Author: firewhiskeyreader

  • #T5W: Books to Read Without the Synopsis

    #T5W: Books to Read Without the Synopsis

    This week’s Top Five Wednesday topic is Books to Read Without the Synopsis and I’m here giving you all my thoughts on the Top Five books for that. Now, I will note that the topic seemed more geared toward books where I would be likely to say, “It’s best to go into this one blind,”…

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  • Ramona Blue: A Spoiler Free Review

    Ramona Blue: A Spoiler Free Review

    Let me begin by saying that I love this book and I’m so glad I read it. You may remember that I read the first chapter of Ramona Blue by Julie Murphy for my Try a Chapter Tag and be wondering what the heck took me so long to actually finish it. That’s a great…

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  • Highly Anticipated Books: Fall Edition

    Highly Anticipated Books: Fall Edition

    Does Fall technically start on September 21? Yes. Does that matter for purposes of the way anyone thinks of seasons in the United States? No. Not really. Even Starbucks agrees that Fall is September through November (or through Thanksgiving and then we get RED CUPS, which are my favorites). Anyway, so the point of this…

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  • The Guilty Reader Tag

    The Guilty Reader Tag

    The Guilty Reader Tag was created by ReadLikeWildfire on YouTube and no one tagged me, but I’m obviously doing this anyway. This tag has been going around BookTube and just looks so fun! I can’t wait to do the tag and for you all to be totally appalled in the comments because I am definitely…

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  • The Child Finder by Rene Denfeld: A Spoiler-Free Review

    The Child Finder by Rene Denfeld: A Spoiler-Free Review

    I apologize sincerely for the very delayed post. I meant to have this up yesterday, but I had a very busy weekend/Tuesday, which meant I finished the book late on Monday and spent yesterday traveling, which unfortunately meant I didn’t manage to get my review posted on release day. Anyway, enough disclaimers/excuses: TO THE REVIEW!…

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  • A Discussion of the Portrayal of Domestic Violence in Bad Romance

    A Discussion of the Portrayal of Domestic Violence in Bad Romance

    Guess who has a lot of feelings about a book? Grab yourself a tea or hot chocolate because we’re about to have a deep dive into the world of intimate partner violence. This book is so important and everyone, especially teens, need to read it. Actually, also adults. Honestly, I’m still not over the man…

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  • August Wrap Up, Pt. 2

    August Wrap Up, Pt. 2

    The month of August was a very big reading month for me, which you may have guessed based on the fact that you’ve already seen three wrap ups: August Wrap Up, Pt. 1; 7 in 7 Readathon Wrap Up, and the Graphic Novels Wrap Up. Because of all of the other wrap ups that I’ve…

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  • September TBR

    September TBR

    Fingers crossed I do better with this TBR than my TBR in August… I’m going to list these in the order of the likelihood I will get to them so you’ll know which ones are my more aspirational ones. 1. Tower of Dawn by Sarah J. Maas This book comes out September 5th, is already…

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  • Hate to Want You by Alisha Rai Book Talk

    Hate to Want You by Alisha Rai Book Talk

    I thought I didn’t like second chance tropes, but turns out I just really don’t like them when they’re done poorly or the lead reminds me of my ex-boyfriend. What I’m say is that I went into Hate to Want You a little nervous and then I LOVED it so much. So if you’re putting…

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  • Graphic Novel August Wrap Up

    Graphic Novel August Wrap Up

    Aside from reading The Watchmen in high school at the behest of my then boyfriend and flipping through Archie comics while waiting in line at grocery stores, I’ve never read a graphic novel. That all changed this month when I picked up Nimona, thanks to Chelsea. I had been watching several Booktubers discuss their favorite…

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