Author: firewhiskeyreader

  • Harlequin Special Edition ARC Reviews: Valentines for the Rancher, Starlight and the Christmas Dare, and Home for the Challah Days

    Harlequin Special Edition ARC Reviews: Valentines for the Rancher, Starlight and the Christmas Dare, and Home for the Challah Days

    In case you want to celebrate a holiday with a Harlequin Special Edition, I’ve got three different holidays here as options for you to consider. First up, we have Valentine’s Day, which you can celebrate by reading the second chance between two single parents Valentines for the Rancher by Kathy Douglass. Or if you want…

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  • July – December Most Anticipated Reads

    July – December Most Anticipated Reads

    I know that I’ve been giving you all monthly TBRs that include New Releases on my radar, but I really feel like it’s nice to have the ten-ish books that I’m most excited about in the next six months in one post to share with you. I hope you don’t mind, but if you do,…

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  • Nonfiction ARC Reviews: The Deaf Girl, I Want to Burn This Place Down, Hit Girls

    Nonfiction ARC Reviews: The Deaf Girl, I Want to Burn This Place Down, Hit Girls

    Y’all, I really feel like this year has involved me genuinely embracing nonfiction reads, but I’m still trying to be very limited about requesting nonfiction on Netgalley because I really do not need to be adding another genre to request given how many ARCs I have anyway. But I do have three ARCs to review…

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  • May Wrap Up

    May Wrap Up

    May was quite a month. It’s the month that my besties second baby joined us earth side, which was so exciting! And I really enjoyed getting baby cuddles when I went to visit. I also loved spending time with the bestie and her older kid because we’re also besties. So that was a really great…

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  • 2025 ARC Reviews: Bold Moves, Not Safe for Work, and Love in Focus

    2025 ARC Reviews: Bold Moves, Not Safe for Work, and Love in Focus

    I really love being able to bring y’all reviews in groups of three where I really enjoyed all three books and that is what we have here today! Bold Moves by Emma Barry came out in April, sorry about the delay, and if you haven’t read it yet, you simply must pick it up. Not…

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  • June Releases & TBR

    June Releases & TBR

    Y’all, there are a lot of books coming out in June, although perhaps slightly fewer than in May. But I’m really excited to share with you the books on my radar and I can’t wait to find out what books are on your radar! So let’s dive in, shall we?

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  • Finishing Trilogies: ARC Reviews of The Charmer, Can’t Get Enough, and Along Came Amor

    Finishing Trilogies: ARC Reviews of The Charmer, Can’t Get Enough, and Along Came Amor

    Thematically writing ARC review posts is always a wee bit of a struggle because of my mood reading tendencies and the way that I will immediately rebel the second I set myself a strict TBR, but I somehow managed to read these three in quick succession so here we are with an actual themed ARC…

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  • Continuing Series: ARC Reviews of Two Secrets to Surrender, Left of Forever, and Heart Strings

    Continuing Series: ARC Reviews of Two Secrets to Surrender, Left of Forever, and Heart Strings

    This is so fun to be able to bring you a review of a book you can pick up right now (Two Secrets to Surrender), a book you can pick up in two days (Left of Forever), and a book that doesn’t come out until August (Heart Strings). Is that too far away to tell…

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  • Tier Ranking the 2025 Releases I Read from January – April

    Tier Ranking the 2025 Releases I Read from January – April

    So far I’ve read 31 2025 releases and so I’m here to share my thoughts on where these books fall on my emotional tier ranking scale that is, of course, based on Taylor Swift song lyrics. I picked my tiers based on love songs from Taylor and where they fall on my personal clearly this…

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  • April Wrap Up

    We are entering the time of the year where everything is busy all the time and also the weather changes are wreaking havoc on my immune system. I’ve slept so much today so I think I’m mostly ready to write this post today. Here’s hoping. April was a pretty good reading month, although I truly…

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