The Diary of a Mood Reader

' Waiting on Wednesday ' is a weekly event hosted at  Breaking the Spine , it spotlights upcoming releases that we're eagerly anticipating. Check them out for links to more awesome blogs! This week's pre-publication "can't wait to read" selection is... Release Date: May 23rd A Near Future Retelling of Beauty and the Beast Alainn’s father is not a bad man. He’s a genius and an inventor. When he’s hired to create the robot Rose, Alainn knows taking the money is a mistake. Rose acts like a human. She looks exactly like Alainn. But, something in her comes out wrong. To save her father from a five year prison sentence, Alainn takes Rose’s place. She says goodbye to the sun and goes to live in a tower no human is allowed to enter. She becomes the prisoner of a man no human is allowed to see. Believing that a life of servitude lies ahead, Alainn finds a very different fate awaits her in the company of the strange, scarred recluse. Why I&

Have you ever imagined some of your favorite authors in a room together discussing their books or a certain genre? Recently I was inspired by  Eventbrite's Conference Page to imagine my dream author panel and I couldn't be more thrilled to compose and share with you why I'd love for these authors to have a panel together! I'd absolutely love for some of my favorite romance authors to discuss what makes great romance and also their opinions on subgenres. For this reason, I've paired the following authors together: Julia Quinn Jennifer L. Armentrout Karen Marie Moning All three of these authors have written some of my absolute favorite romance, however in very different genres! Julia Quinn writes Regency Romance, Jennifer L. Armentrout writes YA, NA and Adult Romance and Karen Marie Moning wrote my all-time favorite Highlander Paranormal romance series!  I think it'd be fun to see these authors exchange ideas and maybe eve

What if your worst enemy is your true love? Exiled from her coven and torn from the arms of her lover, werewolf prince Lisar, vampire princess Lysandra Romanova-Dracula is lost in the woods of Romania, searching for the elusive location of the mysterious den of wolves. After being separated from Lisar, Lysandra made a pact; find him, and his pack, or die trying. But she doesn’t find the wolves. The wolves find her. After Lisar pleads for her life, the Alpha makes Lysandra a fragile bargain. If she becomes one of them, she will be allowed to live with her beloved Lisar in peace. Fail to do so, and her execution is imminent. When shifters are found murdered within pack boundaries, shredded to pieces by a monster hiding in the shadows, Lysandra becomes a prime suspect. Caught in a dangerous game where one misstep could become fatal, Lysandra has to prove her innocence, and solve the mystery of who has betrayed the pack without becoming a victim herself. Will Lysandra peer through

' Waiting on Wednesday ' is a weekly event hosted at  Breaking the Spine , it spotlights upcoming releases that we're eagerly anticipating. Check them out for links to more awesome blogs! This week's pre-publication "can't wait to read" selection is... Release Date: June 13th When a bookshop patron commits suicide, it’s his favorite store clerk who must unravel the puzzle he left behind in this fiendishly clever debut novel from an award-winning short story writer. Lydia Smith lives her life hiding in plain sight. A clerk at the Bright Ideas bookstore, she keeps a meticulously crafted existence among her beloved books, eccentric colleagues, and the BookFrogs—the lost and lonely regulars who spend every day marauding the store’s overwhelmed shelves. But when Joey McGinty, a young, beguiling BookFrog, kills himself in the bookstore’s back room, Lydia’s life comes unglued. Always Joey’s favorite bookseller, Lydia has been bequeathed his meage

Constant chills, panic attacks, and now paranoia – there’s a reason seventeen-year-old Charlie keeps to herself. Life is looking up when she gets a job at a whimsical tea shop and gains a few new friends, but little does Charlie know there are secrets lurking beyond its door. It only takes one night for her perspective on her small town to change forever. As if witches, vampires, and demons weren’t enough, she soon realizes she’s being hunted for a power she didn’t know she possessed. Singing Fire takes Charlie through an unexpected journey of self-discovery, betrayal, and forbidden love all while the clock is ticking for her to defeat the dark souls pursuing her – before anyone else dear to her has to die.  Series: Singing Fire #1 Source: Sent by the author Format: ebook Pages: 296 Genre: YA Urban Fantasy + Paranormal Romance Rating: 3.5 Stars Publisher: Author Release Date: 28th November 2016 My Review... Worldbuilding- It was fun diving into the wor

Hello, everyone! I hope y'all had a lovely March! I can't believe it's already over!  I've decided to modify my Monthly TBR Goals into a Monthly Recap. I'm a moody reader and my reading counts vary from month to month, sometimes quite drastically depending on my schedule. So without further ado here goes! Books I read in March... I only managed to read two books in the month of March. Traveler took me nineteen days to trudge through! Rating: ⭐⭐ Check out my review HERE . Rating: ⭐⭐⭐⭐ Check out my review HERE . Books I received for review... Book News... Okay, here I go showing y'all how old I am, my teen years were chock full of Buffy The Vampire Slayer . It had everything no other TV show had back then; paranormal elements, romance and ways to overcome challenges in life that no other show displayed at the time.  Well, a few days ago it was announced that there will be NEW Buffy b