The Hobbit by J.R.R. Tolkien with Andy Serkis (Narrator) 3.75⭐ I don't care if you've read The Hobbit before, if you haven't listed to it read by Andy Serkis you NEED TO. Full review: buff.ly/w8KJ1Kw 💙📚🪐📚🎧

The Phoenix King (The Ravence Trilogy #1) by Aparna Verma with Soneela Nankani, Vikas Adam, Akshay Kumar, and Deepti Gupta (Narrators) 3.75⭐ I think most of my issues with this book come from what it was marketed as and what it really was. Full review: buff.ly/9GcnRrk 💙📚🪐📚🎧

Brigands & Breadknives (Legends & Lattes #2) by Travis Baldree (read by the author) 5⭐ Fern, a bookseller rattkin, is getting older but has never felt a sense of fulfillment. An accidental adventure is what she might need to change that. Full review: buff.ly/oWVKoeO 💙📚🪐📚🎧

Kill the Beast by Serra Swift 3.5⭐ Kill the Beast is a semi-cozy slight "Beauty and the Beast" retelling. Full review: buff.ly/Q9n7Uvf 💙📚🪐

The Outlaw Witch of Sherwood by Brittany Hansen 4.25⭐ Renna is the crown princess of Loxley a kingdom governed by fire. Inside of the kingdom there are no trees and each citizen gives taxes in blood. Full review: buff.ly/PNRYRKQ 💙📚🪐

When You Get to the Other Side by Mariana Osorio Gumá 3.5⭐ After the death of their grandmother Emilia and Gregorio take what money she had saved up and make the difficult journey across the US/Mexican border. Full review: buff.ly/TmLrtrQ 💙📚🎧

Everything is Tuberculosis written and narrated by John Green 4.75⭐ Everything is Tuberculosis is not just a story of disease, it is a story of failing those who need the help most, capitalism, and societal norms. Full review: buff.ly/cBxgJBf 💙📚💡📚🎧

This Inevitable Ruin by Matt Dinniman (Dungeon Crawler Carl #) 5⭐ The Ninth Floor. Nine Armies. One Winner. Factions wars has begun. Full review: buff.ly/idQuLZZ 💙📚🪐📚⏰📚🎧

Come Tumbling Down by Seanan McGuire with Seanan McGuire (Narrator) (Wayward Children #5) 4⭐ Considering I thoroughly enjoyed the last adventure into the Moors, I was a little disappointed by Come Tumbling Down Full review: buff.ly/lltUHVr 💙📚🪐📚🎧

In an Absent Dream by Seanan McGuire with Cynthia Hopkins (Narrator) (Wayward Children #4) 4.75⭐ Although “In an Absent Dream” is the fourth book in the Wayward Children Series, you could read this as a stand-alone. Full review: buff.ly/H6pvQFB 💙📚🪐📚🎧

Beneath the Sugar Sky by Seanan McGuire with Michelle Dockrey (Narrator) (Wayward Children #3) 3⭐ Coming off of “Down Among Sticks and Bones” I was pretty dissatisfied with “Beneath the Sugar Sky”. Full review: buff.ly/gEVdbCa 💙📚🪐📚🎧

Down Among the Sticks and Bones by Seanan McGuire with Seanan McGuire (Narrator) (Wayward Children #2) 4.5⭐ This standalone story focuses on twin sisters Jack and Jill before they went to Eleanor West’s Home for Wayward Children. Full review: buff.ly/PM6Wa7w 💙📚🪐📚🎧

Every Heart a Doorway by Seanan McGuire with Cynthia Hopkins (Narrator) (Wayward Children #1) 4⭐ We've all heard fairytales of underworlds, worlds of sugar, worlds of faeries. But what about the people that return from those worlds and want to go back? Full review: buff.ly/FDSON1T 💙📚🪐📚🎧

The Shape of Shadows by C.E. Varrati 4.5⭐ The Shape of Shadows is a story of Selene learning to live, not just survive. Full review: buff.ly/op5aaXT 💙📚🪐

A Steeping of Blood by Hafsah Faizal (Blood and Tea #2) 4⭐ The Ram has been unmasked, Spindrift was burnt to the ground, and the White Roaring is in shambles. Full review: buff.ly/2wtdR1f 💙📚🪐📚⌛

A Witch's Guide to Magical Innkeeping by Sangu Mandanna with Samara MacLaren (Narrator) 5⭐ Sera has almost given up on restoring her magic until Luke, a magical historian, and his sister arrive on the door of the magical inn. Full review: buff.ly/2fNxm3b 💙📚🪐📚🌶️📚🎧

Strange Beasts of China by Yan Ge with Jeremy Tiang (Translator) 4.5⭐ This book starts out feeling like a collection of interconnected short stories but each chapter has the narrator questioning both herself and the world in which she lives. Full review: buff.ly/fpxsttE 💙📚🪐📚

The Eye of the Bedlam Bride by Matt Dinniman (Dungeon Crawler Carl #6) 5⭐ I knew Patrick Warburton was a a guest narrator, I have no name to face recognition. Then KRONK came up as Carl's dad. When I tell you I was NOT ready, but it was absolutely fantastic. Full review: buff.ly/HWBcA8o 💙📚🪐📚⏰📚🎧

The Butcher's Masquerade by Matt Dinniman (Dungeon Crawler Carl #5) 5⭐ On the sixth floor Carl, Donut, and the gang not only have to worry about NPCs, but now the hunters are loose. Full review: buff.ly/atiS0Ns 💙📚🪐📚⏰📚🎧

The Gate of the Feral Gods by Matt Dinniman (Dungeon Crawler Carl #4) 4.25⭐ Carl, Princess Donut, and Katia need to bring down a floating fortress, not the most complicated thing they've dealt with right? Full review: buff.ly/JULC3jV 💙📚🪐📚⏰

The Dungeon Anarchist's Cookbook by Matt Dinniman (Dungeon Crawler Carl #3) 4.75⭐ I imagine the Iron Tangle to look like if I took every necklace I own, put it in a bag, and shook it. Except every necklace is a railway. Full review: buff.ly/TwHW1Dr 💙📚🪐📚⏰

Carl's Doomsday Scenario by Matt Dinniman (Dungeon Crawler Carl #2) 4.5⭐ Carl and Princess Donut are still fighting for their lives. But now they have a murder chicken pet named Mongo. Full review: buff.ly/FBBQT10 💙📚🪐📚⏰

Dungeon Crawler Carl by Matt Dinniman (Dungeon Crawler Carl #1) 4.75⭐ Dungeon Crawler Carl is like if the Hunger Games Arena, Borderlands Video Games, and Twitch Streaming had a baby. Full review: buff.ly/ZytBVXH 💙📚🪐📚⏰

Selkie by Nataly Gruender with Siobhan Waring 3⭐ Quinn is a selkie, living most of her life as a seal, until one day she takes of her pelt to turn into a human. Full review: buff.ly/Wn9Y3nG 💙📚🪐📚🎧

Hidden Figures by Margot Lee Shetterly with Robin Miles 3.75⭐ Rarely when we think of the space race or the early fighter jets do we think of those behind each invention. Even rarer still is to think of the Black women who played vital roles. Full review: buff.ly/OUd9V1W 💙📚💡📚🎧

The Crescent Moon Tearoom by Stacy Sivinski with Nikki Massoud 3.5⭐ Set in 1870s Chicago, triplets Anna, Beatrix, and Violet run a tea room. But not just any tea room, they read the fortunes in their customers tea leaves. Full review: buff.ly/RALuVAy 💙📚🪐📚🎧📚⌛

A Curse Carved in Bone by Danielle L. Jensen (Saga of the Unfated Duology #2) 3.25⭐ Once again, Bjorn and Freya are enemies and it seems like everyone is out to get them. A war is still looming on the horizon, but who is in the right and deserves her shield? Full review: buff.ly/RQdEfin 💙📚🪐📚🌶️

Murder on Sex Island by Jo Firestone 3⭐ Marie Jones is a 29 year old divorcee with two cats: Meatloaf and Meatball. She gets called in to find a missing cast member of the show "Sex Island". But, before she can find him he finds her...dead...in her bath tub. Full review: buff.ly/dyJvwwP 💙📚⚡

The Seventh Veil of Salome by Silvia Moreno-Garcia 5⭐ Set in 1950s Hollywood it seems like every actress is vying for the role of Salome, a biblical figure known for her dance of the seven veils. Full review: buff.ly/MvZUv35 💙📚⌛📚🎧

Mirrored Heavens by Rebecca Roanhorse (Between Earth and Sky Trilogy #1) 4.75⭐ I have a whole lot of feelings. Between Earth and Sky just won the Hugo Award for Best Series and oh my does it deserve it. Full review: buff.ly/W3Qfgwu 💙📚🪐📚🎧🌈

Fevered Star by Rebecca Roanhorse (Between Earth and Sky Trilogy #1) 4⭐ The year of the crow has begun. Eternal twilight reigns and no one is prepared for what is coming. Full review: buff.ly/6ge2QST 💙📚🪐📚🎧🌈

Black Sun by Rebecca Roanhorse (Between Earth and Sky Trilogy #1) 4.25⭐ A disgraced sailor, a priestess, a soldier, and god incarnate. Full of LGBT+ and disability rep, Black Sun is an epic fantasy that lives up to the hype. Full review: buff.ly/jho7yWR 💙📚🪐📚🎧🌈

Birth of a Dynasty by Chinaza Bado 4.25⭐ Want to feel the same deep pain of The Poppy War? Here you go. Full review: buff.ly/Rp9Dy6G 💙📚🪐📚

Mistress of Lies by K.M. Enright 3.5⭐ When you tell me a book is a gothic fantasy with political intrigue, vampires, trans love interest, and poly endgame I am IN. Sadly, I was disappointed . Full review: buff.ly/295UR7p 💙📚🪐📚🌶️

Nettle & Bone by T. Kingfisher 4⭐ Princesses are supposed to dream of marrying a prince and living happily ever after. After seeing her sister be abused Marra sets out to kill the prince and save her sister. She just has to complete 3 impossible tasks first. Full review: buff.ly/czh3bJv 💙📚🪐

Celestial Monsters by Aiden Thomas (Sunbearer Duology #2) 4⭐ That awkward moment when you don't commit murder and accidentally start the apocalypse. Full review: buff.ly/aywtWwn 💙📚🪐📚🎧

The Sunbearer Trials by Aiden Thomas (Sunbearer Duology #1) 4.25⭐ Teo is a 17-year-old trans son of Quetzal (Diosa/Goddess of birds) is thrust into the Sunbearer Trials. If he wins, he becomes the Sunbearer. If he comes in last, he will be sacrificed . Full review: buff.ly/SbdjVIP 💙📚🪐📚🎧

The Jasad Crown by Sara Hashem 5⭐ One kiss from her would kill him. But that will never stop him from chasing her. The Jasad Crown is the end of the Scorched Throne duology. Full review: buff.ly/3koRVd5 💙📚🪐📚🌶️

Isle of Ember by Alycia E. Anderson 3.5⭐ Surviving Verdance looks easy compared to what the Isle of Ember has in store. Full review: buff.ly/e8byGUt 💙📚🪐📚🌶️

Emily Wilde's Compendium of Lost Tales by Heather Fawcett 4.5⭐ If you're going to take over a government or throne that is usually the end of the story. Except Wendell Bambleby never does anything the way he's supposed to. Full review: buff.ly/PxXVhpR 💙📚🪐📚🎧📚⌛

This Princess Kills Monsters by Ry Herman 4.5⭐ In this hilarious play on the tale of The Twelve Huntsman an adventurous princess has to figure out who is trying to kill her. Full review: buff.ly/RT0i3QN 💙📚🪐📚🌈

Alchemy and a Cup of Tea by Rebecca Thorne 4.5⭐ Thank you to Rebecca Thorne (author) and Jessica Threet (narrator) for making me cry in my car ON MULTIPLE OCCASSIONS. Full review: buff.ly/hVZf8H3 💙📚🪐📚🌶️📚🎧

Voidwalker by S.A. MacLean 4.5⭐ Happy release day to this sexy romantasy from the author of The Phoenix Keeper (be warned Voidwalker has VERY different vibes)! Full review: buff.ly/hBF404H 💙📚🪐📚🌶️

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The Adventures of Amina al-Sirafi by S.A. Chakraborty 5⭐ If you're anything like me you are tired of teenagers saving the world. This epic tale follows Amina al-Sirafi, single mother in her 40s who has retired from a life of piracy to live a quiet life Full review: buff.ly/jXhPnYa 💙📚🪐📚🎧

Most Ardently: A Pride & Prejudice Remix by Gabe Cole Novoa 4⭐ Not Elizabeth. Oliver. If you are looking for a quick read, a classic retelling that sticks mostly to the general story, and a young adult queer love story, Most Ardently is for you. Full review: buff.ly/cpvukoz 💙📚🌶️📚🌈

The Ex-Girlfriend Murder Club by Gloria Chao 3.5⭐ You find out you are one of three women dating one guy. What do you do? You all get revenge. Except after putting your DNA all over his bathroom and smearing poop in his office you find him...dead. Full review: buff.ly/9w6150H 💙📚🌶️📚🎧

A Most Puzzling Murder by Bianca Marais 4.5⭐ Lured out to a mysterious island for a job she didn't apply for, Destiny Whip fights to learn out about her family and ends up embroiled in a mystery. Full review: buff.ly/Ntopsg5 💙📚🪐📚⚡📚🎧

Happy release day to Lore of the Tides by Analeigh Sbrana 3.75⭐ As the only human known to wield magic, Lore is sought out to find the twin to her Deepening Lune Grimoire. Sought out is a nice word. She was kidnapped. Full review: buff.ly/yIfIdMW 💙📚🪐📚🌶️

Tea You at the Altar by Rebecca Thorne with Jessica Threet 4.5⭐ Reyna and Kianthe make planning a wedding and a royal coup d'état look easy. (Jessica Threet is an AMAZING audiobook narrator.) Full review: buff.ly/zFIIDrX 💙📚🪐📚🌶️📚🎧