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The Irresistible Urge to Fall For Your Enemy by Brigitte Knightley – ARC Review! – Becky's Book Blog
Osric Mordaunt, member of the Fyren Order of assassins, is in dire need of healing. Naturally – such is the grim comedy of fate – the only healer who can help is Aurienne Fairhrim, preeminent scientist, bastion of moral good, and member of an enemy Order. Aurienne is desperate for funding to heal the sick…
First Lines Friday! – Becky's Book Blog
First Lines Fridays is a weekly feature for book lovers hosted by Wandering Words. What if instead of judging a book by its cover, its author or its prestige, we judged it by its opening lines? Pick a book off your shelf (it could be your current read or on your TBR) and open to…
Let’s Make a Scene by Laura Wood – ARC Review! – Becky's Book Blog
Their story might be scripted, but the chemistry is real. When Cynthie Taylor gets her first real acting job, starring in a small British movie, she is over the moon. There’s only one problem . . . Cynthie's arrogant and annoyingly handsome co-star Jack hates her, and the feeling is definitely mutual. While they may…
WWW Wednesday! – Becky's Book Blog
WWW Wednesday is a weekly meme hosted by Sam over on Taking on a World of Words The idea is pretty simple, every week you dedicate a post to the three W’s: What are you currently reading? What have you just finished reading? What are you going to read next? I'm only one chapter into this…
Waiting on Wednesday! – Becky's Book Blog
“Waiting On Wednesday” is a weekly meme that first originated at Breaking the Spine but has since linked up with “Can’t Wait Wednesday” at Wishful Endings now that the original creator is unable to host it anymore. Either way, this fun feature is a chance to showcase the upcoming releases that we can’t wait to get our hands on!…
Most Anticipated Books Releasing in the Second Half of 2025 – Top Ten Tuesday! – Becky's Book Blog
Hello, hello! Last week I posted the second half of my '50 Fantasy Releases of 2025' posts, so if you want to know what fantasy books I'm excited for, you can check that out here. But because of that, I'm going to focus this post on everything non-fantasy. Instead it's going to have everything from…
Artificial Condition by Martha Wells – Book Review! – Becky's Book Blog
It has a dark past – one in which a number of humans were killed. A past that caused it to christen itself “Murderbot." But it has only vague memories of the massacre that spawned that title, and it wants to know more. Teaming up with a Research Transport vessel named ART (you don’t want…
First Lines Friday! – Becky's Book Blog
First Lines Fridays is a weekly feature for book lovers hosted by Wandering Words. What if instead of judging a book by its cover, its author or its prestige, we judged it by its opening lines? Pick a book off your shelf (it could be your current read or on your TBR) and open to…
How to Lose a Lord in Ten Days by Sophie Irwin – ARC Review! – Becky's Book Blog
Rich, handsome, and titled Lord Ashford, has every lady in England longing for his hand in marriage. Everyone, that is, except Miss Lydia Hanworth – the only young woman Ashford wishes to marry. Pressured into accepting Ashford’s proposal, Lydia has just ten days to free herself from her obligations before the engagement is publicly announced……
Waiting on Wednesday! – Becky's Book Blog
“Waiting On Wednesday” is a weekly meme that first originated at Breaking the Spine but has since linked up with “Can’t Wait Wednesday” at Wishful Endings now that the original creator is unable to host it anymore. Either way, this fun feature is a chance to showcase the upcoming releases that we can’t wait to get our hands on!…
50 Fantasy Releases of 2025 – July to December! – Becky's Book Blog
Hello, hello! It's that time of the year again where I get to share 50 of my most anticipated fantasy releases. Again I always stipulate that this is in no way a comprehensive list, more a list of the books that I'm eager to get my grubby hands on, and I'm fairly sure there will…
Fateless by Julie Kagawa – ARC Review! – Becky's Book Blog
When seventeen-year-old Sparrow joined the Thieves Guild she made a vow of binding loyalty to their cause. So when a mission comes along from The Circle, a group of mysterious, dangerous beings who control the Thieves Guild from the shadows, Sparrow is determined to cement her place in the guild. What ensues is a death-defying…
First Lines Friday! – Becky's Book Blog
First Lines Fridays is a weekly feature for book lovers hosted by Wandering Words. What if instead of judging a book by its cover, its author or its prestige, we judged it by its opening lines? Pick a book off your shelf (it could be your current read or on your TBR) and open to…
One Final Turn by Ashley Weaver – Book Review! – Becky's Book Blog
Ellie McDonnell is about to embark on her most perilous mission go to Lisbon, Portugal to save her beloved cousin Toby who has reportedly escaped from a German prisoner of war camp. Toby has been missing since the Battle of Dunkirk and Ellie had all but lost hope in ever seeing him again until Major…
Waiting on Wednesday! – Becky's Book Blog
“Waiting On Wednesday” is a weekly meme that first originated at Breaking the Spine but has since linked up with “Can’t Wait Wednesday” at Wishful Endings now that the original creator is unable to host it anymore. Either way, this fun feature is a chance to showcase the upcoming releases that we can’t wait to get our hands on!…
WWW Wednesday! – Becky's Book Blog
WWW Wednesday is a weekly meme hosted by Sam over on Taking on a World of Words The idea is pretty simple, every week you dedicate a post to the three W’s: What are you currently reading? What have you just finished reading? What are you going to read next? This book really threw me for…
Monthly Wrap-up – May 2025! – Becky's Book Blog
May was absolutely not my month, reading wise that is. I fell into a massive reading slump halfway through the month, thanks to Bury Our Bones in the Midnight Soil being a bit of a slog, and only managed to read 4 books. Luckily I had a small TBR for the month, but I ended…
The Bewitching by Silvia Moreno-Garcia – ARC Review! – Becky's Book Blog
“Back then, when I was a young woman, there were still witches”: That was how Nana Alba always began the stories she told her great-granddaughter Minerva—stories that have stayed with Minerva all her life. Perhaps that’s why Minerva has become a graduate student focused on the history of horror literature and is researching the life…
First Lines Friday! – Becky's Book Blog
First Lines Fridays is a weekly feature for book lovers hosted by Wandering Words. What if instead of judging a book by its cover, its author or its prestige, we judged it by its opening lines? Pick a book off your shelf (it could be your current read or on your TBR) and open to…
Problematic Summer Romance by Ali Hazelwood – Book Review! – Becky's Book Blog
Maya Killgore is twenty-three and still in the process of figuring out her life. Conor Harkness is thirty-eight, and Maya cannot stop thinking about him. It’s such a cliché, it almost makes her heart implode: older man and younger woman; successful biotech guy and struggling grad student; brother’s best friend and the girl he never…
Waiting on Wednesday! – Becky's Book Blog
“Waiting On Wednesday” is a weekly meme that first originated at Breaking the Spine but has since linked up with “Can’t Wait Wednesday” at Wishful Endings now that the original creator is unable to host it anymore. Either way, this fun feature is a chance to showcase the upcoming releases that we can’t wait to get our hands on!…
WWW Wednesday! – Becky's Book Blog
WWW Wednesday is a weekly meme hosted by Sam over on Taking on a World of Words The idea is pretty simple, every week you dedicate a post to the three W’s: What are you currently reading? What have you just finished reading? What are you going to read next? It took me a minute to…
To DNF or not to DNF – That is the question! – Becky's Book Blog
https://media3.giphy.com/media/v1.Y2lkPTc5MGI3NjExd2VsbHg5dXNuNHZxaXJnMXlpZGF4NXdiYXhobWxxM2VlbGd1cHIzayZlcD12MV9pbnRlcm5hbF9naWZfYnlfaWQmY3Q9Zw/xXv1yVgGTf8ir6cGGR/giphy.gif Until fairly recently I sat squarely in the 'do not DNF' column for so many reasons: Fear that the publisher would stop allowing me access to their titles. Feeling an obligation to finish and review because I had been given access to the book for free. A desperate need to get as much content…
The Wonder Engine by T. Kingfisher – Book Review! – Becky's Book Blog
Pull three people out of prison--a disgraced paladin, a convicted forger, and a heartless assassin. Give them weapons, carnivorous tattoos, and each other. Point them at the enemy. What could possibly go wrong? Aren't reading slumps the worst? Luckily, all it took was Kingfishers quirky writing style and characters to pull me right out of…
First Lines Friday! – Becky's Book Blog
First Lines Fridays is a weekly feature for book lovers hosted by Wandering Words. What if instead of judging a book by its cover, its author or its prestige, we judged it by its opening lines? Pick a book off your shelf (it could be your current read or on your TBR) and open to…
Bury Our Bones in the Midnight Soil by V.E. Schwab – ARC Review! – Becky's Book Blog
Santo Domingo de la Calzada, 1532.London, 1837.Boston, 2019. Three young women, their bodies planted in the same soil, their stories tangling like roots. One grows high, and one grows deep, and one grows wild. And all of them grow teeth. “Bury my bones in the midnight soil, plant them shallow but water them deep, and…
Waiting on Wednesday! – Becky's Book Blog
“Waiting On Wednesday” is a weekly meme that first originated at Breaking the Spine but has since linked up with “Can’t Wait Wednesday” at Wishful Endings now that the original creator is unable to host it anymore. Either way, this fun feature is a chance to showcase the upcoming releases that we can’t wait to get our hands on!…
WWW Wednesday! – Becky's Book Blog
WWW Wednesday is a weekly meme hosted by Sam over on Taking on a World of Words The idea is pretty simple, every week you dedicate a post to the three W’s: What are you currently reading? What have you just finished reading? What are you going to read next? My TBR for this month has…
Monthly TBR – June 2025! – Becky's Book Blog
I may have... no I absolutely did bite off more than I could chew this month. What can I say, my run of smaller TBR's had to end somewhere right, and apparently that was July ARC's. I don't think May helped, I found myself in a huge reading slump for most of the month and…
The Secret Life of a Lady by Darcy McGuire – Book Review! – Becky's Book Blog
Never Underestimate a wallflower! Lady Hannah Simmons is a quintessential wallflower, unassuming, dowdy yet ignored by most. But underneath her plain exterior, Hannah is hiding a thrilling secret! Unbeknownst to the rest of the ton, she is Queen Victoria’s leading femme fatale, slipping unnoticed through the streets of London and listening to scandalous whispers from…
First Lines Friday! – Becky's Book Blog
First Lines Fridays is a weekly feature for book lovers hosted by Wandering Words. What if instead of judging a book by its cover, its author or its prestige, we judged it by its opening lines? Pick a book off your shelf (it could be your current read or on your TBR) and open to…
A Spark of White Fire by Sangu Mandanna – Book Review! – Becky's Book Blog
Raised alone and far away from her home on Kali, Esmae longs to return to her family. When the King of Wychstar offers to gift the unbeatable, sentient warship Titania to a warrior that can win his competition, she sees her way home: she’ll enter the competition, reveal her true identity to the world, and…
WWW Wednesday! – Becky's Book Blog
WWW Wednesday is a weekly meme hosted by Sam over on Taking on a World of Words The idea is pretty simple, every week you dedicate a post to the three W’s: What are you currently reading? What have you just finished reading? What are you going to read next? Thanks to Bury Our Bones in…
Waiting on Wednesday! – Becky's Book Blog
“Waiting On Wednesday” is a weekly meme that first originated at Breaking the Spine but has since linked up with “Can’t Wait Wednesday” at Wishful Endings now that the original creator is unable to host it anymore. Either way, this fun feature is a chance to showcase the upcoming releases that we can’t wait to get our hands on!…
Books that feature Travel- Top Ten Tuesday! – Becky's Book Blog
Hello, hello! This weeks TTT prompt was 'Books that feature travel' and I had a little fun deciding just what kind of travel I would focus on. I decided to split my post into two different types of travel 'time and multiverse.' I've read some truly outstanding books featuring these two forms of travel, so…
Don’t Let the Forest In by C.G. Drews – Book Review! – Becky's Book Blog
'No one would want a heart like his. But he'd still cut it out and given it away.' On the first day back at boarding school, Andrew can't wait to find refuge in the twisted fairy tales that he writes for Thomas - the boy with hair like autumn leaves. But Thomas' parents have vanished,…
First Line’s Friday! – Becky's Book Blog
First Lines Fridays is a weekly feature for book lovers hosted by Wandering Words. What if instead of judging a book by its cover, its author or its prestige, we judged it by its opening lines? Pick a book off your shelf (it could be your current read or on your TBR) and open to…
The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo by Taylor Jenkins Reid – Book Review! – Becky's Book Blog
Aging and reclusive Hollywood movie icon Evelyn Hugo is finally ready to tell the truth about her glamorous and scandalous life. But when she chooses unknown magazine reporter Monique Grant for the job, no one is more astounded than Monique herself. Why her? Why now? Monique is not exactly on top of the world. Her…
Waiting on Wednesday! – Becky's Book Blog
“Waiting On Wednesday” is a weekly meme that first originated at Breaking the Spine but has since linked up with “Can’t Wait Wednesday” at Wishful Endings now that the original creator is unable to host it anymore. Either way, this fun feature is a chance to showcase the upcoming releases that we can’t wait to get our hands on!…
The Thief of Farrowfell by Ravena Guron – Blog Tour Book Review! – Becky's Book Blog
Twelve-year-old Jude Ripon has never been taken seriously by her family of magic-stealing masterminds. To them, she's just the youngest, only good for keeping watch while they carry out daring heists. Desperate to prove her worth, Jude decides to steal valuable magic from the fanciest house in town . . . But Jude's stolen prize…