Review: God of Wrath - Book #3 Legacy of Gods - Rina Kent - November 2022 There's a peculiar disappointment that comes with watching a series you once loved start to unravel. I fell hard for Rina Kent's Legacy of Gods series. Book #1 with Glyn and Killian? Absolutely devoured it. The chemistry, the tension, the perfect blend of darkness and devotion—it was everything I wanted in a dark romance. Book #2 maintained that momentum with solid romantic suspense that kept me turning pages. But Book #3, God of Wrath, left me feeling... uncertain about where this series is headed. The premise started strong. Cecily participating in the Hunt was gripping, and the revelation of her own dark fantasies specifically her rape fantasy kink added layers to her character. When she signs up for an elite sex club expecting to finally be matched with Landon (Glyn's older brother and her longtime crush), the twist that pairs her with Jeremy Volkov instead had real potential. Jeremy, Annika...

Review: Love Deep - Book #2 Colorado Club Billionaires - Louise Bay - October 2025 There's something deeply comforting about picking up a Louise Bay novel. It's like wrapping yourself in a soft blanket with a cup of tea , you know exactly what you're getting, and that predictability is precisely the point. Love Deep, Book #2 in the Colorado Club Billionaires series, delivered exactly what I needed: pure romance escapism without the emotional gymnastics. Let me start with my cover crush because yes, this matters. The cover perfectly captures that small-town-meets-sophistication vibe that runs through the entire story. It promised me warmth, and it delivered. Juniper is a single mom to eight-year-old Riley, working hard and creating art in whatever spare moments she can steal. When her old high school friend Byron opens a billionaire resort in their small town of Star Falls, he offers her the opportunity to showcase her artwork. Enter Fisher, a music producer with serious c...

Taking the Plunge: Why I Released My Surfing Romance on Wattpad There's a specific kind of terror that exists when you hit "publish" on something you've poured your heart into. It's not the peaceful silence of a quiet morning. It's the heavy, pressurized quiet right before you find out if anyone will actually read what you've written , if the story that kept you up at night will resonate with anyone beyond your own imagination. I just experienced that feeling with The Surface , my new surfing romance that's now live on Wattpad. Writing this story felt different. Maybe it's because I've always been drawn to the ocean that raw, unforgiving force that doesn't care about your plans or your fears. Or maybe it's because Skyler's journey mirrors something I think we all face: the pressure to be perfect versus the courage to be real. The Surface follows Skyler Sailsbury, the world's most celebrated female surfer, who's drownin...

      Review: Pretty Little Lies - Jessica Huntley - December 2025 There's something deeply satisfying about discovering an author who consistently delivers, and Jessica Huntley has become exactly that for me. After falling head over heels for Room 21, I jumped at the chance to join  Zooloos Book Tours for her latest release, Pretty Little Lies. The cover alone had me hooked elegant yet unsettling but it's what lay beneath that truly captivated me. Pretty Little Lies centers on Amelia and Noah, an engaged couple whose seemingly perfect relationship begins to fracture. As Noah grows distant, Amelia's suspicions of infidelity take root. But her personal crisis quickly spirals into something far more sinister when threatening text messages invade her phone, escalating to deliberate attacks on her freelance beauty business. Someone isn't just trying to hurt Amelia they want to destroy her entire life. What made this thriller particularly gripping was the dual mystery...

Review: Got You - Erik Therme - October 2025 There's something unsettling about family dynamics we can't quite fix, and Erik Therme captures this perfectly in Got You. When I picked up this psychological thriller for the 3Ps Virtual Book Tour with Zooloos Book Tours, I wasn't prepared for how personally it would resonate. Leah has never been close to her younger half-sister Amanda , a reality that hit close to home for me as I am not close to my half-brother . Amanda's life is a chaotic tangle of poor decisions and toxic relationships, and Leah has learned to expect late-night crisis calls. But when Amanda phones frantically demanding a ride to Belmont, insisting her son is in danger, Leah is confused. Amanda doesn't have any children. Before Leah can unravel the truth, Amanda runs into traffic and is killed. What follows is a masterfully crafted descent into paranoia and grief that had me questioning everything alongside Leah. The coroner's report reveals ha...

Review: Super Pancake and the Terrible Toast - Megan Wagner Lloyd and Illustrated by Abhi Alwar - November 2025 There's something wonderfully absurd about a pancake superhero, and Megan Wagner Lloyd's Super Pancake and The Terrible Toast leans into that absurdity with pure joy. Thanks to RandomHouse Kids Graphics for sending this ARC my way , it was exactly the kind of light-hearted escape I needed. This  installment finds our syrupy hero, Peggy Pancake, juggling the classic superhero dilemma: saving the world while maintaining personal relationships. After her previous adventure babysitting mini muffins and battling a Mini Mega Laser of Doom, Peggy now faces an even more challenging nemesis - The Terrible Toast, who's brewing up a mind control scheme beneath the Syrup Sea. But what really struck me about this graphic novel is how it balances the high-stakes action with genuine emotional weight. Peggy's strained relationship with her brother Patrick feels real, even in...

Review: Alchemy of Secrets - Stephanuie Garber - October 2025 After falling head over heels for Stephanie Garber's Once Upon a Broken Heart series and Caraval, I've learned something important about reading order: sometimes it matters more than you'd think. While I adored Caraval, I made the mistake of meeting Jacks first in the Broken Heart series. When I later encountered his portrayal in Caraval books two and three, I just couldn't reconcile them , I'd already fallen for the version of him I knew, and seeing a different side felt impossible to accept. So when I picked up Alchemy of Secrets, I'll admit my expectations were cautiously optimistic. I thought it would be a solid, perhaps average read. Reader, I was spectacularly wrong. From the first chapter , a gripping twenty pages that had me cursing my lunch break's inevitable end. I was completely hooked. Stephanie Garber has crafted something truly special here, weaving together mythology, folklore, a...

Review: Captive Films - Book #2.1 - Jillian Dodd - March 2015 When I needed a palate cleanser between heavier reads, I reached for Captive Films 2.1 by Jillian Dodd, and it delivered exactly what I was craving—a fast-paced, drama-filled escape that I devoured in one sitting. This installment picks up right where the previous book left off, and let me tell you, Knox is making some spectacularly bad decisions. After jumping to conclusions about Ariela (classic Knox), he decides the mature response is to grab his brother and friends for a wild night in Las Vegas to drown his sorrows. Meanwhile, poor Ariela is desperately trying to reach him to explain, but he won't answer his phone. Typical guy move, right? I found myself yelling at the pages, wanting to shake some sense into him. Of course, what happens in Vegas doesn't stay in Vegas—especially when you're connected to Captive Films. Photos from their debauchery hit the papers, and suddenly everyone is scrambling. Keatyn a...

Review: Beyond Broken Pencils - Julie C. Gilbert - August 2018 I was twelve years old when Dylan and Eric walked into Columbine High School and changed everything. The date April 20, 1999 became seared into my generation's consciousness. For my thirteenth birthday, my aunty gave me a book that would profoundly shape how I understood that tragedy: Rachel's Tears, the diary of Rachel Scott, one of the students killed that day. Rachel had written about sensing she wouldn't have a future, words that haunt me still. As someone who endured bullying throughout my school years, I understood something complicated and uncomfortable: I could see how the bullied might snap, how they might overpower those who made their lives unbearable. When you're a teenager, trapped in what feels like an endless cycle of torment, life can seem genuinely hopeless. Coming from a country where guns aren't readily available, I've found myself drawn to true crime, particularly school shooting...