Author: firewhiskeyreader

  • Most Anticipated: Summer

    Most Anticipated: Summer

    The books coming out in the next three months are some of the ones I am most anticipating in the entire year. I absolutely cannot wait for so many of these so I apologize in advance for the multitude of exclamation points you’re about to see. 1. Wolf Rainby Nalini Singh Y’all. A new Psy-Changeling…

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  • Trope Talk: Fake Dating

    Trope Talk: Fake Dating

    Fake relationships is one of my absolute favorite tropes. I love the part where they have to fake affection for the outside world and then they’re like, “WAIT, BUT WHAT IS REAL?” It’s one of my favorite conflicts and also just I love it the most always. I’m splitting my fake relationship recommendation posts into…

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  • April Wrap Up, Part Two & OWLS Wrap Up

    April Wrap Up, Part Two & OWLS Wrap Up

    The second half of April saw me beginning my new job and I can’t pretend my reading didn’t suffer from it. The majority of the books I finished were due to audiobook time since I’m back to having a decent commute and because I went home for Easter weekend. The rest of my reading in…

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  • Trope Talk: Enemies to Lovers

    Trope Talk: Enemies to Lovers

    Hello! I am finally returning to the second part of my Trope Talk: Hate to Love that I had planned… months ago? Not sure. Anyway, one of the things I mentioned was that enemies to lovers seems to lend itself a bit more to paranormal and fantasy romances because how many of us TRULY have…

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  • April Wrap Up, Part One

    April Wrap Up, Part One

    The beginning of April has been kind of a weird reading month. But I read two of my most anticipated books of the entire year and loved them both so let’s hop to it! P.S. I’m not posting a Romanceopoly Wrap Up because I literally failed so hard at that Readathon. 1. Branded by Fire…

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  • Most Anticipated Books of Winter Check In

    Most Anticipated Books of Winter Check In

    I had a list of ten books I was super highly anticipating that released from December through February and I thought it would be fun to check in and see if I’m good at predicting books I’m going to love and actually, you know, pick up. Of course, the tenth book was supposed to be…

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  • Quarterly Goals Check In

    Quarterly Goals Check In

    So I had some reading goals at the beginning of the year and I thought it would be good for us to check in with those… 1. Read One Non-fiction Book a Month Well, I accomplished this for January and February and then fell off the wagon in March. I’ll try to course correct this…

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  • RomanceopolyAThon TBR

    RomanceopolyAThon TBR

    There are seven challenges for RomanceopolyAThon, which is running from April 8-14 and you can actually ignore your rolls, which is helpful because I’m currently on the one that requires me to read historical fiction, which I’m not in the mood for really. (But When We Left Cuba comes out on April 9th, so once…

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  • Favorite Books of Jan-March

    Favorite Books of Jan-March

    Last year I kept an updated top ten ranking that I threw out the window when it came time to actually make one list so this time I’m just going to break it down into my top ten books of each quarter and leave future me to deal with whatever it is I do at…

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  • March Wrap Up, Part Two

    March Wrap Up, Part Two

    I read so many good books this month, but honestly Daisy Jones is absolutely still my favorite book of the month (and of all time). Anyway, let’s get to the last fourteen books I read this month! 11. Block Shot by Kennedy Ryan “I live through those things by caring less,” he says. “And I…

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