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Book Review: Just for the Summer by Abby Jimenez
Genres: Contemporary Romance, Adult, Fiction Pages: 432 Format: Ebook Rating: Goodreads summary: Justin has a curse, and thanks to a Reddit thread, it’s now all over the internet. Every woman he dates goes on to find their soul mate the second they break up. When a woman slides into his DMs with the same problem, they come up with a plan: They’ll date each other and break up. Their curses will cancel each other’s out, and they’ll both go on to find the love of their lives. It’s a bonkers idea… and it just might work. Emma hadn’t planned that her next assignment as a traveling nurse would be in…
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Book Review: Blood & Steel by Helen Scheuerer
Genres: Fantasy, Romance, Romantsy, Adult Pages: 550 Format: Audiobook Rating: .5 Goodreads summary: With her death foretold, Althea Zoltaire only has three years to become what she’s always dreamed of being: a warrior legend. Women are forbidden to wield blades, so she has trained in secret her entire life. Now racing against the clock, she fights to secure her place in the elite guild charged with the protection of the five kingdoms. The sparring and hazing of the new trainees border on deadly, but even more dangerous is her growing attraction to Wilder Hawthorne, her unwilling warrior chaperone. All around them, schemes are afoot and darkness looms. Will Althea pass…
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Book Review: Immortal Dark by Tigest Girma
Genres: Dark Academia, Fantasy, Romance, Young Adult (????) Pages: 432 Format: Ebook Rating: Goodreads summary: The Cruel Prince meets Ninth House in this dangerously romantic dark academia fantasy, where a lost heiress must infiltrate an arcane society and live with the vampire she suspects killed her family and kidnapped her sister. It began long before my time, but something has always hunted our family. Orphaned heiress Kidan Adane grew up far from the arcane society she was born into, where human bloodlines gain power through vampire companionship. When her sister, June, disappears, Kidan is convinced a vampire stole her—the very vampire bound to their family, the cruel yet captivating Susenyos…
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Book Review: The Darkness Within Us by Tricia Levenseller
Genres: Fantasy, Romance, Young AdultPages: 336 Format: Physical bookRating: Goodreads summary: Chrysantha Stathos has won.By hiding her intelligence and ambition behind the mask of a beautiful air-headed girl, she has gathered important secrets, earned her father’s constant care, and become a wealthy duchess—all by age nineteen. Now, she is only one elderly, dying duke away from having all the freedom, money, and safety she’s ever wanted.Or so she thought.Turns out her little sister somehow snatched the true victory away from her: Alessandra is wedding the Shadow King, the most powerful man in the world. Meanwhile, after the death of Chrysantha’s no-good, lecherous husband, a man claiming to be the duke’s…
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My Review Style
So, I won’t lie – this is my first time officially reviewing books in a written format. I’ve talked about them with friends, gone on long-winded rants, made the occasional TikTok, and even took notes in my Notes app that have never seen the light of day. But other than that, I’ve never posted official book reviews, so I’m excited for this new, fun adventure! At the moment, I can’t say I have a defined review style, but I do have my deer-star rating guide (get it? Instead of stars, I’m using deer). What I can say about my rating system is that the plot and how I felt while…
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Welcome to the Enchanted Forest!
Hello, and welcome to my enchanted forest! My name is Alexis, and I’m a lover of books, traveling, good food, and cozy cuddles with my cat. Reading and writing have always been a part of my life—I’ve been doing both for as long as I can remember. Honestly, I can’t believe it’s taken me this long to start a book blog! When I think about it, having a space to yap about the books I read is exactly what I’ve been missing. As for what I enjoy reading, fantasy romance has my heart. Give me all the faeries, dragons, wyverns, phoenixes, griffins, unicorns, mermaids, shapeshifters, elves, vampires, werewolves, centaurs, nymphs—every…
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New Year, New Me, New Reading Goals for 2025
It’s the start of a new year, which means it’s time to set my 2025 reading goals. Last year, my main goal was to read 24 books, and I accomplished that—barely. But hey, it still counts, right? This year, I’m aiming a little higher. Let’s dive into my goals for 2025! Setting My 2025 Reading Goal This year, I want to read 30 books. Last year, I read 25, but it took some serious power reading on New Year’s Eve to make it happen (I finished at 10:45 p.m.!). Despite cutting it so close, I feel confident I can hit 30 books this year. Why? Audiobooks. I discovered them late…
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2025 Physical TBR
The start of a new year means taking a hard look at my bookshelves and seeing how many books I’ve collected vs. reading. I feel like I didn’t do that bad, there are definitely more read books on my shelves than unread, but I would like to at least cut down my unread list in half. And my reward? Buying more books of course. One caveat is that this list includes all the unread books as of January 1, 2025, but since then, I have read two of the books. Check out my 2025 physical TBR below! 1. Fourth Wing & Iron Flame by Rebecca Yarros If you read fantasy…
