Tag: reading challenge
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The ILVN 2024 Reading Challenge has twelve prompts, and we’re completing one prompt a month, like we did last year. And I’m excited to talk about what I read in May for this challenge. This month, I read from one of the better known urban fantasy/paranormal romance authors, Jeaniene Frost. Shades of Wicked is a…
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Hello again, lovely readers! We’re here to announce our new reading challenge for 2024! Which is a bit late, I know, but I’m going to take the life-got-in-the-way pass and just get on with things. If you didn’t know, I am obsessed with reading challenges. I’ve joined so many this year. And I could always…
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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 November pick for ILVN’s 2023 Reading Challenge! It’s time for the some frost, winter themes. My home town, Syracuse, has gotten its first snow, so it seems fitting. And with all of the creatures we could follow into the cold, we’ve landed on the fae. They do have…
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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 August pick for ILVN’s 2023 Reading Challenge! This month, we’re hopping into Immortal Longings by #1 New York Times bestselling author Chloe Gong. And this is her first adult epic fantasy. She’s known for writing Shakespeare retellings full of angst, violence, tension, romance, and gruesome realities. You know,…
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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 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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Hello, lovely readers! We’re back with our February pick for ILVN’s 2023 Reading Challenge! And we’ve chosen a book by multi-list best-selling author Leigh Bardugo: Ninth House. Galaxy “Alex” Stern is the most unlikely member of Yale’s freshman class. Raised in the Los Angeles hinterlands by a hippie mom, Alex dropped out of school early…