This post is the first in a brand new series here on Bookishly Thinking. Fanfic Fun is where I write reviews of fanfiction that I have enjoyed and want to reccommend. Maybe this will get me out of my blogging slump. Who knows? I'm starting this series with a solid fic. At 70,638 words, this … Continue reading Fanfic Fun #1
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Eight Kinky Nights | review
Information Eight Kinky Nights by Xan WestFormat: eARCSource: author380 pages Genre: romanceAmazonGoodReadsRating: 8/5 Summary Newly divorced stone butch Jordan moves into her friend Leah’s spare room, ready, at 49, to take on a new job and finally explore kink and polyamory. But moving to NYC during the holidays sends grief crashing through her, and Jordan … Continue reading Eight Kinky Nights | review
Review // Dear Martin
Information: Dear Martin by Nic Stone format: ARC source: YallWest pages: 224 genre: contemporary amazon goodreads stars: 4/5 Summary: Justyce McAllister is top of his class, captain of the debate team, and set for the Ivy League next year—but none of that matters to the police officer who just put him in handcuffs. He is … Continue reading Review // Dear Martin
SST // Mask of Shadows
Information: Mask of Shadows by Linsey Miller format: eARC and print ARC and hardcover source: NetGalley and Julie and Books of Wonder pages: 352 genre: Fantasy??? amazon goodreads stars: 4/5 Summary: I Needed to Win. They Needed to Die. Sallot Leon is a thief, and a good one at that. But gender fluid Sal wants … Continue reading SST // Mask of Shadows
Review // The Girl with the Red Balloon
Information: The Girl with the Red Balloon by Katherine Locke format: eARC source: netgalley pages: 256 genre: historical fiction amazon goodreads stars: 4/5 Summary: When sixteen-year-old Ellie Baum accidentally time-travels via red balloon to 1988 East Berlin, she’s caught up in a conspiracy of history and magic. She meets members of an underground guild in … Continue reading Review // The Girl with the Red Balloon
Review // How to Make a Wish
Information: How to Make a Wish by Ashley Herring Blake format: ARC source: netgalley and YALLWEST pages: 336 genre: contemporary amazon goodreads stars: all of them Summary: All seventeen year-old Grace Glasser wants is her own life. A normal life in which she sleeps in the same bed for longer than three months and doesn't … Continue reading Review // How to Make a Wish
Review // Bossypants
Information: Bossypants by Tina Fey format: audiobook source: audible pages: n/a genre: memoir amazon goodreads stars: 2/5 Goodreads Summary: Before Liz Lemon, before "Weekend Update," before "Sarah Palin," Tina Fey was just a young girl with a dream: a recurring stress dream that she was being chased through a local airport by her middle-school gym teacher. She … Continue reading Review // Bossypants
Review // Welcome Back vol. 1
Information: Welcome Back by Christopher Sebela format: paperback source: amazon pages: 112 genre: comic amazon goodreads stars: 3/5 Summary: Mali and Tessa have lived hundreds of different lives throughout time, caught up in an eternal cycle as they take part in a war so old that neither side rememb ers what they’re fighting for anymore. … Continue reading Review // Welcome Back vol. 1
Review // Another Word for Happy
Information: Another Word For Happy by Agay Llanera format: earc source: author pages: 130 genre: contemporary amazon goodreads stars: 3/5 Summary: What does it take to come out of the closet? Since he was thirteen, Caleb has always known he’s gay. Now a college freshman, he falls in love for the first time. If it’s … Continue reading Review // Another Word for Happy
Review // Half
Information: Half by Eli Lang format: eARC source: twitter pages: 287 genre: fantasy goodreads stars: 2.5/5 Summary: Living between worlds has never been comfortable, but it’s where I’ve always fit: between human and fey, illness and health, magic and reality. I’ve spent the last six years looking for a cure for the nameless sickness eating me up. … Continue reading Review // Half