Tag: Revenge
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Golden Son (Book 2), by Pierce Brown
This is book 2 of the series. If you’d like to read our review of book 1, Red Rising, check out this link! Book Stats Book Rating Overall: ⭐⭐⭐⭐/ 5 Summary & Review First and foremost, the full cast of narrators continues to bring this story to life in the most beautiful and intense way.…
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Call Me Freak, by J.A. Roles
Book Stats Book Rating Overall: ⭐⭐⭐⭐/ 5 Spice: 🌶️🌶️🌶️/ 5 Summary & Review What a wild ride. The story is dark, obsessive, chaotic, and super unhinged. The author wrote an insane story and the narrators helped breathe life into it. This is one intense, wild ride of a story. Whew. Honestly, Joe Arden and Lucy…
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Gray After Dark, by Noelle W. Ihli
It’s been a minute since our last joint review, but we’re back and ready to share our newest book club book – Gray After Dark! We were both approved for this ARC via NetGalley and were so excited, we dove right in! This story follows Miley, primarily, after she finds herself kidnapped and trapped in…
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Metal Slinger, by Rachel Schneider
Book Stats Book Rating Overall Rating: ⭐⭐⭐⭐/ 5 Spice Rating: 🌶️🌶️/ 5 Summary & Review I initially read this book in April 2025, but once this became available again on NetGalley, I was excited to jump at the chance to re-read it and refresh myself on the details of the story before book 2 comes…
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Good For Her, by Tylor Paige
Book Stats Book Rating Overall Rating: ⭐⭐⭐⭐/ 5 Spice Rating: 🌶️🌶️🌶️/ 5 Summary & Review Okay, this one was FUN. I was pulled in immediately and enjoyed every minute of it. This is considered a horror/dark Rom-Com type of book. It’s unique, cheesy, and entertaining. There are several tropes, such as – Second Chance, Fake Dating,…
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All Your Deadly Truths (Book 2), by M.L. Burns
Book Stats Book Rating Overall: ⭐⭐⭐⭐/5 Spice: 🌶️🌶️🌶️🌶️/5 Summary & Review This is book 2 of the series. For our review of book 1, All Your Bloody Lies, check out this link! And if you’ve read book 1, you’ll know that it ended with quite the cliffhanger. I was NOT ready for that and I…
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All Your Bloody Lies (Book 1), by M.L. Burns
Book Stats Book Rating Overall: ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐/5 Spice: 🌶️🌶️🌶️🌶️/5 Summary & Review Let me start by saying my 5 year old saw me put in my earbuds and asked, “Are you listening to a book?”. I said yeah and she asks, “What’s it called?” So I read the title and her response was, “Is it a…
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Red Rising (Book 1), by Pierce Brown
Book Stats Book Rating Overall: ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐/5 Summary & Review Well okay. Wow. I don’t even know how to start this review because what Pierce Brown created? It’s beautiful and unique. He is a wonderful author, clearly able to capture not only basic human nature, but the deep reactions his characters feel. He created an entire…
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Bad Bishop (Book 1), by L.J. Shen
Book Stats Book Rating Overall: ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐/5 Spice: 🌶️🌶️🌶️🌶️/5 Summary & Review Um, okay. Wow. I was intrigued by the premise and narrators, but I’m so blown away right now. I think I might have to do an immediate re-read because I’m not quite ready to move on. First off – Lucy Rivers and Corvin King…
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Alchemised, by SenLinYu
Our next joint review is the super popular (and very large) dark fantasy, Alchemised. Book Stats Shayna’s Review Book Rating: ⭐⭐⭐/5 stars & 🌶️/5 for spice For those who may not know, SenLinYu originally wrote a fanfiction, Manacled, that was sort of a mix between a Harry Potter dystopian and The Handsmaid’s Tale. It was…