16/11/2025
✨ Soul Stars on Tour: Books ✨
So that’s me back in Kathmandu, well fed, well slept, and currently horizontal by the pool like Lena after a big long walk 🐶
I’ve read three books so far on this trip because even at 5,000 metres, minus 20 temperatures and frozen nostrils, I’m still that girl. Books are home, always have been.
I wanted comforting books and so I started with Wolfsong by TJ Klune, absolutely gorgeous. Werewolves, love, found family, a wee sprinkle of spice, and enough heart to keep me warm when my toes weren’t. So beautifully written, I can't wait to read the next in the series.
Then I read wolf.e, which I swear I thought was going to be about a biker angel-werewolf situation… but no supernatural at all. Still: great spice, good vibes, and I’m not mad about it.
And now I’m elbows-deep in The Lies of Lena series, currently on The Memories of Merrick. Soul Stars… I cannot explain how good this series is. Not fluffy. Not gentle. Proper emotions, proper topics, I need to know what happens next!!
I even read in the minus 20 nights. I had my wee liner gloves on like a Victorian orphan trying to finish her chapter by candlelight. Had to retire those gloves after I well and truly clapped a dug (worth it, head between my knees, butt and ear scratches, my wee pal 🥹), but thankfully it was warm enough by then to read bare handed again. Priorities.
Books just...soothe me. They always have. Give me love, found family, happily ever afters, a bit of s**t, a bit of dark romance, maybe the occasional “spicy scene that makes me question my life choices.” I dabble, I explore, I learn things (blood play?!?!) 😂
When I was younger I was a horror girl, some thrillers but mostly sci fi and fantasy and now romantasy is my home planet, with the occasional detour into the dark woods or alien planets when the mood strikes.
Even in the Himalayas, surrounded by mountains older than my past lives, books kept me grounded. I never mind waiting for anything, flights, dinners, existential crises, as long as I’ve got a book in my hand.
📚 Books are home. Even at the top of the world 💫