End of the Blog/Shift to Rose’s Book Garden

Hello again all. I've so enjoyed this blog. But all things must move on. I'm taking another shot at blogging with my new project. Rose's Book Garden, where I will focus on more general fiction with romance/romantasy books as well as manga and some middle-grade and YA. Anyway it won't be as specialized but feel…

Basil and Oragano Review

Another book about cooking magic you say? What can I say? It's one of my favorite themes. This particular set of cooking magic takes place around PortaBella Magiculinary Academy the finest school for cooking and magic in the land. This is where we meet Basil Eyres, she's determined to be the top student because she's…

Unseelie Review

Unseelie dealt with the subject of autism and changelings in a delightful manner. While it is well-known in the autism community that the idea of changelings was often used as an explanation in the past for when children displayed symptoms of autism. This book takes the idea of that mythology on its head. The book…

New Releases: Young Adult

Check out these young adult releases focused on everything from espionage, to writing, to magic, in this week's releases. Venom and Vow Two enemy kingdoms are forced to work together to break a curse in this lush YA fantasy, featuring a transgender prince and a bigender dama/assassin in the lead roles. Keep your enemy closer.…

New Releases: Diverse Middle Grade

I'm getting back to posting about new releases coming out this week for this post I'm focusing on middle grade releases. I'm trying to focus on diverse books with these books focusing on everything from trans issues to protagonists of color. Check out this story about diverse protagonist Sparrow Malone is a nonbinary person learning…

Adrift in Starlight Review

I read Adrift in Starlight for Trans Rights Readathon. The premise hooked me right away with a gender neutral courtesan being put on a job to seduce someone only to find out they were asexual, could have been a bad plot, but Briar turned it on it's head and made it perfect with both Tai…

Star Whisperer: Magical Readathon Spring Wrapup

My progress for Orillium's Spring semester was less than last year, but it was exactly what I was expecting considering I reduced my course load a little bit by changing careers. I switched from Dream Walker, which was around eight books for spring and several more for fall, and moved to Star Whisperer. There were…

MerMay: An Ocean-y Readathon

If you're looking for a readathon that feels summer-y consider doing bookishhaunt's MerMay. This readathon tracks any ocean-themed book you read during the month of May. While you can also choose to donate like bookishhaunt and I will be doing, it isn't required. https://www.instagram.com/p/CqioSaBrU9u/?igshid=YmMyMTA2M2Y%3D MerMay TBR I wanted to share my TBR for the month.…

Strike the Zither Review

Recap Strike the Zither is a reimagining of the classic Chinese myth The Three Kingdoms. Set in the mythical Xin Dynasty it imagines the tale in a world where gender isn't an issue to hold people back, the main characters are all recast as women, but while there is a partial love interest the book…

CAWPILE(ing) My Reads So Far

So I'm trying to expand out and view bookish media on more platforms, mainly watching Booktube and BookTok, and because of this I recently discovered CAWPILE. I really like this method and I feel like my reviews are going to improve because of it. Recently I've had trouble getting reviews together just because I've been…