Wednesday, 24 December 2025

Merry Christmas, you filthy animal by Meghan Quinn

 


Series: Kringletown Christmas (#2)


Format: 464 pages, Paperback


Published: October 14, 2025 by Bloom Books


Contemporary romance/own






A random xmas book I picked up to have something xmassy to read.




Max and Betty kept way too long butting heads, srsly, you are adults! Just talk to each other! Betty felt unnecessary stubborn and kept jumping to the wrong conclusions.




Sure Max comes up with a plan to make her fall in love with her and dump him. Her uncle has been mad at Max for ages, because no one talks to each other. Anyway Max falls for her and we can all guess the drama when the original plan comes out.




But yes it was good, but these people need to just talk, you get so far if you talk! Maybe that it why the book felt like it could have been shorter. 100 pages shorter and it would have been fine.



Enemies to lovers.




Atlas "Max" Maxheimer did not sign up for this. One minute, he's anxiously trying to keep his family's Christmas tree farm from imploding. The next? He's passed out in the snow after getting clocked by a suspiciously strong bottle of soda.


Enter Betty: new in town, full of holiday cheer, and helping her uncle open a rival tree farm next door. Max is convinced she's out to destroy everything Evergreen Farm stands for. Betty thinks Max might be one sleigh short of a winter parade.


Cue the holiday chaos.


Between blizzards, blown reputations, wildly misguided romantic plots, and one stolen ornament with a seriously tragic backstory, this small-town war turns into something far messier―and much more delicious―than either of them expected.


Tuesday, 23 December 2025

TMST

 


 

Tell Me Something Tuesday is a weekly discussion post where bloggers discuss a wide range of topics from books and blogging to life in general. Weigh in and join the conversation by adding your thoughts in the comments. If you want to do your own post, grab the question and answer it on your blog. Feel free to leave your links in the comments if you are participating,





12/23/2025 What's a song that always makes you want to dance?




Today I danced to xmas songs, so I would say that some of those to make me want to dance. As for others, honestly anything you can dance to if the mood takes me.







12/30/2025 What are your favorite books/audiobooks that you read in 2025? 






Tell Me Something Tuesday is a weekly discussion post where bloggers discuss a wide range of topics from books and blogging to life in general. Weigh in and join the conversation by adding your thoughts in the comments. If you want to do your own post, grab the question and answer it on your blog. Feel free to leave your links in the comments if you are participating.




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Monday, 22 December 2025

2026 Romance Reading Bingo Challenge

 



Hosted by: Blodeuedd @ Book Girl of Mur-y-Castell Jen @ That's What I'm Talking About Carole @ Carole Rae's Random Ramblings

We are doing it again in 2026! It's the Romance Reading Bingo Challenge (#RRBC2026), hosted by Carole, Linda, and Jen! The challenge is to read a book and check the boxes.

List of Challenges (Romance books):

  • Re-read
  • Wedding trope
  • Wallflower/Ugly Duckling
  • Office romance
  • Blind Date/Arranged Marriage
  • Number in the title
  • Cat/Dog on the cover
  • TBR over 2+ years
  • Part of a series you meant to go back to
  • Published in 2026
  • Duke in the title
  • Alien/Cyborg romance
  • Secret Royal/Billionaire
  • Pink Dress on the cover
  • Audiobook with 2+ narrators
  • MC Works in the Food Industry
  • Non-Regency Historical romance
  • Small Town romance
  • Second Chance
  • Sunset/Sunrise on the cover
  • Book starts with same letter as your name
  • LGBTQ+
  • Necktie on the cover
  • Travel / Vacation
  • Non-Christmas Holiday

Rules:

  • It MUST BE a genre romance book (HFN/HEA).
  • One box per book. If your book meets more than one box, you have to pick just one.
  • No changing the box. Once you put a book in a box, you can't move it.
  • Books can be used in other challenges. (examples: Goodreads, Library Love, TBR, Audiobook, etc.)
  • The goal is to get at least one BINGO! (see levels below)
  • The challenge runs from January 1 to December 31, 2026.
  • You may join whenever.
Bingo Levels: 1 or 2 Bingos: Beginner 3 Bingos: You're getting the hang of this! 4 Bings: Expert Level Entire Sheet: Supreme Ruler of Bingo! If you want to add your blog or Goodreads to the list, click on the linky below. NOTE: You do not have to have a blog or URL to sign up!

You are invited to the Inlinkz link party!

Click here to enter
So what level will you try in 2026?


I must admit that I did badly this year, I finally got 1 bingo in November. But I got one!! So better luck in 2026


Sunday, 21 December 2025

The Knight and the Moth by Rachel Gillig


Series: The Stonewater Kingdom (#1)


Format: 389 pages, Paperback


Published: May 20, 2025 by Orbit Books


Fantasy/own






I am disappointed. I really enjoyed her dualogy and this one just fell flat for me.




Is this one of those romantasy books that makes no sense. Cos there is no romance here. There are a woman and a man who despise each other, and suddenly at the end they like each other and do it once. No chemistry what so ever. She had more chemistry with the other diviners.




Number 6 lacked personality, they all lacked personality. The only one that had any was the gargoyle.




Knight guy was angry for some reason...that is all I know.




The fantasy was lacking, I did not feel or understand this kingdom. It has to be really tiny...but what is next to it? I felt the world made no sense.




It was rather boring too.





Sybil Delling has spent nine years dreaming of having no dreams at all. Like the other foundling girls who traded a decade of service for a home in the great cathedral, Sybil is a Diviner. In her dreams she receives visions from six unearthly figures known as Omens. From them, she can predict terrible things before they occur, and lords and common folk alike travel across the kingdom of Traum's windswept moors to learn their futures by her dreams.




Just as she and her sister Diviners near the end of their service, a mysterious knight arrives at the cathedral. Rude, heretical, and devilishly handsome, the knight Rodrick has no respect for Sybil's visions. But when Sybil's fellow Diviners begin to vanish one by one, she has no choice but to seek his help in finding them. For the world outside the cathedral's cloister is wrought with peril. Only the gods have the answers she is seeking, and as much as she'd rather avoid Rodrick's dark eyes and sharp tongue, only a heretic can defeat a god


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