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Book Review: The Sanatorium: A Novel by Sarah Pearse

October 25, 2021. Vacation and engagement party gone wrong! Elin Warner and her boyfriend, Will, get invited to her estranged brother, Isaac and his fiancee, Laure's, engagement party in the old sanatorium turned new luxury mountaintop hotel. The place already gives Elin bad vibes when she first walks into the hotel. Then people start going missing and turning up dead. An avalanche causes the hotel to be on lockdown. And the killer...is someone inside the hotel.

Book Review: Malorie: A Bird Box Novel by Josh Malerman

October 18, 2021. The sequel to the bestseller Bird Box! Malorie and her two teenage kids, Olympia and Tom, face new obstacles in the new world when they hear that the creatures may be evolving, groups are having controversial and dangerous ideas for new ways of living, and the revelation that Malorie's parents may still be alive. A thriller that will keep you reading to find out if these survivors will continue to survive.

Book Review: The Time of the Hunter’s Moon by Victoria Holt

October 11, 2021. Legend says that if you visit Pilcher's Peak on the night of the hunter's moon, you will see your future husband. When a mysterious stranger continues to show up in recent grad, Cordelia Grant's, life, she gets more questions than answers. Not to mention, now she also has the powerful, mysterious Sir Jason Verringer pursuing her when she starts her new job. Is one of them meant to be her future husband? Or do these men have more insidious intentions with her?

Book Review: Son of Beauty, God of Death by Sera Trevor

October 4, 2021. Prosoper, son of beauty, has been locked away in paradise for two centuries by his overprotective mother. Thaedus, god of death, has confined himself to taking care of souls in the underworld after heartbreak leads him to close off his heart to love. But when the son of beauty meets the god of death, love blossoms in the most unexpected places.

Book Review: Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury

September 27, 2021. Guy Montag never questioned his job as a fireman: to burn books. But when he meets a strange girl, Clarisse, who tells him tales of how the world was like before, he begins to wonder about life where books and individual thought were praised not forbidden. As he begins to challenge the status quo, others become suspicious of his behaviors and start to hunt him down. And the flame that once warmed him now burns him to transform him into a new person.

Book Review: The Last Wish by Andrzej Sapkowski (The Witcher Saga #1)

September 20, 2021. The world is full of monsters. And a witcher's job is to hunt down and kill these monsters. Welcome to The Witcher Saga where we get to meet the mysterious, skilled assassin and sorcerer, Geralt of Rivia, as he tries to survive in a morally ambiguous world. Will he make the right decisions for the greater good?

Words of Wisdom: Life as a Blank Canvas

How do you choose to see life? Your perspective of the world makes a big difference in how you decide to live in it.

Book Review: The Lost Book of the White by Cassandra Clare and Wesley Chu (The Eldest Curses #2)

September 13, 2021. Back with more Magnus Bane and Alec Lightwood adventures! What's wreaking havoc in the boys' lives this time? When the powerful Book of the White gets stolen and Magnus gets stabbed by a warlock intent on recruiting Magnus to work with Greater Demons, the boys must travel to Shanghai to stop their enemies' plans. Oh, and they also have to call a babysitter to watch their son, Max, while they embark on this dangerous mission. Hard to be a parent and a world-saving hero, huh?

Book Review: The Red Scrolls of Magic by Cassandra Clare and Wesley Chu (The Eldest Curses #1)

September 6, 2021. All Magnus wanted was just a nice quiet, demon-free romantic vacation with boyfriend, Alec Lightwood. Of course that didn't happen. The rise of a demon-worshipping cult ruins Magnus's vacation plans. Will the boys be able to stop the cult, save the world, and still make it to their dinner reservation?

The Real Reason We Read Romance Novels

August 30, 2021. Reasons why you read romance novels that you never thought of before. Or maybe you have thought of it.