I received an ARC of this book from Netgalley and the publisher in exchange for an honest review. Mums and Mayhem is the third book in Amanda Flower's Magical Garden cozy mystery series. I have not read any previous books in this series. The premise is that Fiona has moved to her uncles place to care for his magic garden after he dies and poor Fiona seems to have been stumbling into corpses ever since. Also, there's a secret involving the details of her parentage that she and her parents have to work out. Oh, and her irritating sister is irritating. Fiona is a florist dating the handsome police chief and tending her magical garden when a famous fiddler comes to their sleepy little town. Then the man is murdered and Fiona's dad may be a suspect! Fiona must battle through a cast of zany characters: septuagenarian fangirls, the fiddler's ex, and some angry band members. Plus, there's the bitter historian who really wants to know more about the garden. I lov

The Grounding of Group 6 I will get a small comission if you clicky the link and buy. So one of my favorite books of all time is The Grounding of group 6 by Julian F. Thompson. It was one of the first books i'd read that acknowledged certain "progressive" parents could value being seen that way more than their children. It's a bitter, extremely weird satire that probably shouldn't be as funny as it is and i probably one of my favorite "found family" stories ever. BUT Somebody mention "gay panic" in reference to this book and i'll be honest! I never read it that way. And it makes me feel really weird and an uncomfortable that I never noticed that take even though the character involved, Coke, pretty blatantly uses a homophobic slur when recounting the event to his mother. Which I had somehow completely forgotten anout. YIKES! Now, was McCorker gay or "just" a child predator and there's no homophobic agenda in this book?

I found out information about the author of a book I was reading and I wanted to put it here for full transparency. This is a screenshot of my Netgalley review and I do appreciate Inkyard Press for sending me a copy!

This book has made me cry two times already and I'm not even a third of the way through. I highly recommend just based on this.

Hi! In case you didn't know me I'm Sarah, curator of The Kawaii Slartibartfast (podcast and youtube channel) I thought that i would have to give up book blogging but I have a Chromebook so that's gonna make things so much easier. Most of the books are ARCs from Netgalley so it may not seem like there's much content here. It's coming, I promise! Book I'm currently reading The Ninth Life by Taylor B. Barton

It's my turn on the blog tour! Thanks to Wednesday books for providing me with the ARC! Review here!

Unfortunately, due to disability my reviews will be up on my  Podcast

I adored this book so much. It shows perfectly how the gaming community can be wonderful and horrifying at the same time. I've known people very much like the VP in this book and dealt with the harassment (Not on the level that Divya does but it was still pretty awful.) I really appreciated that Aaron's savior complex was called out as not a good thing. There was so much I identified with in this book and I got the feeling that Smith really understands why we game and the lovely communities we build despite the gatekeepers. This book is greatly appreciated.

So, this is an interesting one for the Netgalley archives! I requested to read the Harper version which looks like this! Then, the Jo Fletcher version popped up as a Read Now option a bit later and I grabbed it because I am impatient and desperate to read things like Eoin Colfer's shopping lists. I was approved and I gobbled it up. The Jo Fletcher cover looks like this! Have you ever considered what it would be like to see a dragon doing burpees? If so, this is definitely the book for you! The book tells the tale of Very, the last dragon on the planet. Very is a hard-drinking curmudgeon who hates Game of Thrones  due to the way the dragons are treated and it's these character beats that really make Vern as a character for me. This is the story of Vern and a not so hapless doofus called Squib who meet when Squib is trying to get the goods on EEVIL constable Regence Hooke. Hooke wants to bed Squib's my m and he is not thrilled at th