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This Splintered Sea

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  • For the Bride: A Novel
    SamsSapphicReads
    Jan 30, 2026
    5.0
    Enjoyment: Quality: Characters: Plot:

    My heart feels impossibly full after reading this. It felt like the type of rollercoaster that makes your heart leap in your chest and your stomach bottom out.

    Alice has been through the trenches and back. With her father’s passing and her sobriety, the days are a struggle. She lost her friends due to her alcoholism, and she can’t get herself to see her mom much since her father died. We all have so many regrets from our past, things we wish we would’ve done different, and Alice is no different.

    I was hooked from the minute I picked up this book. The grief tore me apart, the forgiveness made my heart full, and the love was by far the best part. Alice is perfect proof that you can find yourself again no matter what you’ve gone through.

    I truly love when a book has a deeper meaning and a message. No matter the mistakes we make, they don’t define us. And if we choose to change and do better for ourselves, there will always be the ones we care about standing bedding us and cheering us on.

    Bravo Becca Grischow, this one was incredible. When I can’t get myself to put the book down to even sleep, I know it’s a good one.

    Thank you NetGalley and Viking Penguin for the ARC!

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    For the Bride: A Novel

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  • For the Bride: A Novel
    Thoughts from 55%

    I HAVE to put this down right now or I’m not going to get any sleep tonight

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  • This is How You Lose the Time War
    Thoughts from 54% (page 113)
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  • Forget Me Not
    Thoughts from 66%

    My heart. OMFG. I am almost bawling. 😫

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  • Her Shadow: A Lesbian/Sapphic Apocalyptic Romance (The Lost World Book 3)
    SamsSapphicReads
    Jan 29, 2026
    1.5
    Enjoyment: 1.5Quality: 1.5Characters: 1.5Plot: 1.5

    It seemed like this was all kind of thrown together haphazardly. The story does follow a timeline, but a poor one. It felt like so many things were skipped/skimmed over so there wasn’t much detail to anything really.

    The romance was rushed, the story was rushed, and couldn’t find a point to the story. There was no real connections between any characters and they were poorly written. All the adults acted like children, it felt like a bad soap box.

    The sex scenes had words like “wet folds” and the completely turned me away from it. Plus, they only actually killed like two zombies in real time when it’s a literal zombies apocalypse.

    Unfortunately, just no follow through with anything. It was a bummer.

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  • For the Bride: A Novel
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    “Of all the insufferable events straight people have invented, engagement parties must be the worst.”

    Stop I’m into this already🤣🤣🤣

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    “Of all the insufferable events straight people have invented, engagement parties must be the worst.”

    Stop I’m into this already🤣🤣🤣

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  • The Devil She Knows
    SamsSapphicReads
    Jul 15, 2025
    2.5
    Enjoyment: 2.0Quality: 2.5Characters: 2.5Plot: 2.0
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    Overall, I’d say this book was alright.

    This story follows Sam, a pastry chef who is looking to propose to her girlfriend. When it comes down to it, she’s completely embarrassed at the restaurant and broken up with.

    When going home, a demon meets her in the elevator, granting her 6 wishes, but there’s a twist. If she uses all of her wishes, she loses her soul to the devil himself.

    I wanted to like the storyline of this novel, I did. But I found it boring and it felt as if it jumped around a bit.

    Sam has literally no self worth and just lets a woman walk all over her yet STILL would sell her soul to a demon just to make her happy.

    That part wasn’t bad, a little slow and dragged a bit. The part that I really didn’t like was the last half. Sam knew this demon for literally less than 24 hours and feels all of these things for a demon WHILE still trying to get her girlfriend back.

    There were a lot of plot holes at the end and a lot of key information felt like it was missing. The ending was a major rush and honestly? A bit anti-climactic.

    The idea of the story was great, I loved the idea of it. The execution just fell flat for me. A bit disappointed because I was looking forward to this one.

    Please note: I received an arc copy for free, and I am leaving this review voluntarily.

    Thank you NetGalley for a copy.

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  • This is How You Lose the Time War
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    Finally starting this one! And already on page one I get why people call it confusing!

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  • Her Shadow: A Lesbian/Sapphic Apocalyptic Romance (The Lost World Book 3)
    SamsSapphicReads
    Jan 29, 2026
    1.5
    Enjoyment: 1.5Quality: 1.5Characters: 1.5Plot: 1.5

    It seemed like this was all kind of thrown together haphazardly. The story does follow a timeline, but a poor one. It felt like so many things were skipped/skimmed over so there wasn’t much detail to anything really.

    The romance was rushed, the story was rushed, and couldn’t find a point to the story. There was no real connections between any characters and they were poorly written. All the adults acted like children, it felt like a bad soap box.

    The sex scenes had words like “wet folds” and the completely turned me away from it. Plus, they only actually killed like two zombies in real time when it’s a literal zombies apocalypse.

    Unfortunately, just no follow through with anything. It was a bummer.

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  • Her Shadow: A Lesbian/Sapphic Apocalyptic Romance (The Lost World Book 3)
    Thoughts from 61%

    I’m sorry but if this book calls them wet folds it or anything folds again i’m gonna freak

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  • Her Shadow: A Lesbian/Sapphic Apocalyptic Romance (The Lost World Book 3)
    Thoughts from 61%

    I’m sorry but if this book calls them wet folds it or anything folds again i’m gonna freak

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  • Kobo vs Kindle?

    I’m looking to purchase an ereader because I don’t have a lot of physical space and want to use it for books I want to try reading but don’t necessarily want in my physical book collection.

    I’ve seen great things about Kobo ereaders. I really don’t want to support Amazon more than I have to, but wanted folks thoughts on kindles as well?

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  • Yearly Reading Goal

    How do y’all pick what number your reading challenge goal is? 📚

    Personally, I always base it off of the number of the year (for example my 2026 goal is to read 26 books) because it feels satisfying. However, in the past few years it hasn’t felt very “goal-like” since I tend to reach it before halfway through the year 🤷‍♀️

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