4/5⭐️
A debut fantasy, this had some great action, an interesting fantasy world, some dark/evil villains and one VERY BIG turn halfway through the book that really threw me for a loop. We basically go from a fantasy to a very odd sci-fi shift. Once I gathered my senses 😳, it was fine, but I‘m still a little confused about some things. Cliffhanger ending. Call me flabbergasted but intrigued. 😂

GR:
https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/8144475635

4.25/5⭐️

Fifth in a historical mystery series centered around a Scotland Yard inspector and a lady chemist, I‘ve fallen in deep like with these books. 😊 Well-drawn characters, good sense of place and interesting plots.

GR:

https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/8146569004

4/5⭐️

A well-done fantasy debut and the beginning of a planned duology. Good world-building, lots of action, hint of future romance. The heroine was a bit frustrating at times, and there were a few slower spots as well, but I‘ll look forward to reading the conclusion.

GR:

https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/8144513504

4/5⭐️

I had read a previous book from this author (a fantasy) that I enjoyed so I gave this one a whirl. Overall, cute with a few more serious aspects. A couple of peeves but mostly personal ones and not life-threatening. 😂😂

GR review:

https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/8148879220

3.5/5⭐️

This was a little bit of a mixed bag for me. However, I did round to a 4 because the good outweighed the not so good…plus, #coverlove. 😀

If interested, here‘s my GR review:

https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/8157579983

For those who celebrate, Happy Christmas and many blessings to you in 2026.

I know that for many personally, this may be a hard time of the year for various reasons. For those especially and for everyone else as well, I‘m sending warm hugs and wishes for peace and comfort through the holidays and into the new year.

Thankful for this wonderful community. ❤️💚

What a wonderful group of birthday celebrants to usher in 2026 with…🎈🎉🎈

If you‘d like to be added to the Litsy Birthday Calendar, please send your Litsy handle and birthdate to the #birthdayfairies at litsybirthdays@gmail.com.

Looking forward to sending some #birthdaylove your way!

Would anyone like to make any book recommendations for a 50 yo friend of mine who likes The Thursday Murder Club, Murder Your Employer and Everyone In My Family Has Murdered Someone.

On a different tangent, she also likes Brandon Sanderson. 😂

Thanks! 😊🎄

I hate it when a favorite author starts to become a chore to read…luckily that rarely happens for me. I‘ve always been a really big Roberts fan and she‘s consistently a 4 or 5/5 for me. But this trilogy was a slogfest and in a word frustrating. Her writing style has begun getting on my last nerve, and I‘m not sure if that‘s a change in her or me. Maybe me as it looks from reviews that mine is an unpopular opinion. 🤷🏻‍♀️

I basically posted the🔻

I‘m so excited that I‘ve managed to get 3 books off my TBR with #ReadYourKindle in November.

Here‘s hoping for an equally great December.

Thanks, Cydney! 🩷

So excited that I managed to read two books on my #BookSpin / #DoubleSpin list for November. Yay me! 😂🎉🎉

Here comes December…🤞

Thanks, fearless leader. 💜

Currently reading this one which has an interesting premise around…BoiBots. 😳😂

I‘ve read a couple of her other books and really enjoyed them. We‘ll see how this one goes.

Out 11/18

Great series. 💜

4.25/5⭐️

Review:

https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/8042574463

Always love Adrienne Young‘s books. 💛 No exception here. 😊

4.25/5⭐️

GoodReads link:

https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/7369805744

4.25/5⭐️

Enjoying this series.

GR review link:

https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/8024581145

I‘m behind on sharing some reviews so be warned that I‘ve got a few more coming. 😂

4.25/5⭐️

If interested, here‘s my GR link:

https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/8042041617

Happy to have read two from my October list!
Here‘s my updated #ReadYourKindle list for November.

Thanks, Cydney. 💙

Here‘s my updated November #BookSpin / #DoubleSpin list. Happy that I managed to get three read from my October list. 🎉

Thanks, Sarah! 🤗

This is 5th in one of my favorite historical mystery series…I‘m always so excited when another book drops. Great characters, entertaining plots, humorous banter. All-around winner for me. Out 10/28
5/5⭐️

If you‘d like to check out my GR review:

https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/7940648130

I'm so happy I discovered this author/YA series. I received this book as an arc before realizing that it was actually the second in series. I borrowed the first book (Casters and Crowns) to provide fluidity, and I do recommend reading it first (although I think technically this one could be read as a standalone).
First off, I loved everything here that I loved in the initial book. As a fantasy it has 🔻

To be honest, I read this YA romantasy because I was about to read its follow up (Sonnets and Serpents) and wanted to have the background story. While its successor can be read as a standalone, I highly recommend this one first as it just makes everything clearer and gives more time to spend with some wonderful characters...never a bad or wasted thing.
I really just enjoyed everything about this book. For starters, it was sweet in its romance…

REPOST for @LitsyBirthdays :

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If you would like to get #BirthdayLove on your special day, send an email to litsybirthdays@gmail.com with your Litsy handle and your birthday.

4.25/5⭐️🩵

Here are a couple of 4.25/5⭐️ romantasy books that I‘ve read recently and enjoyed more than I expected to. They are both first books (the Williams in a duology and not sure how many more for Gregovic).

That Sleepless cover though…#coverlove💛.

Here are my GR reviews if interested:

Weaver : https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/7940500400

Sleepless: https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/7954197811

5/5⭐️💜

5/5⭐️🩵

5/5⭐️🩷

Here are 3 5-star mysteries that I‘ve recently loved! The Alexander is a 2nd in series; the Simpson is 14th (!) in series; the Messina is 1st in series (and recommended by @DGRachel …thank you, Rachel! 😘).
#BlameItOnLitsy 🩷

Here are reviews if interested. 😊

https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/7961884995

https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/7956149641

https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/7902992715

4.25/5🧡

4.25/5🩷

4.25/5🩵

Here‘s a compilation of three mysteries that I‘ve really enjoyed lately. The Gleason is a 1st in series (she also writes as Colleen Cambridge and C.M. Gleason); the Kelly is a 3rd in series; and the Burke is a 4th in series.
4.25/5⭐️ for me.
If interested, I‘m leaving my GR review links here:

https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/7920043030

https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/7920260844

https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/7903078222

October‘s #ReadYourKindle list. 📚

Excited to have gotten 4 books off September‘s list! Yay!!!

Thanks, Cydney! 👋🏼

October‘s #BookSpin / #DoubleSpin list.

I‘m so excited that I was able to read 3 books off my September list! 🎉🎉🎉

Thanks, Sarah! 👋🏼

Oh, I love this series so much...simply everything about it. I always look forward to seeing a new book drop because I KNOW that I'm going to have a great book to savor.
First and foremost, Devlin's characters (especially the mains Leo and Jasper) are so well-developed that I've seamlessly come to know and love them over the course of four books now. Their dark backstories, their vulnerabilities, their strengths have been written with such 🔻

I have been woefully neglectful lately of both my #bookspin / #doublespin and #readyourkindle books.

I‘m starting this month adding some of my arcs to these lists (which I do strive to keep up with and are also on my Kindle) so maybe I can kill two birds/books with one stone. 😂😂👍🏻😉📚

Nicely done second entry in the new series from Taylor...technically maybe third entry as there is an initial short story (Mud Season) before the novels start.
My biggest happy here was a bit of a "locked room" mystery revolving around an ex-diplomat murdered in the woods at a private hunting lodge in rural Vermont. There are quite a few suspects (fellow hunters, caretakers, spouses, etc.) and of course, a snowstorm to make it all a bit ?

This romantic fantasy was entertaining but started slowly for me. The second half of the book was definitely more engaging as secrets came to light (finally), and the action picked up.
The supernatural world of angels brought wry humor and a foreshadowing of the (sometimes dangerous, sometimes heartbreaking) skeletons in the closet for several members of the cast. Ceren did a good job of weaving various storylines together to make a cohesive and🔻

Huber does such a good job of weaving history with fiction that it's almost seamless in its flow. This book is no exception. This book finds Verity and Sidney still in the volatile environs of Ireland straddling the fence between their sympathies for the IRA's initiative and their own British allegiance.
I enjoyed the sense of danger and the craftiness of the subterfuge in this one. Verity and Sidney's tenacity and intelligence were in ample 🔻

Loved this 500+ page epic set in the world of the gods from the Divine Rivals series (which I haven‘t read…yet. But do plan to remedy 😂).
My review is a bit long-winded. 😉

https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/7698229722

4.75/5⭐️

#coverlove

I really enjoyed this series starter starring PI Annie Gore and set in the Appalachians of North Carolina. Good world building with an almost Gothic creepy feel to it. Good plot but a bit over-the-top denouement (which I can live with 🤣).
Looking forward to more in this series.

4.25/5⭐️

https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/7810942375

Wonderful read! 4.5/5⭐️

My 2nd book from Cambron, and I‘m definitely a fan.

https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/7786607450

This is my 3rd book from Terry, and they‘ve all been 5⭐️. Great characters (parent/siblings dynamics), great sense of place (Georgia), humorous with even a little magical realism thrown in…just all-around feel good read. If you enjoy contemporary Southern-set stories, I recommend her.

#coverlove

https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/7820393630

Out today, this story revolving around witches and golems was a bit hard for me to rate. Liked some things about it but it was weak in some areas. So while I ended up giving it 4⭐️, it was a bit grudgingly. 🤣

I will say that cover is stunning.

https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/7809430853

I am being so bad about keeping up with my #BookSpin / #DoubleSpin and #ReadYourKindle picks lately. 😩😩 So, oddly enough, my August lists vaguely resemble July‘s. 🤷🏻‍♀️😂😂🙄

Thanks, Sarah and Cydney, for your faithfulness.
😘😘

This story is told entirely through letters, both from and to the central character Sybil Van Antwerp.
I think epistolary novels, at least for me, can be a slippery slope. By their nature, they are slower-paced and perhaps more introspective than the average novel. I find myself needing to be "in the mood" before starting to read one of these novels as I tend to enjoy mysteries/thrillers most often.
I will be honest; I found some of this one to ?

Bethany Turner is always an auto-read for me. 🩶😊 She speaks my language with her characters and humor.

4.5/5⭐️

https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/7723415605

@GinaKButler you‘re it 😊😊 ! You posted a review of a book with an ocean on the cover! Feel free to play along if you‘d like! @Chrissyreadit #tagyoureit

@CBee Thanks for the tag. 😊

I‘m happy to have discovered Heath and am looking forward to exploring her backlist.

4.25/5⭐️

https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/7679110345

Out tomorrow, this is a first contemporary novel from MacLean who is known for her historical romances of which I‘ve enjoyed a few over the years. With this great first effort, I‘m hoping to see more of these from her.

4.5/5⭐️

https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/7218304483