Author: Pixireads
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Recap of The Awakening by Nora Roberts
Trope: The Chosen OnePublisher: St. Martin’s PressPublished: November 24, 2020 Breen and her mother don’t exactly get along. Breen has been following her mother’s guidance on how to live her life. Breen suffers from anxiety and doesn’t own a car because she can not afford one, but has a great…
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Review: Mage of No Renown
Summary Wesson is still years from becoming a man when an immense darkness stirs within his core. The sinister power bursts free during a confrontation with an old enemy, and Wesson’s tranquil life is left in tatters. Forced to flee a murderous mob, Wesson stumbles onto a tumultuous path where…
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Get Ready This Preptober
Preptober is upon us. It is the month of October and is used to prepare for November’s National Novel Writing Month, or NaNoWriMo as it is more commonly known, or NaNo for short. The goal of NaNoWriMo is to write a story of at least 50,000 words. If you write…
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11 Books to Read this Autumn
Witch13 by Patrick Delaney I read this months ago after obtaining an early copy from NetGalley. This is out now and is such a good horror. I’m still jumping at shadows, but then horror never was one of my favorite genres. It’s too good at scaring me. Witch You Well…
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August Wrap Up
Books Read I only finished one book in August which was The Disappearance of Winter’s Daughter by Michael J. Sullivan. I listened to the audiobook, narrated by Tim Gerard Reynolds. It was an interesting and entertaining story. New Books! August was my birthday month. Thanks to this I received many…
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Review: The Becoming
Summary The world of magick and the world of man have long been estranged from one another. But some can walk between the two—including Breen Siobhan Kelly. She has just returned to Talamh, with her friend, Marco, who’s dazzled and disoriented by this realm—a place filled with dragons and faeries…
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Review: The Awakening
This is a contemporary fantasy. Things get interesting almost immediately as our main character, Breen, finds her mother has been hiding something very important from her. The father she thought had left them long ago, had left her an account with now a few million dollars for her. Her life…
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July Wrap Up
July was a bit busy; busier than a usual month for me with some of the stuff going on at work, and the challenges I attempted. Spoiler alert, I think I failed at each of them. Let’s run through and see if I managed to succeed at anything this month…
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Mid-Year Book Freak Out Tag
6 months down, and 6 more to go. I’m not really pushing towards a goal of total books I’d like to read by the end of the year. At the same time though, I’d like to read at least 52 books by the end of the year. This would equate…
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June & Whateverathon Wrap Up
June was somewhat busy, as I was also preparing for a co-workers retirement party at work. I managed to complete 4 books towards the readathon, and I had pledged 4. So I at least completed my goal. However, I could have read more, but picked up a gook I ended…