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The Mermaid, The Witch & The Sea by Maggie Tokuda-Hall | Spoiler Free Book Review

November 11, 2020

The Mermaid The Witch The Sea Spoiler Free Book Review 2020 Blog Header - The Mermaid, The Witch & The Sea by Maggie Tokuda-Hall | Spoiler Free Book Review

Hai Beautiful! My new favourite read of 2020!! If you are looking for a queer novel about scary pirates, a runaway princess, rebellion against the government, a powerful entity and beautiful mermaids; then this is the novel for you! Goodreads Summary A desperate orphan turned pirate and a rebellious imperial daughter find a connection on the high seas in a world divided by colonialism and threaded with magic. Aboard the pirate ship Dove, Flora the girl takes on the identity of Florian […]

Announcing My 2020 NaNoWriMo Project!

November 4, 2020November 4, 2020

Hai Writers! Hopefully, this will be my year! Despite all the craziness of 2020, we all have things we’ve been looking forward to this year that will never fail us. One such reliable event is the National Novel Writing Month or NaNoWriMo. An event that runs online for the entire month of November with participants from all corners of the globe! For the fourth year in a row I will be attempting the challenge with _ other writers to write […]

BWC Readathon Wrap-Up: Reading Progress + Creative Challenges!

October 27, 2020October 27, 2020

Hai Beautiful! Success is a lie! Okay, so that intro line may be a little harsh. I consistently set super high standards for myself without learning each and every time and consistently failing, it’s hard to believe in success. Let me backtrack… I participated in the second round of the Because We Can Readathon; Travel Edition, last week. It is always a fun time to be creative, release daily videos and try (and fail) to read books for all the […]

It Sounded Better In My Head by Nina Kenwood | Spoiler Free Book Review

October 26, 2020

Hai Beautiful! I love a good coming-of-age novel! This was the most fun I’ve had reading a young adult contemporary in a long time. It was raw with feeling, emotion and youthful ignorance. Every young woman can learn from this novel and everyone who’s lived this can laugh and enjoy the experience. Goodreads Summary When her parents announce their impending divorce, Natalie can’t understand why no one is fighting, or at least mildly upset. Then Zach and Lucy, her two […]

What I’m Reading For The BECAUSE WE CAN Readathon (BWCR TBR)!!

October 20, 2020

Hai Beautiful Humans! I’m Gonna Give It My All! This was supposed to be posted last Saturday but I postponed it to yesterday, then I had a major breakdown and now it’s going live today! Although, I guess posting on the off/non-scheduled days has become expected from me by now (see bottom of this post for my actual blog schedule). This week I am participating in the Because We Can Readathon (again!). This time it is running from the 19th till the […]

Retribution Dies by Chloe Hodge | Spoiler Free Book Review!

October 6, 2020

Hai Beautiful! The sequel and new covers! The sequel to the most epic novel by my favourite indie/ self-published author is here and I have read it! This review will be entirely spoiler-free for both the first and second books, so you won’t have to worry if you haven’t read either (yet). Goodreads Summary Blood will spill. Death awaits … But who will pay the price? The battle for Renlock may be won, but the war for Everosia is far from over. […]

This One Is Ours by Kate O’Donnell | Spoiler Free Book Review Book Tour!

October 5, 2020

Hai Beautiful! Activism, but make it realistic! Agh, I loved this book! Kate O’Donnell is truly an artist with her words, able to bring us into the mind of a sisteen-year-old with hopes and dreams and make it beautiful. Goodreads Summary Sixteen-year-old Sofie is a dreamer, an artist and a romantic. So when she goes on exchange to Paris, she is expecting magnificent adventures of the heart and mind. Yet France isn’t what she imagined. It’s cold and grey, and […]

Writing & Insecurities (SW#66)

September 24, 2020

Hai Beautiful! Writing is scary! I wanted to write this post ever since I changed my mindset regarding my writing. Recently I stopped telling myself that “ignoring your WIP is not the same as giving up,” and “you can’t be scard of a writing project!” and started trying to understand the reason why I was indeed ‘giving up’. Once I’d identified what the hell I was so damn scared of, I was able to start working on ways to make the writing […]

Skylarks by Karen Gregory | Spoiler-Free Book Review

September 21, 2020

Hai Beautiful! Not exactly what I was expecting… I picked this book up specifically to fulfil the WLW Romance novel prompt for the Bratz Readathon which is running all of September! I was so excited that I made both a YouTube video and blog post on the topic. Goodreads Summary We watch the bird as it flies high above us, singing like it’s the only thing in the world that matters. And I feel it – that life can be […]

Ninth House by Leigh Bardugo | Spoiler-Free Book Review

September 15, 2020

Hai Beautiful! Mysteriously delightful. As someone who has never read a Leigh Bardugo book, I will be the first to say that I now know what I have been missing out on and I am very disappointed that I hadn’t picked up one of her books sooner. Goodreads Summary Galaxy “Alex” Stern is the most unlikely member of Yale’s freshman class. Raised in the Los Angeles hinterlands by a hippie mom, Alex dropped out of school early and into a world […]