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Reading Challenges: Friends Recommend 2025
Continuing on with my exploration of my 2025 reading challenges, next up is ‘Friends Recommend’! This one has been around for a while, so I am sure many of you know about it already, but the basic premise is that you get folks to give you book recommendations. People generally go for 12, so one…
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WWW Wednesday: 19/2/25
Happy midweek all! I hope you’ve had some great reading so far. This week has been much better for me reading-wise than last week. I really fell off in the latter half as one of my beloved cats went missing for 4 days and I couldn’t focus properly to read. He turned up again on…
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Reading Challenges: The Diverse Baseline 2025
One of my goals this year is to diversify my reading. I have always been pretty good at reading across a range of genders and identities, both author-wise and character-wise, so I do want to keep that up, but obviously that isn’t all there is to diversity. I have found I am still tending to…
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The Jasmine Throne by Tasha Suri
Synopsis: Author of Empire of Sand and Realm of Ash Tasha Suri’s The Jasmine Throne, beginning a new trilogy set in a world inspired by the history and epics of India, in which a captive princess and a maidservant in possession of forbidden magic become unlikely allies on a dark journey to save their empire from the princess’s traitor brother.…
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A bookish check-in, aka WWW Wednesday
Happy Wednesday all! Today I have decided to jump on another blog train, this time the WWW Wednesday train!WWW Wednesday is a weekly recap meme hosted over at Taking on a World of Words, where we share what we’re reading and what’s up next on the tbr. What are you currently reading? The Jasmine Throne…
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A Dance of Lies by Brittney Arena
Synopsis: My protector is gone, revealed to be a monster. But I remind myself that I am not a damsel. I’m no princess bound within a tower. I am a shadow. Vasalie Moran was once a dancer in King Illian’s court, until he framed her for murder. Barely surviving her two years in the dungeons,…
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