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THE SURVIVING SKY by Kritika H. Rao - Save your marriage and Save the World..!!!

This Hindu philosophy-inspired debut science fantasy follows a husband and wife racing to save their living city—and their troubled marriage—high above a jungle world besieged by cataclysmic storms.High above a jungle-planet float the last refuges of humanity—plant-made civilizations held together by tradition, technology, and arcane science. In these living cities, architects are revered above…

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2023 Mid Year Check In / Freakout Tag + Five Star Predictions

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PRIDE TBR: LGBTQ+ Books I Planned to Read in 2023

Wow.. I can’t even remember the last time I opened the WordPress app. I’ve had lots of issues with focus during my pregnancy and have not been able to either read or blog much for many months now. But suddenly, mood struck me today and I just wanted to type up atleast one post for PRIDE month. So while this is an exciting post to write because I’m very eager to get to all of these books, the…

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Exciting April 2023 Releases

Another month.. Another great list of upcoming releases. Here's hoping I'll have a better reading month this time.. Do checkout my post and let me know if I missed any SFF releases.. RTs and Clicks appreciated..!!!

March has finally made me feel better about my reading, so I am going into this April with more optimism and excited about the upcoming releases. So let me mention some of them which are high on my radar.. Apr 04, 2023 WELCOME HOME.Follow Wenqi, Liam, and Mrs. in this modern gothic ghost story by Chinese-Canadian writer and immigrant, Ai Jiang. LINGHUN is set in the mysterious town of HOME, a…

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THE LAST TALE OF THE FLOWER BRIDE by Roshani Chokshi - Dive into these pages for an alluring experience

A captivating tale full of fairytales, gothic mysteries and more - THE LAST TALE OF THE FLOWER BRIDE by Roshani Chokshi, superbly narrated by Steve West and @surasiuaudio, is a new favorite. RTs and Clicks appreciated..!! Thank you @HarperAudio..

A sumptuous, gothic-infused story about a marriage that is unraveled by dark secrets, a friendship cursed to end in tragedy, and the danger of believing in fairy tales—the breathtaking adult debut from New York Times bestselling author Roshani Chokshi.Once upon a time, a man who believed in fairy tales married a beautiful, mysterious woman named Indigo Maxwell-Casteñada. He was a scholar of…

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ARC Review: Lonely Mirror In the Castle by Mizuki Tsujimura, Translated by Philip Gabriel

Seven students find unusual common ground in this warm, puzzle-like Japanese bestseller laced with gentle fantasy and compassionate insight.Bullied to the point of dropping out of school, Kokoro’s days blur together as she hides in her bedroom, unable to face her family or friends. As she spirals into despair, her mirror begins to shine; with a touch, Kokoro is pulled from her lonely life into a…

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ARC Mini Reviews for Novella November: Into the Riverlands / Pulling the Wings Off Angels

Wandering cleric Chih of the Singing Hills travels to the riverlands to record tales of the notorious near-immortal martial artists who haunt the region. On the road to Betony Docks, they fall in with a pair of young women far from home, and an older couple who are more than they seem. As Chih runs headlong into an ancient feud, they find themselves far more entangled in the history of the…

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Audiobook Review: Stars and Bones by Gareth L. Powell

From the multi BSFA award-winner comes a stunningly inventive action-packed science-fiction epic adventure. A brand-new series for fans of Becky Chambers and Ann Leckie.Seventy-five years from today, the human race has been cast from a dying Earth to wander the stars in a vast fleet of arks—each shaped by its inhabitants into a diverse and fascinating new environment, with its own rules and…

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ALC Review: The Empress of Time by Kylie Lee Baker

Half British Reaper, half Japanese Shinigami Ren Scarborough is no longer the girl who was chased out of England—she is the Goddess of Death ruling Japan’s underworld. But her problems have never been greater. Her Shinigami see her as a foreigner on the throne. Her brother, Neven, is gone, lost in the deep darkness. And her fiancé, Hiro, has been killed by her own hand.Then Ren receives the most…

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Audiobook Review: Master of Sorrows by Justin Travis Call

You’ve heard the story before: an orphaned boy, raised by a wise old man, comes to a fuller knowledge of his magic and uses it to fight the great evil threatening his world. But what if that hero were destined to become the new dark lord? The Academy of Chaenbalu has stood against magic for centuries. Hidden from the world, acting from the shadows, it trains its students to detect and retrieve…

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Book Review: Fangs of the Black Tiger by J. F. Lee

The martial world only respects the strong.Bounty hunters have taken Shu Yan.Li Ming, the last swordsman of Blue Mountain, will stop at nothing to free the girl. To save her, he will have to count on the help of some old allies: a deadly spearwoman and an (occasionally) corrupt magistrate.Meanwhile, Shu Yan must rely on more than her wits and a snarky joke to survive the custody of the most…

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Audiobook Review: Lessons in Chemistry by Bonnie Garmus

Chemist Elizabeth Zott is not your average woman. In fact, Elizabeth Zott would be the first to point out that there is no such thing as an average woman. But it’s the early 1960s and her all-male team at Hastings Research Institute takes a very unscientific view of equality. Except for one: Calvin Evans; the lonely, brilliant, Nobel–prize nominated grudge-holder who falls in love with—of all…

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Book Review: Ten Thousand Stitches by Olivia Atwater

Regency housemaid Euphemia Reeves has acquired a faerie godfather. Unfortunately, he has no idea what he’s doing.Effie has most inconveniently fallen in love with the dashing Mr Benedict Ashbrooke. There’s only one problem; Effie is a housemaid, and a housemaid cannot marry a gentleman. It seems that Effie is out of luck until she stumbles into the faerie realm of Lord Blackthorn, who is only too…

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Book Review: This Wicked Fate by Kalynn Bayron

How much would you risk to save the ones you love? Would you tempt even the most dangerous fate?Briseis has one chance to save her mother, but she’ll need to do the impossible: find the last fragment of the deadly Absyrtus Heart. If she is to locate the missing piece, she must turn to the blood relatives she’s never known, learn about their secret powers, and take her place in their ancient…

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ARC Review - Profiles in Ignorance: How America's Politicians Got Dumb and Dumber by Andy Borowitz

PROFILES IN IGNORANCE by @BorowitzReport is a smart but funny look at how we came to be where we are today in American politics and the perils of celebrating ignorance. Do checkout the book and my review.. Any RTs and Clicks appreciated..!!

Andy Borowitz, “one of the funniest people in America” (CBS Sunday Morning), brilliantly examines the intellectual deterioration of American politics, from Ronald Reagan to Dan Quayle, from George W. Bush to Sarah Palin, to its apotheosis in Donald J. Trump.The winner of the first-ever National Press Club award for humor, Andy Borowitz has been called a “Swiftian satirist” (The Wall Street…

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Books on my TBR due to Interesting Titles and Covers

I always add books to my TBR because of their intriguing titles and gorgeous covers have me captivated. So, here is a list of (mostly) upcoming releases which made their way onto my TBR for the aforementioned reasons.. Do checkout and RT ..!!!

My main source for adding books to my TBR is finding them on twitter, and naturally what gravitates me towards a book initially if I’m unfamiliar with the author, is an intriguing title or an enchanting cover. So, I wanted to make a list of some upcoming books which captured my attention pretty much on first sight and ones I’m very excited to explore. And here it is in no particular order… I…

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Audiobook Review: The Maid by Nita Prose

A charmingly eccentric hotel maid discovers a guest murdered in his bed. Solving the mystery will turn her once orderly world upside down in this utterly original debut.Molly Gray is not like everyone else. She struggles with social skills and misinterprets the intentions of others. Her gran used to interpret the world for her, codifying it into simple rules that Molly could live by.Since Gran…