I understand it so simply now, it is a love that lives in the body but unlike the body it never dissolves. It lasts forever. - Wild Dark Shore by Charlotte McConaghy When my bookclub chose Wild Dark Shore by Charlotte McConaghy, my immediate thought (and regret) was: "I should have grabbed t[...]
For a moment, our eyes met in a silent conversation that said everything. I knew what he needed—because I needed it too. - The Soldier and The Swan When a book is said to have yearning, The Soldier and The Swan by Catherine Brooks is the perfect definition of it, and what I will now be ho[...]
Real is all it's ever been. - No Place Like You After a month of straight horror reads (seriously, why do I do this to myself), No Place Like You by Jillian Meadows felt like a breath of the cleanest air. Not just because it's literally the complete opposite of horror, but because it has thi[...]
I closed my eyes and for a moment in time it was eight years earlier and it was just me and him. Two kids who didn't have the slightest idea where a few lingering glances would lead us. - All Our Yesterdays by Elenor Wells The nostalgia of the ‘90s and early 2000s music references absolut[...]
In the house behind the sword ferns, there was a man, and a murderer, and a stain. - Japanese Gothic There’s something about a story that pulls you in so completely you never even stop to ask where it’s actually taking you. That was my experience with Japanese Gothic by Kylie Lee Baker,[...]
Does anyone actually win Goodreads giveaways? That was the question constantly living in my mind month after month as I entered so many giveaways. I felt about as hopeful as every other girl in Win a Date with Tad Hamilton! when Rosalee’s name gets called. And then suddenly, the answer to my q[...]