Yi Ping‘s 4th daughter was stolen from her at 18 months old…by her own husband. Given as a future bride to another family. She doesn‘t see her again for 50 years. Until a chance encounter at a market stall has Yi-Ping begging her granddaughter to help her track the woman down. Heartbreaking and full of so much love, loss, sacrifice. The absolute worst of humanity, and the best, reflecting off of each other.

I‘m squealing, this book was adorable, and it‘s the first in a series so you know I can‘t wait for more.
She‘s a sassy human innkeeper. He‘s the orc that made high school unbearable. The twist? He‘s actually a cinnamon role and he needs her help to convince an investor to help him distribute his ale in the human lands. Can they move past their past?

This novel is beautiful but will break your heart. It is a beautiful story of survival, of love, loss and memory.

New favorite author need I say more? This is a beautiful story of love, friendship and acceptance. Following Waterloo Viola is presumed dead and takes the chance to transition to the woman she is. But when her best friends depression following her “death” reaches a breaking point, she can‘t help but go to him

This book kept me guessing the entire time. It was so good!

Sometimes fate sends you exactly where you need to go. This book was a beautiful story

Such a sweet and at times sad read. Radio advice host Ginny has just learned that her life isn‘t perfect, so she takes a few lucky listeners with her on a heartbreak trip to a small village in Italy. @Mshookquilts thank you for lending me this one!

So cozy and imaginative! Terlu is imprisoned as a statue for creating a sentient plant, then finds herself at the cusp of needing to perform more magic to save the enchanted greenhouse and the dreams of the grumpy lone Gardner who still tends them

This book was a joy to read

Has something sinster happened to the soon to be ex husband? Or did their sister off him? This was absolutely hilarious 🙌🏻

Wow, this book is going to stay with me for a long time. Don‘t let yourself die with regrets, live a beautiful life and you‘ll have a beautiful death

I loved this one

Trishara is done with the nepotism, sexism and racism of her office, but when they want to send her on a 3 week training summit to Hawaii to prove they are “inclusive” she decides to accept the trip and move on after. Unfortunately her nemesis will also be going, and the executive assistant only booked them one room 😱

I love her writing so much! And the narration was fantastic. Sona is befriended by her patient Mira, a painter who has lived a life precisely on her own terms. She decided that Sona is meant for a big life, and pushes her towards taking risks, and facing her fears.

This book is so cute! I‘m so glad I picked it up at the library the other day. Koishi and her Dad run a hard to find restaurant and detective agency. You describe a dish associated with a memory that you want to taste again and they will make it for you, make it taste the same as it did in that memory.

Highly, highly recommend if you need something cozy to read.

Welp, my reading slump is officially over, I stayed up far too late multiple nights because I could not put this down

A book about bookish people and bookshops? Sign me up. I fell head over heels into this book and loved every minute of it! Though, I did feel that the ending was a bit rushed

3 dates to appease their grandparents. But can Aditi and Krishna keep their adorable selves from falling in love? This story is a beautiful portrayal of familial pressure, culture and growing up. It was so fun!

This book is absolutely hilarious! Toby is a thief just trying to make it by. Miles is the new Earl of Arvon, who has inherited a disaster from his estranged father. When these two mean are thrust together by two chance encounters and must unravel the mystery of the previous Lord Arvon. This is a short, sassy, spicy read that will have you cackling

Moo moo approves this graphic novel. An adorable story of two girls meeting on their first day at a new school, starting a two person book club to find issues of a manga to read together and falling in love

I absolutely live for the puns in these books, highly anticipate re-reading them before the year is out. Because Reyna and Kianthe are the best

This is one of only a couple of Jasmine Guillory‘s books I hadn‘t read, and I‘m so glad I finally did. This romcom combines my favorite things, fake dating and hilarious content. I loved every minute of this

“You can‘t judge your courage in a different world based on the world you are in right now”
Somali Dev once again pulled me into a world of vibrant characters and learning to find happiness in the midst of family expectations. 10/10

I loved this book even more than the first! Hailey has created a cozy paradise with love able cozy characters and stress free adventure…I‘m in love

I‘m a baby when it comes to scary stories so I almost didn‘t read this one. But I LOVE Kalynn Bayron, and I‘m so glad I finally picked this one up, it had my heart racing but was soooo good

I am cackling… per usual Em‘s books are full of snark, hilarious moments and absolutely badass female characters. I couldn‘t wait to read Poppy‘s story and her sass did not disappoint.

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I received an arc copy of this book from the publisher. It comes out on September 3…..y‘all can I just start reading it again? So cute and funny

This book is soooo cute 😱

This book really surprised me, I didn‘t expect it to be so gripping and deep. A beautiful portrayal of women‘s fight for survive, how we band together and help each other through

This book is intense and powerful, it shows the corruption of people and how far some will go. It shows the compassion that some people cannot shead no matter how they try and the power of sticking together.

I will be thinking about this one for a long time.

A beautiful, gothic, suspense. I couldn't put it down. 

This book is full of laughter and heart, found family and the question: is it better to be alone and safe? Or to take the risk and be surrounded by loving support. 

This story is a giant warm hug, possibly my new favorite cozy fantasy. It is everything.

Feilla and Redd are both Vampires in a small wintery town that is experiencing more than it's fair share of bad luck. Thrust together in an attempt to re-build Fiella's shop they struggle through their mutal dislike of one another.

This story is beautiful, it is the sapphic, second chance romance you didn't know you needed. About the power of love and loss and the pressures of society. 

You will need to bake something or acquire delicious bakes goods after reading this book.

It is a cozy fantasy baking competition….

Arleta Starstone is a human, in a world where humans are the bottom of the food chain. She loves baking and dreams of wining the competition. But no human has ever been chosen to compete.

This book is filled with found family, friendship, love and delicious treats

….everything is cheese 🧀

The amount of cute this story is, I mean all the names are cheese, come on!

This is sapphic, it‘s adorable, it is amazing friends. It is cheesy and so freaking cute

If I could pinpoint one book that proved to me that books were magic as a child. It would be The Secret Garden by Frances Hogdson Burnett. This story has and will always be magic.

Reading a graphic novel adaptation took me back to being 11 years old, racing through the pages of the original. I highly recommend for anyone who struggles with longer stories, as this gives you the story in a much more condensed version.

This was a super quick read. I read it on my lunch break at work and it was a happy day in the life. I need 10 more.

I love Abby Jimenez, her books are relatable and fun and I always end up laughing my head off….this one had those moments too but also made me bawl like a baby.

Vanessa has a 50-50 chance of dying of ALS by the age of 30. Every other woman in her family has. So when she meets Adrian, the hot lawyer next door and bonds with him over raising her baby niece, she refuses to fall in love….but we can‘t really control that can we?

I picked up this book because everyone said it was like Bridgerton….I honestly don‘t know how to feel about it. I‘m sure we were meant to hate Frances, and believe me, I did.

This is actually the first book in the Garlic series.

In this book all the vegetable people are nervous because a vampire has moved in. They send Garlic to confront the vampire because all the stories say that vampire‘s and garlic don‘t mix, so they think Garlic will be safe.

Again, it‘s cute a cozy, a quick read and super happy.

A graphic novel that takes us into The Darkling‘s world before he becomes the Darkling. A world where he and his mother are constantly on the run. Hiding what they can do, who they are and fighting to survive.

Society in the desert is divided into two villages, the sun village and the night village. The night village worships the moon and is given the gift of night moths that pollinated a night blooming lily that keeps their village alive and prosperous.

I did not expect this book to be that deep. But it absolutely was. It‘s about found family, society, working together and mental health

I‘m sorry do y‘all see how cute this book is?!?!

Garlic is literally a garlic bulb brought to life by a witch to help her in the garden. Whilst grappling with getting more humanoid Garlic goes on an adventure with Count, their local vampire to the night market.

It‘s cute, it‘s cozy, it‘s a super fast read and I would recommend it to any and everyone

Eve is my favorite of the Brown sisters. I relate to her on such a personal level. She is fun and quirky and has given up on others expectations of her and decided to be herself anyway. I loved watching her fall in love.

Dani or Danika Brown, has always been extremely focused, driven. Hard working. Some see this as a flaw but she knows it‘s her superpower. She has long since given up on romantic relationships as they often find her lacking and it gets in the way of her goals. But maybe there‘s a cute security guard in her building, and maybe she has to start fake dating him, and maybe that leads to more 🤷🏻‍♀️

Sally and her sister Gillian were raised by their spinster witch aunts. Both leave home to get away from the taunts and ridicule of the town, but maybe home isn‘t just a place.

This is the same story, but completely different from the movie and I am absolutely in love…with both haha

My adorable husband surprised me with this book because he thought I would enjoy it.

Emily is a researcher, she researches Fae, Fairies etc. She has gone on an expedition to document never before documented wee folk and hopefully high Fae. Her adventure is crashed by an annoying coworker, townspeople are kidnapped by Fae and the adventure turns out to be much more than she expected.

Olive and Ethan wind up taking their siblings honeymoon. Olive‘s identical twin sister married Ethan‘s brother and everyone gets sick at the wedding except these two. Thrust on a dream vacation where they have to pretend to be together and in love, the two find that maybe they don‘t hate each other as much as they thought.

It‘s sooo cute, it‘s fake dating, it‘s enemies to lovers, it‘s introverts. It‘s I wish it never ended

I was legit confused for the first half of this book. Like I did not understand the meaning behind the stories the old woman was telling. But once I got it, it was a beautiful and sad story