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Hooked by Emily McIntire

(content warning for Hooked: 18+ content, kidnapping, death) While I’m getting more into romance in general, dark romance is not a wagon I have hitched myself to in the past. Emily McIntire’s Hooked may have me… intrigued. You thought I was going to write “hooked” didn’t you? In Emily McIntire’s retelling of the classic Peter… Continue reading Hooked by Emily McIntire

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Last books in my thriftbooks order arrived: my first time reading Celeste Ng! ✨ I definitely just put in another t-books order because I saw a cookbook called Fifty Shades of Chicken 🐔🤣 What's your favorite Lisa Jewell novel? This is my favorite quote from The Truth About Melody Browne: "The memories didn’t come in a neat, chronological stream, however. They came in fits and bursts, unconnected to each other, as if someone had taken a pair of scissors to her life, thrown the pieces in the air, and let them float slowly back down to earth, scrap by scrap." This novel was a thoughtful exploration of family, motherhood, and mental health. Full post on the blog! My sister is coming to my parents for Thanksgiving, so we're doing mini-Christmas this weekend. Baking cookies and pies and making charcuterie! With its familiar characters in a new and exciting setting, Hooked was a great intro to the dark romance category. "It’s special to feel like someone wants you for just being you, so the fact that James wants Wendy just how she is – despite his efforts not to – is appealing. And their passion is intoxicating. And he actually gratifies her in the way she wants, not just what he thinks she will like. I love the idea of being protected and wanted at the same time, viewed as precious but not as weak." Read the rest on the blog! Link in bio ✨ Unfortunately, the author has too many parallels with my ex to be an author I'll continue reading. The book itself was good, though. I'm pretty agitated with what I've read about him. Link in bio. Adria Carmichael put a lot of research into her series. She offered me a copy of book 1, The Demon of Yodok, in exchange for a review, and has also offered book 2, The Weeping Masses, which I gladly accepted! I'm looking forward to seeing where Areum's journey takes her and how her personality and thought processes change as more incidents occur 👀 I swear I just went into IGA to buy milk 😅 Mushroom ravioli with alfredo and peas 🤤 I love peas, I don't care what anyone says about them! 😂 My son is home sick today so I have been watching movies with him while finishing up an ARC review, and I also did some blog updates on the P. G. Evers section and the 2021 reading list. Hopefully he feels better tomorrow and I can take him outside to play and give myself a break from the computer! Did you know Mickey Guyton's song "Black Like Me" got its name from the book by John Howard Griffin? Griffin is known as the white man who darkened his skin to experience first-hand what it was like to be treated like a black person in the segregated U.S. south. Learn about this and the representation of BIPOC country music artists in my latest blog post - and please, do your own research if you feel compelled to look it up! Link in bio ✨ I'm a little late ordering this month but my Nov box is gonna be 🔥🔥🔥 Cozy + Creepy @hhoangwrites ily please never stop writing 💛🥺

I am a reader, writer, hiker, and casual over-thinker. I’m working on my first novel, which will be published under the pen name P. G. Evers.

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