Review: The Roommate Subtest - Elia Winters - September 2026 I'll be honest with you, dear reader: there was a moment, somewhere in the middle of this book, where I set it down on the arm of the couch and genuinely considered not picking it back up. That's not a great sign for a review, I know. But stick with me, because something pulled me back in, and I think it's worth talking about why. The Roommate Subtext gives us Maggie St. Claire, a freelance journalist who's perfectly content admiring her roommate Blake from a respectable distance,  hot, nerdy, surrounded by an absurd jungle of houseplants he clearly loves more than is reasonable. It's cozy. It's domestic. It's the kind of set-up that makes you want to put the kettle on. Then Maggie lands an assignment to expose an anonymous online kinkster called The Scarlet Pimpernel, and suddenly sitting across the breakfast table from sweet, wholesome Blake gets a lot more complicated. Because Blake, botanist ...

Review: The Last Boy - Various Contributors - February 2026 Oh, this one got me right in the chest I'll be honest when I settled into my reading chair with a cup of tea and cracked open The Last Boy, I wasn't entirely sure what to expect. Peter Pan reimaginings are a crowded space, and my inner child was feeling a little protective. You see, Hook has been a comfort film of mine for as long as I can remember. Robin Williams' Peter Banning rediscovering his inner Pan is the kind of story that wraps around you like a favourite blanket, and any new take on this world has some very big boots to fill in my heart. But within a handful of pages, I'd completely surrendered to it. Writer Dan Panosian has done something genuinely brave here. He's taken the boy who never grew up and asked the question nobody really wants to answer what if he has to? Peter is still clinging to Neverland's golden days like they're a life raft, while the world around him quiet...

  Book Details: Book Title :   DEAR HERO by  Alyssa Roat & Hope Bolinger Category :   YA Fiction (Ages 13-17) ,  394 pages Genre :   YA Romance, Superheroes,  Chat Fiction, Humor Publisher :   Torchflame Books Release date:    October, 2024 Content Rating :  PG-13  for MCU-level superhero violence; PG when it comes to language and sexual content (kissing). Book Description: There's an app for everything--even meeting a new nemesis. Up-and-coming teen superhero Cortex is on top of the world—at least, until his villain dumps him. If he’s going to save his reputation, he needs a new villain to fight, and fast. Meanwhile, the villainous Vortex has once again gotten a little overeager and taken out a hero prematurely. Will any young hero be able to keep up with her? Maybe she should work on finding a steady relationship with an enemy she won’t kill in the first round. Enter Meta-Match, a nemesis pairing site...

Review: Neon Gods - Book #1 Dark Olympus Series - Katee Robert - June 2021 For as long as Persephone can remember, the Hades statue has always been covered by a dark shroud and there have been rumors that the Hades lineage and name died out and that he is nothing but a dark myth and legend told to the generations of Gods and Goddesses and people of Dark Olympus to scare them. Persephone was one of those people who believed that but she also had this slight obsession with finding out the truth about Hades. Soon though her life is about to direct her right into the path of Hades and his underworld. When Demeter sets Persephone up at a party as Zeus's new bride and inheriting the title Hera - Persephone freaks and dashes away, she needs to be anywhere but here and she finds herself crossing the River Styx right into the arms of Hades. How can this be? How can Hades still exist and why is he here and never showing his face around events of the Dark Olympus and The esteemed Thirteen? Pe...

Review: The Fiction Writer - Jillian Cantor - September 2023 This book had me at the title and then as I opened it up, I was thrust into a world that fans of Rebecca by Daphne Du Maurier will love. This book is for all those fans who wish they could read a modern-day take on the Rebecca story. It was just as twisted and then it also weaved in facts from the real story with Daphne Du Maurier and how she was accused of plagiarism of the story and then touched on the book set in the islands - Wide Saragossa Sea by Jean Rhys. The book starts with our main character during a   writer's block when she is approached to ghostwrite a story for a reclusive actor. Olivia accepts the invitation to meet him and is soon thrust into the crazy world of Henry Asherwood as she starts to learn about the females and the males in the lineage line and discovers that the females were all successful at one point, but slowly faded as the men rose and then the females were tossed aside and it looked like...

Review: Northanger Abbey - The Austen Project Series - Val McDermid - March 2014 This month's reading challenge is to clear my TBR bookshelves and focus on books that have been sitting there for a while. I decided to start by grabbing ones that I know have been there a long time, like this one that has been sitting on my bookshelf for nearly ten years. I wasn't sure how I would find this one as I do love my renditions but didn't know much of the story of Northanger Abbey as it isn't one of Austen's most known works and one people I have heard said is aimed at the younger audience due to the main characters age. The other thing was that Val McDermid is said to be the Queen of Crime and so I wasn't sure how she would transfer her skills to an Austen tale. After reading it, I can surely doth protest that Val McDermid did an amazing job as the book was so easy to follow and read and held my attention. In Northanger Abbey, we first met Cat Morland who has come to E...