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Thank you, Sourcebooks, for the gifted finished copy! Dear Debbie by Freida McFadden has a lot of twists and turns with many relatable moments. #thriller #bookreview #pr #MessyMomThrills

Thank you, Diamanti and Simon Maverick Audio, for the gifted e-ARC and ALC! Assassin in the Alehouse by Z.S. Diamanti is another great cozy read! #bookreview #AssassinintheAlehouse #cozyfantasy

Thank you, St. Martin's Press, for a finished copy! Moonfall by Ed Crocker was a great second book! I can't wait for book three!! #bookblogger #bookreview #Moonfall #fantasy

Today's #TopTenTuesday is about handwriting on the cover! This was a fun one! #TTT #bookblogger #bookcovers

BBNYA Book Review: Time-Marked Warlock by Shami Stovall! It made it to 3rd place!! #BBNYA #BBNYA2025 #TimeMarkedWarlock #indie

Thank you, William Morrow, for the finished copy! The Witch and the Huntress by Luna McNamara was an interesting retelling! #bookreview #TheWitchandtheHuntress #bookblogger

Here's another jam packed #WWW this week! I hope everyone had a great week. #wwwWednesday #bookblogger #amreading

Thank you, Macmillan Audio, for the gifted ALC! Kill All Wizards by Jedediah Berry was such a quick, fun, and interesting novella! I can't wait for book two. #MacAudio2026 #bookreview #audioreview #KillAllWizards

Time-Marked Warlock is a 3rd place BBNYA 2025 finalist! I'm very excited one of my books made it this high!! A little about BBNYA: The Book Bloggers’ Novel of the Year Award (BBNYA) is celebrating the books that made it to the semi-finals with a mini spotlight blitz tour for each title. BBNYA is a yearly competition where book bloggers from all over the world read and score books written by indie authors, ending with 15 (17 in 2025) finalists and one overall winner.

Title: Dear Debbie Author: Freida McFadden Publisher: Poisoned Pen Press Published: January 27, 2026 Pages: 327 Format: physical copy via Sourcebooks! ★★★★ Goodreads Blurb: "A brand new twisted thriller that will have you cheering "good for her!" from the #1 New York Times bestselling and global sensation Freida McFadden, author of The Housemaid! Sometimes, enough is enough… Debbie Mullen is losing it.

Title: Assassin in the Alehouse Author: Z.S. Diamanti Publisher: Golden Griffin Press and Simon Maverick Audio Narrator: Peter Leppard Published: June 2, 2026 Pages: 292 Format: e-ARC and ALC! ★★★★★ Goodreads Blurb: "Embark on a cozy fantasy tale of found family and quiet mysteries. A quaint quest to find the place that feels like home and the ones who make it so.

Top Ten Tuesday is a weekly feature hosted by That Artsy Reader Girl. Each week there is a new topic for bloggers to choose and list their top ten. This week is Books I Can’t Believe I’ve Never Read This is a good topic or depressing, depending on how you want to think about it. haha. I feel like I've done a good job reading many authors I've wanted to get to in the last year!

This is a weekly meme hosted by, Taking on a World of Words. It's where we talk about the Three W's: What are you currently reading? What did you recently finish reading? What do you think you will read next? We have had a busy week and weekend ahead! I'm a bit behind on ARC's. lol. I hope everyone is having a wonderful week!!

Title: Moonfall Author: Ed Crocker Publisher: St. Martin's Press Published: June 2, 2026 Pages: 400 Format: finished copy via St. Martin's Press ★★★★ Goodreads Blurb: "The thrilling sequel to Lightfall, a fantasy epic of revolution set in a world of vampires, werewolves, and sorcerers, for fans of Jay Kristoff’s Empire of the Vampire and Cassandra Clare’s Swordcatcher.The revolution is here… but in the Everlands, nothing comes easy.

This is a weekly meme hosted by, Taking on a World of Words. It's where we talk about the Three W's: What are you currently reading? What did you recently finish reading? What do you think you will read next? Summer has been full steam ahead! I've got my last party to throw this weekend and then I can take a break from all the DIY decor and parties.

Top Ten Tuesday is a weekly feature hosted by That Artsy Reader Girl. Each week there is a new topic for bloggers to choose and list their top ten. This week is Books with Handwriting on the Cover (Or fonts that look like handwriting. Titles, subtitles, covers with letters on them, etc.) I feel like this could have a lot of different interpretations depending on what looks like handwriting to the person.

Title: Kill All Wizards Author: Jedediah Berry Publisher: Macmillan Audio Narrator: Raphael Corkhill Published: June 16, 2026 Pages: 144 Format: ALC ★★★★ Goodreads Blurb: "SWORDS, SORCERY, AND A SPOT OF TEAWe could think of nothing but the barbarian. He had come here, surely, to murder or marry someone, to exact revenge, or to say or do something very scandalous.

Title: The Witch and the Huntress Author: Luna McNamara Publisher: William Morrow Published: April 21, 2026 Pages: 432 Format: physical copy Goodreads Blurb: "Two of Greek mythology’s most complex and powerful women—Medea and Atalanta—join forces on Jason’s quest for the Golden Fleece in this suspenseful, sapphic reimagining from the acclaimed author of Psyche and Eros. Medea possesses both witchcraft and cunning, yet she endures a lonely and constrained life under the rule of her wicked father, Aeetes.