It’s been a good while since I’ve read a dystopian novel and thankfully Escaping Eleven didn’t disappoint. The world building is intriguing, a world in which the sun has overtaken the planet, nothing grows, life can not be sustained above ground, and so the human population moves beneath the earth. An underground society with different…
Winterly by Jeanine Croft
Winterly is darkly atmospheric, poetic gothic beauty. Jeanine Croft writes with a lyrical pen that drips with atmosphere, a melody that eerily invades the senses and refuses to relinquish you from its vampiric romantic depths. Emma and Markus, be still my beating bookish heart. These two are swoon worthy together. Emma, dear Emma, as she…
Review: Caged Kitten by Rhea Watson
Oh-my. My beating bookish heart is squeeing so loudly right now. I absolutely positively loved loved loved Caged Kitten. Towards the end of this stand-alone in the All the Queen’s Men series, I literally couldn’t wipe the maniacal grin from my face or stop the jig I was dancing around my room with how much…
A Five Minute Life by Emma Scott
Oh, be still my heart. What a beautiful, stunning novel. Mesmerizing from the moment Jimmy and Thea lock eyes. With every reset and every conversation and every moment of music and pain and joy, this book stole my heart. Told mostly from Jim’s point of view with just enough of Thea’s point of view, I’ve…
You Deserve Each Other by Sarah Hogle
You Deserve Each Other is a wonderful enjoyable read. With a deceptively simple premise that manages to be way more than the simplicity of a hate to love you, second chance love story. I’ll be honest, the beginning threw me for a tiny loop, as the heroine, Naomi, was strongly dislikable for the first almost…
Ruthless Gods by Emily A Duncan
Emily A Duncan’s Ruthless Gods is gorgeous gothic goodness, drenched in blood, and dripping in melancholic beauty. I adored this novel from the very first sentence to that brutal heart stopping epilogue. I don’t know if Duncan sold her soul to a deity that blessed her with her gift for writing, but wow, she has…