September 3, 2020
Usually the advertisements on YouTube are annoying or completely irrelevant to my tastes, and I like to skip over them as soon as possible. But one day, a trailer of some kind (or what I assumed was a trailer) started playing. Then I realized it was actually a series of still images with voice-overs. My next thought was this was…
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August 6, 2020
When I finished reading Borne, I was pretty smitten with the world and characters that Jeff VanderMeer had created (I’m still smitten, to be honest, and it’s on my list of books to buy for when I have room on my shelves again). Eventually, I learned of this short story set in the same universe. When I had a little…
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July 23, 2020
At the end of The Book Charmer, there was a snippet of Karen Hawkin’s e-novella, Love in the Afternoon. I gave it a quick skim, learning only that a) a ghost was involved and b) dude ghost was in a bathtub wearing a blonde wig and bothering the other dude that lived in the house. What even? So, I figured…
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July 16, 2020
Ninety percent of the books I find these days are when I’m working at the bookstore. Usually, when pulling returns. You take so many of them out, it’s impossible not to look at them. Inevitably you’re going to come across one that catches your interest, leading to reading the book’s blurb, and then adding it to your reading list. Thus,…
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July 2, 2020
I had a great deal of fun with the first two books, and with the whole COVID madness thing in the world, I’d forgotten that April was the release date for the final book. Until I remembered. Then I promptly got on the library’s wait list for the eBook. I prefer to not deal in eBooks if at all possible…
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June 4, 2020
This is the final book available for the Embraced series. The title sounds slightly less hokey, though my guess is it’s supposed to be a play on How to Love Yourself. I might be wrong, but I don’t much care. Quick story time: Officially this book is Embraced by Magic Book 1 because, in case you didn’t notice, Kerrelyn Sparks…
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May 26, 2020
Although I have well over a dozen books that I’m supposed to be reading for my 2020 resolution, the next book in the Embraced series was released, so I’m playing catch-up on all of them and re-reading the first three, so I remember who these women are, who their men are, and how they’re all connected in this particular world.…
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May 21, 2020
Continuing my re-read of The Embraced series since the fourth one has finally come out. Luckily my library has these in ebook format with no holds, and they’re fairly quick to go through. I still take issue with their titles, though. So I Married a Sorcerer (2017) Written by: Kerrelyn Sparks Genre: Fantasy Romance Pages: 496 pages (Mass Market Paperback) Series:…
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May 7, 2020
Welcome to another post involving Books Nicole Owns But Hasn’t Read Because She, Like Many, Is Actually A Book Dragon. So because of all this hoarding, I made my 2020 resolution to read most of the speculative books that I own. I’ve had Lock In for a few years because everything I’ve read by John Scalzi so far is a…
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May 5, 2020
I like fantasy. I like romance. I like both of those things together. But I have to admit that the reason I picked up this book is not a good one. It was the title. I thought the title was so corny. And if I’m being honest, I still do. I really don’t like it. And yes, I realize plenty…
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