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5 Ways Bookstagram Impacts Your Mental Health

5 Ways Bookstagram Impacts Your Mental Health

** I am in the deep dark pit in my head so please excuse typos and grammar mistakes** If you have been on bookstagram you’ve seen people talk about how they are/took a break for their mental health, but we rarely talk about why our mental health is bad. The truth is being on bookstagram can really mess with you. If you are on bookstagram, or are wanting to join I highly suggest keeping in mind…

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New Year. Worse Me.

New Year. Worse Me.

Happy 2022 everyone! Here’s to another year of me trying my best to do what I want and failing. Great way to think right? Well here’s a worse me because it’s the year of being selfish and reaching my goals. I am trying to finish at least the first draft of my book because I have been working so hard and so long on it! I also really want give more attention to the socials, the podcast, and the…

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Chasing War | Cady Hammer

Chasing War Review | Cady Hammer - It's finally here!

⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ Rating: 5 out of 5. Cady has done it again! I have been waiting for this book for what actually feel like forever! Chasing War sent me on a roller coaster of feelings. We watch as Grace learns how to be Fae and her new fate in the world. I’m not going to lie, the way she treats Aiden at the end of the book seriously makes me mad because Aiden deserves the entire world. I also feel like he…

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Meet Kira Frey

Kira Frey is a sort of a popular girl but is also overlooked by many. She is known for throwing parties and drinking a lot.

I have been working on some really exciting things lately, so I’ve been a little MIA, but I am back with character introductions! Kira Frey is a sort of a popular girl but is also overlooked by many. She is Molly’s first friend and introduces her to the town. She is known for throwing parties and drinking a lot. Her father sent her to rehab one summer due to her drinking. Her mother passed when…

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Chase Stout

Chase may just be my favorite character in the book! He has not had an easy life and has a pretty dark side. He keeps to himself and has some skeletons in his closet that I don’t even know about. When I started writing, Chase was the villain and was very dark. As the story went on I wanted more for him. He is the only character that I know the ending for, which is exciting and scary. I really…

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Meet Molly

Meet Molly!

Meet Molly! I am so excited to introduce the first character of Ceaderwood! Molly is one of the characters that we will get the story through. She didn’t have the most challenging life, but it definitely wasn’t easy. I named her after my pride and joy and the thing that keeps me alive, my feline friend Molly Moo. Also, after Molly Weasley, because she’s an amazing woman. Molly had to grow up…

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Sadie | Book Review

If you are looking for a book that will give you all the feels and it a little mysterious, Sadie is the book for you!

⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ Rating: 5 out of 5. I have had Sadie on my TBR forever and I finally got my hands on it! This book was so sad and kept me wanting me the entire time! If you are looking for a book that will rip at your heart strings but also have a little bit of a mystery, this is your book! Courtney Summers did an absolutely amazing job with this book! Sadie is the first book I have read from her and it…

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Sometimes I Want to Stop Writing

I always wanted to write, and I was so happy when I started blogging and writing Ceaderwood, but I want to quit some days.

I am writing a book! I’m so excited to share the story(ies?) that goes on in my head and have so many plans for different books. There is so much that goes into writing a book, but sometimes I am not motivated to write a book. I have been really down lately, and my anxiety has been pretty bad, so the book, blog, and Instagram have all been on the backburner. I originally had planned on the book…

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Take Your Turn Teddy | Review

Take Your Turn Teddy | Review

⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ Rating: 5 out of 5. I love Haley Newlin. She captured with her first book, and her second book was chef’s kiss. Take Your Turn Teddy is a spooky book that will give you the fall time feel in the middle of winter! Haley Newlin outdid herself in her second novel. I was in the middle of getting out of a reading rut when I picked up this book, and it pulled me right out of it. I started…

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Review: Fate A Winx Saga

Review: Fate A Winx Saga

I’m doing something a little different today, instead of reviewing a book, I want to review a new Netflix show! I watched Winx growing up and I still love the cartoon so much! The show was so magical, fun, and everything a little girl could want! When I saw that Netflix was making live action episodes I honestly was excited and scared that they would ruin the masterpiece I grew up on. I actually…

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On the Tips of Her Fingers | Review

We all are searching for something to distract, and On the Tips of Her Fingers by Bibiana Kerpcar is the perfect distraction.

⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ Rating: 5 out of 5. I was sent a free copy of the this book for an honest review. All opinions are my own. Let’s be honest here, life has been pretty cruddy since Covid has entered our lives. We all are searching for something to take our minds off of life, and I have just the thing. On the Tips of Her Fingers by Bibiana Kerpcar is the perfect distraction and will take you back to the…

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A Deadly Education |Discussion & Review

If you are missing the Wizarding World, check out A Deadly Education! This was like Hunger Games meets Hogwarts meets Lord of the Flies.

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Rating: 4 out of 5.

If you are missing the Wizarding World, check this book out! This was like Hunger Games meets Hogwarts meets Lord of the Flies, and I love it! A Deadly Education has been compared to Harry Potter due to it being about a school for magical beings, but pass being a school, the stories are very different. This book did…

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The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue

If you are looking for a beautiful book to get lost in, The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue is it! V.E. Schwab did a wonderful job with this!

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Rating: 4 out of 5.

As always, there’s possible spoilers. So if you don’t want to be spoiled, please don’t read. I never include how the book ends, just do include some details of events in the story.

This was a wild ride! The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue had history, love, flashbacks, present time, a supernatural being, and deals.…

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Harry Potter and the Cursed Child | Review

I said from the moment this book came out I was never going to read Harry Potter and the Cursed Child, but I did and this book was something.

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Rating: 3 out of 5.

Calling all Potterheads! I said from the moment this book came out, I was never going to read it. I didn’t hear good things about it, I didn’t like that it was a script, and I just wanted no part of it. Here we are in 2020, and I bought it, and I’m still not sure how I feel about it. Harry Potter and the Cursed Child …

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Caraval | Series Review

The series had a lot of good, and some bad, but all around it was amazing! We go to an event of the lifetime-Caraval!

Careries as a whole:

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Rating: 4 out of 5.

I love this series so much! Stephanie Garber did such a fantastic job with the series! It made me laugh, it made me cry, and it confused me at times! The series had a lot of good and some bad, but all around, it was amazing! We go to an event of the lifetime with two sisters, and we pretty much experience Caraval with them! It’s so…

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Home Before Dark

Home Before Dark by Riley Sager had me on my toes the entire time! The twist, secrets, and monsters were all perfect!

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Rating: 5 out of 5.

I have been trying to get more into scary books this year, and this year I wrote quite a few! Home Before Dark by Riley Sager is an amazing book that had me on my toes the entire time! It also gives me all of the feels! The twist, secrets, and monsters were all on point in this book, and I am obsessed with this book! The dual storyline had my spine…

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Is Audible Worth It?

Last year I tried audiobooks on Spotify, but that did not go well for me. Now, I am trying Audible, and this is how I feel about it.

I have been against audiobooks for a while. I have never been one to be able to sit and listen to a book. In elementary and middle school listening to teachers and tapes, and out of all the books I heard, the only one I can somewhat tell you about is James and the Giant Peach. I can even remember the story is a boy who started living in a peach and bugs. I think I have that right. Last year I…