not a particularly outstanding or terrible week. My Lady Jane and A Prince Among Pirates were both audiobooks and were pretty fun,…
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ARC Review – (Mostly) Human Resources by Grace Viall
Alexys works in the Human Resources department for Entity a company that catalogues, studies, and contains cryptids, attempting to honor the legacy of her father who worked in the field as a Warden and died as a result. Now, one of the Wardens she’s meant to oversee goes missing chasing an undiscovered creature called the…
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ARC Review – Kitten by Stacey Yu
It’s not that Katie’s life is terrible, but she just can’t seem to do things right—to move through the world with the ease that everyone else does. Everyone, including her boyfriend James, who is sweet enough to take a break from work to whisk Katie away to his family’s seaside house. Joining them is Silver,…
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ARC Review – The Missed Connection by Tia Williams
Sasha is a casting director, and no man has ever so perfectly fit the role of her love interest as the man in seat F she meets on a long flight. Somehow, the two lose track of each other in the airport and she realizes they didn’t exchange any information that could lead her to…
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ARC Review – Sublimation by Isabel J. Kim
Every time a person crosses a boundary, there’s a chance that they might split into two ‘instances’, with one moving on to live their life in a new place and the other being left behind. Soyoung, a young woman living in South Korea, barely knows her instance Rose in America. They split when she was…
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ARC Review – The Children by Melissa Albert
The God of Endings meets Immaculate Conception in this adult gothic fantasy about the two adult children of an immensely famous children’s book series, forced to face the reality that their childhood was not as idyllic as the stories their mother wrote them into. After decades without a word to each other, Guinevere’s idealized memoir…
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Booklist – 5 Books for Sad Girl Summer
I know a lot of people struggle with Seasonal Affective Disorder in the colder seasons, but I have the blessing of being depressed year round! The sun is out, it’s a beautiful day, and it’s the perfect time for a book that will rip your heart out and toss it around like a beach ball.…
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ARC Review – It Came From Neverland by Cynthia Pelayo
Wendy Darling is all grown up, working in a children’s home in the midst of the first World War. Largely estranged from her brothers, Wendy is desperate to move on from her traumatic childhood and escape the media circus that ensued upon their return. But twelve years after Wendy’s first taste of magic, Neverland is…
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ARC Review – Yesteryear by Caro Claire Burke
The road to Hell is paved with good intentions, family vlogging channels, manosphere podcasts, and traditional values. Read this book before you take the exit onto that road. Natalie Heller Mills has a beautiful, perfect life on a charming farm with a boisterous family and extremely successful Instagram account. Or at least she had all…
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ARC Review – The Brides by Charlotte Cross
Through letters and journal entries, the story of Lucy, Malfalda, Alice, and Eliza unfolds. In the face of illness and turmoil they make their way to Castle Dracula, but what promises to aid them soon becomes a living nightmare and their secrets and fears might just come back to bite them. There’s something to be…
