Tag: ILVN Book Club
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Hello, lovely readers! We’re back with our December’s pick for ILVN’s 2023 Reading Challenge! It’s the last one for the year, and we’ve only got one prompt left. I’d love to know what prompts y’all are wanting for 2024 because I will be making a 2024 challenge with more prompts! My update will be just…
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Hello, lovely readers! We’re back with our October pick for ILVN’s 2023 Reading Challenge! It’s time for the darkness! I mean, it’s getting dark outside, so of course, we want some darker reads to go with it…right? Right? Well, we’ve chosen The Serpent and the Wings of Night by Carissa Broadbent, which is touted as…
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Hello, lovely readers! We’re back with our September pick for ILVN’s 2023 Reading Challenge! As fall comes barelling toward us, we are sinking into a darker fantasy romance novel. Bite the Woman that Feeds by Penelope Barsetti, a New York Times bestselling author. She usually writes dark romance novels, so as her second foray into…
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Hello, lovely readers! We’re back with our June pick for ILVN’s 2023 Reading Challenge! This month, we’re diving into some summer fun with a slow-burn retelling of The Little Mermaid: A Sea of Blood and Sapphire by Florence Gray! Apparently, there’s some torture, some magic, and LOADS of tension. Yes, please. Check out this description:…
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Hello, lovely readers! We’re back with our June pick for ILVN’s 2023 Reading Challenge! This month is pride month, so we’ve chosen an LGBT+ book to celebrate and support our community. With the many suggestions my friends offered me, I’ve landed on A Marvellous Light by Freya Marske, which comes off as a Harry Potter-inspired…
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Hello, lovely readers! We’re back with our May pick for ILVN’s 2023 Reading Challenge! This month, we’re doing a throwback to Anne Rice, but we’re not reading one of the vampire or witchy novels. Nope! We’re going with her latest book, published posthumously by her son, Christopher Rice: Ramses the Damned: The Reign of Osiris.…
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Hello, lovely readers! We’re back with our April pick for ILVN’s 2023 Reading Challenge! And we’ve chosen a book that goes with this month’s theme—the hunt—which is certainly featured in The Umbra King by Jamie Applegate Hunter: The morally grey don’t want redemption. They want retribution. After the brutal murder of her twin sister, Aurora…
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Hello, lovely readers! We’re back with our March pick for ILVN’s 2023 Reading Challenge! And we’ve chosen a book by author duo C.N. Crawford: Frost. On the worst birthday of my life, I come home to find my boyfriend in bed with another woman. Within hours, I’m drunk, homeless, and pledging to stay single forever.…
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Since we’re reading Leigh Bardugo’s Ninth House for our February Book Club pick. We thought we would explore her many series. Before we begin, we need to mention how excited we are about season two of her Shadow and Bone Netflix adaptation coming out this March! Eeep! Catching up on her books has never been…