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Review | Romanov by Nadine Brandes

04.17.2019 by Ashley // Leave a Comment

**Disclaimer: I received a complimentary copy of this book from Thomas Nelson through NetGalley. Opinions expressed in this review are completely my own.

Romanov by Nadine Brandes is an alternate history version of the execution of the Romanov family, the last royal family of Russia with magic.

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Ashley’s March Wrap Up

04.04.2019 by Ashley // Leave a Comment

March has come to an end.  I have no idea where the time went, but here we are getting ready for April.  This wasn’t my best reading month, and I seem to recall that last March I read almost thirty books.  So this month wasn’t quite that, but considering I took a lengthy vacation where I visited one of my best friends in the world and had minimal time to read, I did pretty good.  This month I read 20 books, and I will say on the whole that it was filled with some really good reads. My lowest rated book was two stars, and I had several five star reads. Without further ado, let’s just get into the breakdown of what I read in March.

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Review | Demonglass by Rachel Hawkins

04.02.2019 by Kari // Leave a Comment

demonglassLet me first say that I really loved Hex Hall. So in reading this second book in the series I didn’t expect any less from Rachel Hawkins… I was not disappointed! Even though it was set in London, there was not a lot of mention of the actual city (minus some tourist stuff), but it didn’t really bother me. I was so engrossed with the story of Sophie getting to know her dad, plus the whole mystery of “who’s making the new demons” that I didn’t miss much else.

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Anna and the French Kiss by Stephanie Perkins

04.01.2019 by Kari // Leave a Comment

annaandthefrenchkissWhere do I begin with this book? It had been on my “to read” shelf for a long time and I finally found it at the main branch of my local libraries. I can successfully say I was not disappointed one bit!

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Review | The Sword and the Dagger by Robert Cochran

03.26.2019 by Kari // Leave a Comment

theswordandthedagger***Disclaimer: I received a free early access copy of The Sword and the Dagger by Robert Cochran from NetGalley and Tor/Forge for review purposes. Thanks so much!

What initially drew me to this book was the title and cover. Once I read the summary, the historical fiction aspect drew me in, especially since takes place during the Crusades which is a time period you just don’t see much of in young adult fiction.

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Review | Wicked Saints by Emily A. Duncan

03.18.2019 by Kari // Leave a Comment

wickedsaints***Disclaimer: I received a free early access copy of Wicked Saints by Emily A. Duncan from NetGalley and St. Martin’s Press for review purposes. Thank you so much!

Wicked Saints is one of the most anticipated reads of the year with good reason. It’s been compared to Leigh Bardugo’s Grishaverse, but I feel like that’s where the surface similarities end. The world in Wicked Saints is very eastern European inspired and also very dark, which is extremely fitting.

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Review | Beautiful You by Chuck Palahniuk

03.02.2019 by Kari // Leave a Comment

beautifulyouI have never read a Chuck Palahniuk book before. Many of my friends have a really love his stuff so I finally bit the bullet and got one. All of his books are rather intense and make you think. Lots of irony and there’s a lot of social messages in them. Beautiful You was no exception by far.

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Ashley’s Most Disappointing of 2018

02.12.2019 by Ashley // Leave a Comment

Ace of Shades

Ace of Shades was advertised to me as one thing, and then it turned out that the thing it was advertised was a super tiny part of the book.  I was really, really looking forward to the scenario described in the synopsis, the shadow game, and it was barely a part of the whole story.  That being said, I still really enjoyed the book, but I just felt like it wasn’t completely what it was advertised and that was disappointing to me.

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Ashley’s Most Surprising of 2018

02.05.2019 by Ashley // Leave a Comment

To All the Boys I’ve Loved Before

I read this one because the movie was coming out and I thought that I ought to read the book before the movie came out.  I wasn’t expecting much because I was in this place where I wasn’t feeling YA contemporary, but this one just blew me out of the water.  I was obsessed with the story and read it really quickly. I loved, loved, loved it. It was sooo cute and Lara Jean was a fantastic protagonist.  It made me really rethink me thoughts on YA Contemporary, and made me open my mind a bit more!

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Ashley’s January Wrap Up

02.01.2019 by Ashley // Leave a Comment

I had a pretty good reading month to start off 2019, because in January I read 19 books.  That was completely unintentional but seemed appropriate in hindsight. I really, really enjoyed almost all of the books I read this month.  None of them were super disappointing. Additionally, I did really well on my TBR for the month of January. I read all of the things that I put on it, with several extras that weren’t on it.  I even read a couple of brand new releases that I had been anticipating, which is always super fun. Most of the books I read were audiobooks this month, but I had several physical books along with one eBook and one graphic novel.  Below is the list of books I read, and I’ll give you my rating, the format in which I read it, and a quick review. So without further ado… Here we go!

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Ashley’s Goodreads

The Complete Works
The Complete Works
by William Shakespeare
The First Part of the Contention Between the Two Famous Houses of York and Lancaster, &c., 1594
The First Part of the Contention Between the Two Famous Houses of York and Lancaster, &c., 1594
by William Shakespeare
All the Stars and Teeth
All the Stars and Teeth
by Adalyn Grace
I Am Still Alive
I Am Still Alive
by Kate Alice Marshall
Blood of Elves
Blood of Elves
by Andrzej Sapkowski

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Kari’s Goodreads

The Name of the Wind
The Name of the Wind
by Patrick Rothfuss
Contagion
Contagion
by Erin Bowman
Crown of Midnight
Crown of Midnight
by Sarah J. Maas
Queen of Shadows
Queen of Shadows
by Sarah J. Maas
Ruthless Gods
Ruthless Gods
by Emily A. Duncan

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