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๊ง๐Ÿ“š Pub Day Mini-Reviews ๐Ÿ“š๊ง‚โฃโฃ โฃโฃ Happy pub day everyone!! โฃโฃ โฃโฃ Thank you to the publishers for my amazing gifted copies! Iโ€™ve got some mini reviews to share with you (full reviews are on my blog).โฃโฃ โฃโฃ ๐“๐ก๐ž ๐‹๐จ๐จ๐ค-๐€๐ฅ๐ข๐ค๐ž ๐›๐ฒ ๐„๐ซ๐ข๐œ๐š ๐’๐ฉ๐ข๐ง๐๐ฅ๐ž๐ซ โ€“ This was a fast-paced murder mystery that also combined the complications of mental illness with family dynamics. With Siennaโ€™s mother Vivian living under the shroud of severe paranoid delusions, this book blurs the lines of reality and leaves you second guessing everything youโ€™ve read. 4/5 โญ๏ธโ€™s. โฃโฃ โฃโฃ ๐๐ฅ๐จ๐จ๐ ๐‚๐จ๐ฎ๐ง๐ญ๐ž๐ฌ๐ฌ ๐›๐ฒ ๐‹๐š๐ง๐š ๐๐จ๐ฉ๐จ๐ฏ๐ข๐œ โ€“ This Countess of Bathory retelling leaves nothing to the imagination when it comes to the treacherous reign of the Countess Dracula. What starts as a story of love and admiration quickly descends into a level of depravity that Anna is unwilling to sink into. But can Anna escape before the blood of the bodies is on her hands too? 4/5 โญ๏ธโ€™s โฃโฃ โฃโฃ ๐€ ๐‚๐š๐ฌ๐ญ๐ฅ๐ž ๐ข๐ง ๐ญ๐ก๐ž ๐‚๐ฅ๐จ๐ฎ๐๐ฌ ๐›๐ฒ ๐Š๐ž๐ซ๐ฌ๐ญ๐ข๐ง ๐†๐ข๐ž๐ซ โ€“ Set in the dreamy winter wonderland of the Swiss Alps during the holiday season,ย A Castle in the Cloudsย is the perfect winter read. Donโ€™t let the dreamy backdrop fool you, this book is full of mystery and intrigue with a character driven plot that is reminiscent ofย The Grand Budapest Hotel. 3.5/5 โญ๏ธโ€™sโฃโฃ โฃโฃ โฃโฃ โฃโฃ ๐˜ž๐˜ฉ๐˜ข๐˜ต ๐˜ณ๐˜ฆ๐˜ญ๐˜ฆ๐˜ข๐˜ด๐˜ฆ๐˜ด ๐˜ฉ๐˜ข๐˜ท๐˜ฆ ๐˜บ๐˜ฐ๐˜ถ ๐˜ฃ๐˜ฆ๐˜ฆ๐˜ฏ ๐˜ฆ๐˜น๐˜ค๐˜ช๐˜ต๐˜ฆ๐˜ฅ ๐˜ง๐˜ฐ๐˜ณ ๐˜ต๐˜ฉ๐˜ช๐˜ด ๐˜ฎ๐˜ฐ๐˜ฏ๐˜ต๐˜ฉ?โฃโฃ โฃโฃ โฃโฃ โฃโฃ #TheLookAlike #BloodCountess #ACastleintheClouds #LadySlayerSeries #PiqueBeyond #PiqueAmbassador #stmartinspress #newbooks #books #bookreviews #bookrecs #newreleasetuesday
๐“‘๐“ธ๐“ธ๐“ด ๐“ฃ๐“ธ๐“พ๐“ป & ๐“–๐“ฒ๐“ฟ๐“ฎ๐“ช๐”€๐“ช๐”‚โฃ โฃ ๐˜ฟ๐™ค ๐™ฎ๐™ค๐™ช ๐™๐™–๐™ซ๐™š ๐™– ๐™›๐™–๐™ซ๐™ค๐™ง๐™ž๐™ฉ๐™š ๐™จ๐™ฅ๐™ค๐™ง๐™ฉ๐™จ ๐™ฉ๐™š๐™–๐™ข?โฃ โฃ We are a Notre Dame Fighting Irish and Dallas Cowboys household ๐Ÿ’™๐Ÿ’™๐Ÿ’™โฃ โฃ A powerful novel about friendship, basketball, and one teen's mission to create a better life for his family in the tradition of Jason Reynolds,ย Matt de la Pena, and Walter Dean Myers. โฃ โฃ Told from alternating perspectives,ย After the Shot Dropsย is a heart-pounding story about the responsibilities of great talent and the importance of compassion.โฃ โฃ If you would like to learn more about the book or purchase a copy click on the link in my bio.ย I have partnered withย @hmhteen to giveaway one copy of the book!ย Check out the details below:โฃ โฃ GIVEAWAYโฃ Enter to win a copy of After the Shot Dropsโฃ TO ENTERโฃ - follow me,ย @randyribay,ย @hmhteenย and @storygramtoursโฃ - tagย aย friend you think will be interestedโฃ For EXTRA entryโฃ - visitย @darkfaerietales_โ€™s account tomorow and repeat these stepsโฃ RULESโฃ - Giveaway will โ€ชend Feb 3rd at midnightโ€ฌ ESTโฃ - US ONLYโฃ - not affiliated with Instagramโฃ -must be 18 or have parents permissionโฃ -must beย aย public account so I can verify entriesโฃ โฃ #AftertheShotDropstourย #AftertheShotDrops #randyribay #HMHTeen #storygramtours #bookstagram #books
๐Ÿ“–โ˜•๏ธ โ„‚๐• ๐•—๐•—๐•–๐•– ๐•’๐•Ÿ๐•• โ„‚๐•ฆ๐•ฃ๐•ฃ๐•–๐•Ÿ๐•ฅ๐•๐•ช โ„๐•–๐•’๐••๐•š๐•Ÿ๐•˜ โ˜•๏ธ๐Ÿ“–โฃโฃ โฃโฃ Happy Monday everyone! โฃโฃ โฃโฃ So this weekend I made plans to catch up on pictures as well as my four reviews that I need to post. Instead, I was sick Saturday night and all of Sunday, so none of that happened ๐Ÿ˜ญ๐Ÿ™ˆโฃโฃ โฃโฃ Oh well, today Iโ€™m joining @thelittlereadingmermaid for her weekly #coffeeandcurrentlyreading challenge. โฃโฃ โฃโฃ I am SO excited to be starting ๐€๐ฅ๐ฅ ๐ญ๐ก๐ž ๐’๐ญ๐š๐ซ๐ฌ ๐š๐ง๐ ๐“๐ž๐ž๐ญ๐ก by Adalyn Grace (thank you @macmillanusa & @imprintreads for my gifted copy)!! This is one of my most anticipated reads this year, which releases next Tuesday (synopsis in comments)!โฃโฃ โฃโฃ Yโ€™all, this book has mermaids and pirates!! Also, how gorgeous is this cover?! โฃโฃ โฃโฃ I of course had to bust out my mermaid sleeve from @novelnuzzler for this beauty! Donโ€™t forget, use my code TOYA10 to save in the shop! โฃโฃ โฃโฃ โฃ โฃ แดกสœแด€แด› แด€ส€แด‡ สแดแดœ แด„แดœส€ส€แด‡ษดแด›สŸส ส€แด‡แด€แด…ษชษดษข?โฃโฃ โฃโฃ โฃโฃ โฃโฃ โฃโฃ โฃโฃ โฃโฃ #AlltheStarsandTeeth #AdalynGrace #novelnuzzler #macmillan #mermaids #pirates #amreading #currentread #reading #yabooks
๐“ข๐“ฝ๐“ช๐“ฌ๐“ด ๐“ข๐“ช๐“ฝ๐“พ๐“ป๐“ญ๐“ช๐”‚โฃ โฃ Happy Saturday everyone! I hope your weekend is treating you well!โฃ โฃ This week has been a week for bookstagram. Thereโ€™s been so many high and lows especially with all of the controversy surrounding American Dirt. โฃ โฃ One thing that has become glaring obvious is that we as bookstagrammers need to be giving #ownvoices a bigger platform. I already read own voices authors and diverse books as a WOC. However, I realized that not everyone is aware of whatโ€™s out there and that I need to read more own voices that are outside of my own heritage. โฃ โฃ From here on out, I will include a space on my profile for reviews and recommendations of own voices books. Additionally, I will be incorporating more of these stories into my every day reading. โฃ โฃ This stack contains the backlist books that Iโ€™m pledging to read this year. โฃ โฃ โฃ ๐˜๐˜ข๐˜ท๐˜ฆ ๐˜บ๐˜ฐ๐˜ถ ๐˜ณ๐˜ฆ๐˜ข๐˜ฅ ๐˜ข๐˜ฏ๐˜บ ๐˜ฐ๐˜ง ๐˜ต๐˜ฉ๐˜ฆ๐˜ด๐˜ฆ? ๐˜ˆ๐˜ณ๐˜ฆ ๐˜ต๐˜ฉ๐˜ฆ๐˜ณ๐˜ฆ ๐˜ข๐˜ฏ๐˜บ ๐˜ฐ๐˜ธ๐˜ฏ ๐˜ท๐˜ฐ๐˜ช๐˜ค๐˜ฆ๐˜ด ๐˜ณ๐˜ฆ๐˜ข๐˜ฅ๐˜ด ๐˜ต๐˜ฉ๐˜ข๐˜ต ๐˜ ๐˜ฏ๐˜ฆ๐˜ฆ๐˜ฅ ๐˜ต๐˜ฐ ๐˜ข๐˜ฅ๐˜ฅ ๐˜ต๐˜ฐ ๐˜ฎ๐˜บ ๐˜ญ๐˜ช๐˜ด๐˜ต?โฃ โฃ โฃ โฃ #stacksaturday #bookstack #tbr #bookstoread #diversebooks #diverseauthors #anticipatedreads #bookstagram #books
โ™ฅ๏ธ๐Ÿงก๐Ÿ’› ๐‘ฏ๐’‚๐’‘๐’‘๐’š ๐‘ญ๐’“๐’Š๐’…๐’‚๐’š โ™ฅ๏ธ๐Ÿงก๐Ÿ’›โฃ โฃ Recently, @beritaudiokilledthebookmark shared an incredibly personal post about her battle with a degenerative eye disease. She has called for awareness to accessibility features, specifically alternative text features that Instagram has to make our pictures and captions more accessible to individuals inflicted with visual impairment.โฃ โฃ Additionally, she has asked us to create a stack with red, orange, and yellow books and tag #accessibilityawarenessstack by January 31st. For every post with the hashtag, $1 will be donated to the American Foundation for the Blind. โฃ โฃ If you have the time, please join in to support Berit! โ™ฅ๏ธ๐Ÿงก๐Ÿ’›โฃ โฃ โฃ โฃ #accessibility #accessibilityforall #visualimpairment #booksharks #bionicbookbabes #bookwineandmetime #rainbowbooks #bookstagrammersunite #bookstack
๐“‘๐“ธ๐“ธ๐“ด ๐“ก๐“ฎ๐“ฟ๐“ฒ๐“ฎ๐”€ & ๐“ฃ๐“ธ๐“พ๐“ปโฃ โฃ Today Iโ€™m on tour with @katerockbooktours for ๐™‡๐™ž๐™š๐™จ ๐™๐™๐™–๐™ฉ ๐˜ฝ๐™ž๐™ฃ๐™™ by @ashleyhfarley, which is available now! โฃ โฃ Lies That Bindย is told from three different POVs that follows the lives of three women: Maggie, Eva, and Reese, and each of them have their reasons for the intricately woven lies they hold onto. Maggie rushed into a marriage with her dream husband only to find out heโ€™s actually an abusive monster. Evaโ€™s past is full of tragedy (husband died in an accident and her daughter has been missing for a decade), and she has turned to alcohol to occupy the shell of herself that has been left behind. Reese made some questionable decisions that lead to life changing consequences that leave her hanging on by a thread.โฃ โฃ Farley tackles so many tough real life scenarios (e.g. domestic violence, rape, unplanned pregnancy, alcoholism, addiction, etc.) without cheapening the plot or ticking off an artificial box. Each of the POVs were both engrossing and immersive, and I found myself tearing through the pages as I wanted to know more about each of the three women and how their stories would ultimately intertwine and end. Their characters were beautifully developed and the plot constantly propels forward.โฃ โฃ Overall, if you love character driven plots that unravel lots of secrets and twists, definitely check this one out!โฃ โฃ Rating: 4/5 โญ๏ธโ€™sโฃ โฃ โฃ ๐š๐šŠ๐š—๐š๐š˜๐š– #๐š€๐™พ๐šƒ๐™ณ: ๐™ฐ๐š›๐šŽ ๐šข๐š˜๐šž ๐šŠ๐š— ๐šŽ๐šŠ๐š›๐š•๐šข ๐š‹๐š’๐š›๐š ๐š˜๐š› ๐šŠ ๐š—๐š’๐š๐š‘๐š ๐š˜๐š ๐š•?โฃ โฃ I wake up at 4:30 am for work every day, so definitely an early bird ๐Ÿฆ โฃ โฃ โฃ โฃ โฃ #LiesThatBind #AshleyFarley #KateRockBookTours #womensfiction #chicklit

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