Author: firewhiskeyreader

  • 2024 ARC Reviews: A Crown this Cold and Heavy, What Feasts at Night, and A Love Song for Ricki Wilde

    2024 ARC Reviews: A Crown this Cold and Heavy, What Feasts at Night, and A Love Song for Ricki Wilde

    I have been truly blessed with receiving audio ARC copies of some of my most anticipated books lately, which has been a gift! February has been a month of releases already and I’m so excited to be able to talk to you about the audio release of A Crown This Cold and Heavy by Stacia…

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  • 2024 ARC Reviews: Wild Life, Love Naturally, and Faebound

    I actually did read these books in January, I just dragged my feet writing these reviews. Why? No idea. Anyway, I’m so excited to bring you reviews for Wild Life by Opal Wei, Love, Naturally by Sophie Sullivan, and Faebound by Saara El-Arifi. I received all three from Netgalley, but I listened to Faebound via…

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  • January Wrap Up & February TBR

    January Wrap Up & February TBR

    January was a century long, but my reading was pretty on par for my recent months reading, clocking in at 17 reads. I had a pretty decent month, reading wise, with the highlight absolutely being my re-read of Crescent City 1 and 2 and then my first read of CC3, House of Flame and Shadow!…

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  • 2024 ARC Reviews: Red String Theory, Emily Wilde’s Map of the Otherworlds, and Ready or Not

    2024 ARC Reviews: Red String Theory, Emily Wilde’s Map of the Otherworlds, and Ready or Not

    I put these books in this post in publication order, even though the first book I read was actually Ready or Not by Cara Bastone because I was so excited when I got the ARC that I read it immediately. I love Bastone’s writing and even though this wasn’t my favorite romance from her, I…

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  • ARC Reviews: The Hookup Plan, The Art of Scandal, and For Never & Always

    ARC Reviews: The Hookup Plan, The Art of Scandal, and For Never & Always

    So… I am very behind in reading my ARCs, but I’m trying the best I can to start catching up and these three are the first three I’m releasing to y’all! First up, we have The Hookup Plan by Farrah Rochon, which actually came out in 2022. Please don’t judge. Then we have The Art…

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  • Ranking the 2022 Titles I Read in 2023

    Ranking the 2022 Titles I Read in 2023

    Is this too complicated a blog title? Maybe. But you see, I read 60ish 2022 releases last year and I was considering just doing one giant backlist tier ranking post, but I just don’t think I can handle the sheer number of books that would be so I’m carving out 2022 and tier ranking those…

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  • December Wrap Up + January TBR

    December Wrap Up + January TBR

    So… This month wasn’t really the best. But you know, it did contain Christmas and getting to see two of my besties so that was good. Plus, family time. Always good. And presents, both giving and receiving. That said, I’m excited to go into 2024 actually because… Well, It’s a fresh start, I guess. But…

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  • Ranking the 2023 Reads I Read from September – December

    Ranking the 2023 Reads I Read from September – December

    I hope this doesn’t feel unnecessary with all of the end of the year content, but tbh, this is so fun (and painful) that I just couldn’t resist. As usual, my tiers are based on Taylor Swift songs and we’re sticking with the tiers from last time around, so “We Are Never Ever Getting Back…

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  • My Best Books of 2023

    My Best Books of 2023

    It’s funny because I really didn’t feel like this year was that fantastic in terms of my reading, but when I went through the books I’ve read this year to pick out my tops, I came away with quite a list. I’ve got 14 books that I was able to narrow my top favorites down…

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  • My Most Anticipated Reads of 2024

    My Most Anticipated Reads of 2024

    Well, or at least the first half. I have a lot of books that I’m excited about in the upcoming year and I’m really hoping they live up to all of my excitement. So here are the books I’m anticipating releasing between January and June, I’ve saved July – December for a second post at…

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