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Tusk Love by Thea Guanzon: Prepare To Enter Your Orc Romance Era
🧡🌾Tusk Love 🌾🧡 ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ I was a massive fan of the Hurricane Wars so of course, as soon as I saw that Thea Guanzon’s new book, Tusk Love, was available to request on NetGalley, I ran! I am not a video game girlie, so forgive me if I say something blunderingly stupid, but this is an adaptation of the video game Critical Role. I have never played it and have absolutely no knowledge of this, so I went into this book very blindly and a bit apprehensively that it would mention a ton of world building I don’t know about…
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Of Flame and Fury by Mikayla Bridge: F1 Meets Phoenixes in This Red Hot YA Debut
🔥🐦🔥Of Flame and Fury 🐦🔥🔥 ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ Pitched as Fourth Wing meets F1, except with phoenixes instead of dragons, this is Mikayla Bridge’s debut fantasy. Kel is a phoenix racer, along with her underdog team the Crimson Howlers. But funds are tight and when disaster strikes at the final race of the season, Kel is left with no choice but to team up with Warren ‘Coup’ Coupers, her rival rider, the media’s darling. When the new and improved team are proffered a once-in-a-lifetime job offer from Cristo Industries, they soon begin to suspect there’s more to Cristo Industries than first appears. …
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Feminist Reads and A Whole Lot of ARCs: My March Reading Wrap-Up
Gone Girl – Gillian Flynn This was part of my thriller challenge, where I read seven thrillers in seven days. Gone Girl is a cult classic. I’m sure I don’t need to pitch it, but the synopsis is as follows: on the morning of Nick and Amy Dunne’s fifth wedding anniversary, Amy suddenly goes missing. All eyes are on Nick, and his odd behaviour. He’s laconic, bitter and doesn’t seem overtly distressed by his beautiful wife’s disappearance. Amidst a frenzied media storm and the watchful eyes of Amy’s parents, Nick finds himself playing a dangerous game – one his wife…
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Kill Creatures By Rory Power: Unreliable Narrators, A Killer Pitch and Twisty as Hell
⛓️💥🪨 Kill Creatures 🪨⛓️💥 ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ On the one-year anniversary of Nan’s three friends going missing in the Saltcedar Canyon, the town holds a vigil for the three lost girls. But the memorial service is interrupted when one of the missing-presumed-dead girls shows up, sending the town in turmoil. Everyone is overjoyed – everyone except Nan, that is. Because she’s the one who killed them. What an insane premise!! I was hooked from the very first page, because if that doesn’t make you want to turn the pages, I don’t know what will! Occasionally with these books that have crazy plot…
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Eat The Ones You Love by Sarah Maria Griffin: Sapphic Weird Horror x Sentient Plants?
🪷🌱 Eat The Ones You Love 🌱🪷 ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ First of all, I know what you’re thinking. A sentient plant? If you haven’t already gathered from that rollercoaster of a pitch, this book is Weird. This may be the wackiest book I’ve ever read (and I mean that in a wholly complimentary way). When recently dumped, out-of-work Shell stumbles upon a flower shop and takes a fancy to the owner, she makes a spur-of-the-moment decision. She resolves that she’ll work as a florist, at least until she finds another job. Who knows, maybe she’ll fall in love with the art of…
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The Thrashers by Julie Soto: YA Thrillers Proving Once Again They Are That Girl
🩵🎭 The Thrashers 🎭🩵 ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ I’ve said it before but I’ll say it again: YA thrillers really are That Girl. Time and time again, they deliver. And Julie Soto’s first venture into the land of YA thriller was no different. Everyone at New Helvetia High knows The Thrashers. Everyone wants to be them. Think of the Plastics – then embroil them in a murder investigation – and you’ve got this book. When Emily Mills, an unpopular girl who desperately wanted to be a Thrasher, commits suicide, all eyes are turned on the surviving Thrashers – Jodi, Julian, Paige, Lucy and,…
