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I am a busy working mom of 2 beautiful boys and I absolutely love to get lost in books. Join me on my book reading journey! Let's go on an adventure!📚

03/22/2026

📚Book Review📚

✨️Title: Dark Age by Pierce Brown
✨️Method: part audio/ part physical copy
✨️My Rating: 4.5/5⭐️

Wheew....the emotional toll this book delivered...I am left broken, tattered and rocked. Dark Age was in fact....dark. It is difficult to even articulate my emotions without giving too much away. I felt every single emotion you can imagine while reading this book. There were lighter and happy moments but they were only ventured briefly and I was very quickly reminded that this book is called Dark Age for a reason. There was still an incredible amount of character development and relationships were stripped and built and stripped again. There were some incredibly unlikely partnerships as well. This book alone will have you reading quickly simply to determine what the hell is going to happen next because you can even begin to guess. I'm scared and have no clue what to expect in the next book because anything that could have happened ended up happening here and I have absolutely no clue what to expect. Pierce Brown you have done me in and I am not sure that I will emotionally recover from this.

03/22/2026

📚Book Review📚

✨️Title: Impact Winter by Travis Beacham
✨️Method: Audio
✨️My rating: 3/5⭐️

I listened to the 3D audio of this on audible and it was quite enjoyable. The voice actors brought the characters to life and the production was very well done. The story itself was a bit clichéd in the stories of vampires and vampire hunters. Despite that, the story was still entertaining and well done. It was heavy on character work which I appreciate in any fantasy book, but the concept of vampires and the different tiered type of vampires wasnt original. I still very much enjoyed listening to this audio book and would recommend it if you are looking for an entertaining vampire story with strong character work and good dialogue. There was action, love, pain and character development. The ending was not very satisfying and I feel like this could have gone on longer but maybe there is a book 2 that I do not know about that would continue the story. Overall, entertaining and worth the read if its what youre looking for.

03/22/2026

Who would you add?

03/22/2026

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03/01/2026

How did you do in February??

03/01/2026

📚Book Review📚

✨️Title: Dreadful by Caitlin Rozakis
✨️Method: Audiobook
✨️My rating: 3/5

I had originally DNFd this book last year. I chalked it up to me simply not being in the mood. I had been told that the audio book was great so I decided to give it a try. The audio book did more for me than the physically reading it did. I enjoyed this story and I found it imaginative. It was a classic fantasy of good v. Evil. I loved that it brought morality into question and what one would do if they woke up one day with their memories erased. Would you push forward to become who you are told you were? Or would you forget your own path, and be someone you truly want to be?
I feel like this book could have been expanded on and the author could have stretched it out to be more than it was. That being said, it was entertaining and good for what it was. The author added a touch of silliness and whimsy atop the serious undertones to make the book not quite so heavy and serious. I appreciated that, but also felt it would have been fine to dip into the more serious undertones. Overall, this was a good story and I am glad that I went back to it and gave it a chance.

02/15/2026

Happy day of love💕

02/15/2026

What would you add to this?

02/15/2026

New profile pic for my bookstagram!

Qotd: what books are must haves for yoh?

02/04/2026

📚Book Review 📚

✨️Title: Iron Gold by Pierce Brown
✨️Method: Graphic Audiobook
✨️My rating: 4/5⭐️

Reading this book reminded me just how much I missed this world and these characters. I do unfortunately have some negatives with my positives..lets get into it. I loved that Pierce Brown switched up from only being in Darrows head to being in three other characters heads and seeing the world through their eyes as well. I loved that we got to see the aftermath of the rebellion and the challenges of attempting to rebuild a new empire, a world where the colors are equal. I did not love that two of our character POVs were liberated low colors who despise the heros that liberated them, but I did love to see their day to day and how they have struggled and lived their lives and what their opinions are with the changes that they are now experiencing. I loved that we got one POV of the opposing side from the entire first trilogy. I loved that we were able to see how that character viewed the world and the heros from our first trilogy as villains. I loved and hated that we got to see Darrow, our beloved character in the first trilogy, painted in a totally different light in this book. Pierce Brown never disappoints when it comes to pushing the action and keeping you on your toes with fast paced scenes and developing character dynamics. Was this book as fast paced as the first three? No. Was it as entertaining though? Absolutely. I am honestly so excited to read the next book of the series, but with the way this book ended, I am also very anxious to see what is to come because oh boy....at this point anything can happen and I am not sure if my heart can handle certain

02/03/2026

📚Book Review 📚

✨️Title: Find Us by Benjamin Stevenson
✨️Method: Audiobook
✨️My rating: 4/5⭐️

This was another second read for this author (because I am working on trying out new authors this year) and I was SO pleasantly surprised!! The whole time listening to this book, I swore I knew the twist. I swore I knew who the antagonist was. I even said to myself that the ending was predictable. And then Benjamin just pulled the rug out from under and twisted the ending in such a way I truly never saw coming! I love a book that can throw you like this. I love a book that causes you to shout into the imaginary audience that we all have. The characters weren't exceptionally special, but they felt very real. It was also easy for me to connect with the main protagonist because she is a mom of 2 as am I. This book showed the lengths that a mother will go to find her lost children. They will truly stop at nothing to ensure their safety. The premise of this book was unique and interesting and leaves you wondering if such systems were in place, would they truly help or would they cause more harm? Not only that but this book shows what the lack of a mother's love and attention can do to a child, no matter how hard a mom tries sometimes, sometimes its just not enough. This book will thrill you, surprise you and have you deep in thought about about the reward versus consequences of invading a child's privacy. How much is too much? How much is not enough?

02/03/2026

📚Book review📚

✨️Title: My Husband Next door by K.L Slater
✨️Method: Audiobook
✨️My rating: 3.75/5⭐️

Ringing in the new year finishing up this delectable audiobook. For starters, the narrator who does K. L Slater novels is an entertaining speaker who brings to light any character she portrays. She doesn't just read the book, she acts the book out with voice changes and added sounds that she thinks the characters may make which adds to the experience of the audiobook. There weren't too many characters to where one could not follow the multiple POVs, however there was a LOT going on. I believe this story was a great case of misdirection. The author wanted you seeing and suspecting something over here when something worse was happening over there. There was a small moment where the author definitely got me with her twist, but otherwise, the story line did feel a bit predictable with its outcome. The why was less predictable but when I found out the why it made sense and everything clicked together. I couldn't give this book a full 5 only because there were times where there was way too much happening and too many story lines that it was difficult to keep them all straight, but in the end, she straightened them all out and tied them all up. The ending was satisfying and it always feels good to have guessed the end before it happens. Overall, this was an entertaining and fun thriller mystery that I would recommend if youre looking for a clean palette cleanser.

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