February 2024 Reads

Every time Violet says full disclosure I get so angry😂

Currently Reading

I just plowed through the first two books in this series and am just staring this third one. I’m obsessed!

The Villains Beast by Kate Hawthorne

Had a great time with this one. The spice was spicing, the angst was angsting. This is a bit of a dark read, definitely check the trigger/content warnings before you read, but I really enjoyed it and I didn’t want it to end. I wanted more time with alle the characters. I loved how their relationships developed and the different dynamics they all have with each other.

Have you read this one yet?

What is your fave mm dark romance?

Seen a bunch of this recently where people complain about the amount of romance in the empyrean series (fourth wing) and I’m like… it’s a romance fantasy?

Like it’s marketed as romantasy is it not? Idk. I just always got the impression that it’s a romance book in a fantasy setting even before I read it, so I was going in expecting all the romance🤷🏻‍♀️

The kiddo’s have been hit hard with a stomach bug, and with me having emetophobia it’s been a rough week. Luckily I have a husband who handles it all really well and I do what I can with taking care of other things in the house and stuff.

Been doing a bit of rereads for comfort which is nice, a good distraction.

And I’ve also been listening to fantasy fangirls pod to keep myself distracted, trying not to panic over who’s going to get sick next and when.

I’m in the trenches with sick kiddos. We’re going on two weeks and it turned out they have strep throat. Not been able to read too much cause I’ve been in caretaker mode, but they’re on antibiotics now so fingers crossed for a speedy recovery now!

Life’s been a little rough lately and I wanted a comfort read, but also to crochet so I thought, I’ll get the audio book. The book in question being Red, white and royal blue. Listened to the preview and my god that is the worst choice of narrator I’ve heard in a while.

The dude sounded like he was bored out of his mind and way too old. I was expecting someone to sound like they were Alex’s age, but no, some middle aged sounding dude is what we got?

I was so disappointed, like I couldn’t even sit through the dull preview because the voice annoyed me so much.

Fourth Wing and Iron Flame was definitely the highlight of the month for me, with parts of us a close second.

But I had a great time with all the books I read for sure.

Ratings:

- Fourth Wing by Rebecca Yarros 5/5

- Iron Flame by Rebecca Yarros 5/5

- Twisted Love by Ana Huang 4/5

- A Court of Thorns and Roses by Sarah J Maas 4/5

- A Court of Mist and Fury by Sarah J Maas 5/5

- A Court of Wings and Ruin by Sarah J Maas 5/5

- A Court of Frost and Starlight by Sarah J Maas 4/5

- Parts of Us by Cara Dee 5/5

- A Court of Silver Flames 5/5

- Cattle Stop by Kit Oliver 5/5

- Don’t You Dare by C E Ricci 4/5

- Power Play by Cara Dee 5/5

I thought Rhun was the love interest. I was very confused

So I just started reading Crescent City after seeing it being recommended here and there. I knew basically nothing about it though other than getting the sound bite Ruhn Danaan crown prince of the Valbaran Fae on tik tok a lot. Tik tok made it seem like he would be the love interest and I got so confused when he was just introduced as Bryce’s half brother😂

I was like either this is a fake brother situation or this is a whole different book than I thought😅

Onyx Storm-first read (no spoilers)

Holy shit, what a wild ride.

I finished Onyx Storm literally like 30 minutes ago and I can’t even. So much happened, some things I expected and some surprised me, but man was it a good read.

I had to sit and stare at nothing for a while after I read the last page. I don’t know what to do with myself now that I’ve been in a vacuum in this world for the past couple of days😅

How are we feeling about Onyx Storm? Did you enjoy it? Were you disappointed? Let me know.

I personally loved it!