Can you believe this year is a WRAP? Join us this week as we recap our 2024 with our favorite (and least favorite) books, covers, characters, and more!

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This week we are covering Part One of Queen of Shadows by Sarah J Maas. Part Two will be our first episode of 2025 ! We had the cutest special guest this week but she wanted to be heard so you will hear a little baby at times.

Everyone Celaena Sardothien loves has been taken from her. But is back in Adarlan for vengeance, to rescue her cousin and friends, and hopefully end this war before it can begin. She has now dropped the Celaena name and has fully embraced Aelin Ashryver Galathynius, Queen of Terrasen.

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This week we are covering You Better Watch Out by James S. Murray and Darren Wearmouth. Right before Christmas, a group of strangers find themselves trapped in an unknown, deserted town and they all share similar stories of being attacked and stranded there. Finding a way out seems nearly impossible when someone is meticulously orchestrating their deaths, one by one.

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HEAVY TRIGGER WARNING !

This week we are covering A Court of Sugar and Spice by Rebecca F. Kenney . This is a dark and very spicy retelling of the Nutcracker and is very mature audiences only! Sisters Clara and Louisa, both in their twenties, begin a journey into the Fae realm to save the Nutcracker with the help of the handsome Sugarplum Faerie with his promises of forbidden fantasies. Meanwhile the entire Seelie kingdom is under threat of conquest by the Rat King, ruler of the Dread Court.

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This week we are covering Secret Santa by Andrew Shaffer. Described as The Office meets Stephen King, the novel introduces Lussi Meyer an editor desperate for a publishing job. When she becomes employed at Prestigious Blackwood-Patterson due to the death of its owner, she finds herself the target of her co-workers' mean-spirited pranks. She also has a SECRET secret Santa who she must track down and figure out the true meaning of the cursed object in her possession before it destroys the company—and her soul.

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This week we are spoiling Big Chicas Don't Cry by Annette Chavez Macias. Four cousins Mari, Erica, Selena, and Gracie were inseparable growing up but as adults some have grown apart and they all are navigating love, loss, and the meaning of family.

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This week will meet Celaena Sardothien before she becomes the King's Champion. Through 5 stories, we learn of her time assassin and what we like to call - her villain origin story. is her kingdom’s most feared assassin.

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• Blood depiction
• Physical injury
• Emesis
• Death of a mother
• Knife violence & stabbing
• Physical assault
• Hostage situation 
• Slavery
• Slut-shaming
• Forced sex work
• Suicide
• Murder & attempted murder
• Torture
• Poisoning
• Fire
• Drowning
• Emesis

This week we are covering The Pumpkin Spice Café by Laurie Gilmore. This is book 1 of the Dream Harbor series. Jeanie's has taken over her aunt's Pumpkin Spice Café in the small town of Dream Harbor. Logan is a local farmer who avoids Dream Harbor's gossip at all costs. Will Jeanie's happy-go-lucky attitude win over the grumpy-but-gorgeous Logan?

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This week we are covering Jackal by Erin E Adams. Liz Rocher is coming home as a Black woman in a predominantly white town and her best friend's daughter goes missing. Liz is the only one who notices a pattern: a black girl goes missing every summer on the same night.

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This week we are covering Here Lies a Vengeful Bitch by Codie Crowley! Annie Lane is used to being left behind but she’s never been left for dead before. She can’t remember who killed her, but she’ll stop at nothing to figure it out and make them pay.

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