Tag: #COYER 2024 Unwind

Audio Review: Stranger Skies by Pascale Lacelle

Audio Review: Stranger Skies by Pascale Lacelle

This review is going to be hard to write. Stranger Skies by is the second book in and sees our main characters separated by time and realms. If you haven’t read Curious Tides, there will be spoilers ahead. Read at your own risk. Emory has found Romie alive in the dream scape, the world between […]

Posted January 10, 2025 by Lillian in Reviews / 3 Comments
Review: A Legend in the Baking by Jamie Wesley

Review: A Legend in the Baking by Jamie Wesley

I really enjoyed this one! A Legend in the Baking by is the second standalone romance in her series about a cupcake-baking football player and his best friend’s little sister. August Hodges is the silent partner/baker at Sugar Blitz Cupcakes until his impromptu rant about how women bakers are the backbone of the industry and […]

Posted January 3, 2025 by Lillian in Reviews / 3 Comments

2024 Reading Challenges ~ Final Update

Happy Monday y’all! 2024 feels like both the longest year in history and the shortest ๐Ÿ˜… So much change in my life this year, some good and some sucky. My reading took a hit this year, or at least I thought it did. Despite having read less books this year, according to my year in […]

Posted December 30, 2024 by Lillian in Challenges / 1 Comment
Review: Better Than Revenge by Kasie West

Review: Better Than Revenge by Kasie West

Better Than Revenge by is about a young teen out for revenge against her ex-boyfriend with the help of his rival. Finley has one dream: to become a famous podcaster. When she tries out for her school’s podcast team, her boyfriend Jensen, who has never shown interest before, decides to try out too using one […]

Posted December 27, 2024 by Lillian in Reviews / 1 Comment
Review: Ex Marks the Spot by Gloria Chao

Review: Ex Marks the Spot by Gloria Chao

Ex Marks the Spot by is a contemporary YA that follows two rivals on a treasure hunt that spans the globe. Gemma Sun has spent her life wishing for more family and to learn more about her Taiwanese culture. It is her and her mom against the world because as far as she knew her […]

Posted December 26, 2024 by Lillian in Reviews / 2 Comments
Audio Review: Queen’s Game by Katharine McGee

Audio Review: Queen’s Game by Katharine McGee

I had high expectations for this one. A Queen’s Game by is a YA historical romance written in the same style as the author’s American Royals series. Following three famous women in European history, the story unfolds as they all have the chance to be the next Queen of England. The author took several liberties […]

Posted November 15, 2024 by Lillian in Reviews / 3 Comments
Review: A Song to Drown Rivers by Ann Liang

Review: A Song to Drown Rivers by Ann Liang

Beautiful historical fantasy! A Song to Drown Rivers by is inspired by the legend of Xishi, a beautiful girl who brings down an empire. Written as if told orally to us by the narrator, the story follows Xishi, a young Yue village girl known for her beauty who is bitter at the loss of her […]

Posted November 14, 2024 by Lillian in Reviews / 3 Comments
Review: Thunder City by Philip Reeve

Review: Thunder City by Philip Reeve

Thunder City by is a standalone novel set in the world of Mortal Engines. I was so excited to see a new story set in this world. I first read Mortal Engines when I was in high school and fell in love with the dystopian, steampunk world. In this new story, we meet an interesting […]

Posted November 11, 2024 by Lillian in Reviews / 2 Comments
Audio Review: Fledgling by S.K. Ali

Audio Review: Fledgling by S.K. Ali

Fledgling: The Keeper’s Records of the Revolution by is an exciting sci-fi dystopian that takes you on a tense journey through what is left of Earth and its inhabitants. After a cataclysm caused the oceans to rise and the land to sink, the world was divided into new factions: Upper Earth, the wealthy who live […]

Posted November 8, 2024 by Lillian in Reviews / 0 Comments
Review: Morbidly Yours by Ivy Fairbanks

Review: Morbidly Yours by Ivy Fairbanks

This was an interesting read. Morbidly Yours by is a contemporary romance about a recently widowed woman falling for an undertaker. That is putting it in the simplest terms possible. Lark Thompson had to get away from her life after her husband died, so when a spot opened to head a project in Galway, she […]

Posted November 7, 2024 by Lillian in Reviews / 2 Comments