Simone and Her Books
books, reviews, and recommendations
Category: Books
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“See you in the story past the story,” said Fern. It’s strange for someone with my level of anxiety to be okay with a book that doesn’t have that “uh oh” moment. You know, when the worst case scenario has come to fruition, the other shoe has finally dropped, and the bad news just gets…
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This was actually a reread for me, but when I was going through my notes, I realized I never wrote a review for this book. Since this is one of my favorite series, I thought it made sense to finally share what I think. More about A Torch Against the Night Now, in A TORCH…
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The newest queen of rom-coms released her first romantasy book and it’s filled with wolves, vampires, and so much more. Here’s more about Bride A dangerous alliance between a Vampyre bride and an Alpha Werewolf becomes a love deep enough to sink your teeth into in this new paranormal romance. Misery Lark, the only daughter…
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If you’re as obsessed with Miyazaki as I am, then this is the book for you. Thanks to McElderry Books for the gifted copy. Here’s more about Where the Dark Stands Still Raised in a small village near the spirit-wood, Liska Radost knows that Magic is monstrous, and its practitioners, monsters. After Liska unleashes her…
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You know, I never considered myself a fan of cozy mysteries until I came across Vera Wong’s Unsolicited Advice for Murderers. If this is what most cozy mysteries feel like, then consider me sold. More about Vera Wong’s Unsolicited Advice to Murderers Put the kettle on, there’s a mystery brewing…Tea-shop owner. Matchmaker. Detective? Sixty-year-old self-proclaimed…
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I started reading this one because my office book club chose it for March. I put the book on hold hoping that it would arrive before the end of March, but I was gifted a lucky copy and I ended up reading it before we even met for February’s book club. This is also my…
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I’ve been a huge fan of High Fidelity the movie since it came out. Every few months, my husband and I would get the jones to watch it again. It also helped that Rob was a huge fan of pop music, but the book revealed to me that he’s also a massive man child. Here’s…
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Now empowered with my new resolutions for this bookish year, I wanted to share with you a little TBR I put together. For the most part, I don’t want to be writing these TBRs every month. In fact, I plan on putting a little TBR together every few books I read because library holds come…
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Hello 2024. Hello blog friends. I know it’s been quite a while since I wrote here. And honestly, I’m returning with a bit of trepidation only because it’s been so long since I’ve written a blog post (so I have no clue if I still “got it”) and I’ve burnt out so badly that I…
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My first book of 2024. I went into this one with completely different expectations. I thought it’d be dystopian. I thought it would be sci-fi, but instead it was the best kind of literary; the kind that interweaves lives to show you how one singular event or a hotel can shape the lives of a…
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