Author: firewhiskeyreader

  • Historical ARC Reviews: The Poisoner’s Ring, The Notorious Lord Knightly, and A Nobleman’s Guide to Seducing a Scoundrel

    Historical ARC Reviews: The Poisoner’s Ring, The Notorious Lord Knightly, and A Nobleman’s Guide to Seducing a Scoundrel

    I’m really delighted to be able to give you some ARC reviews, even if they are largely months late. Oops. The Poisoner’s Ring by Kelley Armstrong is the second book in a historical mystery series that I am really addicted to at the moment. The Notorious Lord Knightly is book two in The Chessmen series…

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  • #FallInLoveBingo Announcement and TBR

    #FallInLoveBingo Announcement and TBR

    I know I’ve talked about the fact that Twitter feeling like it’s just fading has really made it hard to focus on content creation, but the place that most affected me was in determining whether or not #FallInLoveBingo needed to return. Fortunately for anyone else who loves a bingo challenge, I was asked on Discord…

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  • ARC Reviews: Play to Win, Family Lore, and Shucked

    ARC Reviews: Play to Win, Family Lore, and Shucked

    I am so behind on ARC reviews and I am fairly confident I will never catch up. However, here are three books that I think a lot of people will love that I’m delighted to tell you about my perspective on. I did receive e-ARCs of Play to Win by Jodie Slaughter and Family Lore…

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  • Tier Ranking 2023 Releases I Read from May – August

    Tier Ranking 2023 Releases I Read from May – August

    I have read so many 2023 releases in the last four months. So many. Specifically, I’ve read 44 since May 1, 2023. And, what’s really exciting to me, is that I’ve really enjoyed so many of them and can’t wait to tell you about them. So let’s get started!

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  • Speculative Romance ARCs: Sweep of the Heart, Not Your Ex’s Hexes, and The Witch is Back

    Speculative Romance ARCs: Sweep of the Heart, Not Your Ex’s Hexes, and The Witch is Back

    Reviewing these books has taken such a long time and I have no good excuse beyond I just haven’t been able to find the words to talk about one of them. But here we are, finally completing this dramatically overdue post. The three books we’re talking about today are Sweep of the Heart by Ilona…

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  • August Wrap Up + September TBR

    August Wrap Up + September TBR

    Taylor Swift knew exactly what she was talking about when she sang “August slipped away like a moment in time,” because wow, did August absolutely fly away. Anyway, here we are to talk about the 25 books I read in August and my September hopefuls.

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  • Most Anticipated Books of Fall

    FALL IS NIGH. I am so excited. I am very much not a summer girlie so I, for one, cannot wait for Fall. I want the leaves changing, more apple cider donuts I can’t actually eat, and all the apple crisp macchiatos my wallet can afford. I want to carve pumpkins with my nephew and…

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  • I Fell Down a Single Dad Romance Rabbit Hole and Here’s What I Thought

    I Fell Down a Single Dad Romance Rabbit Hole and Here’s What I Thought

    Last month, I got the sudden overwhelming urge to reread Heartless by Elsie Silver, which sent me on a path of wanting to read so many single dad trope books and I read four before the fourth led me on a detour of some romantic suspense books that we may examine at a later date.…

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  • July Wrap Up & August TBR

    July Wrap Up & August TBR

    So, I read entirely too much in July. Like genuinely. Im’ not exactly sure what happened, but I did some serious series devouring in two specific series and I’ve been trying to figure out the best way to talk about certain books that I have more to say than others so don’t be surprised if…

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  • From the Vault Songs + Romance Recs, Part One

    From the Vault Songs + Romance Recs, Part One

    Taylor Swift has been blessing us with some additional songs with each re-release and randomly a couple of songs for Midnights and Lover and I am certainly not complaining. Today because I’m still in my Speak Now (Taylor’s Version) era, I’m going to cover the six vault tracks from SN (TV) as well as “All…

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