Queen B’s Decree: I was a very young teenager when Princess Diana died, but I remember how much it affected the world. The Royal Game heavily takes influence from this, and I was sucked in. There is a bit of a romance (between Jennie and Hugh), but most of the story is the mystery unfolding: […]
Queen B’s Decree: Averil Offline was recommended by PRH Audio as an upcoming release and I can never resist a colorful cover, so once I read the blurb I knew this was a book I wanted to listen to. I am an older Millennial, so I never had to deal with the constant monitoring like […]
Queen B’s Decree: Go as a River was filled with beautiful, but overly flowery language and prose. And honestly, I was hooked at the beginning. As primarily a romance reader, I was so invested in the love story of Victoria and Wilson. And I’m sorry, this is a spoiler, but Go as a River is […]
Queen B’s Decree: Weyward was our book club’s choice for this month, and it was definitely a new-to-me author. I struggled with the plot. Essentially three women (in alternate timelines) are all considered “weyward,” where they are maybe witches? With an affinity for nature, birds, bugs, etc. But also they are all abused. Before I […]
Queen B’s Decree: I freely admit, I didn’t finish The Violence. I had an awful premonition of some scenes featuring abuse, so I went to Goodreads and read some reviews. And thankfully, I learned there were some graphic scenes about animal abuse. And that’s a hard no for me. So I quit The Violence. It […]
Queen B’s Decree: I’ve had a relatively good run of book club books, statistically it was time for a failure. When Women Were Dragons is this weird feminist story…yet I still don’t really know why anything happened, as I quit at about 30%. A large group of American women turned into dragons in a massive […]
Queen B’s Decree: I’ve owned Slaughterhouse-Five…a very long time. Unread, of course. So I decided to put it on my 23 books in 2023 list, as an attempt to make myself read my physical TBR. And everyone…I did. I loved the prose and the way the words flowed in Slaughterhouse-Five. But I still don’t know […]
Queen B’s Decree: I’ve recently learned that audiobooks are the best way for me to conquer my TBR. And the audio for Nightcrawling was pretty fantastic. I’ve been trying to go outside my comfort zone, and this one was definitely out of my norm. Nightcrawling is depressing, frankly. Kiara is stuck in this never-ending life […]
Queen B’s Decree: I don’t know what I expected from The Change, but it wasn’t all the man hating. Literally every male side character was a terrible person. Either a cheating husband, or a misogynist utilizing weaponized incompetence, or the HOA president wielding his power like a dictator. And I don’t vibe with that. So […]
Queen B’s Decree: I loved Anne of Green Gables so I was really excited to be given this copy of After Anne as a #bookclubgirlearlyread. But sadly, my interest waned quickly. There was a lot of dialogue from Anne of Green Gables sprinkled in, and I think that contributed to my mood. It almost felt […]