The Review Dear Reader. I will admit that I am not much of a young adult fiction reader. I’m a geriatric millennial and try to stay in an adult literary place. Because as we know, Dear Reader, I am not the target audience of YA fiction. But over the years, thanks to Booktube, I have been dipping my bookmarks into some young adult fiction. Courtney Gould’s The Dead and the Dark is my first dive into young adult horror since I was a young adult myself. Back then, I only had access to Christopher Pike and R.L. Stine. I…

Praise is a semi-kinky new adult erotic romance. If you don’t mind age gap romances and can get past the heroine dated the hero’s son, this is worth the consideration. I encourage you to give this a go, because Emerson is hot and worth the read. The kink is light, praise kink, but other kinky acts are on the page. Emerson runs an elite sex club. Praise fails in things outside of the steamy. I wasn’t completely sold on Charlie and Emerson’s romance since most of the interactions on the page were sex adjacent. I could understand their lusty…

The Review This book is a bit hard for me to review. Because objectively, I know it’s a great little novella. The elements are there, well done, and fit together. This one didn’t click for me. I think this is the first time I can truly say “It’s me, not the book”. I think part of the problem I had with Flowers for the Sea was that I picked it because Hoopla billed it as a horror. It’s fantasy horror, but heavier on the fantasy side and lighter on the horror side. And since I picked this one up…

The Review I have returned to this novel several times in my life, this was my third read. Darling Reader, I’m not much of a re-reader, even though I’m trying to change. After a third read, you would think The Bluest Eye was on my list of favorite book, but it is not. I don’t know why because The Bluest Eye hits all of my reading must haves. For a debut novel, Toni Morrison bypasses all hiccups many debut novels seem to have. It doesn’t “read” like a debut to me, and I’m certain there are writers working on…

At the end of last year, I posted a Twitter poll with a list of authors I wanted to read. I asked my following which authors backlist I should attempt to read over the coming years. The overwhelming response was Bernice McFadden. Now, I’m not unfamiliar with McFadden. I know her by name; I know the title of her books and I own almost her complete novel catalog both in print and ebook. But I have never attempted to pick up any of her books. Darling Reader, I can’t tell you why. I just know that I’ve slept on…

Over the past year, I’ve been slowly but steadily making my way through Postal, a crime series. I picked up because the completed series is rather short with seven collected volumes. I have been not so steadily making my way through The Walking Dead; I wanted something shorter. It helped that the ratings for Postal are mostly positive. If you’re not familiar with Postal, Darling Reader, it follows Mark Shiffron, the mailman of Eden, Wyoming. Mark is more than Eden’s mailman, and Eden is not an ordinary town. Eden isn’t on any maps and technically doesn’t exist. It’s full of…