TechieScrapper: Simply Reading & Reviewing

  The Conditions of Will by Jessa Hastings   Author: Jessa Hastings Genre: Literary Fiction / Contemporary Fiction / Family Drama Themes: Grief, identity, family estrangement, addiction, legacy, love Rating: 4.75 out of 5   The Setup Jessa Hastings trades the high-gloss world of Magnolia Parks for something quieter, more introspective, and deeply affecting in The Conditions of Will. The novel follows Georgia Carter, a 24-year-old lie-detection expert in London who is called back to South Carolina after the death of her estranged father, Will Carter. The death is jarring, but what unravels from it is even more destabilizing—a surprise inheritance left to a stranger, a hidden side of her father, and the reopening of wounds the Carter family buried long ago.   Character Deep Dive Georgia Carter is messy, smart, cynical, and emotionally layered. Her voice carries both biting wit and unflinching vulnerability as she tries to r...

I am finally reading Ninth House by Leigh Bardugo. It has been on my physical TBR shelf since 2023. I am a huge fan of Ms. Bardugo. #booktubetbr #books #booksuggestions #tbr

  Book Review: Quicksilver by Callie Hart (Book series “ Fae & Alchemy) “He’s everything I should fear. But I’ve never felt safer than when he’s near.” Book Started: 2 June 2025 / Book Completed: 9 June 2025 Total pages read: 6089 / Total Listening Time: 20 hours:42 minutes Overall Star Rating: 4.5 stars out of 5 / Format: Libby and I own the physical book Goodreads Book Synopsis: In the land of the unforgiving desert, there isn't much a girl wouldn't do for a glass of water.  Twenty-four-year-old Saeris Fane is good at keeping secrets. No one knows about her strange powers, or the fact that she has been picking pockets and stealing from the Undying Queen's reservoirs for as long as she can remember.  But a secret is like a knot. Sooner or later, it is bound to come undone.  When Saeris comes face-to-face with Death himself, she inadvertently reopens a gateway between realms and is transported to a land of ice and snow. The Fae have always been the s...

  The Ex Hex  by Erin Sterling – A Bewitching Rom-Com with a Magical Twist If you're in the mood for a cozy, witchy romance with a dash of charm,  The Ex Hex  by Erin Sterling is the perfect escape. This witchy romantic comedy blends second-chance romance with magical mayhem. Goodreads Plot Overview Nine years ago, Vivienne Jones nursed her broken heart like any young witch would: vodka, weepy music, bubble baths…and a curse on the horrible boyfriend. Sure, Vivi knows she shouldn’t use her magic this way, but with only an “orchard hayride” scented candle on hand, she isn’t worried it will cause him anything more than a bad hair day or two.  That is, until Rhys Penhallow, descendant of the town’s ancestors, breaker of hearts, and annoyingly just as gorgeous as he always was, returns to Graves Glen, Georgia. What should be a quick trip to recharge the town’s ley lines and appear at the annual fall festival turns disastrously wrong. With one calamity after another ...

 

  In Filthy Rich Fae by Geneva Lee   Quote: “Worrying is expensive. It costs you the one thing you can’t get back. Time.”   Goodreads synopsis: A dark urban fantasy romance set in New Orleans; Cate Holloway knows the unspoken rule of New Orleans: avoid the powerful Gage crime family at all costs. Of course, that was before her brother got caught in their chaos. Now Cate has no choice but to confront the dark prince of New Orleans himself and beg for her brother’s life.  But Lachlan Gage is as lethal as he is beautiful…and the only currency he’s interested in is her soul.  Lachlan is not merely a ruthless criminal. He’s fae. And he has his secret reasons for binding her to him.  Tricked and desperate, Cate is torn between the Realworld and the Otherworld. A place filled with shadows and secrets, with members of each fae court plotting against her, just as her captor’s motives for trapping her become more mysterious.  And if she can’t break this s...