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Book Recommendations: Cossette’s Favorite Audiobooks

Hi Friends! Admittedly, I haven’t had much time (or motivation) to read as of late, aside from audiobooks, so I thought I’d do a little recommendation post on some of my favorite audiobooks. We’ve come a long way from when this blog was first launched, and I started to give audiobooks more of a shot. Training my brain to slowly get used to audiobooks, and realizing that audiobooks worked a lot better for me if I was doing other things (like crafting, or exercising) at the same time really did wonders.

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Mini Reviews: Books Read During My 24 Hour Reading Challenge

Hello friends! Something I’ve seen a few BookTubers do recently is a 24 hour reading challenge and I thought it sounded like fun. We usually think in terms of how many books we can read in a week or a month, but rarely do we think about how many books we get to in 24 hours (at least I don’t).

I’ve seen this done a couple ways. Kayla from BooksandLala stayed up for a full 24 hours whereas Olivia from oliviareadsalatte had a timer running whenever she was reading until she completed 24 hours. When I decided that I wanted to do the 24 hour reading challenge, I went back and forth on which method I wanted to use and ultimately decided that I’d go with the timer method. Not that I couldn’t do Kayla’s method and stay up for a full 24 hours, but my sleep schedule has been all over the place lately and I’ve been trying to fix it, so I don’t think that’s the best idea for me right now, so, the timing method it is!

I’ll be structuring this post a little differently than I do my typical mini reviews, and focusing on splitting this post into days as opposed to by book. Making this post a little more like a Let’s Talk and Mini Review post combined! So, get comfy and cozy and let’s talk about the books that I read during this 24 hour challenge.

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ARC Review: This Summer Will Be Different by Carley Fortune

Lucy is the tourist vacationing at a beach house on Prince Edward Island. Felix is the local who shows her a very good time. The only problem: Lucy doesn’t know he’s her best friend’s younger brother. Lucy and Felix’s chemistry is unreal, but the list of reasons why they need to stay away from each other is long, and they vow to never repeat that electric night again.

It’s easier said than done.

Each year, Lucy escapes to PEI for a big breath of coastal air, fresh oysters and crisp vinho verde with her best friend, Bridget. Every visit begins with a long walk on the beach, beneath soaring red cliffs and a golden sun. And every visit, Lucy promises herself she won’t wind up in Felix’s bed. Again.

If Lucy can’t help being drawn to Felix, at least she’s always kept her heart out of it.

When Bridget suddenly flees Toronto a week before her wedding, Lucy drops everything to follow her to the island. Her mission is to help Bridget through her crisis and resist the one man she’s never been able to. But Felix’s sparkling eyes and flirty quips have been replaced with something new, and Lucy’s beginning to wonder just how safe her heart truly is.

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ARC Review: Twelfth Knight by Alexene Farol Fullmuth

Viola Reyes is annoyed.

Her painstakingly crafted tabletop game campaign was shot down, her best friend is suggesting she try being more “likable,” and school running back Jack Orsino is the most lackadaisical Student Body President she’s ever seen, which makes her job as VP that much harder. Vi’s favorite escape from the world is the MMORPG Twelfth Knight, but online spaces aren’t exactly kind to girls like her―girls who are extremely competent and have the swagger to prove it. So Vi creates a masculine alter ego, choosing to play as a knight named Cesario to create a safe haven for herself.

But when a football injury leads Jack Orsino to the world of Twelfth Knight, Vi is alarmed to discover their online alter egos―Cesario and Duke Orsino―are surprisingly well-matched.

As the long nights of game-play turn into discussions about life and love, Vi and Jack soon realise they’ve become more than just weapon-wielding characters in an online game. But Vi has been concealing her true identity from Jack, and Jack might just be falling for her offline…

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April 2024 Wrap Up // A Letter From Coco 💌

hi friends! we’ve reached the end of a month again! april has been very busy and hectic — i went on a two week family vacation, and have spent the rest of the month playing catch up with real life, got covid, and simply just haven’t been reading as much as i did during the first two months of the year, which is totally fine. 

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Mini Reviews: All the books I read while on vacation!

Hi sweet friends! I spent the first half of April on vacation, and used a good chunk of my downtime to catch up on a few upcoming releases. While on vacation, I ended up reading five books, and starting The Odyssey on audiobook. I thought it’d be fun to share some mini reviews for most of my reads with the caveat that I’m withholding the review for one of the books I read due to the ongoing St. Martin’s Press boycott. 

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Mini Reviews: Plays Inspired by Shakespeare/Shakespeare Retellings

Y’all knew I couldn’t let April pass without some sort of Shakespeare related post! As I do every April, I had a lot of Shakespeare related reads on my TBR, and something I’ve wanted to do for a long time is read plays that are either Shakespeare retellings or inspired by Shakespeare.

I ended up reading 4 plays this week, and I thought it was really interesting to see how different playwrights interpreted and adapted Shakespeare’s works. While I didn’t get to as many plays as I was hoping to this week, I did finally read some that I’ve been meaning to read for a while, which I’m definitely happy about!

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Mini Reviews: Recent Mystery/Thriller Reads (No Body, No Crime Readathon Wrap Up)

Happy Thursday, friends! We all know that I love a good readathon — it combines two of my favorite things; reading and competition. To be clear, I do not see a readathon as a competition between me and another person, it’s a competition between my schedule and how many books I can read in during the readathon schedule. Because of this, I’m always looking for new readathons and I got SO excited when I heard about the No Body, No Crime thriller focused readathon, hosted by nobodynocrimebookclub on Instagram. It combined even more of my favorite things; readathons, thrillers and Taylor Swift, truly it felt like a readathon just for me.

The readathon was from April 4th – 7th, and included 4 prompts. The prompts were: Isolated Setting, New Release, Favorite Trope, and Good For Her/Revenge. Firstly, love those prompts, it gives you so many options, and I knew right away which books I would be putting on my TBR.

Spoiler alert — this was my most successful readathon to date! Not only did I complete the readathon in the allotted amount of time and check off three books from my owned TBR, but all of these books got at least a 4 star rating. Honestly, you can’t ask for a much more successful readathon experience!

Since I enjoyed all of these books so much, I figured it only made sense that I would write up some mini reviews, so get cozy and keep reading to hear my thoughts on the four novels I read over the weekend!

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Blog Tour & Review: The Reappearance of Rachel Price by Holly Jackson

From the author of the multimillion bestselling A Good Girl’s Guide to Murder series and Five Survive comes a new true-crime fueled mystery thriller about a girl determined to uncover the shocking truth about her missing mother while filming a documentary on the unsolved case.
Lights. Camera. Lies.

18-year-old Bel has lived her whole life in the shadow of her mom’s mysterious disappearance. Sixteen years ago, Rachel Price vanished and young Bel was the only witness, but she has no memory of it. Rachel is gone, long presumed dead, and Bel wishes everyone would just move on.
But the case is dragged up from the past when the Price family agree to a true crime documentary. Bel can’t wait for filming to end, for life to go back to normal. And then the impossible happens. Rachel Price reappears, and life will never be normal again.
Rachel has an unbelievable story about what happened to her. Unbelievable, because Bel isn’t sure it’s real. If Rachel is lying, then where has she been all this time? And – could she be dangerous? With the cameras still rolling, Bel must uncover the truth about her mother, and find out why Rachel Price really came back from the dead . . .

From world-renowned author Holly Jackson comes a mind-blowing masterpiece about one girl’s search for the truth, and the terror in finding out who your family really is.

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