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Book Review: Unravel Me (Shatter Me Book 2) by Tahereh Mafi [Audiobook]

Now part of a group of rebels, many of whom have special abilities like her, Juliette starts trying to hone her powers as the group prepares for war. Juliette thought she'd be happy at Omega Point, but she's not so sure she fits in, and her relationship troubles, as well as an unplanned hostage situation, complicate...

Book Review: Shatter Me (Shatter Me Book 1) by Tahereh Mafi [Audiobook]

At 14, Juliette was taken from her parents and eventually left to rot in an asylum because her touch has the power to kill people. Years later, she's given the chance at a better life, in exchange for becoming a weapon of torture, and she'll have to decide if she's willing to pay that price or if she'd rather take her chances on the run with the only boy who's ever shown her...

Book Review: Firestarter (Timekeeper Book 3) by Tara Sim [Audiobook]

Clock mechanic Danny, clock spirit Colton, and their friends are still trapped on an airship, being threatened into going along with plans they don't believe in. But when a greater enemy emerges, they'll have to reconsider what's right and wrong and who their allies...

Book Review: Chainbreaker (Timekeeper Book 2) by Tara Sim [Audiobook]

Danny and Daphne, clock mechanics, get sent to India to help figure out why clock towers are falling and how time is continuing on without them, but a mysterious stranger keeps showing up and seems intent on getting to Danny. When Colton realizes Danny could be in danger, he sets off to try and save...

Book Review: Timekeeper (Timekeeper Book 1) by Tara Sim [Audiobook]

In an alternate world where time is controlled by clock towers, relationships between mechanics and clock spirits are forbidden. But when Danny, a mechanic, meets Colton, a clock spirit, he finds himself falling in love, while also unraveling the mystery of a nearby stopped...

Bookish Musings: Sci-Fi Worlds Ranked by How Much I’d Want to Live in Them

I feel like I kind of neglect science fiction books on this blog, but I do read sci-fi books sometimes! So I thought it would be fun to take ten different types of sci-fi worlds I'm familiar with and rank them based entirely on my own personal opinion about how much I'd want to live in them. Then you can tell me how wrong I am in the comments and how you would rank these instead...

Book Review: Mazarin Blues (Hep Cats of Boise Book 1) by Al Hess

It's 2065, and when beta versions of the AI in people's heads start turning hostile and people with them start dying and disappearing, Reed will have to decide what to do with his, who seems to have developed feelings for him. In the meantime, he meets his dream guy and starts embracing the Art Deco counterculture he's always...

Visual Novel Review: As We Know It by Jaime Scribbles Games

As We Know It is a diverse and character-focused visual novel that takes place post-apocalypse in which you move into a bunker, get a job, find romance, make friends, choose which side of the building unrest you're on, and make decisions that will impact how things turn...

Book Review: The Time Traveler’s Wife by Audrey Niffenegger [Audiobook]

Henry has a genetic condition that causes him to time travel against his will. It's not an easy life, but then he meets Clare, who already knows him from the many times his older self visited her in the past as she was growing up. This is their love...

Gamer Musings: Top Ten Games I Played in 2020

Don't make fun of my category name, I couldn't think of anything better. Am I even a gamer? Do the types of games I play count as being a "gamer"?? Anyway, games! I played more games this year than I ever have before, which is surprising considering the head nerve problem I developed last year that gives me headaches to look at electronic screens. But many of these games were entirely or...