Review: Network Effect by Martha Wells 🌀 A full length Murderbot Novel

Goodreads – Amazon  – Book Depository CW's: Violence, Injury, Kidnapping Murderbot returns in its highly-anticipated, first, full-length standalone novel. I’m usually alone in my head, and that’s where 90 plus percent of my problems are. When Murderbot's human associates (not friends, never friends) are captured and another not-friend from its past requires urgent assistance, Murderbot must choose between inertia…

Arc Reviews: Our Last Echoes & A Dark and Hollow Star ❤ A hit and a miss 😱

Our Last Echoes by Kate Alice Marshall ⭐⭐⭐⭐ Goodreads – Amazon – Book Depository CW's: Attempted Murder, Violence, Gore, Injury and Body Horror, Animal Death, Panic Attacks ❤ Published March 16th 2021 ❤ Sophia's first memory is of drowning. She remembers the darkness of the water and the briny taste as it fills her throat.…

Review: Today Tonight Tomorrow by Rachel Lynn Solomon in BUZZWORDS 💙

Goodreads – Amazon  – Book Depository CW's: Discussion of Antisemitism, Mentions of murder, violence and bullying, Drug Use Representation 🌷 Jewish MC & LI An unforgettable romantic comedy about two rival overachievers whose relationship completely transforms over the course of twenty-four hours. Today, she hates him. It’s the last day of senior year. Rowan Roth and Neil McNair have been…

Arc Review: Secrets of Camp Whatever by Chris Grine 👻 A not so normal summer camp

Goodreads – Amazon  – Book Depository CW's: Ableist Comments (challenged) Representation 🌷 Deaf MC, Black SC Perfect for fans of Lumberjanes and Brain Camp, there’s more than mosquitos at Camp Whatever and Willow will need to face truths about herself and her family as summer camp dread goes head to head with the supernatural. Eleven year-old Willow doesn't want…

Review: Fence Vol 1-4 ⚔ I’m getting invested in … sports?!

Fence Vol 1-4. by C.S. Pacat & Johanna the Mad CW's: Mentions of abandonment & Bullying ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ This review covers my feelings about all four volumes of Fence but contains no spoilers! Nicholas, the illegitimate son of a retired fencing champion, is a scrappy fencing wunderkind, and dreams of getting the chance and the training…

Review: The Tower of Nero by Rick Riordan ✨ The end of the Percy Jacksonverse

Goodreads – Amazon  – Book Depository CW's: Emotional Abuse, Violence At last, the breathtaking, action-packed finale of the #1 bestselling Trials of Apollo series is here!  Will the Greek god Apollo, cast down to earth in the pathetic moral form of a teenager named Lester Papadopoulos, finally regain his place on Mount Olympus? Lester's demigod friends at Camp Jupiter…

Review: Cemetery Boys by Aiden Thomas 👻 Ghosts, Banter and lots of yearning

Goodreads – Amazon  – Thalia (DE) ** currently not available on Book Depository. Shipping also seems to be difficult (at least in Germany), so I read the e-book version! CW's: Loss of a Loved One, Themes of Murder, Sacrifice and Death, Misgendering/Deadnaming (challenged), Blood Representation 🌷 Latinx (Cuban-Mexican) Gay Trans MC, Latinx Gay LI Yadriel…

Review: Murderbot Diaries #1 – #4 by Martha Wells 💻 I’m OBSESSED with this novella series

Hello fellow bookworms 💗 Originally I only intended to review All Systems Red, but then I binge read books 2-4 in the Murderbot Diaries series as well (and got totally obsessed). Therefore, it made more sense to combine all 4 reviews into one post, so here we are! I've used dividers between my reviews, so…

Review: Skyward by Brandon Sanderson ⭐ Flying, Talking Ships & Bravery

Goodreads – Amazon  – Book Depository CW's: Death, Bullying, War Scenes Spensa's world has been under attack for decades. Now pilots are the heroes of what's left of the human race, and becoming one has always been Spensa's dream. Since she was a little girl, she has imagined soaring skyward and proving her bravery. But…

Arc Review: The Tea Dragon Tapestry 🍵 Cute tea dragons & found family

Goodreads – Amazon  – Book Depository Representation 🌷 Black MC, Disabled & Queer SC's Join Greta and Minette once more for the heartwarming conclusion of the award-winning Tea Dragon series! Over a year since being entrusted with Ginseng's care, Greta still can't chase away the cloud of mourning that hangs over the timid Tea Dragon. As she struggles to…