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May TBR Read, "Mile High"

  May TBR Read “Mile High” By Liz Tomforde Title:  Mile High Author : Liz Tomforde Genre : Contemporary Romance, Sports Romance Series : Windy City (#1) – series must be read in order Publication Date : 2022 Themes : Forbidden romance, hockey, class differences, trauma healing, emotional vulnerability, slow burn, found family. Book started : 13 May 25 /   Book Completed : 21 May 25 Total book pages : 473 /  Listening time : 13 Hours: 39 minutes Format : Libby (listened and read along), own the book Liz Tomforde’s  Mile High  is a contemporary romance novel self-published in 2022 and is the first installment in the Windy City series. Occupying the sports romance subgenre, the novel traces the developing romance between the professional hockey “bad boy”  Evan Zanders  and the down-to-earth flight attendant  Stevie Shay . The more time the unlikely pair is forced to spend with one another on the Chicago Raptors’ private jet, the more their ...

May TBR Read, "Filthy Rich Fae"

Version 1.0.0 Title: Filthy Rich Fae, Book 1 Author: Geneva Lee Book Started: 02 May 2025 Book Completed: 12 May 2025 Total Pages: 353 pages Total Time: 14 hours: 27 minutes Star rating: 4 stars Format: Libby (own the book) If you’re a romance lover with a taste for some serious spice,  The Filthy Rich Fae  by Geneva Lee is the escape you’ve been waiting for. Known for her steamy, emotionally intense love stories, Geneva Lee turns her signature brand of romantic tension and power play up to eleven in this fantasy-rich, fae-fueled world of scandal and seduction.  This book isn’t just romance with some serious Fae magic; it’s full of fantasy, love affairs, and passion that collides into danger, and secrets lurk behind every perfectly carved jawline. Premise and Worldbuilding The Filthy Rich Fae introduces readers to an underworld of power, seduction, and deadly secrets in a contemporary world where the Fae elite coexist alongside unsuspecting humans. The central conceit is ...

April TBR Wrap-up

  This was a huge reading month for me. Below are the books I read that challenged and inspired me. A Sky Beyond the Storm by Sabaa Tahir In  A Sky Beyond the Storm , Sabaa Tahir brings her  An Ember in the Ashes  series to an emotional and gut-wrenching conclusion. Picking up just months after  A Reaper at the Gates , the fourth and final installment throws  Laia, Elias, and Helene  into a storm of escalating violence, supernatural threats, and soul-shattering choices.  The long-imprisoned Jinn, led by the  Nightbringer , wreaks havoc across the empire, and as  Commandant Keris Veturia  crowns herself Empress, the stakes for the Blood Shrike (Helene) and her family reach deadly heights.  Laia , still grieving personal losses, becomes a fierce force against the Nightbringer, awakening ancient powers and risking everything. Meanwhile,  Elias , now the Soul Catcher, wrestles with his fading humanity as he’s drawn back into a...