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 A Storm In Every Heart by Kate King (Enchanted Legacies #2) Release Date: September 1, 2025 If you like dark romantasy with twisted Disney beats, this is the book for you! This is the second in a series, and although it could stand alone in terms of the characters, I think I had a better handle on the world and what to expect from having read the first book, A Thorn in Every Heart .  King conjures clear and specific allusions to Disney movies, notably The Little Mermaid here, and others that I won't spoil😉. Millenials and anyone who grew up on those movies will enjoy the references, although rest assured these NSFW tales are much darker, deeper, and more twisted.  Siren Odessa and her prince Kastian are caught up in tempests not of their making, but as they figure out how to reverse or overcome their "poor unfortunate souls," the reader explores more of the complex lore of Ellender, where the inhabitants have centuries of secrets to hide and scores to settle. This is ...

I've put blogging on the backburner for a bit, but I read a lot of books in July, including book club books, books for review, and escapist contemporary romances from Kindle Unlimited. The Let Them Theory is a book I'll be thinking about for a long time--it's basically a distillation of boundaries/thought exercises you can learn from therapy, but I liked how Robbins broke it down and supported each chapter with expert advice and research. Books Read in July 2025 Nine Women, One Dress by Jane L. Rosen (Book club read) The Let Them Theory by Mel Robbins The Best Advice by Amy Dressler (LibraryThing review) The Tea Girl of Hummingbird Lane by Lisa See (Another book club read) The Best Book Boyfriend by Holly June Smith The Worst Guy Ever by Holly June Smith The No Rules Roommate by Holly June Smith

Lessons in Magic and Disaster by Charlie Jane Anders Release Date: August 19, 2025 I was honored to be one in a chain of readers sharing an ARC from the author. It was a pretty cool idea; we each were mailed a copy, read it, and received an address to mail it on to the next person. As one of the last readers, when I received it, the inside cover was almost filled with messages and signatures from previous readers! No one, however, had marked the book in any way, so I will have to wait until I get my own preordered copy to do all my underlining and annotating! This was such a beautiful, melancholy yet hopeful, contained yet genre-expansive, story of an 18th century Brit lit grad student who teaches her mother magic, with somewhat disastrous consequences. I enjoyed the embedded 18th century Brit lit discourse and the interpolated fictional 18th century novel, and particularly the spotlight on real 18th century women writers (Sarah Fielding, Jane Collier). The novel wrestles with the eth...